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khorovodoved

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  • Locked

    lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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  • is my account and all its posts, comments, activity and bookmarks just gonna be gone?

    You will not be able to log into your account. Your account history (profile, posts and comments) will still be visible on other instances (the ones that already exist, any new ones will not be able to fetch content from lemm.ee) in read-only.

    Your bookmarks and subscriptions can be exported on the settings page (that, of cause, needs to be done before you loose access to your account). After that they can be imported to a different instance from file.

    I also recomend to put a link to your new account in the profile of your old account so that people would be able to find you. It can be done like this: "@username@instance.url". For me it is "@khorovodoved@lemm.ee". That way it would work even after lemm.ee will shut down. Only do that beforehand, so it has time to federate.

  • Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites * TorrentFreak

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  • Not efective against DPI censorship.

  • Linux distro recommendations

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  • You can try void. It is something between arch and traditional distros.

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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  • Adguard

    Pihole

    More adblockers for the ad-blocking god!

  • The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously

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  • Agree, but breaking the law and putting your whole operation at risk is not a clever nor productive way to fight it.

  • The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously

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  • I agree that the laws are bad. However, they are still laws. Breaking them has consequences.

  • The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously

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  • If the library does not have the license or a right, guaranteed by law, to do that, then it is piracy.

  • The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously

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  • The law is a law. Their aims do not override it. They are getting what any sane person would expect. Nothing prevented them from separating their legal and shady operations to separate entities. That, at least, would prevent compromising the whole operation. If someone puts his head in a lion mouth, it is still his fault, at least partially, that lion kills him.

    It's not like they're distributing the latest Marvel slop.

    I doubt this argument will hold in court.

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  • My point still stands.

    The developer is registered in Latvia. Yes, it had at one point connection to Russia, so what? A lot of software was developed in Russia. Nginx, for example, that does not prevent millions of websites from using it.

    Users leaving OnlyOffice is mostly about enterprise edition (paid) users. In fact, many of them left enterprise version for the Foss version.

  • The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously

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  • Can Internet Archive just stop copyright violations?

    Do not get me wrong, I am all for piracy, but usually pirate websites hide themself (like libgen, for example), so that no lawsuit possesses a threat to the resource itself or resource owners.

    IA, on the other hand, are pretentious pirates. They either believe that they are untouchable or just do not care in general. And when it causes expected result once again, they start running around asking for help and telling how dangerous it is for their entire work.

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  • The comment above is wrong. OnlyOffice is available under both Foss (Community Edition) and proprietary (Enterprise Edition) licenses. The proprietary version is paid and offers some additional features like extended support.

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  • OnlyOffice is open source and Latvia based.

  • TIL Kitty terminal can show a dock panel on Linux desktops!

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  • Just install terminfo.

    It is intended behavior, almost every terminal requires terminfo. It is just that terminfo for most popular (or older) ones comes preinstalled.

    All new niche terminal suffer from it. Foot has the same problem.

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  • Which non-US domain registrar to use?

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  • reg.ru

    As far from US as possible.)

  • Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use?

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  • The main problems with gaming on x11 are:

    1. Screen tearing. You can check YouTube for how it looks.
    2. Latency in x11 is significantly higher.
    3. HDR support. X11 does not support HDR. But I doubt you laptop supports it either.

    I do not believe that problems 1 and 2 affect minecraft that much. They are mostly prominent in games like first-person-shooter and alike.

    Also, note that Minecraft itself does not support wayland. This means that it would run under x11 that would run under wayland (with both x11 and Wayland problems combined).

  • So what ARE the current "good" VPN services?

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  • TOR by design is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. In fact, there have been attempts to exploit this vulnerability "in the field". It is not clear how successful they were. There are some measures taken to prevent such attacks, but none of them guarantee safety. I2p and other p2p networks also suffer from the same problem.

    In fact there is only one known way to mitigate Sybil (and alike) attacks. It is to expand the cost of operating in the network so much, that it would not be financially viable to perform it. There are two major way to achieve that: proof-of-work and proof-of-stake.

    PoW is what majority of cryptocurrencies do. To operate in the network you need to perform significant calculations. The more calculations you perform the "stronger" your position is. For that you have to invest huge amount of money in hardware and energy to "outperform" other actors. That is what mining basically is.

    PoS requires you instead to invest a crypto (or whatever, does not actually matter). The more crypto you invest "the bigger your 'bank' account is", the "stronger" your position is as well. This is what nym and lokinet (technology behind session messenger) do.

  • Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use?

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  • I am not sure that using Wayland is your best choice here. Based on laptop specs it is not like you are going to game on it. And for web and office tasks x11 still offers a better experience. On Wayland you would have problems with things like scaling, screen capturing etc. They are (to some extend) solvable, but are tricky to fix, especially with your lack of terminal experience.

    Also I would not care that much for cutting-edge repositories. They are usually required for support of the new hardware (which of cause is not the case here).

    Also, almost all modern DE are somewhat the same in terms of resource consumption. Some are a bit heavy (for example Cinnamon is heavier than xfce) but the difference if almost negligible. The majority of resources would be consumed by a browser, not DE. If you still wish to have the lightest DE possible, than you are limited to LXQT. XFCE nowadays is not as light as it used to be. You can have a very good performance with window managers like openbox and alike. For panel you can use polybar, tint or whatever. But that would require some configuration from you. Such setup is available in MX Linux. I suggest you to take a look at that distro, it is kinda good for old laptops. Of cause, standalone Wayland compositors (sway, hyprland, labwc, wayfire etc.) are very good, but they would require you to do a lot configuration work to set everything working. Even distros that ship them preinstalled (like Fedora Sway spin, for example) have somewhat broken defaults.

  • So what ARE the current "good" VPN services?

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