I’d counter that this is common enough and not notable if human does it to an extent that there is no way to quantify cat death rates to driverless cars vs human driven cars. Like when electric car fires were all the news rage, they were so rare it made the news when any other car fire would not.

Happy cake day!

A car running over a cat is newsworthy?

daft enough to use a free one

C’mon, it’s 4chan we’re talking about here. The gambit runs from “yes, that daft” to “good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies”.

they will be blocked in the UK

This is the only real solution, and it’s a inconvenient one at best to surfers thanks to solutions like VPN.

Can’t stop the signal

Apple also sells a physical product in the UK. Microsoft and Apple both sell a virtual service/product in the UK. 4chan only gets revenue from you looking at posters and clicking those posters on their website.

UK can get fucking bent. Come and take it.

Does the UK think they have jurisdiction over my server just because some twat from the UK visits my site? If so, there’s a reason why we fought a war nearly 250 years ago that said that a stupid fucking idea. Colonialism is a dead ideology

Yeah, I don’t think you really understand how the internet works. Their presence is in the country where their servers are. People from the UK essentially go to another country to visit 4chan. If the UK doesn’t like that the onus should be on them to block that access, but that is also a stupid idea thanks to VPNs.

Before Trump, the “traditional” social media was likely pushing the Democrats’ agenda (like the Twitter files under the guise of more moderation. Now the tactic is being used by the Trump administration just more in the open and in more traditional media (Jimmy Kimmel). Big media is such an easy target for govt influence when it’s all ad supported.

I’d bet they see the writing on the wall that the government has too much influence in social media. So this time they don’t want to be caught with their pants down when Democrats come back into power. The other thing I feel is on the horizon is the end of the ad supported internet. I’ve said it before, be prepared to do it yourself or pay for it. I guarantee the guys behind this instance is in the do it yourself camp.

Disclaimer: I am libertarian and view both DNC and GOP as different sides of the same authoritarian coin. Right wing flavored, left wing flavored, both are disgusting when it’s authoritarianism.

There was a time when you could have a platform that ran with components from all 3. Intel CPU, AMD GPU, and nvidia’s nForce chipset on the mobo.

There wasn’t even a slap on the wrist in that ruling.

So is it YouTube family or YouTube household?

Either way, probably need to setup site to site VPN and route YouTube traffic through a central location, if you can block geolocation.

Yeah, long term goal is a self reliant total internet experience. I figure at best, I’ll still have to rely on a handful of more trustworthy companies to do some things like search.

Already am, but it still pulls results from the companies I want to separate myself from. I’d rather see what it takes/how well it performs to have my own indexer.

Looks like for the hardware requirements for self hosting some of the open source options, I’ll be saving up quite a bit for SSDs.

Yeah, I think it’s more related to the inherent security settings in librewolf and the sandboxing flatpak does not meshing well, which is fine as that’s a great upside for it. It’s not a big deal to have a dedicated browser, but I’d rather be able to block most if not all the crap when I do need to use the webcam which is why I avoid Chromium browsers when possible.

I know that my preferred browser (librewolf) does not and doesn’t have a native build for OpenSuSE and often has problems with video conferencing in the flatpak. Its the only reason I’ve kept vanilla firefox installed.

OpenSuSE is German, I’m having to wonder if I need to prepare switching distros in case they have to remove Firefox from their repos. I’ll need to research the flatpak to see if it works with webcams for video conferencing.

This used to be a thing iirc. Then too many advertisers were getting “don’t show results from this source” and Google nixed it.

Just off the top of my head, they had hired a registered sex offender (sexual battery of a child) and didn’t warn any other employees about it. It didn’t come to light until he defaced another open source project’s wiki. The normal annoyances seem minor by comparison to that which are snap and (was) unity desktop, but unity hasn’t been a thing for a while.

Yeah, if you really want a taste of Debian desktop, LMDE is probably where I’d start.