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dngray, 10 months ago

Just a reminder, we specifically recommend against Garuda due to their unsafe usage of Chaotic-AUR.

dngray, 10 months ago

VPNs are still worth it for that purpose, particularly torrenting… Not sure who is saying this but they are wrong.

dngray, 11 months ago

Keep in mind posteo.net does not have DMARC which means anyone can spoof an email @posteo domain.

All of the other providers have this. Mailing lists can be used with DMARC.

dngray, 11 months ago

I pretty much just buy on an exchange with KYC, then shift to another exchange that has XMR and transfer out to my own hardware wallet. One of the mods in #monero:monero.social mentioned https://kycnot.me which is also a useful site.

dngray, 11 months ago

While SimpleX is good for small groups, unfortunately it doesn't really have desktop apps yet.

dngray, 11 months ago

It seems to be the only platform which constantly improves, noticeably each year. While some of the others do, it's often not so noticeable.

dngray, 11 months ago

Previously though they had some pretty irresponsible marketing.

Likely they haven't undergone any audits and they certainly aren't the worst out there. AzireVPN is another one that I am keeping an eye on.

dngray, 11 months ago

100% this, and it's why I still used old.reddit.com, because the new reddit site is just awful.

What I will say is there is less "noise" on our lemmy/discussion forums, and distinctly higher quality posts. This is something we'd like to encourage long term, particularly when people ask questions already answered quite clearly on our website.

dngray, 11 months ago

1. Pretty much Crowdin works very well, particularly with it's TM (Translation Memory) and specific terms.
2. We are currently mirroring there but there's no reason you couldn't use git-send-email to one of the team members if you need to really do that. Ideally, just use a VPN or Tor anyway, because you're probably going to need that anyway. Github is available in Iran nowadays https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/
3. Because they often lag behind in security https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-5.7-Released (for example this allowed the GPU to be used in browser fingerprint.
4. In a lot of cases the site is research, and words we've written based on our experience. There isn't much reason for derivatives to exist based on our content. If there were, those would be a complete re-write. We aim to have the site as accurate as possible, and want changes contributed back there to benefit everyone and be translated. That does promote centralization, but in this case that is a good thing.
5. Libreboot won't ever be recommended, basically because unless you want an ancient laptop from 8-10 years ago it's a non-starter.

dngray, 11 months ago

A lot of these are unnecessary or actually modify your fingerprint.

• privacy badger

Can be detected https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/

• clearurls

Unnecessary, as uBO has removeparam

• decentraleyes

Modifies your fingerprint making you more unique.

For more information about what not to use see https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

dngray, 11 months ago

Privacy Badger

You might want to reconsider that https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/

It's really unnecessary with anything that uBO offers.

dngray, 11 months ago

Probably not, it's likely trying to shift Russian citizens from buying them over to some Chinese counterpart. Even in China "Apple" stuff means you're rich and it has exclusivity factor.

dngray, 11 months ago

I have to admit, I don't really think I would use Reddit if old.reddit.com went away, the "new reddit website" is slow, and ugly, and fits very little content on the page. It seems it's largely optimized for posts which contain shallow content like "cat pictures" memes and other rubbish not meaningful discussions. I appreciate RedReddit, due to the fact I can fit many posts on my screen. Reddit also requires quite a bit of moderation as there is a lot very low quality content posted there. It's quite a tiring process.

dngray, 11 months ago

I think fundamentally Reddit doesn't give a shit.

For them it's likely about value of accounts, how much data they can sell, and they will hope that non-tech communities will carry people's "addiction". A bit like an abusive ex "you can't leave me because you'll lose XYZ" so now they've resorted to reining in anything that dare reduces or inhibits maximum revenue stream.

dngray, 11 months ago

That is exactly the reason. The idea is to let someone else hold the bag, and "oh well" if they figure out they paid more for it than it was actually worth.

I have to wonder how much Reddit will actually be worth when it's just the site of cat pictures and crappy memes. The quality of Reddit dropped significantly when they changed all the default subreddits, this is going back to the days when "old reddit" was "normal reddit" (around that era).