For the past few months, I’ve had a bit of a background project going to ensure that my cloud-hosted personal data is safely archived on my own, self-hosted hardware, just in case. Google services are nice 'n' all, but I’m not 100% happy trusting them with everything in the long run.

Part of this project has been to archive my old email collection from GMail, which dates back to the initial public beta in 2004(ish?) -- and make it searchable, because what’s the point in having all that email if you can’t find the needle in the 20-year haystack when you need it?

Enter “notmuch” -- a “fast, global-search and tag-based email system”, which runs as a set of UNIX CLI commands, and is inspired by Sup, a mailreader I used previously.

Vous doutez de Facebook, vous avez déjà envisagé de vous désinscrire ? Bravo ! Nous essayons dans cette brochure d’élargir le débat, de présenter d’autres réseaux sociaux par nature respectueux de l’utilisateur et plus riches en fonctionnalités

European Alternatives is a project that collects and analyzes European alternatives to digital services and products, such as cloud services and SaaS products. We regularly receive advice and suggestions from European Alternatives users, so feel free to reach out!

• Web analytics services
• Cloud computing platforms
• Content delivery network (CDN) services
• Email providers
• Virtual private server (VPS) hosters
• Search engines
• Transactional email service
• Domain name registrars
• Time tracking apps
• Navigation apps
• Uptime monitoring services
• File hosting services
• Machine translation services
• Object storage providers
• Microblogging services
• VPN services
• Managed DNS providers
• Professional networking platforms
• Function as a service (FaaS) providers
• Platform as a service (PaaS) providers
• Error tracking services
• Electronic signature software
• Public DNS resolvers
• Payment service providers
• Captcha services
• Spelling and grammar checkers
• Password managers
• Instant messaging apps
• Version control services
• Identity and access management (IAM) services
• Live chat software
• Web browsers
• Video conferencing software
• Document collaboration services
• Calendar services
• Email marketing services
• Font services
• WordPress hosting providers
• Team communication services
• Managed Kubernetes services
• Video hosting services
• Video platforms
• Maps API services
• Tag management systems
• DDoS protection services
• Session recording tools
• ACME SSL certificate providers
• Survey tools
• Marketing automation software
• Project Management Software
• SMS APIs

Collectez toutes les informations légales, juridiques et financières sur les entreprises de votre choix (statuts, comptes sociaux, marques, dirigeants, actionnaires).

Upload photo and find out where images are published

Discovered thanks to Micode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4daO2QM12WY

open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library

🔍 Moteur de recherche des bibliothèques clandestines : livres, journaux, BD, magazines. ⭐️ Bibliothèque Z-Library, Bibliothèque Genesis, Sci-Hub. ⚙️ Entièrement résilient grâce à un code et à des données open source. ❤️ Faites passer le mot : tout le monde est le bienvenu ici !

Technical write-up on how they setup this: https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html

Let’s start with our tech stack. It is deliberately boring. We use Flask, MariaDB, and ElasticSearch. That is literally it. Search is largely a solved problem, and we don’t intend to reinvent it.

Source: @sebsauvage

Get off Big Tech tools. Use these instead.

Below are my recommendations for genuinely good, helpful, non-toxic tools. We need alternatives to Big Tech platforms that continually show a shocking lack of respect for users, communities, even democratic society.

RootAbout is a search-by-image system. You supply a picture, and RootAbout will check if it looks similar to any indexed picture.
For pictures that match, RootAbout provides additional information about the picture and a link to where you can find more information.

A very clear explanation of the #uploadfilters & #linktax law proposals, by member of the Pirate Party & the EU parliament Julia Red, who "decipher the legalese"

A big THANK YOU to her and her colleagues for their work on this.
Thanks to them, this law has been sent back to the drawing board: https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1014814460488413185

The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF). All of these file types can be parsed through a single interface, making Tika useful for search engine indexing, content analysis, translation, and much more.

There is a plugin for French addresses : https://github.com/eig-2017/addok-fr

by Otis Gospodnetić [Otis is a Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch expert and co-author of "Lucene in Action" (1st and 2nd editions).  He is also the founder and CEO of Sematext. See full bio below.] “Solr or Elasticsearch?”...well, at least that is the common question I hear from Sematext’s consulting services clients and prospects.  Which one…

open-source-search-engine - A distributed open source search engine and spider written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD. From gigablast dot com, which has binaries for download. See the README.md file at the very bottom of this page for instructions.

searx - A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

This post is a checklist for optimizing Elasticsearch’s configurations to deliver maximum performance, based on lessons we learned with log management.

Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.