I see. I can use torrent without VPN in my location but I get it.

Blocking VPNs is a nightmare for governments. Some companies rely on them for normal operation. I doubt western countries will take such path due to the economic impact of it. You got also ways to bypass blocks, new obfs protocols popping up everyday, residential proxies, tor, i2p,… So yeah, you need a full time large team working to keep up with some of that for a full implementation. How China didnt give up on that yet is beyond me TBH.

IMO, it s not something we should worry about it now.

mmm cracking how? turning off the internet?

well said. I would add his clients too.

You are not wrong. But there are things you can do to make a point. Make Reddit as a 2nd class citizen and drive people to lemmy, mastodon and the others. Like add posts with no comments, just relay bot, … Make it clear.

Same with GitHub, it’s mirror to my Gitea instance. You can see stuff but you have to move somewhere else to contribute and report issues. Not a terrible thing to use these proprietary services and yet make them 2nd class citizens.

I came here to say at least it’s not discord then I saw your comment. Yes, there s mattermost, matrix, IRC, … I am not installing Discord, I am not opening an account. I mean what s next? host your community in Skype?

I am curious why not docker? it s pretty convenient in my setup (docker compose + traefik). If I need to migrate it s really simple, if I am to nuke a service just bring it down and delete the path.

I give haircuts to myself and the shaving device I got recently was like 40-50 EUR and it s expected to last a couple years like the one before it.

My reasons for not going to the proper place is:

1. I am always on the move (I might not speak the language of the current country)
2. I am lazy and prefer to do things at home rather than arrange an appointment or go wait there
3. professionals make the haircut look way better but it will last for a couple days / couple showers

Mine looks plain, in the beginning they look even worse then you start getting it. The advice I would give others wanting to try that: dont shave too much so the small imperfections will not be too obvious.

My pleasure! These people have been doing volunteering work for more than 10 years and deserve a lot of love. They had some meal plans also. They are great people and they need a lot of support.

Louis part alone needs to be extracted out as a separate one. Interesting.

I see Lunduke and I pass. He said too many ragebaity ridiculous things that he discredited himself already.

Why the switch when you can have the steam deck? I am confused

Gave up on gym membership already. Switched to home workouts (check darebee website and youtube) I feel way better with this compared to the gym. You cant have noodle arms also, so get reasonable dumbbells to grow your arm muscles (they are effective and easy to store also)

It s 40min at most daily from home workouts so you need less mental energy to get to it (compared to: prepare backpack, go to gym, interact with people, go back). I am on the Avatar Upgrade program.

I add early morning walks and occasional hikes to spice things up.

the door I was opening shampoo bottle leaving underwear without walking the drawer

piss in carpet

I use keepassxc + syncthing, super easy to setup and decentralized.

1. Fire Zeal and Fetch every API documentation listed there
2. Pull latest deepseek models
3. Clone entire debian current repo
4. Clone Firefox, Linux and the gnu coreutils
5. Clone Litecoin and Litewallet
6. Download the most recent dump of Wikipedia
7. Download all the maps and data available today in OSM

That should do for me

Arabic, French, English, Chinese (mandarin), Russian.

In my teenage years I really tried to master it well. I score relatively high in chess.com and lichess but I share your sentiment. If you are a chess master it doesnt mean you are super smart it means you are super good at chess.

Science confirms this in a way. Prof Andrew Huberman has a podcast episode about games in general and their effect the brain development and the takeaways:

• Games can help the brain development according to publications because of the different experiences that you will never have irl
• The positive impact was only noticed when you play a variety of games under different setups and not when you master a single game and play it a lot

Wouldnt be surprised either. I watched the documentary deep web and the feds admit publicly they were running half of the dark web business to make their way to the top. Like there isnt anything better to do than subscribe and wait (there isnt corrupt officials who sold their souls to aipac, congress doing inside trading, billionaires screwing working class and buying governments, healthcare causing ten of thousands of deaths, …)

it s not even worth pirating

Seems like something that could fit here

https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Main_Page