Shmer? It has so much padding and margin, even in "compact" mode. But it does have a lot of advertising all over, trying to get me to pay for stuff I don't intend to use. Maybe it's ad-dense?

I'm surprised and excited each time I manage to block a UI element successfully. Discord is usually quite preventing that for things that are meant to be noisy, like ads.

Hmm, I wonder if there's a subscription option for "Shaddup! I don't want to buy anything or do your quests!"?

Yes, why did somebody somewhere decide underscores should be italic? They're most clearly underline, as in the days of dial-up BBSes. (-:

Out of respect for Fruity Loops, and contempt of WK Kellogg Co.'s lawyers, I refuse to acknowledge the forced named change. WK Kellogg can accept the reality that there is no conflict of trademarks or other business interests between music software and sugar-pushers, or they can shove off. (>_<)

Somehow, this has me thinking of the Hubris operating system. If a subprogram calls an API incorrectly (wrong number of arguments, wrong argument type, out-of-bounds memory access…), the system kills the caller with no chance for recovery.

If the AI is not supposed to access a thing, and it tries to in a way you know how to detect, halt it and eject it from memory?

That is wicked fast, mate. I've recommended it to some people who don't use Kagi.

Assistant depends heavily on which of the many models you use. I've most recently liked results from Kimi K2.7 Code.

Kagi lets you re-rank sites, and also lets you ban results from sites you don't like.

onelook.com works for this usecase. Allows pattern searches, and can set it as a custom search engine.

> OneLook scans 16,965,772 entries in 805 dictionaries. Use it to find definitions, related words, quotes, names, lyrics, colors, and more.

The first I remember seeing:

2026-06-02 https://kagi.com/changelog#10959

2026-06-25 https://blog.kagi.com/translate-update

The above two only disabled free access, due to costs. They mention that Kagi Translate would become a subscription service (so I pessmistic'ly assumed it would no longer be part of my existing subscription).

The 2026-29-10 announcement includes "As we roll out our unified Fair Use system, usage across Kagi Translate and Kagi Assistant will count toward a shared allowance.".

> There was Amazon app store which failed to gain traction

I also heard that dev's couldn't remove apps they, for whatever reason, no longer supported. Even if the developers abandoned Amazon's app store entirely, the old bitrotted apps would still be there. The 1-star reviews would pile up, biasing users against them on other platforms.