wut? I VPN all the time (for niche stuff Lemmy’s not there yet with).

I’m on bazzite with a GTX980, and it’s been working flawlessly, so it’s not age. I assume you did

ujust sunshine-setup

but it’s worth checking.

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

does rclone not work?

Hmm, Church and State… I much prefer having a separate RSS reader (FreshRSS in my case) for news, as I see it, and lemmy for more frivolous purposes. YMMV.

So, no-one’s mentioned tailscale. If it’s just for you, or some select friends, it’s probably the least friction to get secure access to your home network. Still, gotta check your threat matrix, do you really need it, is it really worth it for that occasional, maybe hypothetical usage ? Least access is best security…

I fucking hate discord

It’s Cancer, have an upvote.

Good to know, for such a simple thing, it’s amazing that notes hasn’t found a simple winner.

How’s that going, compared to Joplin or Standard Notes ?

You’re not wrong, but here we are, talking open source and GPL licences. If you can make a game portal work, or the web in general, it’s viable, your ISP is a choke point though, agreed. Was more talking about an easy stack like the 'arrs, but for webrings, just an idea…

So would people having webpages instead of social media accounts

And there’s your problem… (in the voice of Jamie Hyneman, Mythbusters). To see a real return of webrings, people would need to have (make) their own pages and curate some links.

Thinking about it, with the rise of selfhosted, it’s actually really viable, cobble together a docker stack with a WYSIWYG HTML editor somewhat oriented to the task (pretty sure something out there can be repurposed), a web server, proxy, and that’s about it (probably missing a fair bit, not my bailiwick, still, once the stack is made and solid, I’m guessing many would host, I would). Set a threshold of how many people you’re willing to host, say 50 or whatever so you’re able to check for CSAM or other legal minefields, and Bob’s your uncle, stir in some solid security to keep it isolated if you’re using it at home (or VPS) and it’s golden.

OK, more complicated than I initially thought, and it’s way less friction to use something like faceplant, which is entirely their point. Still, I think, if given the opportunity, and functional tools, and low enough friction, many would prefer to have a hand curated presence on the web above a facebook page.

I’ll stop, but thanks for the interesting thought seed.

If it can be read (i.e. used) it can be copied. Self-destruct is a possibility, thermite FTW ;). There are encryption technologies that will resist even this level of resources however, I’m guessing 1024-bit encryption is good until Q-day, probably more with a quantum ready algorithm, although none of those have been tested yet.

That’s when they bring out the rubber hose…

Certainly wouldn’t hurt, tunnel out via vpn to swaziland or whatever. I’m still going to be searching locally, but if all they know is I’m looking for bikes and hopefully don’t link it to my shadow profile, I can probably live with that. Still, don’t they require ID and phone number and shit these days ? IDK, I really don’t follow them.

bicycle, FWIW, but it’s a more general problem…

Dear God! (said as a devout agnostic).

Yeah.

Solid.

good

I like yaya@erewhon.com (sorry to the admin, it means nowhere, I assume it’s like /dev/null) Just like everyone should be using 01/01/1970 for a birthdate

Well said.