Party Skies, Alex Hyner photography/photoshop, 2021

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@MxRemy Adguard or another DNS based adblocker

i was gonna make a joke about how silly this is but instead i just played with it in my address bar for like 10 minutes

well played @Vivaldi

Discord gets worse, so everyone migrates from Discord to Some Other VC-Backed Chat App.

A VPN gets served with a lawful court order, so instead of asking “why does my anonymity depend on a corporation being capable of ignoring the legal system?”, everyone starts yelling that the VPN provider is evil.

This is learning the wrong lesson.

The lesson of enshittification is not: “find the next benevolent corporation.”

The lesson is “stop giving corporations unnecessary control over the infrastructure of your life.”

Mutual Aid Support:

Trans and Queer Fund Kenya (IG: @trans.queer.fund.ke)
- MPESA Till No: 9216527
- Paypal: mkanyogo@gmail.com

Sudan Campaigns
- https://linktr.ee/bsonblast

Gaza Campaigns
- https://gaza-verified.org/

image credit: https://mas.to/@anikaris

#MutualAid #Community #Support #Sudan #Gaza #Kenya

Wow someone actually using our services to harass people, that’s a first.

the user @milliways has been deleted, new sign up are now disabled for a bit.

If anyone has old Xitter accounts they aren’t using, I could do with a few more to put in rotation on my public nitter instance. Suspended accounts work fine too, just needs to be able to see the public timeline.

Currently getting rate limits about 33% of the time, but as my instance is now the last one standing I expect traffic might pickup a bit.

The perfect privacy phone setup:

JMP $5/mo VOIP Calling/SMS to XMPP

SimJuno $1/gb/mo eSim provider for data only service.

SMSPool.net For those pesky times when services want a “real” number and wont work with VOIP.

All accept crypto payments, no KYC or ID required.

https://nitter.gravitywell.xyz is now up and running. You can replace x.com with ‘nitter.gravitywall.xyz’ in any twitter URL and get the contents of any posts.

Once its been stable for a while i’ll try to make it more known. I was able to get it setup using all suspended accounts which i thought was interesting. There are i think 6 total accounts in rotation with 6 different IPs so it shouldnt hit rate limits too much. It does say its rate limited if you just use the standard search but direct URLs should work if you point to a post.

Introducing “Repo-Yard” a project that lets you repossess your music from streaming services.

https://ry.n0g.xyz

Starting a new service where I will export your entire music library, playlists etc, off of streaming services like Spotify to put it all onto an SD card and mail it to you. Just provide me with the storage device and I’ll do the rest free of charge.

I have no less then 4 shells running opencode right now, Working on 4 different projects. Give a command to one, move to the next while it works… Am i “technically” more productive, i guess so, these are projects i would not even dream of attempting myself, IM not interested in learning to code beyond the basic level i already can, i would rather idk, do things…

But at the same time I fucking hate it and I can feel it making me stupider, Literally like a drug, not one that has bad WD, but one you constantly think about doing more of (because i keep having new things i want to try)

At least I’m not paying for any of it. Sure its not literally stealing tokens (though i would if i could), but Im pretty sure I’m violating the ToS of every single provider i use multiple times over.

@MxRemy I can only say in regards to Tor, if you’re only runing a few things it should be fine but each service would need its own tor hostname which is just a long hash string and anything you want to use the services with will have to also support tor and be configured for it, so it’d be a hassle but certainly could be workable.

@MxRemy I use wireguard but you need a connectable endpoint on a VPS for that. Tor could work for some things if latency isnt a big deal. If you can’t afford a VPS then a VPN that offers port forwarding is probably out too but that would be the other alterntative to using CF or one of the other mega-corps. A lot of people like TailScale, I’d consider that too corpo but it does have a decent free option (for now) and a lot of selfhosted things have built in support for it.

@MxRemy CloudFlare Tunnels is probably the easiest way to get around CGNAT. There are a few ways you can get moderately spec’d VPS for free, Oracle and Google has offerings and there is no shortage of corps offering “free trials” to take advantage of.

Now the Android sandboxing model assumes *BOTH* the OS and the hardware are trustworthy. If they aren't, the whole security model collapses.

Let me explain.

The baseband chip runs its own separate firmware that lives outside of Android itself. It usually has direct access to device memory. So a compromised baseband means that memory contents can be read, but it also means that your calls, texts, and data can be intercepted and the Android OS won't even know.

Was recently reminded that there are AI corps trying to sell the idea of AI “actors” as a new thing, it’s not, the 80s called sent a fax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor

Riptide service is now online. This is a new custom service that performs meta search across various audio streaming providers and can download the best available quality of albums or even entire discographies, which then gets imported into NaviDrome’s Library.

UPDATE: Riptide has been replaced with RepoYard

NaviDrome Sign-Ups are now open. Accounts are the same across GW or Throbbing (just alternative URLs to the same service)