EpicVision
@EpicVision@monero.town
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 8 months ago:
But it’s not completely dead yet, it’s just slowly dying.
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 8 months ago:
You can still use it. Twiit checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 8 months ago:
Twiit checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 8 months ago:
Yeah Vultr is great
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 8 months ago:
As far as I can see on their website, they don’t end to end encryption or zero-knowledge encryption. If that is true, it means that they are able to read all your emails (and so can the government if they order them to reveal the data). They sometimes use some pretty confusing marketing slag in general. It’s misleading because they advertise things like in-transit TLS encryption, which is standard nowadays. Even Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and other mainstream email providers have this by default. This is nothing special and they hope that people think it means the same as E2EE. If you care about data ownership, you should also care about (end-to-end) encryption. Only when you are the only key holder, you can be sure that no one can access your private stuff.
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 8 months ago:
Twiit (twiiit.com) checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 8 months ago:
Sure, you go ahead and try it out for yourself to see if it works. Just wanted to let you know that selfhosting an Email server is not easy. Regarding ethics, I like Proton because they support privacy, open source software, and they never sold out to VC. Their website is accessible via Tor, they accept Bitcoin payments and they actually care about their users. That’s probably the most ethical email provider you can find.
- Comment on Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account 8 months ago:
a bit? It’s not just a bit overkill, this is absolutely brain dead.
- Comment on Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account 8 months ago:
You can easily circumvent this block with a VPN. Proton actually offers a free tier of their VPN service that is specifically designed for users that experience censorship: protonvpn.com/vpn/censorship
Proton Mail also has a Tor website: protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4v…
- Comment on Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account 8 months ago:
Guys! I know how to get Gmail blocked in India!
- Comment on Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride 8 months ago:
twiiit.com checks which Nitter instance still work and redirects you accordingly
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 8 months ago:
They probably don’t allow email. Most VPS providers (even paid ones) block SMTP port 25.
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t actually selfhost email, it’s not particularly easy and there are many issues you will probably encounter. I recommend ProtonMail, it’s $3.50/month if you only need email and for $8/month you also get calendar, cloud storage, a password manager and a great VPN. Also, they are very focused on privacy and encryption and their apps are open source. Alternatively you can go with IVPN or Mullvad, both are great. Digitalocean has been fine in my experience, have you had any issues with it?
- Comment on PSA: You can block instances in your settings (last tab) if your instance is running version 0.19.X 9 months ago:
Immediately blocked lemmygrad and hexbear
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
I was just curious. Use whatever works best for you.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
It’s definitely worth it. And it’s better to help independent creators instead of giving money to Google or other shady big tech companies.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
I can give you some video recommendations for each channel I listed if you want to
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Nebula is pretty cool too. It’s $5/month, but it’s run by indie creators, not some big tech company and you get access to some really great content. And you can use Grayjay to access it.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Don’t forget FreeTube
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
These are some Nebula creators I like
- TLDR News (and their other channels)
- NileRed
- PolyMatter
- ColdFusion
- TechAltar
- Ali Abdaal
- Thomas Frank
- Wendover Productions
- RealLifeLore
- Climate Town
- Half as Interesting
- Real Engineering
- BobbyBroccoli
- EposVox
- Not Just Bikes
I still occasionally use YouTube, but much less than before. I also enjoy Odysee and PeerTube. Grayjay is an amazing Android app to manage all these streaming platforms in one central place.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
I wouldn’t ever give Google a single penny. Instead, I pay for Nebula, allowing me to watch high quality videos and documentaries while supporting indie creators. And it’s just $5/month.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Chrome Web Store Firefox Add-ons Microsoft Edge Add-ons Opera add-ons Total uBlock Origin 36,000,000 7,780,587 10,000,000 12,686,907 66,467,494 uBlock Origin Lite 70,000 3,145 3,000 N/A 73,145 uBlock 700,000 N/A 10,000 N/A 710,000 AdNauseam N/A 74,478 10,000 210,616 295,094 AdBlock Plus 46,000,000 4,064,146 10,000,000 50,844,211 110,908,357 AdBlock 67,000,000 1,206,627 N/A N/A 68,206,627 AdGuard 13,000,000 1,053,029 8,000,000 10,872,145 32,925,174 Total 162,770,000 14,182,012 28,023,000 74,613,879 279,588,891 Source: Official data from extension stores
This table does not include Safari extensions, browser extensions installed through Linux package managers like the firefox-ublock-origin package on Arch Linux, browsers with built in adblockers like LibreWolf or Brave, modded YouTube mobile apps like Vanced/Revanced on Android, uYou for iOS, alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped, desktop clients like FreeTube, other mobile apps like Newpipe, Libretube or Yattee or other adblocking solutions.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
If we also count other (less popular) adblockers, the Microsoft Edge addon store, browsers that come with pre-installed adblockers like Librewolf and Brave, people who use the package manager on their Linux distro to install browser extensions, alternative YouTube clients like Vanced/Revanced, Newpipe and Libretube as well as alternative frontends like Invidious and FreeTube, I’m pretty sure we still come out at over 100 million.
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
You mean XCP-ng?
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
- XCP-ng on my virtualization host
- TrueNAS Core on my NAS
- Ubuntu Server on my Jellyfin media server
- Debian on my other server that I use for testing purposes
- DietPi on my Raspberry Pi
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
Wouldn’t Linux be easier to manage and better in terms of performance?
- Comment on 3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. 9 months ago:
Ah yes, some of the shittiest tech companies in the world teaming up with the dumbest morons in existence to enforce dumb politics and censor free information, trying to turn the open internet into a shit hole of censorship like China. Amazing!
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
Damn, fuck Windows. Fortunately I don’t have to use it.
The ONLY DNS server you should have set on your network is a/the PiHole(s).
That’s exactly what I do, since I never had any stability issues with my Pihole.
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
Windows calls them ‘preferred’ and ‘alternate’ DNS servers. That roughly translates to primary/secondary.
