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Gotta admit... I'm sold on Kagi.

The experience and quality has been fantastic using their free tier (100 free searches a month), enough that I decided to pay for it to keep using it.

Gist: it's a search engine that chose to rely on subscriptions instead of ads and data mining... and it shows in the quality of the search results. There isn't a whole page of them linking to other partner or owned services before you get any results. On top of that there's a crapload of customization and control of your experience (such as choosing what things it tries to automatically answer).

As mentioned, there's a free tier of 100 searches a month, that's actually good for most people to use for a week or two. No sensitive data needed, so I recommend giving it a try.

https://kagi.com/

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ocdtrekkie
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Yeah the customization is really where Kagi shines. It's actually a *tool* designed to help you, instead of being designed to generate ad clicks.

30 Days of US Healthcare: DIR Fees

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I61wCVh0Y1E&si=FvaY0Ci3XrHOsB0p

Day 23 of 30 Days of US Healthcare https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpMVXO0TkGpdvjujyXuvMBNy6ZgkiNb4W

Saw this and had to meme it.

#trauma

#trauma

Okay I find the interface of this website a little overwhelming, but I want to see if I can use it as a kind of post aggregator for the fediverse, RSS feeds, and possibly more.
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Shiri Bailem
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@Kai Ocean let me know if you need any help, I love friendica but won't pretend that the interface isn't awful and deeply unintuitive
@Kai Ocean

Oops

Made a performance tweak that shouldn't have had an impact and resulted in a non-error being flagged as an error (I was getting 302 which really just means "look at this other address").

Fixed the tweak, otherwise should be a tiny bit better. I've got it recognizing a lot of the potential errors and better skipping between servers if one of them acts up.

Public Status Page

I finally went and set up a public facing status page for the site.

You can go to https://status.foggyminds.com to see the site uptime. This will tell you if the site is currently reporting up, as well as every time it's gone down.

I've had StatusCake set up for a while so it emails me whenever the site goes down, but I haven't had the public page set up.

I'll try to keep up on putting notes on any downtime, though I can't promise they'll always be helpful (the most recent 15 minute downtime has me stumped as it resolved right as I sat down at my computer to look it up, and the error logs were very uninformative as to what may have happened).

Power Outage
Server was down due to brief power outage.
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Server News
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If anyone wonders why you could reach the server for a bit, but it was giving errors: the database takes some time to reboot due to it's size and activity.
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