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?

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.

Hardware: either

1. use whatever you have lying around, e.g. an old laptop, or
2. get a used thin client like e.g. a Dell Wyse. (passive cooling = no noise)

A Raspberry Pi is needlessly expensive for self-hosting, since it comes with GPIO pins etc. for controlling custom electronics.

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.

Year of the Windows desktop here we go!

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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.

The Mastodon founder, Eugen Rochko, has just announced that “We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon”.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116041405748460511

Zulip is probably more focused toward work than TTRPGs, but it can’t hurt to try it. (I haven’t tried it personally, yet.) It is self-hostable.

https://zulip.com/

Yeah I’m not sure about that so I deleted the comment. But just try it out: install it and see what it shows you, and then work from that.

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Licensing terms only govern the legal aspects, not social and moral aspects.

And not to forget: FUTO is evil.

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Keep organizing and slowly things will get better

Not to forget: FUTO is evil.

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