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Two political memes in 2 minutes, less than 10 minutes after joining? 🙃
Joined 8 minutes ago, posted 7 minutes ago? 🙃
Do you mean “red hat” for RHEL or USA republicans?
I slowly start to believe that sh.itjust.works needs to be defederated. I’ve been seeing too many idiots on that instance lately.
The Nazis defeated the Nazis, just as Hitler killed WWII’s villain, Hitler! It’s all a big circle!
Depending on your usage of a VPN, it can help your anonymity, but it’s very much not necessary.
When using Tor over VPN, the data going through the VPN’s server is already encrypted for Tor, but your IP is visible to the “black box”. Your anonymity should theoretically still be in effect even if someone reads your traffic.
When using VPN over Tor, the data itself isn’t encrypted by Tor anymore, but the IP isn’t your original IP, but the exit node’s. Your anonymity depends on how you paid for the VPN (Monero > Cash by mail > Credit card).
There is no evidence that the Tor network is compromised by the US government. It’s an open source network run by many volunteers all over the world. No FBI or CIA agent is ever gonna tell you to use Tor.
Pacman installs binaries in the root partition because they are installed system-wide. I don’t think that pacman can install binaries for a single user (inside the home partition).
One way of achieving that would be compiling or downloading the binaries manually as a normal user and putting the .desktop
file in .local/share/applications
. The program would then be only accessible for a single user though.
“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hidden messages in advertisements
The cheese is not free, it was crowdfunded.
If you only need music streaming, then a service like Navidrome may be better.
“World IDs are issued on the Worldcoin protocol, which allows individuals to prove that they are human to any verifier (including web2 applications) while maintaining their privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.”
“The Orb uses multispectral sensors to verify humanness and uniqueness to issue an Orb-verified World ID, with all images being promptly deleted on-device per default” Whitepaper
I guess that the information is somehow encrypted. The whitepaper doesn’t really seem to explain how a website can verify that the “World ID” is owned by a real human. Does the blockchain prohibit an individual from creating multiple World IDs? The World App doesn’t seem to collect any official PII, except an E-Mail address and a phone number, which you can have multiple of.
If you can create multiple World IDs, which are anonymous (at least the whitepaper and the Google Play Store says so), then bots could also just use a World ID to “verify” that they are human. The whitepaper is really shallow and doesn’t explain some of the most important aspects of verification.
You get an “anonymous” ID, which is created by biometrics, which are “promptly” deleted after creation of the ID. By that logic it is impossible to stop individuals from creating multiple IDs, except everyone’s state-issued identity is recorded and saved on a central server, which is bad privacy-wise.
I recommend viewing an instance as someone’s house/home. If you create an account on someone’s instance, you need to abide by their rules, because you are their guest. You can’t go to someone and expect them to tolerate everything you say/do.
If you can’t find an instance that tolerates your views, you should create one which does. That is the great thing about decentralization. If you don’t want to create a home for your views or don’t like decentralization, you should stay on corporate social media, which you can see as a public square. Everyone can join and say what thay want and they only get banned if they get too loud.
The “official” Fediverse is mainly used by a certain type of individuals who hold specific views about love, life and politics. It is not designed to be a public square and it is made easy to filter out opinions you don’t like.
By your other comments I think that you hold conservative values about the world. There are/were instances for conservative opinions, but they don’t/didn’t federate at all. Maybe that’s the reason you can’t find any people supporting your views. Parler.com for example used a Mastodon server as a base for their social media network, but they never enabled federation.
Another example might be gab.com, which is still active and used by many conservative people.