Not from Europe, but it reminds me of how Amsterdam has been actively discouraging young men from the UK from visiting because they have a reputation for being rowdy and getting in trouble.
I haven't been there in 20 years but I'm not surprised.
Back then there was a tidal wave of drunk, loud men from the UK whenever they had a bank holiday.
My unsolicited advice to people wanting to visit the city has always been to not go during UK long weekends and if they're only looking for drugs and sex, that both can be sourced closer to home.
Spyglass looks interesting, providing a unified search GUI for which I use a bunch of CLI search tools (ripgrep, ripgrep-all, and now bogrep) as well as some simple bash scripts.
Somehow I still prefer some CLI-based tooling though which I can configure as needed instead of a fully-fledged GUI-based solution.
CPU usage was definitely noticeable, but not more than 8-10% IIRC (on M1). I remember lots of tiny 0->10% spikes rather than a steady ~5% when viewing the CPU graphs.
Using Bogrep, I could only find https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/ in my bookmarks which is a bit related, but doesn't seem to be what you're looking for.
bogrep + everything (windows filesystem search) + the screenshot "service" - i'm about 80% sure it was a service and not self-hosted - would completely obviate the need to remember anything ever again! It would also eliminate the hassle of firefox or chrome "forgetting" my bookmarks every few years in an apparently random fashion.
I've been having HN "dropbox" moments about this... how hard can it be? I've hacked together OCR to use my phone to control my icom ic-7100 - the person who makes/sells the bluetooth serial ports compatible with icom Ci-V was out during the pandemic, and before, when i needed one, so i wired a raspberry pi to the Ci-V port, enabled BT file transfers on the pi, and using repeaterbook on the phone with GPS i could find the info page for a nearby repeater, do the 2 finger screenshot, hit share, and the pi would OCR it and get the frequency and offset. I never bothered to extract the PL tone frequency, because my radio can find that quickly on an active repeater.
So there's a workflow, and i have spare machines to do the OCR and inserting into solr (or whatever).
Interesting setup! Personally, I would be cautious to use such a screenshot service though. Even if self-hosted, it could screenshot credentials, environment files, and my password manager for example, which would then be stored in plaintext somewhere?
So I would rather prefer to "keep control" by using a search utility when needed instead of scanning the background permanently.
IMO, building a social network is quite difficult nowadays because you can't monetize it right away. So you either have to bootstrap as a side project and build a community for years or getting paid by VC money early on.
We tried something similar [1] a few years ago. The limit is 5 posts per day. Our approach was minimalistic in a sense as you could post links only and no text, pictures, or videos.
We named it Turtle, symbolizing the opposite of the chatty twitter bird. It wasn't so clever from an SEO point of view though.
Can't find any ads on NoScript.net with uBlock running and uniblue.com seems to have expired. However it is hilarious that the complaint comes from Ad block Plus, their entire business model is build around bypassing EasyList. For a generous fee they make sure that your ads are "acceptable".
What makes you think this comes from ABP? The article linked to is from 2016, they link to a history between NoScript and ABP. The article by ABP is from 2009 (!!). Back in the 2009, ABP was the defacto standard. There was no uBlock. There was NoScript, but no uMatrix yet.
The developer issued an apology and reverted the change, and apart from a Ghostery one (who are also shady) no further controversies are documented at [1]. Perhaps the Wikipedia article is incomplete, given the one linked is from 2016?
