The primary reason free VPNs/proxies are not recommended is due to the high amount of abuse that flows through them. As a sysop, it’s just easier to blanket ban all those IPs.

I have ethical concerns with your use of RiseUp as well. They are trying to offer a useful service to people on a donation basis, and you are funnelling a large amount of traffic through them.

Fixed, thank you

Maybe not exactly the same, but I know lots of people use this: https://github.com/StuffAnThings/qbit_manage

It relies on the qbittorrent-api PyPi library, which is feature rich.

Thought I’d throw in some things I’ve been using.

• yetCalc - it’s a calculator
• Vector Camera - novelty camera app which can make it look like you’re in the matrix
• Leon - The URL Cleaner
• Libera Reader - document viewer
• K-9 Mail - it’s thunderbird mobile now
• Imagepipe - image editor / exif cleaner
• Gauguin - sudoku like puzzle game, configurable difficulty
• Feeder - rss reader
• AntennaPod - podcast manager / player
• Element - flagship matrix client
• AdAway - host based ad blocking (requires root)
• Ente Auth - MFA

Overall, it’s good, but you need to know what exactly you’re signing up for. The reality is that you can run a decentralized or centralized E2EE chat server, along with voice/video calling, without much effort. There are hiccups with the key exchange that suck, and metadata isn’t really protected. It really comes down to if it meets your particular requirements.

My basic check is: Are there investors / vc people involved? If so, then it will inevitably enshittify. If not, then requires further investigation. OSI-approved open source is a big plus

Even when choosing what seems like good software, I think it’s important to consider switching costs. How easily can you move to another solution, say the second pick, if things go south?

I believe the auto-detect is based on a geo-ip database. If you are connecting from a VPN or datacenter IP then I imagine you might have unexpected results.

That site redirects to another domain that tries to sell me on AI roleplay whether or not tgx is down

Previously I ran Win 10 IoT LTSC, with a bunch of scripts from https://privacy.sexy/

I believe most things will work about the same in Win 11. Be sure not to disable anything you might actually need as it can be hard to diagnose.

I’ve been using Arch off and on for a long time, since it was horrible to install and updates did often break stuff. This is not the case now 🖖, and the Arch wiki is your friend.

1. Consider using btrfs with automated snapshots using yabsnap. It includes a configurable pacman hook in case something goes awry. Also just nice to have snapshots in case you accidentally delete a file or something.

2. Use paru, an AUR helper. Good for random things which may not be officially packaged. Expect to run into failures, and learn to diagnose them. Sometimes it’s just a new dependency the packager missed. For both paru and pacman, clean the cache once in a while or automatically, or things will get out of hand.

3. Do the “manual” setup, at least the first time, so you have an idea what’s going on. Don’t forget to install essential stuff like iwd (if needed) when you do pacstrap, or else you might have to boot from live again to fix it. Once you’re done, take care to follow the important post install steps, like setting up a user with sudo, a firewall, sshd, etc.

As for general setup, I’ve recently embraced systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved. Might be worth giving it a shot, since there is no default network manager like application. You can even convert all your wireguard client configs into networkd interfaces.

Best practice: Keep a personal log of various tweaks and things you’ve configured, and set up automated backups (more of general guidance).

Have fun!

Some interesting discussions there, looks like they won’t be hard up finding sponsors or places to move. Nice to see.

It only took what… 20 years?

You can also just copy your thunderbird profile directory, if it’s the same OS, to a different system and it seems to just work. I did this to copy the whole setup and synced mails from desktop to laptop. I also tried this from Windows -> Linux and it did not like that, so I used the import profile feature and re-entered all the passwords.

I’ve used Ansible to deploy docker compose and it worked pretty well. You will have to do some learning if you aren’t familiar with it, but I’d say it’s worth it.

Like others, I would not recommend Jenkins.

I would recommend ImagePipe. It’s been around a good while and is feature rich.

My understanding is that admins would be able to access it. I’m not sure if this means any admin, or just the ones of the sender and recipient.

I manage a (relatively small) gitea instance, the software that forgejo was recently hard forked from. The maintenance is incredibly simple, really no problem if you’ve ever run any sort of publicly facing web service.

In this case I meant the one packaged by your distro.

Cory Doctorow just linked something like this on his blog: https://sticktock.com/

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/18/ragbag/

I don’t use tiktok or have the will to audit this, so I can’t say whether or not it’s a proxy.

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