[sudo-discuss] YaCy in sudo room: I am inclined to set it up

[Anthony Di Franco]

Sudo room is a room with a bunch of computer hardware in it much of it idle
and a community of people many of them not idle many of whom like free
access to information and privacy-respecting technology and social
institutions and dislike pervasive surveillance by state and corporate
actors and oligopolistic private control of vital public resources.
YaCy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy> is a
free<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software>
 distributed search
engine<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine>,
built on principles of
peer-to-peer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer> (P2P)
networks. All YaCy-peers are equal and no central
server<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)>
 exists. It can be run either in a
crawling<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler>
 mode or as a local proxy server<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server>,
indexing web pages visited by the person running YaCy on his or her
computer. (Several mechanisms are provided to protect the user's privacy.)

Access to the search functions is
​given
 by a locally running web server which provides a search box to enter
search terms, and returns search results in a similar format to other
popular search engines.
​​

Thoughts?
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