The metasearch engine open source project Searx might be what you are looking for in terms of private web search

I recently started playing around with SymPy as a kind of local alternative to the increasingly frustrating Wolfram Alpha, and found an ergonomic way to interact with it inside org-mode using Babel to get pretty live-previews of the equations being produced.

Keyboards weren't designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them

Google Labs is back, but this time around, it’s not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products. Instead, it’s the internal name given to a new team at Google created under a reorganization that aims to gather the company’s many innovative…

A tour of different ways of handling settings in Django with pros and cons, and a detailed how-to on current best practices.

All about Vivian's TV head, made from a CRT monitor and RGB LEDs.

Play audio files from IPFS in Webamp

London's legal community has been left reeling by the Supreme Court's decision to vote down a £3bn lawsuit against Google. The action led by former Which?

Our tech-driven approach to neighbourhood watch is cementing community divisions

Contrasting how each language handles iteration helps understand how to work effectively in either.

Some people claim nuclear fuel is inexhaustible and circular, others say we'll run out soon. We do the math. Turns out, it's roughly as inexhaustible as sunlight.

Distinct lack of this song on Youtube...

The Finnish Civil War 1918

Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?

Animation of an algorithm that recursively rotates images.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/r_vizzz
Source: https://github.com/rvizzz/rotate

While I work on a larger piece on market manipulation in cryptocurrencies, here’s a Fermi estimate on much wasted semiconductor production there is because of proof-of-work TLDR: In 2021, ver…