If only they removed the AI image at the top, it’s disgusting that it’s still there after all this time. Even basic geometric patterns would’ve been preferrable to AI slop.

I just wish there were more communities that aren’t technology or politics.

I had a similar problem - another site rejected my mail. But when I reached to the support, they said it wasn’t the domain itself - it was the TLD that they decline. It does indeed have a bad reputation, I just didn’t know it before buying.

But that’s just documenting a life. I don’t find it interesting to just look at someone’s life (unless said life is really unusual). I want to see the personality.

My biggest problem with those is that they mostly have literature in Russian, so the chance of finding an English, up-to-date textbook is not that high. So Libgen it is. Plus, I am not comfortable with reading every book with essentially KYC. I do still appreciate it for Russian-language fiction, though.

Nah, I think paying Monero in the physical world is much like paying cash by mail for digital services - awesome but impractical. Why not use the right tools for each job? Better stick to Monero for the digital world and cash in the physical one.

I use Osmand for regular navigation and Yandex Maps in the browser for live public transport locations and more accurate business info.

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I hope you left feedback about this specific issue when leaving.

Privacy and social media are not really mutually exclusive - if we’re talking about a service like Facebook that follows you around the internet unless you take measures, yes. But if we mean something like Lemmy or Mastodon, it can be fine for privacy if you choose right what you do and don’t expose.

I am really frustrated when this is brought up, since it only shows what they have been collecting so far, not what they’re capable of collecting. The government agencies can force them to do whatever modifications to the server AND to keep completely silent about it. I am still trying to understand whether Sealed Sender would protect from a server collecting and recording ALL the data it possibly can.

I just find the format itself pointless. Not only does that encourage oversharing (including images of your face, which for me is a big no-no), but also doesn’t allow expressing yourself. You can pretty much only state facts like “I cooked pancakes today”. Not express your thoughts and skills, like a wall of text on hidden meanings in Squidward’s music. Even in a simple photo report, choosing how and when to take photos is most of the art, while randomized timing deprives you of that.

Why tf are you using the Internet in this day and age without an ad blocker?..

I think it still very much depends on how much they’re onto you. The guy from the most famous Proton case seems like a low-level crook, so if he wasn’t so easy to catch, chances are the agency would’ve just went after an easier prey. If you’re a DNM admin, though… Indeed, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I need one because a large portion of the internet is blocked, pretty much everyone around me uses some sort of censorship evasion for this reason. I have a subscription to a VPS rather than a VPN - it allows me flexibility in what protocol to use because some can get censored (already has happened with Wireguard I used to have), as well as allows hosting a variety of services in addition.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t like people saying it’s “GOS or nothing”.

Actually, it’s sadly not “basically every phone” - some brands make bootloader unlocking hard or very complicated. And my old phone was one of such, not even in the list of supported devices.

The median monthly salary in my country is $300-$500. It absolutely is a big cost for some people.

It does have some built-in blocklists, but they’re limited compared to UBO. For example, blocking the ads on a site, but not the big HTML elements they used to be in.

Unless you’re a woman and want to be treated as a human being, I guess.

When I first installed GOS, wanted to like Vanadium. Went right back into a FF fork+UBO once I saw that while its blocklists did stop ads themselves on TvTropes, it did nothing to the HTML elements that contained them so it left big ugly white boxes visible.