Someone should keep an eye on Linus.

Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.

https://hnrss.github.io/

I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.

https://brr.fyi

• Nethack

Yes the interface is a mess. But it’s ridiculously deep once you get into it.

You’re welcome!

I can have a look in my free time for fun. Will let you know if I manage to do it. 😅

Sorry for the delay in the reply.

No need to apologize! Thank you for working on this. :)

The only issue is that the app requires that the config file and blocklist and allowlists should be included within the docker hub. So the issue is that if a prebuilt image is provided, then is it possible to edit it within the docker container ?? If so then it is ok, otherwise it would still be good, but it would limit the usage to users who are by default satisfied by the default config. While others would still need to build the image manually, which is not very great.

I’m not familiar with the websurfix codebase, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I’m currently self-hosting SearXNG on a VPS, but I started by having it just locally. The important bit of that blog post is this:

docker run -d --rm \
              -d -p 8080:8080 \
              -v "${HOME}/searxng:/etc/searxng" \
              -e "BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/" \
              searxng/searxng

I use the -v flag to mount a directory in my home to the config directory inside the docker container. SearXNG then writes the default config files there, and I can just edit them normally on ~/searxng/.

By using a mounted volume like this, the configs are persistent, so I can restart the docker container without losing them.

Ah cool, thanks!

Will definitely try it now. It’s good to have options (Searx just recently became unmaintained).

Are there any plans to have an official docker hub image? I’m asking because my workflow involves keeping the containers up to date with watchtower.

Interesting, I’ll be keeping an eye on this. Thanks for sharing!

I’m currently self hosting SearXNG. The must-have features for me are the custom filters and the actively maintained docker image. Will definitely give it a go if they get implemented.

I see you already have an answer using podman.

But don’t be afraid of the command line. If you can copy/paste a few commands, it’s pretty easy to set up.

I honestly find installing docker harder than to start a locally hosted searxng instance.

Also, something like self-hosting your own email is way harder and requires a lot more maintenance. I’d leave that project to further down the line.

Not sure it will solve your problem, but if you’re not happy with the public SearXNG instances, you can run your own instance of SearXNG on your local machine, and even set up custom filters and redirects to get rid of SEO junk.

Because I refuse to install the Reddit official app.

• ls / cd for basic stuff

• fzf if I want to find my way through the history

• broot if I want to search for a file

• ripgrep if I want to find a file with specific contents.

I know that the last 3 are not available by default, but they are good pieces of software, so I’m just going to install them.

Ah fair enough.

I started by having it on my laptop, and used it only there. Liked it so much that I’m renting a VPS around $5 a month to have it on all my devices.

But to be fair, I’m also hosting other things on that VPS (SearXNG is very light), so it’s multi-purpose.

What issues did you have with SearXNG?

You could try to self host it, or even just run it on your local machine.

Shameless plug on how to set it up locally, and how to set up custom filters (to block junk websites and redirect reddit to the old interface).

I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that’s what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.

Recently I’ve been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).

https://brr.fyi/