The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.
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On Kagi and Yandex: I'm not sure Yandex's aid to the Russian government and their illegal invasion of Ukraine is worse than Google and Microsoft's aid to the US and Israeli governments on the Palestinian genocide. Unless you use Mojeek or Yacy, your web searches always indirectly support something horrific.
On Kagi and AI: Kagi's founder is hyper enthusiastic about AI.
If Kagi's founder was at best neutral about AI, I would have continued paying for the service. But I don't see the benefit of paying to escape AI-crazy Microsoft and AI-crazy Google just to go to AI-crazy Kagi. So I canceled my Kagi account.
My search engine in all of my browsers and devices is https://noai.duckduckgo.com They still use Microsoft and Google in their underlying search queries, but at least I don't have to remember to suffix my query strings with -ai or something to skip the AI nonsense.
@latenightlinux just listening to this ep and wanted to shoutout to Will that you can turn on the AI feature for Kagi so that it only triggers if you put a “?” At the end of your search, also from what I can tell it mostly uses open weight Chinese models, which I personally trust a hell of a lot more than anything produced by Anthropic or OpenAI.
@latenightlinux Glad to see Kagi getting some love!
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