I view this comparable to an ad-blocker extension in the browser. It doesn’t block all ads, but it does a decent job that the result is usable. Maybe that is the effect, maybe less. As long as they do not heuristic decision and only go about known stuff, then I’m all for it. My first thought was “oh they fight ai with ai”, but that is not the case as it seems. But it depends on the sources for that filter. If they use Ai to detect, then I’m not a big fan of the filter.

I see. Well that makes sense and is indeed useful then.

Oh man sorry to hear your place got flooded. That sucks, but good on you for not stop trying. Man also, you can’t just do a passwordless login when dealing with the internet. :D And the story with misconfiguring the port is exactly one of the things I’m scared.

NextCloud is also on my todo list,… but I’m too lazy.

Be careful; one project turns into two, which turns into 3

Actually two turns into four! Otherwise I agree with your reply. :-) My next step for searXNG would be to set it up on a low powered device to access from public (for myself only), and use a VPN on it with rotating IPs. To accessing it outside my home. But I’m not ready for that yet. I’m also kind of scared to get hacked someday.

AI slop blocker

How does this work? I mean how decides it is Ai slop or not?

Agreed, hosting is probably the most private web search we have. Only your IP address is still sent to the actual search engines searXNG calls. Using a VPN would solve this last bit too.

An extreme alternative would also be Tor.

Can you prove that there is a backdoor?

I didn’t say there is, I only ask for proofing your point. Remember: Not able to find anything is not the proof of absence. You can only proof something you can find. All I am saying is, if even Linux Kernel ALMOST got hid by a backdoor that was extremely sophisticated, it could happen to Ghidra as well. I’m not saying Ghidra is unsecure or anything like that.

if China, Russia, NK or any other nation state could find a backdoor

Then they would most likely use it to their advantage without telling anyone. Shaming a nation is not as lucrative like abusing a backdoor.

Ghidra is used by the best and brightest malware inspectors.

Can you prove your claim?

If it was backdoored, it would have been discovered almost immediately.

That’s the hope. Reality is, these things still happen. Remember that even the extremely secure Linux Kernel was almost, if it was not discovered accidentally and looked into it, hit bey huge backdoor. What makes you so sure that Ghidra developers and inspectors is on the same level?

No.

I don’t think that Photocraft is superior. But the reason why its made so quickly is, because its vibe coded. There is no real engineering behind it, no good code quality and its not even a unique project; just stolen another project. And right now it’s even buggy as hell and unfinished mess with missing features too. Besides possible future licensing issues, I wouldn’t even use that program if it was good.

I prefer GIMP over Photoshop or what this abomination of Photocraft is.