MetaGer, the privacy-focused search engine of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, will no longer exist in its familiar form. It will still be possible to use the token-financed service. Nothing will change for members and users who use MetaGer with a key. However, it is the ad-financed search that has ensured the main part of the revenue and thus the operation and further development. Unfortunately, this “normal” search is no longer possible as of today. This is just as dramatic as it sounds: it is no longer possible for SUMA-EV to continue to employ staff. All employees are being made redundant, as are the offices.

The reason is that Yahoo terminated our contracts unilaterally and without any notice on Monday. Upon request, we were merely informed that Yahoo would no longer be operating the business in Germany. For us as the operator of MetaGer, this means on the one hand that we no longer receive any advertising revenue, which has been used to pay for office space, servers and employees. On the other hand, we will also no longer be able to deliver our search results as part of the ad-financed search. Only with Yahoo did we have a central deal to receive search results in return for advertising. This no longer applies.

What happens now? MetaGer's supporting association, SUMA-EV, will continue to exist. It will also still be possible to buy a key for the token-financed search and search with MetaGer. With this model, MetaGer will still be able to query paid search engines and deliver the results without tracking as usual. We will also continue to work for SUMA-EV and MetaGer on a voluntary basis to ensure the operation of this small niche, but this will of course be on a very small scale and not what MetaGer is all about. MetaGer-Maps can also no longer be operated in this context. The plans to become bigger and to one day provide a really good alternative to “the big players” with its own index (or European index) have of course died with this termination by Yahoo. And that is what is really sad.

Seven Spires released a new album back in June. This is my favorite song, but the entire album is amazing.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17284168

DW Video.

A crane I made with 2cm x 2cm paper

Some black metal from Serbia. Below are the lyrics and my translation

Zalutao pod veo košmara / I wandered under the veil of nightmares

Često usnim brisan prostor / I often dream of a cleared space

Negde i nigde, na granici svetova / Somewhere and nowhere, on the edge of worlds

Dubok je koren strahova / The root of fears is deep

I sanjam... / And I'm dreaming of...

Serpentine guste magme / Snaking flows of thick magma

Nema izlaza odavde / There is no escape from here

Peku se na tihoj vatri / They're burning on a silent fire

I žrtve i dželati / Both victims and executioners

I sve što još ne poznade smrti lice / And everything that had not yet known the face of death

Obgrliše kosturnice / Was embraced by ossuaries

Zastao je dašak jave / A breath of lucidness lingered

Ko u šaci zrno soli / Like a grain of salt in the palm

Možda se i iskobeljam / Maybe I'll get out

Kovčezi nam nisu okovi / Coffins aren't our chains

Serpentine guste magme / Snaking flows of thick magma

Nema izlaza odavde / There is no escape from here

Tu je neki zid, ruina / There's a wall, a ruin

Pored polje puno crkotina / Next to it a field filled with carrion

Gasovi i isparenja / Gases and fumes

Na sve strane plamti litosfera / The lithosphere is on fire on all sides

Obliven znojem, budim se / I wake up covered in sweat

Kraj istih ruševina, gde sve / Next to the same ruins, where everything

Što poznade smrti lice / That knew the face of death

Progutaše kosturnice / Got swallowed by ossuaries

Some black metal from Croatia

One of my absolutely favourite symphonic metal bands.

Kul stranica ako je neko zainteresovan. Koliko sam razumeo, sadrži materijale koji se koriste na Filozofskom fakultetu.

Ispostavilo se da ovde ima dosta linuksaša, pa me zanima da li imate neke posebne utiske o pojedinim distribucijama? Šta koristite i zašto, šta ne koristite više i zašto?

Ja sam jedno vreme menjao distribucije više puta nedeljno, ali ovo su mi utisci koji su ostali:

Debian - Najstabilniji OS koji je možda jedini koji mi je ikad crash-ovao. Za moj hardver uvek traži da zasebno skinem neke firmware-e, ali apt mi je ostao kao omiljeni package manager.

Arch - Jako fina stvar što možeš tačno da biraš kako će ti izgledati sistem i što je jako dobra prilika da naučiš više o linuksu generalno, ali sam primetio kod mene da ako ne update-ujem povremeno, pacman više ne želi da sarađuje, neće da skida pakete. A i desi se nekad da mi javi "signatures broken" ili tako nešto, što me stvarno nervira kad ne palim laptop par nedelja i onda moram sat vremena da ga opravljam da bih skinuo nešto što mi treba na 5 min.

Solus - Najveća tragedija mojih mladalačkih dana. To je jedina distribucija koja mi apsolutno nikad nije pravila nikakve probleme, a ja sam je menjao za Deepin jer je debian based, ima najlepši DE out of the box i bio sam zavisnik od menjanja distribucija. Sad ne mogu Solus da pogledam u oči od srama.

Trenutno imam Fedoru i skroz mi je okej, nemam neke posebne komentare, ali želim nešto novo, nešto divlje. Pa kao bonus pitanje: je l' koristio neko NixOS (koji je izgleda popularan na lemmy-ju), Gentoo ili Slackware?