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Searx mentions (40)

• Just a reminder that WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook

  Meaning, you can go to public instances like searx.me,. Here's the documentation on how to start it up. But , you dont have to trust Searx that they are good people nor do you have to trust their data habits like DDG. Source: about 2 years ago

• Instead of lashing out at duckduckgo for doing what they think is best, ask the deeper question of why we’re all still using centralized services and being disappointed when they behave in a predictably centralized way.

  Consider a future where something like https://searx.me/ is as ubiquitous as Tor. Source: about 2 years ago

• DDG, once a hero has now fallen.

  For those looking for a replacement for Duckduckgo; I would highly recommend using Searx. It's an open source privacy respecting search engine with many decentralized private instances you can swap between. The link I sent is the primary instance, but here is a link with dozens more, and my own private instance. Source: about 2 years ago

• DuckDuckGo is out. I guess I'll try Brave Search.

  The most based solution: Https://searx.me. Source: about 2 years ago

• Uh oh.. What will the vaccinated think of this news?

  Searx.me and Startpage.com are the best search engines right now that are anti-censorship and anti-bias. Source: over 2 years ago

OnlineOrNot mentions (56)

• Ask HN: Website monitoring tool that will wake me up when site is down?

  This kinda sounds like the tool I built: OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) It sends reminder alerts over email and SMS (and phone calls soon) until the incident is resolved. It also integrates with PagerDuty/Opsgenie/Incident.io if you want something a bit more heavy duty. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

  Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com Uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams. In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k , all their system... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  OnlineOrNot.com - OnlineOrNot provides uptime monitoring for websites and APIs, monitoring for cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Also provides status pages. The first five checks with a 3-minute interval are free. The free tier sends alerts via Slack, Discord, and Email. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

  I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) in 3ish weeks. In short, I wrote about React from my own perspective for a year (despite thousands out there doing the same thing), made money, and got inspired to do the same thing with an uptime monitoring tool (200th alternative to pingdom when I released it). I turned a tool I used for convincing contracting clients to not cheap out... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

  I've been running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) since early 2021 now (almost three years). I recently wrote about how this year it grew twice as fast as I expected: https://maxrozen.com/2023-focus-single-product-pays-off It all started because I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money. They were paying for... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago