[-] communism@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Yes, I still moderate a subreddit which is a support group for a particular surgery. There isn't such a community on the fediverse and the group of people who need this surgery seem to be few in number here too. (Won't be any more specific about the nature of the subreddit or surgery for privacy reasons, before anyone asks)

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Anna's Archive has some torrents they ask people to seed. I'm seeding a smaller one right now. You can look into that if you want to help out—nobody's expected to mirror the entire archive!

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

It's not paranoid to complain about the unnecessity of javascript when all you want to do is read a public text post on a social media platform. I have javascript disabled on some browsers, and it's annoying to have to whitelist a site that really shouldn't need it.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I still use Discord, but once I get round to setting up my own Matrix server I'll set up a Discord bridge with my most important friend group servers and move off it for good.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 77 points 2 weeks ago

And yet I can't beat the CAPTCHAs because reCAPTCHA doesn't like VPNs lol

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submitted 3 weeks ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of an app where you can use your camera to scan documents (like Adobe Scan) which is FOSS.

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You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it's completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don't want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I'd have a crack at this shitpost myself...

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/technology@hexbear.net

I'm having a bit of trouble researching what country would be best to rent a VPS in, in terms of not getting communist content on there censored. Because obviously if content is deemed illegal in the country the server is hosted in, the VPS host is obligated to take it down (understandable enough, you can't really ask a company to break the law for you).

I'm also concerned with privacy laws too and protection from them.

I've heard various good things about "freedom of speech laws" and privacy laws in Iceland, Romania, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland, but I don't know the details.

Does anyone have any input? And if you recommend a certain host country, do you know of reputable VPS providers in that country?

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 months ago

Wow. At least it's easy to sideload apps in Android.

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I use a 14px bitmap font as part of my system theme. It is set to display at 14px in my gtk theme which works for tabs, bookmarks, right-click menus, and other parts of Firefox UI, but the Firefox address bar doesn't seem to be the same size and is blurry.

How do I change the font size of the address bar? Is there an element I can target in userChrome?

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 167 points 2 months ago

Jerk your buddy off for him since he can't do that right now

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I've been reading through Signal's government requests and couldn't find a similar section on Mullvad's website. I'd be curious to read about them if there are any. It would seem unlikely to me that Mullvad has never received any kind of court order for information about a user.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 months ago

Tor Browser serves a different purpose/use-case to the first two. The first two are intended for everyday browsing while I've never heard of anyone using Tor Browser as their daily browser—and if you log into websites then using Tor Browser as your daily driver would defeat the anonymity purposes if you're logging in anyway.

I use librewolf for everyday browsing and Tor Browser for things requiring a higher threat model.

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

There are other FOSS real-time voice changers for Linux, but the others I found either seemed to have fewer features, be less polished, or be abandoned.

I'm not really a voice expert or anything so I'm not sure what aspects of voice a, like, forensic voice analyst or something would look at. I've just changed the pitch and I sound different enough that I wouldn't recognise the voice, which is good enough for me. Open to suggestions as to what effects would give the most privacy in terms of making it harder to identify your voice (while still being intelligible)

Also, for people's reference, if you want mic input to be changed for all apps, go to three dots > Preferences > General > Audio > Process All Input Streams and enable.

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I sometimes get linked google docs links and would like to view them without visiting a google site directly.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 71 points 3 months ago

My "I haven't been hacked by gay furries" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 128 points 3 months ago

I don't think there is a "dead giveaway". Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can't tell if it's a child or someone who doesn't speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There's a lot of different people in the world.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 71 points 6 months ago

It's so crazy to me how men on the internet always discuss women as though it's impossible to speak to us. Like just speculating on "do women do X?" "what do women think about Y?" .... have you ever considered talking to a woman

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