Is this related to New Zealand politics in some way?

The average searches per user on Google is something like 30 a month lol. But I’m a 500-1000 kind of guy.

Depending on what I’m doing it can get higher, especially if I’m doing dev stuff.

I guess I’m just surprised that you do that many searches and think paying for search is a waste of money. Being able to customise search results (block Pinterest, have MDN ranked higher, rewrite reddit.com to old.reddit.com, etc) is easily worth $10 a month to me.

But as I said to someone else, $10USD can be a coffee or a weeks wages depending on where you are in the world, so it’s probably going to hugely sway people’s views on if it’s worth it.

Yeah at times I’ll do 1000 a month, but 3500 excluding work related seemed pretty big.

And if you’re doing that many searches and refinements, it seems the $10 a month should be more worth it.

But $10USD can be anything from a coffee to a week’s wages depending on where you are in the world, so I can understand different opinions on whether it’s worth it.

Technically yes I guess, but I would expect “maintenance” to refer to the cost of keeping the ice cream cart working and looking good, I wouldn’t expect the wholesale cost of ice cream to be in the “maintenance” column of my cart finances.

I Kagi’s case they are paying per search to connect to APIs to search other search engines and aggregate the results. They have a very real cost per search that isn’t only maintaining software.

Ok sorry ignoring the rest of your comment but how do you do 2500-3500 searches a month? That’s 100 a day, and you explicitly excluded work related searching.

You’re doing a search every 10 minutes of every waking hour of every day, not including searches done for work. You barely have time to read what you are searching.

Why so many searches?

Yip works on summit here too.

I mostly browse all as well. But one thing to try, is blocking communities and users. Block US news communities and you’ll find a lot less bad news. When you see people acting in bad faith in the comments, have a quick browse of their profile to see if they are usually like that, then block them if they are.

There aren’t that many users on Lemmy, and there are even fewer users that actually post and comment. You may find it’s the same ones over and over, and blocking them helps.

Now on to your more pressing problem. Presumably you’re seeing content from !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone, sorting by top in the last day I can see three memes with cats: https://programming.dev/c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay

But the real action is here: https://programming.dev/c/cat@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New

There are like 20 posts in the last few days, most of them with plenty of upvotes.

Can’t you pick pretty much any story?

If God was all knowing and all powerful, there would be no need for Noah’s ark as he would have made people right the first time.

Like coming to Lemmy and all the content is memes about the number 4

That’s an interesting experience. Sometimes I feel like my feed has too many cat pictures.

It feels like the kind if thing that someone, somewhere would have a script running constantly testing for private keys with low values. That it went 18 months without being found is a miracle!

I think there’s a good chance people will be looking for this now so will get caught a lot quicker next time.

So why did it take so long for someone to try it?

Browsing through the list… ok how do I tell if my server has been compromised, because I run a fuckload of those…

Interesting read. Again, it seems the solution is not being offered by any party 🤷

Not sure about anyone rlse but I’m holding out for that long weekend this weekend. Working is extra hard when you come back from a holiday 😅

Someone send firefox that spiky corner design that I saw in /all

Damn, that’s a huge number. I wasn’t expecting it to be so large.

I don’t see a reason why the cutoff had to be the advance voting period either, if it’s about getting results quicker. Definitely seems to be the reason you point out.

Was having drinks with someone who was doing some work for the electoral commission. They said the government was expecting results quicker because of this change, but it wasn’t really going to change anything as it’s not much of a bottleneck.

Will be interesting to see if there are changes or if this was just a change to make voting harder for no reason.

Have one. Love it. Except mine doesn’t mark where the electromagnets are so you just have to guess 🫠