Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Live Nation / Ticketmaster slips the noose again
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/03/13.html?utm_source=sp_ma

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116213891709746761

Trump and his cronies are so stupid they attacked probably the one country in the world that has absolutely no fear of retaliating against the USA.

That doesn't mean I support the regime of the mollah, I'm just stating a geopolitical fact.

#war #iran #epstein #trump

@kevinrothrock

> The court rejected the claim, pointing out that the organizer of the action has the right to change the rules or stop it. The Law "On the Protection of Consumer Rights" does not apply to advertising campaigns.

Yep that tracks.

@rl_dane

Its Not an ideal solution but i recently realized peertube (which uses ytdlp) can also import tiktok feeds. If you have specific creators you want to follow on tiktok you can follow them on peertube instead.

Captain’s Log: Sweetmorn, the 71st day of Chaos, YOLD 3192

Upgraded the GravityWell’s internet connection to full 1Gb/s. Most stuff is already on the VPS with shared 10Gbps, but this should improve things for Jellyfin, Peertube, and various other streaming stuff and large file downloads.

Setup a new VM with working backups of all the services and planning to have a second one setup just for testing and deploying new things. Hopefully it will mean less things breaking in production.

Will be deploying various different “Discord alternatives”, Stoat/Revolt, Flux, etc for folks to check out and test with. Either they will eventually be bridged -or- removed depending on what people think of them and how well the run.

@YoungBlood Undefeated…. at protecting pedos and human traffickers in the Epstein files

@kkarhan Yeah good call, I’ve amended the original post with a warning.

@Fratm So far my experience the worst its got was buffering for a second or 2 at the start which i’ll take over an ad anyday. 1080p video streams fine one it gets started. Its always possible to get a slower exit node for one reason or another, but in general speeds on tor are normally fine for streaming video.

…which reminds me I neet to setup an onion address for my peertube instance.

@kkarhan @torproject @Waterfox Yes, Fair enough to say this is just not recommended in general, Its something i’m doing to test a specific use case and its easier then manually finding proxies for the given countries.

But here’s an interesting fact: #TorBrowser doesn’t use the same tor connection as the one that uses the systemwide /etc/tor/torrc . So while I’ll again stress this is not recommended unless you know what you’re doing, it won’t actually affect the standard Tor browser. (or at least this is the case when i test on my system, could differ on windows,mac, etc)

It’s not that slow but even if it was I’d use dial up before i put up with ads.

So Far so good, I have run into the occasional “not available in your country”, but not a single ad so far.

I’m not actually sure if this works but If anyone else wants to try it out and give me feedback feel free.

#Adblock #Tor

Using Tor to Avoid Ads on YouTube

Configure Tor to use only exit nodes from countries with few or no YouTube ads.

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WARNING: Do not try this unless you understand the implications it has for your system wide tor setup. TorBrowser does way more than merely proxy Traffic through Tor, but also prevent #InformationLeakage and block tracking code. This is not a substitute for using the TorBrowser and does not improve your anonymity.

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Tor Configuration

Edit /etc/tor/torrc:

ExitNodes {AL},{MD},{GE},{AM}{VN}
StrictNodes 1

Then restart Tor:

sudo systemctl restart tor

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FoxyProxy Setup

1. Add a new proxy:

Field	Value
Host	127.0.0.1
Port	9050
Type	SOCKS5

2. Set proxy mode to: Proxy by Patterns

3. Add URL patterns and assign them to the proxy above:

Pattern	Purpose
*youtube.com/*	Main site
*youtu.be/*	Short links
*ytimg.com/*	Thumbnails and assets
*googlevideo.com/*	Video stream data

ytimg.com and googlevideo.com are required – without them thumbnails and video playback will fail through the proxy.

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Notes

• StrictNodes 1 forces Tor to only use the listed countries – it will stall rather than fall back
• Ukraine and Romania will handle most traffic; Albania has decent exit node coverage
• If buffering is bad, try capping YouTube quality at 480p

Dear “news” services: GAMBLING PROMOTIONS ARE NOT NEWS. Online “Sales” ARE NOT NEWS!!!

I know @OregonLive is just an automated sync from their RSS,but this is a choice to include “articles” like this in your RSS feed.

I can’t allow this in my feeds, these are poorly disguised ads, its an automatic unfollow at this point.

Proton Mail is great for end-to-end encrypted emails, but as a recent story of an unmasked user highlights, it must comply with Swiss authorities — who may share user data with allies.

Read our newsletter to learn about what it can and can’t protect.

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/proton-mail-is-not-for-anonymity/

The Iranians have clearly laid out their plan. They WANT this to be a long term war.

General Masoud Akhtari of the IRGC explains their plan is to collapse the world economy until regional and worldwide support for the US' warmongering president evaporates.

The General predicts that point comes after a few weeks of oil being over $150 / barrel.

#IRGC #MasoudAkhtari #Iran #KhameneiAssassination #oilwar

The other upside to this strategy is that the Dunning-Kruger geniuses that the right is so full of will totally fall for it thinking they will easily pass and it will mostly affect minorities instead of them.

This might be a really #unpopularopinion / #badtake but I think we should run with the narrative of making voting harder, but not by requiring two forms of ID, I think you should be able to pass a basic Civics test of some kind.

I know 100+ years ago it was used to mostly disenfranchise black voters, but in 2026 we all have access to pretty much the sum of all human knowledge, if someone wants to learn they can learn. You have to study for a license to drive a car, you should be able to study for a right to select the people who will be driving our country.

And before you come at me about how this would be more negative towards this or that minority group, I want you to watch (in entiretly) a complete video by the right wing “journalist” ‘Nick Shirley’ who brought you such stories as: going to a random daycare with a camera and demanding to be let in so you can see the children. When you see how incredibly dumb these people are,when you see that its not bad faith, they are actually just unable to think critically and are really that fucking stupid, i think you’ll see what im getting at.

Although if even the dumbest mouth breathers still have a “right” to vote, maybe we should just count their vote 3/5ths as much as those who can pass a civics test… I think that’d be fair.

If Trump gives up and runs away, it might make sense for #Iran to go harder on US bases (carefully) and Israel with the indirect support of Russia and China. Appeal to the people of Arab nations to rise up against their dictators. Embarrass the western empire. End it.

Oh no! Did they forget to stipulate that such tools are only for the "good guys" in the license?