Tenkard

joined 3 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is what I think: You cannot be 100% private, but you can be 95% private. Most of the tracking I want to avoid is from websites, mail and my devices OS.

With ublock origin in advanced mode, thunderbird + Protonmail, Linux (I'm dual booting and also have a windows VM for the things not working on Linux) and a VPN I can reach a satisfying amount of privacy without wasting too much time and effort. I'm also hosting an unfederated matrix server for private communications but I rarely use it.

To have better privacy than this I'd need a lot more effort, but the return wouldn't be big enough, so I'm good. The only other thing I'd like to do is switching to a phone with grapheneOS or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

You can use the advanced mode of ublock to replace noscript too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Search engines such as Google need to rank results in some way, to decide which ones to display on top.

This algorithm changes depending on new developments, both cultural and technical, see Google recently putting results from reddit firsts.

One typical way to do this is checking "how many other websites are pointing at this result", and since traffic is money, people try to game the algorithm by creating fake websites which links to the one they want to push.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Same, 2k laptop with a 3070 ti and I cant even remember what game is installed there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I had the Soldier of Fortune original game disk, but lost the box with the CD key. Mailed the devs/publishers asking for help, sending a picture of the disks, and they basically told me that I should have been more careful. Googled "soldier of fortune CD key" and ended up on one of those now-defunct websites which collected cracks and CD keys, discovering that not only you didn't need the key, but you could also just download free stuff.

Now I pay for Prime Video, Netflix and Spotify and buy lots of games on steam/gog, but I also created an app used by thousands of people every month to help them sail the four seas

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Exactly, you just have to pick SvelteKit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Fire stick and the shield are both android devices so you can just install whatever you want

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That must mean it's working! :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I use a self hosted vpn because my main reason to use a vpn is avoiding monitoring from my isp and whoever is managing the local network, and I don't want websites to know where I'm located.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'll start

include regex.h

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes. I used it too for a year but the clients were bad

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