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Cake day: October 19th, 2023

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  • It may not be the strangest, but it shows how some teachers just don’t like you personnally for no reason. I don’t know the English grade system so I was around 14-15yrs old I’d say. Drawing teacher gave me 2 hours of detention which I didn’t know (I learned it because I stood in school as my parents couldn’t take me early). So I learned that, I had an exercise to draw again the same exercise because my previous drawing was “bad” and he thought I didn’t spend enough time on it. Surprise, the girl who has had the greatest grades in art, and happened to be my friend, suggested to draw it for me. So I said yes and she drew for me, I didn’t do anything.

    I gave that back to the teacher, he did not even gave me 10/20 (that’s how grade works here). So I had a bad grade, I don’t remember exactly but he said I had not worked enough as habits.

    Bastard.











  • To me there is also a topic no one is ready to talk about : the way we search the web. I changed the way I search the web. Most of the time I need to browse the same websites so I added keywords search for those search.

    For Mojeek, I took time configuring “focuses” (a feature they have to limit the websites searched to a predefined subset).

    I reduced my need of search engines globally and now I’d say I use Mojeek and there’s 50% chance I need to go to DuckDuckGo because Mojeek failed to give me my answers. When I started using Mojeek, I almost never found answers so I’d say it got better!

    Google always suck for me except if I’m looking for products, the only domaineit shines but that’s kinda expected to be honest considering Google business model.


  • So many people are happy here. I can understand why but quick reminder that Qwant is not privacy friendly like they claim to be and that the CEO is a bastard who threatened employees.

    As for Ecosia, the only green they have is their name. Great they plant trees but they pushed AI so it’s basically like if they are destroying the trees they planted.

    There is a search engine with their own index from UK, privacy-friendly, it is called Mojeek. It is not as good as the others but I’ve been using it for maybe 4 months and it already improved a lot. They need users to give feedback and improve. Give it a try ! 😊





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    I used to but people behind are bastards so I don’t give money to them anymore.

    It made me think of how I use search engines and most of the time I go on the same websites so I try to avoid search engines.

    I use Mojeek with their focus feature (it is like lenses of Kagi). If I really need a search engine I use Mojeek with no focus, but most of the time the results are not good enough so I give them a feedback and go back on Duckduckgo.