The whole "digital boarding pass" is a lie. My dad don't have a smartphone so you check in at home and at the airport at the desk they print the boarding pass for you if you checked in. Sorted.
Even that requires clicking on unintuitive username links... scrolling to the very bottom of what are sometimes very long pages... and locating the "entry source code" file out of a sometimes very large list of files.
When most visitors obviously just want to glance at the programs and see what they do, this is horrifically organized.
Meta should be wiped from this planet...when I read sh*t like this I always say something like "this is the worse" until next week when something even worse comes out re Meta
Internet Explorer all over again...they never learn.
Edge was the last thing that pushed me away from Microsoft. The constant new - privacy invading - features, frickin' widgets and ad-filled home-screen-tab-thing.
How much telemetry goes back to Meta from these devices still? I’m already looking for one on Gumtree and they’re quite cheap! Quite a few sizes as well! I always wanted a customisable desk tablet thingy!
I mean I would want to do this when I do confidential stuff like HR and Payroll. I would be interested above what level are employees are exempt from this. I don't think Meta wants to train their AI on their own C-Level execs but who knows...it's Meta
I would go offline but never retire from tech, I would miss music terribly. I would also move all my ebooks over to an e-reader and that's it. If I can live somewhere offline with my music player and e-reader that's fine.
Until you realize that Kagi only works well because it uses a (paid) third-party API which behind the scenes does a classic Google search, scrapes its results in real time, throws out the ads, and then returns the cleaned-up results.
If Google Search changes, then Kagi's search will be impacted directly.
The other search indexes are largely negligible in comparison: [0]
> This is not a competitive market. It is a monopoly with a distant second place.
> The search index is irreplaceable infrastructure. Building a comparable one from scratch is like building a parallel national railroad. Microsoft spent roughly $100 billion over 20 years on Bing and still holds single-digit share. If Microsoft cannot close the gap, no startup can do it alone.
Thanks for searching the source. It sounds to me like they are _not_ using Google nor Bing directly:
> With Google and Bing, we failed - not for lack of trying.
> Bing: Their terms didn't work for us from the start. Microsoft's terms prohibited reordering results or merging them with other sources - restrictions incompatible with Kagi's approach. In February 2023, they announced price increases of up to 10x on some API tiers. Then in May 2025, they retired the Bing Search APIs entirely, effective August 2025, directing customers toward AI-focused alternatives like Azure AI Agents.
> Google: Google does not offer a public search API. The only available path is an ad-syndication bundle with no changes to result presentation - the model Startpage uses. Ad syndication is a non-starter for Kagi's ad-free subscription model.1
And BTW, I think this is possible (perhaps, as someone suggested below, with smaller and niche-focused indexes). At Uruky we integrate with several independent search providers and indexes, and only one of them (Serper) uses Google's results indirectly — not the most popular (though it was added by pressuring demand). From our FAQ [1]:
> For web search, Uruky currently integrates Mojeek, Marginalia, EUSP (Ecosia/Qwant) (only works with French, German, or English), Linkup, Serper, and Uruky Site Search.
EDIT: Sorry, I re-read carefully the whole thread and it seems we're saying similar things. Your claim, from the start, is about the SERP, not direct search, which is supported by their blog post as well:
> Because direct licensing isn't available to us on compatible terms, we - like many others - use third-party API providers for SERP-style results (SERP meaning search engine results page). These providers serve major enterprises (according to their websites) including Nvidia, Adobe, Samsung, Stanford, DeepMind, Uber, and the United Nations.
The web would probably be a lot healthier if we had several small search engines that focused on niches rather than 5 failed search engines that tried to index everything that was ever written and then ended up paying Bing.
They also have their own index. But in any case, what matters here is the product UX itself not the internal details, and they do offer a classic search experience
UK is up there in the world rankings for batteries.
I think they have slightly more grid batteries installed than California. UK have more people, but less money and less electricity used so I'd say they're doing better than California on battery deployment.
I do not think so. There is BESS here and it's hard to be sure from the available data but it sure looks like less than 10GWh of BESS, maybe much less. There is now more BESS here than pumped storage, which was installed as a Black Start† rather than specifically storage but it's just not very much compared to California from what I can see. So maybe I'm wrong about how much capacity it is, because the Pumped Storage is like 20GWh top to bottom.
† Most modern power stations perversely need electricity in order to start them, so if your whole grid goes offline you're fucked, you go dark and your civilisation is now on a clock - a Black Start facility is a station which can go from black (no electricity) to running. In the case of Britain's pumped storage that's because "all" we need to do is allow the water to run through the generator. Once one or two Black Start sites are up you can use that power to start the other generators and restore supply to residents, and things get back to normal in a few hours.
[Edited to say that since we know there's about 20GWh of PSH the larger BESS can't be as small as I thought unless it's run a lot harder...]
It hard to get exact numbers because the rollout is fast in both places but it looks like they have strikingly similar targets for 2030 and 2040 in terms of GW but California both started earlier so is still ahead in GW deployed and their regulations mean that 4 hour is more common so they're actually about 2x on storage duration in California.
Both doing well, but UK would need much more of a handicap for GDP than I thought to claim a win. Solar and batteries do generally pair better than wind.
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