

Swisscows I don’t believe has an index, Mojeek does.


(some) alternative search engines use Bing because building an index is hard and the only project I know of doing this work from base is Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/



It’s a three-pronged attack: Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal


any way of slowing things down or wasting resources is a gain I guess


nepenthe
It’s a Markov-chain-based text generator which could be difficult for people to implement on repos depending upon how they’re hosting them. Regardless, any sensibly-built crawler will have rate limits. This means that although Nepenthe is an interesting thought exercise, it’s only going to do anything to things knocked together by people who haven’t thought about it, not the Big Big companies with the real resources who are likely having the biggest impact.
Wealth and income are two different things. We should tax wealth savagely, i.e., the ownership of assets, and we should also tax income, but to a lesser degree.
Just to level set: income refers to the flow of money earned over a period, like a salary or wages, while wealth represents the accumulated assets minus liabilities at a specific point in time