@gomez @davidoclubb @anniemo71 #Ss. Clearnet: https://sercxi.eu.org/ Tor: https://sercxi.nnpaefp7pkadbxxkhz2agtbv2a4g5sgo2fbmv3i7czaua354334uqqad.onion/

@resist1984 @gomez @davidoclubb @anniemo71

"This site can’t be reached" both addresses

@otso @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez i never use the clearnet site (it's clearnet only), but the onion link is reliable and working for me right now. You need to install Tor Browser to use that onion link.

@resist1984 @gomez @davidoclubb @anniemo71

whatever the link is Tor Browser responds like this:

"Websites prove their identity via certificates. Tor Browser does not trust sercxi.nnpaefp7pkadbxxkhz2agtbv2a4g5sgo2fbmv3i7czaua354334uqqad.onion because its certificate issuer is unknown, the certificate is self-signed, or the server is not sending the correct intermediate certificates."

@otso @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez that's because the cert is self-signed. You can ignore that because onion sites inherently give you e2ee even if there is no SSL.

@gomez @davidoclubb @anniemo71 @otso that warning is overly alarming and i've heard chatter that Tor Browser devs might remove the warning in future versions.

@resist1984 @gomez @davidoclubb @anniemo71

there is something wrong with your address
even if I accept the certificate the site won't work

@resist1984 @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez

usually these things work when you "Accept the Risk and Continue"

here it didn't work

@otso @otso @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez do other onion sites work for you? When I click "Accept the Risk and Continue", it takes me to the search form.

@resist1984 @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez

my onion sites work fine like this one: http://mymji3a2duev7jp2.onion/

everything else works fine too except:

http://sercxi.nnpaefp7pkadbxxkhz2agtbv2a4g5sgo2fbmv3i7czaua354334uqqad.onion/

@otso @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez I can't explain it then. Some people are still trapped on onion v2 (like one of my machines), but then if that were the case you wouldn't even get the warning screen. You might try booting a recent Tails live disk and see if it works. Any other #Tor users having problems reaching sercxi.nnpaefp7pkadbxxkhz2agtbv2a4g5sgo2fbmv3i7czaua354334uqqad.onion ?

@resist1984 @anniemo71 @davidoclubb @gomez

I know about the transition, it won't be abrupt but by stages announced in good time before they occur

@resist1984

Unfortunately the clearnet address doesn't appear to work and using tor is not always an option
@davidoclubb @anniemo71

@davidoclubb @resist1984 @gomez @anniemo71 searx is just a pile of damn kid scripts. it does not search a shit. it's just a wrap over the same Google or DDG, stealing the results of their work and possibly tracing users search requests on the net. who said that domain isn't spying on you? this is just a cheap kind of surveillance, without doing any work, without real network spiders and data storage.

@iron_bug @anniemo71 @gomez @davidoclubb Ss is not searx; it's custom. But wrt searx, no kid in moms basement is financially equipped to exploit data to the extent of #GAFAM. We're talking very costly AI.

@davidoclubb @gomez @anniemo71 @iron_bug Facebook is even figuring out which of their users are gay with very high accuracy. You don't have to worry about searx (FOSS s/w) doing that.

@iron_bug @anniemo71 @gomez @davidoclubb i sense some sympathy for tech giants (as you equated scraping Google/MS results with "stealing"). IMO scraping their results is the best scenario, because it uses the resources of tech giants without compensating them, which means not only not feeding privacy abusers, but costing them. That's a good thing.

@davidoclubb @resist1984 @gomez @anniemo71 why not? people built really large search system and it works fine. well, it did generally work fine, until they began to shove AI in it and it messed it up a way. but it still works somehow. DDG can work without scripts, which is very valuable in modern Internet. so yes, I think stealing their results isn't just fair. I never considered theft a good thing. if you're so tough, go get your own crawler and collect your own data. for free. and we'll see what it all is worth, in real.

@davidoclubb @resist1984 @gomez @anniemo71 who said? we don't know what's undercover and what data they collect. any why should anybody trust that noname better than, say, DDG?

@iron_bug @anniemo71 @gomez @davidoclubb @iron_bug #DDG has /proven/ to violate their privacy policy: http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/duckduckgo-in-2021/ An unknown is of course more worthy of trust than a known cheater. Garage operations just don't have the capital to finance a large scale AI engine.. Only very big money interests behind GAFAM have that kind of cash to invest.