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Reply to "Is Punching Nazis Impolite? Yes. Don't do it" by ziq
Is punching Nazis impolite? Yes. Do it anyway.
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If this goes through, and only requires for-profit websites to do upload filters, maybe a silver lining will be increased interest in decentralized and/or non-profit social media sites.
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Reply to What do you like about Raddle? by mofongo
Back when it was first created I thought it was just for tankies or people who were too provocative to not get banned from Reddit, but I came back more recently and it seems to have more stuff regarding the intersection of the free software movement and socialism, which is rather to my liking.
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Reply to Stop Microsoft from buying Github Petition by ziq
Anyone who cared about using a freedom-respecting git hosting provider wasn't using Github anyway.
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Reply to comment by 5000et in Is there a leftist alternative to YouTube? by AmeliaAnarchist
Hooktube is only a proxy to youtube, not really an alternative. Bitchute seems to be overrun with fascist content, but I admit I don't know how much censorship there is there. There is PeerTube, which is probably the best out there right now, but it has a similar limitation to other similar platforms in that it is pretty much devoid of content.
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Reply to comment by ChaosRocket in If you had to pick one word to ban from the internet, what would it be? by leftous
Excuse me???? It's Eheebijeebiphilia!
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Reply to Cloudflare launches the fastest DNS resolver on the market right now with DNS-over-HTTPS support (despite the promises, don't use it for anything privacy sensitive) by HEEEEEEEEEEEYHAAAAAAA
I want to use this, but I am trying to be cautious. Just a few questions if anyone knows the answers.
It's got:
- No Data Selling
- No ads
- Gratis
So where does the money come from to provide this service?
Also, besides increased speed, does this actually offer any more security/privacy?
Unfortunately, by default, DNS is usually slow and insecure. Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted. Creepily, some DNS providers sell data about your Internet activity or use it target you with ads.
This seems to suggest that if you use their DNS service, your ISP cannot see what sites you visit. Yet they must see to direct your traffic. Is this not still the case?
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Reply to comment by !deleted2159 in XD: A BitTorrent client written in Go designed specifically for i2p, no need for VPNs or seedboxes for torrenting! by FreeeeeeeeeeeBerkeleySD
All you need is to download and run some software. You don't need an invite.
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Reply to comment by boringskip in XD: A BitTorrent client written in Go designed specifically for i2p, no need for VPNs or seedboxes for torrenting! by FreeeeeeeeeeeBerkeleySD
Yeah, I prefer c++ in general, but i2pd doesn't have graphical configuration options. I just wanted to get right into torrenting.
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Reply to XD: A BitTorrent client written in Go designed specifically for i2p, no need for VPNs or seedboxes for torrenting! by FreeeeeeeeeeeBerkeleySD
I tried this out a few days ago. What I was really looking for was a way to get stuff from mainstream sites (i.e. The Pirate Bay) without having an intellectual pooperty owner getting my IP address and making my ISP send angry letters. Maybe I'm just not doing something right, but I'm not sure what features it offers that the built-in client does not. I suppose if you are using the C++ i2p implementation, it would compliment that.
Edit: It also operates a local webserver on port 1488, which is funny if coincidental.
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Local NPR station. It's certainly not leftist, but it's pretty good for current events. That's the only thing I can think of. As for conservative books, Dostoevsky was a conservative, but his works are not unpalatable like modern conservative "authors". I think he was a great author regardless.
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Reply to Why do people recommend Google's browser when it, by default, sends all typed urls as Google searches? by UnCeNsOrEdREEEEEEE
The type of people who recommend Chrome aren't the type that would care.
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Reply to comment by gen3 in Breaking Spotify's DRM by anarcho_pirate
There's no tool that exists to do this already? I'm no expert on reverse engineering.
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Reply to comment by baleeteD in Breaking Spotify's DRM by anarcho_pirate
I'm aware I could just record it, but that feels more like ignoring the DRM than breaking it. Not to mention it takes time for every song I want to add to my library.
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Reply to comment by HorrorPaleontologist in Torrent naming conventions? by anarcho_pirate
Ok, so if I'm not uploading for a scene, should I still emulate that sort of naming convention for clarity, or avoid it so as not to impersonate?
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The official Messenger app allows you to use it without creating a full Facebook account. If you already have an account, or make a new fake one, it is probably safer to use an open source third-party app. There's really no perfect solution with Facebook. If you are using Android, disable all app permissions for Messenger and the Facebook app. On a browser, ideally you'd disable javascript entirely, but the best compromise between usability and privacy seems to be using a tracker-blocker like Privacy Badger.
I have a similar dilemma, because the string quartet I'm in communicates with Messenger. I used the mobile-app-without-full-account option. I used my real name, but I wouldn't suggest you do. It is slow as hell (caused by all the feature bloat plus tracking) and I have all permissions turned off. It is surely reading my conversations and correlating it with my shadow profile generated mostly from my parents' accounts. Scary stuff.
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I don't have any consistency right now, as I'm still experimenting. I download some music from tpb and store it locally. I've also been listening on Spotify with a hosts file ad-block. For videos, I was using hooktube until I found out it was created by nazis and is closed-source. Now I'm back to watching on youtube if I'm impatient or using a bash script to run youtube-dl, play in mpv, and then delete the file, if I have time to wait and want to watch in 1080p60fps without buffering. I'm currently looking for a way to autorun the script when I visit a youtube URL. Maybe I can modify the hooktube-redirector browser plugin.
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Reply to comment by leftous in ban hooktube and give anyone defending it a warning by zombie_berkman
What do you suspect is the way they stream videos from the site? If I use youtube-dl myself I might have to wait ~10 minutes for a longer video to download before starting it (although to be fair I always use the highest quality available). Are they just on a fast connection and downloading lower quality videos on demand when someone visits the hooktube page for that video, and then streaming them from their site? Or is there some way I can use youtube-dl to stream from youtube while keeping the privacy benefits?
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Reply to comment by ziq in What are some creative ways you've dealt with trolls IRL and online? by LucyParsonsRocks
P_K?
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Reply to comment by obligatory_pan in If you could make one change to raddle, what would it be? by chaos
Am I going crazy or did there used to be one back when it was still called Raddit?
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What is the best way to find good people to follow on Mastodon?
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Reply to When did the internet jump the shark? by ziq
When the corporations that control it became too big to fail.