I run https://gravitywell.xyz/
Its not "well intentioned”, the silpery slope is the point. Getting porn sites to essentially self censor by restricting what geographic regions have accesss until one day its the majority of places and suddenly banning porn sites in the remaining hold outs doesnt seem like such a hard sell, and then on to other subjects they dont like.
I really like pleroma due to the higher character limit.
Im not sure about the 18+ thing, i dont see much adult content in my feed and what content does show up is almlst always tagged as nsfw and hidden by default. If you are just worried because of your own age id suggest embracing the time honored tradition of lying on the internet until you’re old enough.
Any phone that runs android gives alphabet money, just buy a used one.
I wasn’t aware of the ansible option when i set mine up. The thing with bridges for me is they don’t really organize into groups how i would have liked, since very chat, even 1:1 is really a “room”, it gets very cluttered, I did eventually figure out how to bridge entire discord guilds into groups automatically but then even with that there is no “don’t notify” option for the entire group you have to individually mute each channel. Setting up each bridge wasnt too hard for the ones that let you use QR logins, but I also ended up making a really weird mistake when trying to bridge XMPP and the error didn’t actually affect me until months later when a new upgrade for continuwuity make the issue i created into one that prevented the docker image from starting, and oh boy was that a fun lesson in how to manually edit sql database files using regex.
I could go on with little nit picks about things, but point being nothing was really an insurmountable roadblock for me, just little annoyances here and there that I’m personally willing to deal with but I can’t imagine many of the folks I regularly communicate with would be okay with.
That said though, Matrix is one of those rare projects that actually improves over time because they aren’t just developing it in order to cash out with some big VC or roll out some bullshit enshittification “premium” subscription once they get enough users. So I’m pretty hopeful we’ll eventually have something good enough to pry more users away from the silos of discord and meta services, some day.
Ive found matrix to be the least bad and most practical for text based comms. I was able to setup my server along with bridges that connect to discord, telegram, whatsappp, and meta, even signal too. Its far from perfect, the UI feels clunky no matter which i try and settinf up and managing bridges was an ordeal just for my accounts to get linked, but its functional enough that i dont need to keep discord or the other apps running separately.
For calling i still rely on signal directly. Ive used jitsi before but i dont really do voice calls very often.
Nothing is at a point i can recommend it over signal to non tech savvy people, althouth briar seems promising and meshtastic might eventually be something.
My funkwhale server is thriving.
Probably just less of it but yes. Thats why people use privacy front ends like dumb instead.
Surveillance capitalism in this context would be how the “product” genuis is selling is your usage data, as opposed to what they seem to provide which is song lyrics.
You may have heard the phrase " if you arent paying for it then YOU are the product", An oversimplified version but the same idea.
Genuis is a tracking and metrics service for spotify and other rent seekers in the music industry, they do it by offering lyrics for “free” and tracking as much as they can about users who visit the site.
I know the risks. The most somoene could do is gain access to the things im already sharing without having to create a login first. Or i suppose they might be able to intentionally break things, but that would really be only minor inconvenience for me.
Most abuse i see these days is from LLMs ans automated scripts completely unrelated to jellyfin, fail2ban mitigates most of that easily.
Idk why so many people are afraid to share jellyfin servers. Mines been open to everyone and anyone for over a year with zero problems.
Someone discovered an exploit on cardano (a blockchain) that allowed for a “bad” transaction (think spending the same coin twice, or rejecting a transaction that was already valid).
This got some discussion but an actual fix wasnt the priority. Someone else decided to try and see if they could intentionally create a similar bad transaction.
There is a dedicated test chain which is specifically for those kind of tests but instead of choosing to do the bad transaction on the test chain, the person thought they would just block all internet traffic on their computer, but instead of doing that correctly by unplugging their ethernet cable or turning off the wifi, asked chat GPT how to block traffic ans chatGPT guessed wrong.
… Its a pretty weak excuse IMO. It doesnt sound like the exploit was vibe coded, just that the person trusted instructions about blocking connections from GPT. Like if this was a professional they would be fired immediately for such incompetence, but it sounds like it was not a professional.
Ultimately the problem is that they made the choice to use the main blockchain instead of the test one, that makes their defense of it being an accident a bit weak.
Oh geeze you’re right, I should have caught that🤦. Thanks for finding the correct one.
Safe is relative but most liiely its wanting 11 because thats the version lineage you are using is based on.
As for these “some websites ive never heard of”… They might just be ai generated pages that hit on keywords common to android such as “root” and “custom rom”. Often they are scams that present instructions looking like they will work on phone models that dont have support for custom roms at all.
So be careful, make sure what you get comes from a decent source like android file host or xda, dont just go with random search results.
Is it? I must have come across a different user.
I just want to know why they do it. Ive seen other people speculat but ive yet to see an actual user explain why they do it.
GrapheneOS doesnt have FRP due to it being exclusively a google service (it requires signing in to the previously used google account that was used before the reset)
Afaik there isnt any equivalent service available to GOS, although it probably could be technically possible.
Owner profile for main use, shelter w play services for apps that need them.
I also keep a Duress pin enabled which i have written down inside the phones case, so if Anyone “finds” my phone and tries to unlock it they will just end up wiping it.
Used pixels go for under $300. I just got a 6a for $140.