Roughly from high level to low level:

1. uBlock custom filters
2. Make pages unusable or less attractive by wonky per-site browser or extension settings
3. IP and DNS blocks on your local machine
4. Run a DNS proxy on your local machine and block domains with it
5. Host a pihole server on a different machine, make it your DNS server and block domains there
6. IP and DNS blocks in your router (if your current one has no option for this, consider buying another, preferably used)

Best apply the methods arbitrarily, so that you get even more confused about how you might restore access to a given website.

Options 5 and 6 may be the only viable ones for locking down certain smartphones or tablets.

In Firefox & LibreWolf it’s native:

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> section “Cookies and website data” -> “Manage Exceptions”

You may want to start using Tor especially for your current Librewolf use case. Compare fingerprinting

You should add permissions for select sites to store their cookies permanently. This reduces the annoyance dramatically.

Sweet. A question though: Why on Microsoft GitHub and not on Codeberg?

This is the way. (This or FreeTube.)

Note that the Firefox Add-On store features it as “Recommended”, i.e. the extension is monitored for safety.

In case someone needs an alternative, the SambaLite app by edgels from F-Droid is pretty easy to use (requiring a Samba setup on your PC, of course).

That, and just how the publicity in either case helps to get people on board for right to repair initiatives.

Now, if you’re one of the lawyers for Bambu labs, … I sincerely hope that you are not taking this case on contingency by the way—please charge an hourly fee

Nice.

What’s much easier than dual boot on the same hard drive, see if you can install a second hard drive (not too expensive if you buy used), so that Windows can have its own little quarantine cell.

Never forget Aaron Swartz.

It’s almost as if Elmo wishes people to talk about something else.

Well that changes the matter. I hadn’t noticed anything to that effect in what I watched (i.e. his videos from the past months). What’s unfortunate is that he is unusually effective in appealing to a certain kind of people who could otherwise easily be lost to right-wing propaganda. Can you or anyone suggest alternatives who are good at convincing this kind of audience?

Slight tangent: If anyone wants to point gamer-minded young people to a tolerably good entry pipeline to lefty politics, you can point them to Vaush – vaush.gg, youtube.com/@Vaush

Apart from not being that interesting for now, the first line of defence for most is manually-approved sign ups, as far as I can tell.

When the Fediverse grows, I think that weeding out accounts that post slop will be the “easy” part; the hardest part will be to identify the silent bot accounts that do nothing but upvote.

With permissive licenses, companies can co-opt the fruit of volunteer labour to build a proprietary fork. With sufficient resources, they can bring that fork to wide adoption, leading users and potential contributors away from the free ecosystem. This is why I vastly prefer copyleft licenses, either GPL 3.0 or AGPL 3.0, and preferentially AGPL, given how many things nowadays run as web services. Always remember: The GPL is what gave us OpenWrt.

Also in contributing, I strongly prefer projects under a copyleft license. That’s because of this:

People who contribute to the development of a program released with a permissive license must be aware that the program could become proprietary at any time. For example, when a company hires the original team of developers.

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/licensing/#copyleft-vs.-permissive

The video he apparently got sued for.

And here a follow-up video where he repeats the trick on a freshly delivered lock (cause the company was whining about allegedly foul play).

Awesome work, thanks for sharing!

SyncThing only syncs when both devices are online at the same time.

So a comon scenario is: You change the DB on your laptop, then shut it down. You open the DB on your desktop. Since the lapotp isn’t online at the same time, you are working with the old DB version. If you change it, you have two competing versions.

I don’t know exactly what happens then; I’m facing it and am procrastinating dealing with it ^^

Konversation is pretty nice