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  • technomancytechnomancy@hey.hagelb.org
    Oct 14, 2026, 9:00 PM

    @dalias fair but opensearch.xml is a pretty tiny wrapper that gives the %s substitution pattern just a little bit of metadata (icon and name mostly)

    <OpenSearchDescription>
<ShortName>Technomancy Search</ShortName>
<Description>Technomancy's search engine</Description>
<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="https://search.technomancy.us/q?q={searchTerms}"/>
<Image width="16" height="16">https://search.technomancy.us/favicon.ico</Image>
</OpenSearchDescription>
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  • Cassandrichdalias@hachyderm.io
    Oct 14, 2026, 9:14 PM

    @technomancy Yeah, but it's coming from a URL that could get changed out from under me unless I control the domain. As a user I have no idea what stability properties it will have on my side. Will my browser load it once and save the contents permanently? Will it re-query it periodically? What happens if it's down? Will the owner of the site gain information that I'm using the search they published? Etc.

    All of these are artificial headaches made by using a URL rather than a text entry box where you type/paste a pattern.

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  • technomancytechnomancy@hey.hagelb.org
    Oct 14, 2026, 9:32 PM

    @dalias ah sure; I was thinking of just pointing it at a set of openxmls from my dotfiles repo

    I'd rather have Normal Dotfiles like every other damn program on my system, but Firefox has just gotta be Special

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