That’s what you get with remote-mounting a fs

I know that. My point is: you don’t have to.

Microsoft has my source code

FWIW, other public git instances exist. As in alternatives to github. No need to selfhost.

deep system integration

You mean remote-mounting a filesystem? That’s possible; you don’t need NC for it.

Try netcup instead.

Debian is missing!

…early in the morning

This is definitely a thing. See comment with screeshots from Picard. But I don’t let it infuriate me - just adjust the screen or crank up the gamma or, if you want the cinematic experience, switch off surrounding lights.

Not sure if fork or reimplementation, but Minetest is in almost all Linux distro’s repositories. There’s plugins and plenty of community servers.

I don’t think NewPipe uses yt’s API. yt-dlp certainly doesn’t. It’s kinda the whole point of these alternative frontends.

This happens via simple lists of IP addresses, no? I.e. the VPN has a limited number of exit IPs and once it’s known who they belong to, they’re easy to block?

@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

Running Debian Stable, I have installed ungoogled-chromium which is also in the repos.

But Librewolf is my main browser, Chromium a rarely used secondary.

What I’m talking about is how these blocklists are used by many other browsers/softwares (e.g. Firefox) as well.

Same when you try to deviate from the approved path of email providers or, dog forbid, even self-host email.

This is why I always switch off that “block potentially dangerous sites” setting in my browser - it means Google’s blacklists. This is how Google influences the web beyond its own products.

edit: it’s much more complex than simple blocklists with email

This is good to know, but bit . ly already got your precious data at that point.

Browsers can also be configured to do this by default - or possibly only for bit . ly with some addon.

bit(dot)ly is just a link shortener; my guess is that the promised documentation is indeed behind it.

But - and I’m just spitballing here - by going through a third party, they can collect precious user data for which they probably have a contract with MS, which brings me back to my original comment.

Neither of your screenshots is showing ads?

If a for-profit org gives something out for free, even if its OSS, you are likely contributing to their profits in different ways.

This one surprised me:

Otherwise I’m pretty much within the average. Except I don’t work in IT, but I already knew that makes me an outlier.

List of instances

It is OK to use ‘-S’ only if all installed packages are on the same level as the local package info. That is assuming that the cached local version of the package is still available on package servers.

I just think you’re being too literal about this, instead of thinking about the reasoning behind that rule.