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But this... does put a smile on my face (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by Muehe@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Context:

Somebody made a post promoting the proprietary search engine they are working on, claiming in the post that it "would make Stallman smile". In a comment below the post they said that they made the statement about Stallman to "drive engagement". The post was later removed for promoting proprietary software.

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At the top is a screenshot from the modlog saying:

Removed Post We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page.
reason: Comm rule 2: Don’t promote proprietary software

Below that is an image of Stallman smiling.

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[-] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I mean why even when Stract is a thing

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

And that is...? First google result is something for google sheets, second result is a plugin for Chrome to extract data from ads.

[-] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

Don't know enough to give a testimony on it. Majority or codebase is FOSS afaik. Sorta passed the sniff test? Free API is nice and works well, that's enough for my purposes.

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