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- Comment on eYou promises to change social media. But the alternatives already exist 5 days ago:
if the problem is that major platforms are centralized, opaque, and controlled by corporations, why would the solution be yet another centralized platform controlled by a corporation?
Because people are brainwashed into only trusting billionaires, corporations, brand names, and consumer packaged goods to solve all our problems.
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 5 days ago:
Any advantages over using Seal for Android? Is it primarily for iPhone users?
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
They think this will take some of the heat off of them. Hopefully no one actually thinks this is a reasonable compromise. If I want to help an elderly family member install something on their phone during Thanksgiving dinner or a family reunion, I’m not gonna want to wait a day. Uncle Paul’s flying back to Florida tomorrow morning!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve recently gotten really into HelixNotes, which I sync to my phone via Syncthing. And the developer is on Lemmy. They’ve been pushing a lot of updates so I’m excited to see where it goes.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 2 weeks ago:
I got Terminus for the TRMNL set up using Podman on my server running NixOS.
Although I’m actually planning on replacing Terminus with my own simple server app that way it can be even more declarative (no Postgres database of devices/users/screens) and easier for me to customize. The API I’ll have to implement is extremely straightforward, so I don’t anticipate it taking too long.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious what alternative to Pi-hole you set up. (I’m planning on installing Pi-hole soon but wanna hear all my options)
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 2 weeks ago:
good bot
- Comment on Rate limiting 3 weeks ago:
Take this with a grain of salt since I haven’t done much scraping (yet; I have a project I just started planning)
I’ve heard you’re more likely to get blocked for using a VPN since some sites will block requests originating from data centers, which is less likely to happen coming from a residential IP address. (Although if you’re already using a VPS, the right proxy may help)
This might be useless advice, but it might just be best to increase (and randomize) the amount of time between requests.
And to answer your question, Mullvad is what I use, and it’s what I see reccomended (from both Reddit, and The Wirecutter) the most often because they store so little of your data, and you can even pay in cash.
- Comment on Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers 3 weeks ago:
Oh, well that’s nice of them
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen them say anything about their older phones so I would assume this only applies to the new one
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
Burger King will teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
My current setup isn’t available outside my house so I was planning on hosting something like WireGuard. What’s the advantage of Headscale over a more traditional VPN?
- Comment on The stupid train has left the station. 5 weeks ago:
Please get a carbon monoxide detector
- Comment on What YouTube downloader are the kids using these days? 5 weeks ago:
Seal is my favorite app to demonstrate the power of installing apps outside of Google Play
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A (mercifully small) web server is inserted into a man's butt on live tv
