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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

2FA must be done through the damn app. It's TOTP (six digit) but locked behind god knows what. I asked for alternatives and they looked me like I was a caveman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Many businesses also shut down not even making it into their first year of operation. We're going slow but steady, improving quality and relying on word of mouth instead of big advertisement campaigns. There are valid criticisms, but we also need to remember we're in this for the long run.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's all about risks vs benefits. You can open up your domain for more users, but that also can make you potentially liable for what other users do with your domain from law enforcement if something nasty happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When I tested it, VPN do work after sms verification. Tor nodes, however, resulted in all my test accounts being banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've found that being consistent with what you choose to share is the most difficult thing. Conversations can get personal, and as you get closer to those random nicknames there's the constant urge to share mundane stuff about your daily lives like weather, holidays, and such that will all add up.

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

It's a hostage situation they're doing like any proprietary social network. You want to encourage people to move away from them, but then you need to interact with those same people in order to do that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

SimpleX having PFS while Session not having it also seals the deal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Internet of the 90s and early 2000s were introduced as a library where people consulted text for information. There was an introduction (tutorials), a userbase that's educated and/or eager to learn, and most importantly, it was the wild west where companies didn't think much of except for just having a .com address. This is where our view of search engines come from - to consult with keywords and read.

This is no longer the case. It's no longer seen as a library, but a shopping mall where you have advertisements shoved down your throat and flashy stuff that grab your attention. For people who were born after smartphones and grew up without knowing the early stuff, the search engine is... well, do people know or even care about that?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Problem is, people rarely realize the importance until they're lost. Plenty of posts from 90s and 2000s containing valuable insights are probably lost forever. Remember that not everything online is in English, either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wait until someone screams 'AI will help'.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Jerboa works fine... except when I have to search for something. Why is 'search' not a 'search post/comments' function but a 'search community' one?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Think of the poor corporations, man! Have you no soul?

 

So far I'm having a blast with the game. But the food, man...

What is the appeal of Chunks for people living in New Atlantis? Did the post-exodus humanity sign some kind of a Green Pact and decided to go full worms and lab-grown proteins? Isn't the appeal of a home cooked meal some of the most commonly told tales across all cultures? If UC prides itself as safeguard of humanity, then what their refugees could remember of earth's culinary history must also have been archived somewhere. What happened?

Yes, there's New Homestead. Yes, there are enterprises producing grain and synth-meat products. In-vitro meat technology should be incredibly sophisticated and economically viable by then. Even small scale traditional farming and butchering could be practiced in planets under FC jurisdiction. But why is Chunks everywhere then? Cost?

Yes, there are cooking stations in which you can craft custom dishes. But (probably a lore oversight) naming many of them "alien jerky" or "alien stew" tells me that humanity still hasn't accepted those new ingredients as "proper human diet" yet, compared to the "old earth ingredients".

 

I have been reading about internet privacy for a long time. As time went on, I got a vpn subcription, a custom domain, a paid email hosting, etc. No regrets on the services themselves.

I recently had this conversation with a colleague of mine, complaining about the rising cost of everything including internet subscription services: netflix, spotify, youtube, you name it. I could simply disregard my colleague's complaints as I didn't have any of those and know the ways of obtaining materials. However, once I start adding up the privacy related services I'm willingly paying instead... they also add up into a considerable amount.

So, do you pay for anything privacy related, how much do you pay in total, and is it affordable for you? For example, many VPN providers offer yearly subscriptions around 40-50 USD.

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Searching for VPN yields many results, but most are SEO-crap with their sponsor company being pushed to the top.

If you were on /r/vpn and /r/privacy years ago, you might remember the "that one privacy guy/site". The site owner used to do VPN reviews, with commentary on topics as speed, ease of use, support, etc., without resorting to typical buzzwords like "military grade encryption". There was a table with all of their findings so readers like us could sort or compare between providers by priorities. There also was a similar section for email hosts (without reviews). The site owner, unfortunately, went offline and the site itself was sold to a company as far as I remember, but it was a breath of fresh air of unadulterated web 1.0.

Do any of you know anything similar that is updated/active today? I am comfortable with my current VPN provider, but it's always nice to be aware of other options.

 

Always heard about org mode but was intimidated by emacs when I could barely manage vi/vim (sorry guys). Installed a plugin for org-mode for Sublime Text today and... shit, why didn't I try this sooner?

I have thousands of text files with horrible organization, thrown around multiple directories, no common naming scheme, no hierarchy, no unified notation, just ramblings and a barely marginal attempt at organization using === as title markers. I have links and ideas buried deep and I didn't want to use a third party tool "just for managing text".

Well, my eyes are open, and thus I'm euphoric, enlightened by its brilliance. I must rewrite all my stuff in org-mode.

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