Woooooo!

Yeah as far as I know this still works.

You need to use a valid address (there are sites for generating one)

You also need to use a credit card that has never previously been used in Google with another address

I use a DNS server on my local network, and then I also use Tailscale.

I have my private DNS server configured in tailscale so whether on or off my local network everything uses my DNS server.

This way I don’t have to change any DNS settings no matter where I am and all my domains work properly.

And my phone always has DNS adblocking even on cell data or public Wi-Fi

The other advantage is you can configure the reverse proxy of some services to only accept connections originating from your tailscale network to effectively make them only privately accessible or behave differently when accessed from specific devices

Another cool trick is using tailscale to ensure your portable devices always can access your Pihole(s) from anywhere and then setting those server’s tailscale addresses as your DNS servers in tailscale.

This way you can always use your DNS from anywhere, even on cell data or on public networks

I keep a third instance of Pihole running on a VPS and use it as the first DNS server in tailscale so it will resolve a bit faster than my local DNS servers when I’m away from home

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And as many others have mentioned, it can be self-hosted as well.

Also fun side note:

As long as you are logged into a GitHub account and in a desktop browser you can press the . key on your keyboard while viewing any GitHub repo to open it in vscode web.

Yeah this is what I do.

Putting Cloudflare as my secondary would allow some requests to get through and then often the device whose requests went to Cloudflare would continue using Cloudflare for a while.

The best solution I found was to run a second Pihole and use it as the secondary.

You can use something like orbital sync to keep them syncronized

are facing a future where aging and health issues may be a thing of the past for those that can afford it

It depends what I’m backing up and where it’s backing up to.

I do local/lan backups at a much higher rate because there’s more bandwidth to spare and effectively free storage. So for those as often as every 10 mins if there are changes to back up.

For less critical things and/or cloud backups I have a less frequent schedule as losing more time on those is less critical and it costs more to store on the cloud.

I use Kopia for backups on all my servers and desktop/laptop.

I’ve been very happy with it, it’s FOSS and it saved my ass when Windows Update corrupted my bitlocker disk and I lost everything. That was also the last straw that put me on Linux full-time.

Judging by the amount of their nonsense posted on Lemmy, I imagine programmers sitting around all day creating memes about how hard their job is.

Programmers are just like the rest of us!

I already canceled Netflix when they stopped allowing me to use my account in multiple locations.

Not at all surprised their games got microtransactioms.

He was a good friend

It’s a Reddit tradition!

Definitely Immich.

There’s a lot of these kinds of services, hosted or self-hosted that are labeled as a “Google Photos replacement”

But very few of said services have features like face matching and object recognition alongside automatic backups.

IMO it’s not a legitimate replacement for Google Photos without those features and Immich really delivers on that without compromising your privacy.

Skull 💀

A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., dying from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.

Popular around Halloween. Not to be confused with ☠️ Skull and Crossbones, though their applications may overlap.

Skull was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Ah yeah that’s the one, sorry

• 8 Hosts (6 physical/local, 2 VPS/remote)
• 72 Docker containers
  • Pi-hole (3 of them, 2 local, 1 on a VPS)
  • Orbital-sync (keeps the pi-holes synced up)
  • Searxng (search engine)
  • Kutt (URL shortener)
  • LenPaste (Pastebin-like)
  • Ladder (paywall bypass)
  • Squoosh (Image converter, runs fully in browser but I like hosting it anyway)
  • Paperless-ng (Document management)
  • CryptPad (Secure E2EE office colaboration)
  • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
  • Audiobookplayer (Audiobook player)
  • Calibre (Ebook management)
  • NextCloud (Don’t honestly use this one much these days)
  • VaultWarden (Password/2FA/PassKey management)
  • Memos (Like Google Keep)
  • typehere (A simple scratchpad that stores in browser memory)
  • librechat (Kind of like chatgpt except self-hosted and able to use your own models/api keys)
  • Stable Diffusion (AI image generator)
  • JellyFin (Video streaming)
  • Matrix (E2EE Secure Chat provider)
  • IRC (oldschool chat service)
  • FireFlyIII (finance management)
  • ActualBudget (another finance thing)
  • TimeTagger (Time tracking/invoicing)
  • Firefox Sync (Use my own server to handle syncing between browsers)
  • LibreSpeed (A few instances, to speed testing my connection to the servers)
  • Probably others I can’t think of right now

Most of these I use at least regularly, quite a few I use constantly.

I can’t imagine living without Searxng, VaultWarden, Immich, JellyFin, and CryptPad.

I also wouldn’t want to go back to using the free ad-supported services out there for things like memos, kutt, and lenpaste.

Also librechat I think is underappreciated. Even just using it for GPT with an api key is infinitely better for your privacy than using the free chatgpt service that collects/owns all your data.

But it’s also great for using gpt4 to generate an image prompt, sending it through a prompt refiner, and then sending it to Stable Diffusion to generate an image, all via a single self-hosted interface.

Your mistake is interacting with them at all.

The algorithms know that people who dislike something enough to click a button will be primed to potentially do something like hate-watch or open the video to leave a comment, etc so by interacting you are telling it you were emotionally affected.

The best way to avoid getting suggested videos like this is to completely ignore them. Do not open it, do not click any buttons on it or hover over it long enough for the preview to start.

Eventually you’ll only see suggestions like that if you are a regular watcher of videos on the opposite end of the spectrum.

You’re right, for some reason I thought Firebase was allowed.

Yeah netfy is a FOSS notification service.

As to drop-in replacements, I don’t think such a thing really exists on the user side, this is fully up to the app developer in how they want to implement notifications.

To use netfy instead of FCM your app would need to be designed to do so or support it as an alternative option.

I think unless they use netfy or a similar alternative then yes.

The vast majority of apps will be using GCM or FCM for notifications.

Now whether or not those push messages are encrypted/don’t contain private data is up to the app developer so how much is exposed can certainly vary.

That’s true, signal is pretty good about that.

I wasn’t saying Signal required them necessarily, just that even it uses them. But now reading back through my comment I can see how that could be easily misinterpreted. My bad