Two out of three. I read the post and that’s exactly what the admins of F.O say will do. It’s them who are stirring up shit.

I didn’t; I just followed the line of logic you have established that the only way to be sure is if you do every step of the chain by yourself, ignoring, ya know, the entire point of society making progress.

But sure, you do you.

You don’t, or you wouldn’t have asked that. If your excuse to not eat food is that “it’s not digested yet”, that’s the problem eating the food helps solve in the first place.

Or go be a chick of bird. You get pre-digested food for free.

Matrix

I think you mean XMPP! I recomend you mean XMPP.

static personal site hosting

name the thing “inline style”

Pretty good catch there!

Other than that while the overall idea sounds good, there are a few concerns, I’d like to have your feedback on these even if it’s not a definitive word - sometimes, “I don’t know” is the correct answer!

.it

that .it domain is kinda worrying given their recent stance on blocking or deleting parts of the internet to support the shareholders. Well, at least it’s not Spain, but do keep an eye on that.

The idea is to keep it sustainable with a simple support plan (€1.90/month)

Are there any considerations towards a one-time life payment on the horizon? It’s what ultimately drew me to SDF compared to the rest of the enshittifying internet, and they do provide similar services to what your roster seems to be so far.

📝 Docs and Drive via Collabora/NextCloud

May I recommend also Cryptpad? From my understanding NC+Collabora is a PITA to set up and prone to random failures (tho I would disclose the last time I tried the combo myself was on 2022). Cryptpad, while a lot simpler and less-featured, provides a leaner experience that approaches that of eg.: a pastebin.

Others

Some comments have mentioned chat. A XMPP server, like Prosody or ejabberd, is quite cheap and simple to run compared to “nu-protocols” like Matrix, and without having to go too far back into the 90s with something like IRC. Has good support for clients across the board as well, on Linux, Android, web, etc.

Other than that the only differentiating factor I could think of offering that I have seem almost no one else do, is some sort of “math service”, something like an Octave or Maxima online if such thing exists, or like what Wolfram Alpha has online, where people can run calculations, plot function graphs, perhaps with support for spreadsheets and charts too, which would also function as an alternative to google charts and the like.

Are you okay?

unless you coded it entirely yourself on an air gapped machine with your own hand crafted compiler

That implies you can trust yourself to even code a compiler in the first place.

Can you?

Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller.

Yes: encode on lower resolutions.

Most of the videos on Youtube don’t ever need to be 4K. They don’t even need to be 1080p. Heck, most don’t even need 720p! Things like music videos, where what’s important is the music, orthings like old TV broadcasts or play rips of old consoles, where the source barely gets to 360p, can be encoded to 360p or even 244p without any suffering (I played Monster Hunter on the 3DS for years and I can attest 244p can do great works of magic).

This mixes wonderfully with Peertube’s idea about hosting your own instance. If you are hosting your own video storage, you’ll want to maximize the amount of stuff you can throw into it. If someone complains that your videos aren’t 1080p, tell them to go to /donate.php and do their part.

As an ESL, I thought that was “narcs”?

Lembipie. What else?

(And why does this particular subset need a name, anyway? The plus combo is easier to get the point across with)

In this economy???

I understand the concern to be honest. The problem here is that when someone is a bigot and they are at least reasonable enough to walk themselves out, the response of the community is to stain everyone else by association.

Trust is not associative, and tbh distrust probably should also not be.

it’s fast

[citation needed]

it’s free

[citation needed]

You mean XMPP, right?

Swapping out colours/fonts at the rendering layer is essentially what I was thinking but I go a step further by completely separating the rendering/interaction from the actual web sandbox running any code.

Do you have a proof-of-concept? What does this run on?

and this injected CSS is used for fingerprinting.

Which, if I’m understanding correctly, would be exactly the same as if the viewer had set their browser theme to dark, so it’s not like the extension is more a loss of privacy than enabling the setting in the browser?

In the end, what we really need is a browsing mode that allows(maybe?) javascript, but doesn’t allow it to read properties of the renderer (viewport size, resolution, colors, fonts, etc). Since having that info stopped being necessary for customizing pages back in, like, CSS 2.1.

Thanks for reminding me! I installed an arch chroot so I can learn and play with Arch btw.

Why wait? Debian is out there.

Signal is OK as a beginner privacy tool. Like with all gateway drugs or gateway animes or gateway videogames, you gotta start somewhere.

But it does is certainly a platform at-risk. Storage is US-centered, connectivity can be cut at any moment, and it’s quite centralized to the point of forbidding 3p clients from interacting with the main Signal “network”.

I come from the 90s. XMPP / Jabber is so much better.

Not a bad idea. I’ll try to crosspost that news a few times later during the weekend to help build the bad behaviour portfolio.