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Cake day: July 13th, 2020

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  • Oh no.

    Anyway, glad that Mastodon isn't down due to it's decentralized nature. That's something bad actors (such as those who are doing that DDOS) and most users (which make the mstdn.social instance and a few other ones, the main ~80% of all Mastodon) fail to to understand, the beauty of it.

    (Still feeling bad for the instance and it's users, despite the sarcastic tone)


  • Well, on my ESTA, they said the social medias disclosure is optional. Just a tool to help you confirm your intents visiting the US (or to be withheld against you as well) https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/faq?lang=en&focusedTopic=Privacy%20and%20Security&answerToDisplay=How%20will%20CBP%20use%20my%20social%20media%20information%20collected%20through%20the%20additional%20question%20that%20was%20added%20to%20the%20ESTA%20application%20in%20December%202016%3F










  • If you believe Google is the most reliable, you can still use it in a private way via :

    • Startpage

    Startpage is a private search engine known for serving Google and Bing search results. One of Startpage's unique features is the Anonymous View, which puts forth efforts to standardize user activity to make it more difficult to be uniquely identified. The feature can be useful for hiding some network and browser properties.

    https://www.startpage.com/

    • SearxNG https://searxng.org/

    SearXNG is an open-source, self-hostable, metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing any information itself.

    There's plenty of public instances too https://searx.space/

    • Whoogle https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

    Get Google search results, but without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file.

    Couple of public instances too. Basically SearxNG with ONLY google as a source. https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances


  • Well, i believe in all showcased cases from people here, they are NOT replacing sudo entirely (Except if some are from BSD or if I'm incorrect with this assumption). They are just replacing their user habit with doas and use that command instead. In the end, all unix scripts or apps expect using sudo (If not, su) so... ### What's even the need to ?

    • Size : Installed on top of the already system present sudo.
    • Security : Only perhaps if you made a sudo alias to doas (But since it isn't entirely 1:1 identical, if anyone have a cleaner way of implementing that, I'm all hear)
    • Simplicity : You now have two tools. A easy to use keycard, and a key. The second is more complicated to use, so you use it rarely but it's still two tools instead of one.
    • Less dependencies : Again, unless you can actually replace it ENTIRELY, it's just an added tool (Still almost dependency free)

    Really looking to corrections if i do some



  • You can still decide to transfer your account later on, so starting on mastodon.social isn't too bad. https://guide.toot.as/guide/move-mastodon-server/#1-guide-configuration Even if i would suggest to change it, as it kind of beat the decentralization aspect to it, i believe ~80℅ users are just on this default instance. The official website has it's own list of suggested servers per interests and some rules here : https://joinmastodon.org/servers You can search via a minimum maximum character limit here : https://mastodon.help/instances/en

    By default, Mastodon servers can access all other servers. It's just the admin who can decide to block other instances on a blacklist for all the users on the instance they use. You can also just block yourself instances or users if you want. As long you don't take a political, shitposting, or fascist one which are often blocked on a lot of instances.