I do think the second part of your statement was unnecessary.

Great to see people switching to actually secure alternatives.

Matrix won’t necessarily download all state/messages automatically, but if your client requests a non-available message your matrix server will query other matrix servers for it (backfilling).

E.g. if you scroll up to older messages, it might take a a few seconds but your client should eventually show them.

Matrix server use a back-off for servers sending messages, so if your server is offline for many hours, it might take a day for your servers to get messages pushed to by other servers again.

Given how updating apps automatically in the background wasn’t possible until recently, I do think Google wanted a strong monopoly over android. Yes, they allowed device manufacturers to pre install their own store, but they still had to include many of the Google apps to call it Android.

Solche Artikel lese ich immer wieder gern. Danke fürs Teilen :D

Es ist zwar nur ein kleiner Teil des Artikels, aber Gesetze sollten mMn. so viel einfacher geschrieben werden. Ein großer Teil von Ausnahmen ist einfach nicht sinnvoll, sondern führt nur zu weiteren notwendigen Ausnahmen:

[…] Common-Law-Prinzip: “Jeder kann heißen, wie er will, es sei denn, er greift in Rechte Dritter ein oder er verfolgt einen fraudulösen Zweck. Das war’s. Das ganze Namensrecht.” So hielten es […] weite Teile des amerikanischen und angelsächsischen Raums. Stattdessen habe sich bei der Reform, die am 1. Mai 2025 in Kraft tritt, der Normenbestand “rein vom Wortlaut her” ungefähr verdreifacht. “Stellen Sie sich mal diesen Irrsinn vor!”

Given it seems to be a single guy doing his thing I don’t expect them to get bought out.

It’s a great service and incredibly cheap. With advanced pricing I’m only paying ~0,40€ per month. My domain + purelymail is less than I’d pay for other providers email only.

Edit: If Amazon increases their prices they’ll have to pass it on, but those should be pretty consistent. If you use your own domain (or an alias service) switching email providers is simple anyway.

Given GrapheneOS does not have privileged Google Services, revoking network permissions should completely stop any data from leaving GBoard.

On other ROMs with privileged Google Services this might not be the case, altough I don’t expect it.

Yeah, it would’ve been good if gematik (german health care) was more than a silver member. At least they are a member, compared to the german defense forces.

Ercom might be the company providing matrix for France, so France might also be a silver member.

https://matrix.org/support/

Viele Menschen halten die Homöopathie für nebenwirkungsfreie Naturheilkunde und nutzen sie unnötigerweise bei kleinen Wehwehchen […]

Naja, der Placebo-Effekt hilft schon merklich, v.a. bei “kleinen Wehwehchen”. Es sollte aber wirklich nicht von Krankenkassen bezahlt werden.

30.000 für eine Tour ist aber wirklich Blödsinn. Das Geld lässt sich besser nutzen, z.B. für einen Barfußpfad, da wir es gerade eh von Natur und Wandern haben.

Andere sind 4-14%, d.h. CDU und AfD haben zusammen trotzdem min. 50% + 1 der Sitze.

Here’s a comparison of Usenet uploading tools [1]. If your comfortable with cli nyuu is likely your best bet, otherwise ngPost has a GUI.

If you don’t obfuscate the files (i.e. don’t rename the files to some random string, and keep the file title), your upload should be able to found by usenet search engines like binsearch.info and other Usenet indexer might pick it up too.

If you obfuscate it the only way to find the files is the nzb you created and it’ll have to be added to a usenet board/indexer.

[1] https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/wiki/Usenet-Uploaders

If you want to get in to private trackers at some point, Mullvad isn’t an option because they don’t support port forwarding. Just a PSA because Mullvad does monthly payments, so you’ll be able to switch anytime.

Proton VPN and AirVPN do support port forwarding.

As your already on Linux I’d recommend running qBittorrent with Docker behind gluetun.
This makes it so only qBittorrent is behind the VPN and all other traffic (e.g. browsing, gaming) goes as if there was no VPN.

Some indexers get their content automatically from Usenet boards, where users upload their nzbs for other users to manually download.

• Make sure you’re anonymous. I.e. you’re always using a trusted no-log VPN provider while connecting to your Usenet provider, Usenet Board, and email provider.
• The email provider also shouldn’t know any of your real information (e.g. don’t add a recovery email with your name attached). If you use a good private email service like protonmail, this shouldn’t be as important as the following.
• Pay with anonymous cryptocurrencies like Monero. Pay directly from your own local wallet, not from the exchange account which has your name attached. (BTC is not anonymous, unless you know what you’re doing.)

This is important as Usenet provider do follow DMCA and local laws, so they could be forced to give out any information they have on you.

The “stunning victory” the MPA wanted to have might not be as good of an deterrent, as it seemed at first. They only focus on a few movies, half of them might not even be relevant to the case, and the operators didn’t make much money on them, so they won’t be able to pay much damages.

If they don’t receive a prison sentence, and only need to pay below 20.000 USD where’s the deterrent for other operators overseas?

Meiner Erfahrung nach sind die meisten Jugendliche nicht besonders interessiert und informiert wenn es um Politik geht (zumindest vor ein paar Jahren).

2021 haben die meisten Jugendlichen die ersten politischen Nachrichten mitverfolgt, als der Klimawandel und die entsprechenden Demos so groß wie noch nie waren. Ich glaube, dass dadurch viele Jugendliche von tatsächlich Politikinteressierten Mitschülern, sowie der Presse, und den sozialen Medien, stark beeinflusst wurden, was das Bewusstsein zum Thema Klimawandel angeht.

Meine These: Jetzt wurden die Grünen über die letzten Jahren für vieles (alles?) (mit-)verantwortlich gemacht, und Klimawandel ist nicht mehr Thema Nummer 1 (mM.: leider). Tiktok (und andere sozialen Medien) ist riesig, und die AfD ist dort populär, dementsprechend ist die Zustimmung groß. Das gleiche gilt für die Linke, die in den letzten Wochen/Monaten einen grandiosen Wahlkampf gemacht hat.

250 connections really is not much. I ran a matrix server for a while and joining a few large rooms (1k+ servers) made the connections reach a few thousand – which made the router slow down/unstable/reboot.

I’ve noticed the same for my upload bandwitdh, with it being 170%-200% of its advertised maximum speed. Sadly the same can’t be said about the download bandwidth. Luckily fiber will be available in a few months.

Most (all?) torrent clients support limiting the number of active connections. This should prevent your router from being overloaded.

In my experience 500 shouldn’t be a problem. On that note, limiting upload bandwidth to something less than the available upload bandwidth is important too.

Mindfactory is selling Factory Recertified Seagate Exos and Ironwolf Pro.

They were also reportedly one of the shops (unknowingly) selling used HDDs with SMART values reset as new.

https://www.mindfactory.de/Produkte/Seagate_Factory_Recertified/

A project ending as abandonware is always a possibility. One reason projects get abandoned is losing funding, which can be secured by using dual licensing and selling some features to businesses.

They use AGPL so even if they broke their promise and restricted features, it could still be developed further (even if no new features got added). NGINX also uses a dual license.