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Star , 3 days ago to piracy in Pity, really.

Regional pricing exists. The cheapest plan is $2 in some countries.

Star , 3 days ago to piracy in Pity, really.

Regional pricing exists. The cheapest plan is $2 in some countries.

Star OP , 1 month ago to nostupidquestions in What happens to my domain, website and email when I die?

Yeah, I made this post after reading that article. There is clearly a problem with how domains and their renewals are managed. I’m not sure what a solution would look like, though.

Star , 1 month ago to technology in I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun

I’m sorry if I sound naive but what’s wrong with using a phone?

I thought people use traditional music players like iPod and Tangara only because of their retro feel, is there something else to it?

Star , 2 months ago to technology in Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors

They aren’t E2EE by default. You have to enable it manually.

Star , 3 months ago to technology in Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!

They also run bookwyrm.world! A fediverse alternative of Goodreads.

Star OP , 3 months ago to world in Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion started

The clip is from a documentary called “A President, Europe and War” and it is not fake AFAIK.

Star OP , 4 months ago to technology in Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months.

Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they’re giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).

Star , 4 months ago to technology in Ecosia plants 200 million trees

they don’t “plant trees” but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes

Ofcourse they don’t plant trees themselves, it’s a search engine with a small team. They donate their entire profit which averages upwards of a million euros every month, to local tree planting initiatives across the world and that isn’t a ‘little’ number at all.

“Every search plants a tree” is a lie. It’s not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad

I agree, they were ‘a bit’ misleading with that in the past. Although they did state in their tree counter earlier and somewhere in their website/blog that it was roughly 45 searches (in Germany, depends on region) which raised enough money to plant a tree. They’ve since removed most, if not all of the misinformation.

They use Bing results making them useless

Since when does using Bing results make a search engine a ‘scam’? DuckDuckGo also uses Bing results, would you call that a scam as well? Ecosia uses Bing search results because it’s close to impossible to make an independent search engine which gives satisfactory results without the resources of a tech giant.

Star OP , 5 months ago to technology in "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"

It’s so ridiculous when corporations steal everyone’s work for their own profit, no one bats an eye but when a group of individuals do the same to make education and knowledge free for everyone it’s somehow illegal, unethical, immoral and what not.

Star , 6 months ago to fediverse in What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?

Personally, I initially started with following accounts of some companies or softwares that I use or am passionate about like The Fedora Project, The Tor Project, Bitwarden, Blender, Proton, some game engines (and their creators) etc. You can usually find their mastodon handles on their website and/or somewhere on their twitter profiles.

After that I branched out from there gradually, following people as I found them in discussions, the explore page and through some 3rd party discovery tools as well like “Followgraph for Mastodon” which looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon and then the people they follow then it sorts them by the number of mutuals.

Star , 6 months ago to fediverse in What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?

You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don’t like to see on your timeline. If you’re scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.

Star , 6 months ago to fediverse in What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?

Matthias Ott (@matthiasott)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.

Star , 6 months ago to technology in Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

@Frellwit is right, the following FAQ is from the uBO’s YouTube Mega Thread on reddit.

How often should I manually update filter lists? Can I somehow automate this?

YouTube filters are in a list named uBlock filters - Quick fixes. The list updates every 12 hours. It’s the only list you might need to update - only if this page says it’s fixed, but you’re getting the message.

If you’re not getting detected. Don’t update. Current estimated cost for just ONE of uBO’s CDNs: HERE. This is with other lists updating every few days. uBO’s not a company, it’s a volunteer project using free services, which have limits that we cannot cross.

Star , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

Oh wow, I didn’t know it’s used for research and policy discussions as well! That’s pretty neat.