Saying “Luigi” or even that you agree with him: ✅ (Fine)

Using “Luigi” as a verb and/or dog-whistle call to violence (which is a TOS violation on LW and other instances): ❌ (Not Fine)

Edit: Added text in case the emojis don’t show up.

Maybe ask her for something small so she feels like she’s helping me too?

If they always insist on paying, yeah, that’s what I usually do. Typically phrase it something like, "No thanks, I don’t really need the money, but I do like [biscuits | cookies | whatever her cooking specialty may be]. Helps if you know they like to cook, though.

I’d go further and demand that the team I’m hired for re-write the app completely and not just re-engineer it from the AI slop codebase.

Curious if this going to affect google results in Searx. Not sure how it works (scraping page, API, etc)

Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?

I’m basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth’s yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they’ve signed your name at the bottom. […]

Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don’t know.

Standard reply:

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I’m replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.

Maybe will be better received at !tech_memes@lemmy.world ?

I’m immediately suspicious of anything that says “earn crypto rewards” so that’s a “no” from me.

I just use Searx-NG as my meta search engine, and it’s been pretty good.

There’s another self-hosted actual search engine (with its own dataset + crawler) but I forget its name off the top of my head. I’ve been looking into setting that up to experiment with.