Yes, System1 is the company that acquired Startpage circa 2018 (also Waterfox but their contract seems void now). Just look it up, it's quite out there in the open. I actually was using it for a bit before that date, once I found out they sold out I abandoned it. You'll probably end up leaking more data with Startpage now compared with bare Google.

I don't know why anyone would want to use G's services either, least of all directly. It's the same G as the one between the square and compass, if you know what I mean. There are still very decent alternatives out there for email, browsing etc. But a lot of traps as well.

The captcha on 4get.ca is ... idiosyncratic. As someone said on AlternativeTo, it is "based on the owner's interests". Minecraft is a very popular 3d block building game with pixel graphics (that's nowhere as good today as it used to be - use ClassiCube instead)... apparently the owner of 4get is a big fan of it. Actually, I have more questions about the fumo plushies part. The 'IQ Test' caption is, evidently, a joke.

Well, take it or leave it. Behind the slight insanity, I found that it is a reliable service after all. Can't say the same about searx unfortunately, just when you think you found a good working instance it suddenly stops operating correctly and one is forced to find a new one, only for the same cycle to repeat itself soon after.

I just download with yt-dlp and then watch them locally through mpv, though the online approach using the two together as suggested by tux_99 is also a great option.

Nice article:
http://toastytech.com/about/ai.html

Morticia Obscurum - 3:33 AM
Morticia Obscurum - REFLECTION

You can also use ~/.local/bin to store (or symlink) portable executables if you want to avoid involving root entirely. I think it's in $PATH by default in Devuan, meaning any executable in this folder can be quickly accessed via terminal. However stuff like lightdm can change this, so to be sure you can edit ~/.bashrc - just append this line:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

Gor - Trasmutazione II

What I like about Mousepad regarding UTF-8, is that it has the option to set the BOM marker (it's tucked in the menu and off by default for every new document though), which makes it more likely that a text file will be displayed correctly somewhere else. Featherpad does not (and cannot) write BOM, but if you don't need it, it makes for a decent text editor, I think. Other than encodings, it's pretty nice - especially the ability to set your own colors. For Mousepad I had to dig out some obscure gtksourceview XML styles to at least get more choice among themes.

Lovesliescrushing - Babysbreath (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 1970)

Alison's Halo - Slowbleed (Vampyr 1932)

Lovesliescrushing - Novsih

Despite having seen multiple videos on the subject, I can't even imagine how it must feel to taste a Reaper. Although I heard they are quite delicious if one can handle the inferno...

Thanks for the bonemeal tip - comfrey is excellent for tomatoes and beets, but it does seem to have a lesser effect on peppers, so I'll definitely consider grinding someone's bones... ^_^

Oh it's oregano in the fourth picture, isn't it? We have lots of it, it's in full bloom here - time to harvest - thankfully the rains have finally stopped. Just need to make a polite agreement with the bees... they usually understand though.

I grow an assortment of medicinal and aromatic herbs as well as many flowers, it's a pretty big part of my life. Got some rarely known but powerful ones, such as rue, southernwood and feverfew. This year's thyme is blooming like crazy. Hollyhocks, coneflowers and elecampane grow giant. I have rosemary as well, but in my climate (think Zone 4, maybe 3?) it's teensy-tiny and can only be grown in a greenhouse, as an annual. Still, I can totally relate to the 'can never have enough' part!

I try to start and propagate plants from home seeds whenever I can. Had big success with decorative flowers such as lisianthus (eustoma), meadow sage, sweet pea and many others.

Hope these turn out nice & scorchy, greenjeans! We got some jalapenos but they sure seem to be taking their time, the weather has not been playing nice as of late.

Never using any nasty pesticides like DDT or those petrochemical fertilizers in my garden. There's enough poison in the soil from all the spraying going on. Very fond of comfrey tea, it's super stinky but it works! Nature gives it to us in abundance, so why not make good use of it, right?

Oh, and screw lawns!