There was a Lemmy search engine but I don’t think it is up any more.

Stract has a Fediverse “optic” but it doesn’t appear to be working.

Probably if you tell Google to search site:lemmy.world that is likely to be good enough.

It runs off of RSS feeds. Here if you want to look/use as inspiration: https://github.com/chris-y/rsstolemmy I’m not sure if that’s the latest version but it should do the job.

I got a tree from my local library, but that wasn’t to borrow and neither was it a regular service.

!squirrels@lemmy.ca

I have one running in !beds@feddit.uk as otherwise there would be nothing in it other than the odd article I’d post manually. The idea is that I will remove it if the community grows enough that the bot is just adding noise. At the moment there’s minimal engagement, but I find it useful as I see the local news rather than looking for it elsewhere and having to post it.

I don’t think there’s space - there’s IQ above where the E would go.

Just thought of another one. I have an old Amiga 1200 which doesn’t get powered up much but I accidentally dropped it in a move. Since then it’s been prone to randomly crashing. Opened it up, nothing appeared to be dislodged. Somehow discovered that if I prop it up at an angle it doesn’t crash any more.

Think I’ve done this one too! Desperately trying to rescue some data off a hard drive which just went click click click. Freeze it, try again, works for a few minutes until it warms back up and click click click…

Individually press all the Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys.

This was back in the Windows 95 days and persisted for quite a few versions. The symptoms were that when typing you’d get accented or no characters, basically Windows thought one of the keys was held down. It happened more often than you’d think.

Looks like a V.

There’s an L next to a triple the other side - ALE could go there.

Then you have to check those answers, so you need to search for an authoritative source anyway… which means you need a regular search engine. At that point you may as well have used the search engine in the first place.

If Google does this, you’ll need to find an alternative search engine to check Google against… so you may as well just switch to a different search engine in the first place.

There are things that LLMs are good at, being a search engine isn’t one of them. Although I have asked searchy type questions and got some interesting links back which I probably wouldn’t have found on a normal web search with the terms I was using, so they can be useful as a supplementary search tool. I’d rather that than it just giving the answers, which then need to be fact checked elsewhere.

Hmm, in theory I don’t have a problem with an AI telling me the answer to my question or whatever I’m searching for - but this isn’t a web search. If I’m actually searching for a particular page or context, then I want to be able to do that.

These are two entirely different things, and if Google goes down this route they aren’t a search engine anymore - they are an LLM provider.

I went for n-ginx too. I’ve known for a while that it’s actually n-gin-x but have to think carefully to not revert back.

Greek, Roman, Norse gods had a mix of male and female, although I think “head god” was still male.

In Hindu there is also a mix, although I’m not sure if they are all equal or one is in charge.

Shinto has animal gods (I’m again unsure if there is a particular “head god” or whether they are male or female, but at least it probably isn’t “a man”).

A Raspberry Pi. Literally designed for this sort of thing.

When I first started working I did some temp work. One of my bosses asked me to look after her niece’s Tamagotchi. I’d not had one so didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Anyway, I killed it within a day.

Make sure your settings are the same. eg. There’s a “show bot accounts” and a “show NSFW” toggle (I think there might be a "hide read posts"too). It could even be as simple as your sort order being different.

Also www.bbcgoodfood.com is excellent.

Done!

It’s not really, but it’s the only content warning option on Lemmy, so that’s where we are.