Are you seriously pretending that state-sponsored racism is not a thing? In today’s environment?

Isn’t that what the scanners are for? To find large metallic objects? Why do you need additional “random” screenings behind that? Or are you saying the scanners don’t work to find even obvious weapons? If so, we should get rid of the scanners.

Calling out anonymity researchers for showing that "anonymization" schemes don't work well is a stupid and dumb idea.

If they hadn't done it, you can bet that bad guys would have done it instead (and maybe were already doing it). What the researchers did is publicly show that the existing schemes were broken, hence motivating the design of better schemes.

Like, you fundamentally misunderstand computer security research if you think that shitting on people publishing attacks is a good thing.

You can argue about the timing of disclosing specific vulnerabilities vs. when fixes are available. But the idea that we should all be (shh) don't tell anyone that this broad practice is vulnerable to bad actors is idiotic.

There are also non-public tests.

First off, people have been calling police pigs since time immemorial.

Second, anybody who is abducting 5 year olds is subhuman.

"Power users" like to get their work done.

In LInux, you can spend a bunch of time configuring your system to get simple stuff setup. The opposite of "getting work done".

Strange to pick on Kagi when there's much bigger companies on that list.

Those companies allegedly have used SerpAPI (probably to check visibility), but not to resell a Google Search knock-off.

> knock-off

Is it though? It feels so better than Google results[1], while being still built partly with Google results.

In the last 3 years as a Kagi customer i have rarely if ever felt the need to use bangs !g and on few occasions i did use them, it was with instant regret.

In the previous decade or so using DDG, using bangs !g Google would be 30-50% of searches, i would have to consciously try the results first instead of starting with !g and then think to myself DDG was at least getting the query data to improve their results.

[1] While the de-cluttered UI is a relief, on just the results list comparison, Google search is so bad that less time saved in not redrafting the queries constantly, filtering out the spam, the AI summaries, sponsored content, all the "cards" , recommended search listicles on is worth more than the $10/month.

DDG's results are primarily Bing results while Kagi's results are primarily Google results. It makes sense that you feel the need to escape from Bing to Google more often than from Google to Google.

Perhaps, but each time I do go to Google the results are painfully bad. I don't think Kagi is just proxying Google- while they do use it as a core source, they rerank much better

The blog post talks about that specifically - Bing unlike Google does have Index licensing program but their terms forbid reordering that is key reason Kagi is not also using Bing in their index mix.

My point is Kagi is similar to a car tuning company like Hennessey, Brabus they take a base product and make it much better for a premium, they are not selling knock-offs.

Even if pure math is useless, that’s still okay. We do plenty of things that are useless. Not everything has to have a use.

I’m not sure I agree. Pure math is not useless because a lot of math is very useful. But we don’t know ahead of time what is going to be useless vs. useful. We need to do all of it and then sort it out later.

If we knew that it was all going to be useless, however, then it’s a hobby for someone, not something we should be paying people to do. Sure, if you enjoy doing something useless, knock yourself out… but on your own dime.

There are complete formulae for all prime-order Weierstrass curves. The work for secure implementation of prime-order curves is now simpler than for Edwards elliptic curves.