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  • I know I’m not exactly hitting the mark, have you looked at kagi? You can personalize the weighting of results from certain sites. You can also add lenses which will let you drive results to forums, programming, academia, etc.

    To me it was a bit like reliving the early days of google with the don’t be evil mantra still in tact.

    Let me also say, it appears to be privacy respecting.

    It has been good for me so far. If someone sees a reason I should run away from this, please let me know why and what we all should use instead, I’d appreciate it!




  • My biggest concern with these forks, is do they get the security updates quickly enough as they’re all downstream from either Chromium, Firefox, or web-kit. I’ve tried Zen a bit and had a good experience. From a privacy perspective, cookie management, containers, anti-fingerprinting, and telemetry are probably the biggest categories to address.

    Again, I always have security concerns for the forks getting patches quickly. The smaller the team the more risk likely in this category. Librewolf won my vote. I use it for almost everything. If the page won’t work there, I typically have to use Chromium because the site is just poorly built.

    I’d also recommend doing something to manage privacy at the DNS level for your local network/machine. Piehole or NextDNS would be a good place to start. I landed on NextDNS as it’s pretty cheap, easy, and stable. With internet, it has to “just work” or the family gets annoyed fast. I can still black-hole traffic from my network that is phone-home telemetry from devices more concentrated on collecting info for the manufacture than doing what they were purchased to do.





  • This is very insightful and provides good perspective.

    If I boil it down to take away is that GPT is enough to get through the fundamentals of student material, students can fake competence of the subject up to the cliff they fall off at the test.
    This ultimately isn’t preparing them for the world. It’s nearly impossible to catch until it’s too late. The pass or fail options aren’t helping because neither really represents the students best interests.

    The call to ban it for school is the only lever we can grasp for is because every other KNOWN option has been tried or assessed.


  • In some regard I don’t think it should be considered cheating. Don’t beat me up yet, I’m old and think AI sucks at most things.

    AI typically outputs crap. So why does this use of a new and widely available tech get called out differently?

    Using Google (in the don’t be evil timeframe) wasn’t cheating when open book was permitted. Using the text book was cheating on a closed book test. In some cases using a calculator was cheating.

    Is it cheating if you write a paper completely on your own and use spell check and grammar check within word? What if a grammarly type extension is used? It’s a slippery slope that advances with technology.

    I remember testing and assignments that were designed to make it harder to cheat, show your work, for math type approaches. Quizzes and short essays that make demonstration of the subject matter necessary.

    Why doesn’t the education environment adapt to this? For writing assignments, maybe they need to be submitted with revision history so the teacher can see it wasn’t all done in one go via an LLM.

    The quick answer responses are somewhat like using Wikipedia for a school paper. Don’t site Wikipedia and don’t use the generated text for anything but a base understanding of the topic. Now go use all the sources these provided, to actually do the assignment.