Ten Dog Army

Vaye / 🇨🇦 ✡️ / Adult / Cartoonist and gonzo journalist. This is my personal blog

[naradreamscape]

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🇨🇦 This blog is maintained by a Canadian Jewish journalist and is pro-Palestine. Get with it or get out 🇵🇸

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[queenpalms]

[existentialterror]

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

[greenjudy]

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

[jumpingjacktrash]

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

[averixus]

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

[ashby-santoso]

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

[ms-demeanor]

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

[ms-demeanor]

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

[workfornow]

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

[existentialterror]

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

[fukin]

[bobbole]

Palestinian children were prevented from going to school by razor wire and israeli soldiers — so they sat down and studied right in front of them (via AndreyX)

[crreature]

11 year old Huda, April 26, 2026, via CNN

[tall]

[minttttttttttttttttttttttttttt]

sorry but this video is like a parasitic species to me

[milanesa42]

“The employees need a larger salary” “hmmmm large celery”

[wayneradiotv]

[wayneradiotv]

Breaking news

[naradreamscape]

Is anyone else getting these creepy, analog horror-style ads for "Hate Tags" (a sticker that's supposed to preface hate speech, as sponsored by the Toronto Holocaust Museum)? The fact that it's happening in the middle of the night makes me feel like I'm in a creepypasta or something

I can already foresee "hate" being extremely loosely defined, and mostly aimed at criticism of the colony and its military. I'm always saddened by the ways we misuse our creativity and time on this earth

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[our-trans-punk-experience]

If you are in the UK or Brazil, to get around any age verification bullshit, download Proton VPN (the best free one) or any vpn of your choosing (I think the latest Firefox update has a pretty good one). Then log out and log back in.

If you live in a household with restrictions on the WiFi that prevent you searching for the vpn, all it takes is one café, pub, library, or friend's house with free WiFi, and you'll pull it off. VPNs do not take that long to download.

Stay safe, Stay punk 🏴🏴‍☠️

[mathsbian]

The free version of Proton does not get you outside of your country of origin. You have to pay if you want to browse as if you are in another country.

I have the free version, and the only thing it is good for is helping further encrypt my data when doing things like applying for Medicaid on my device while at the library or a café. I got it while living in a motel for a couple of weeks while homeless. The first thing I checked was if I could change the country I was being bounced through, and I cannot.

You can’t get around the age verification process with a VPN unless you are able to switch the national server(s) that your signal is bouncing through.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

hi, genuinely not sure what's happening with you, but you absolutely should be able to switch countries on the free tier. Best of luck tryna figure that out - anyone have any ideas as to what's going on?

[mathsbian]

I’m literally looking at my options on my Surface 6 now, and every country has a “This country is available with VPN Plus” label on it. Even Canada and Mexico (I am in the US). Clicking on any of them shows me this image:

Are you sure you don’t have a free trial of Plus, or aren’t paying for it without realizing? Because I do not even have a valid payment method to give them to get a free trial. Or perhaps it’s only free to switch countries in Europe? Which would not help Brazilians who have a UI more like mine? Or perhaps people have been using for more than a couple of years got access to more features that are not available to new users now?

Running a VPN is not free, and Proton is very particular about not giving more than they can afford to provide. Like I can’t even have more than 3 folders in the free email tier…

[our-trans-punk-experience]

absolutely sure that this blog and several other users are all on free. it isn't unlimited countries, and you can't choose your country (randomly allocated to one of 7) but I've heard proton said that enough people use the paid tiers that they can afford to provide usable service on the free tier. maybe it is a eurocentric issue?? I will look into this

[reallysaltygarden]

Friendly reminder that Proton's ceo is pro Trump. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

The company is also headquartered in Switzerland, which means they have to provide financial info which can identify you. That can be a problem if they outlaw VPNs as they are saying.

There are a plethora of other VPNs that you can use. There are online articles comparing all of them. I know not everyone can afford another subscription, but it's NordVPN scores quite well in most articles.

[tench-art]

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/3265/

archived on 2009-04-27 12:51:01

[to-orrr]

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[naradreamscape]

Man, I could really do without this new wave of antisemitic sweeping generalizations. I keep getting jumpscared by all the usual insane shite, but I can especially do without this whole "they're all child predators" thing

This is also why I begged people for years to disavow the colony and its ruling class! When you don't say anything against injustices, you become culpable to an extent! Now I have to worry about getting hate-crimed because nobody had the nuts to say "I can't support a government that doesn't properly investigate sex crimes" for at least a decade. No, they just used all that effort and more to harass Palestinian people off social media. I'm sure that made us look really great to the rest of the world /s

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - April 8-14

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1. The US offshore wind industry finally gets a break

“Five U.S. wind projects continue construction, with some now producing power, as the Trump admin misses a deadline to appeal court decisions letting them proceed. [… L]ast week, the department quietly let the final deadline for appealing the courts’ decisions lapse. […] The lack of appeals likely represents a recognition that the government couldn’t stop the five projects from moving forward[….]”

2. Bactrian camel calf born at the [Whipsnade] Zoo

“[The baby is named after] Sophia Raffles[, who] was the first woman to become a fellow of ZSL in 1826 - making ZSL the first society to admit women in the UK[…. “J]ust like her namesake’s emphasis on access to education, she will be vital for teaching our visitors about the threats facing wild camels, and what people can do to help.” [… ZSL is] supporting conservation efforts in Mongolia, including the Gobi Desert in the south, where it’s believed there are only 450 wild camels.”

3. STEM can be a hostile place for queer kids. Rainbow Robotics is changing the game.

“Rainbow Robotics [is] a student-led initiative funded by a grant from the It Gets Better Project that brings STEM opportunities to queer spaces and teaches inclusion and acceptance in STEM. [...] “There’s been students on our team who not only learn how to stick up for their LGBTQ+ peers, but also learn a lot about themselves and about preconceived notions of queer spaces,” Jarvis says.”

4. 30-year Himalayan project shows power of community-led forest restoration

“[The previously degraded area now] supports rich biodiversity, including more than 160 bird species, more than 100 butterfly species, and many medicinal plants, providing livestock fodder, medicine and livelihoods for the residents of surrounding communities. [...] “The site also maintains all five Western Himalayan oak species strengthening its role as a genetic repository and conservation model for rare and endemic flora,” [a co-author] said.”

5. Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling

“A 63-year-old man has been functionally cured of HIV with a bone marrow transplant [...] from his brother, who has a rare genetic mutation called CCR5Δ32 that confers resistance to HIV-1, the most common type of human immunodeficiency virus. [...] His healthy T cell count soared in the year after the procedure and stayed at healthy levels after he stopped antiretroviral therapy (ART)—the gold standard treatment for HIV—two years later.”

April 1-7 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)