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  1. Comment on Do you have a personal website/blog? in ~comp

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    I only use git and lists service, it is pretty good. You can try it for free and start the subscription when you want to.

    I only use git and lists service, it is pretty good. You can try it for free and start the subscription when you want to.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Do you have a personal website/blog? in ~comp

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    Yes, https://tilde.town/~notopygos - I write it manually using a text editor. also checkout tilde.town!

    Yes, https://tilde.town/~notopygos - I write it manually using a text editor. also checkout tilde.town!

    5 votes

  4. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    GitHub provides a free service (GitHub Pages) for hosting static files, you just have to create a repository, put some html files and enable pages. They allow using custom domain. Hugo is a static...

    GitHub provides a free service (GitHub Pages) for hosting static files, you just have to create a repository, put some html files and enable pages. They allow using custom domain.

    Hugo is a static site generator, check out gohugo.io
    You choose a theme, write some posts (in markdown) and run hugo. It will output the website a/c to the theme you've selected.

    You can also just write html files yourself and push them to github. checkout https://pages.github.com/
    There is also gitlab pages (alternative).

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Challenge: defuse this fork bomb in ~comp

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    This is the command that actually runs when you run that, that article explains this. Everything else doesn't do anything. `r() ( r & r ); r` I too feel for it once, I ran echo...

    This is the command that actually runs when you run that, that article explains this. Everything else doesn't do anything.

    `r() ( r & r ); r`

    I too feel for it once, I ran echo "I<RA('1E<W3t`rYWdl&r()(Y29j&r{,3Rl7Ig}&r{,T31wo});r`26<F]F;==" | uudecode

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Need a simple way to password protect a webpage in ~comp

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    You should use the top answer (one with php code) or if you and your friends are familiar with Tor, I would suggest creating a hidden service and password protecting it. Your friends will have to...

    You should use the top answer (one with php code) or if you and your friends are familiar with Tor, I would suggest creating a hidden service and password protecting it. Your friends will have to enter a string in their torrc to access the website only once. As long as they don't mess up torrc, they will be able to view the webpage.

    Other users will not be able to connect to your hidden service if that string is absent in torrc.

    Edit: Don't use css or other methods that rely on hiding the content if you don't want anyone to index it. robots.txt is what you want the robots to do, nothing is stopping a bad robot from indexing your website.

  7. Comment on What are the absolute worst VPN's you should never use? in ~tech

    notopygos
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    I wouldn't touch any vpn service that doesn't let me use my own client.

    I wouldn't touch any vpn service that doesn't let me use my own client.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall in ~tech

    notopygos
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    Oh I don't understand much about that stuff but I think mpv supports it and you can watch any video that can be downloaded with youtube-dl with mpv directly.

    Oh I don't understand much about that stuff but I think mpv supports it and you can watch any video that can be downloaded with youtube-dl with mpv directly.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall in ~tech

    notopygos
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    How did they think this is a good idea?

    verify their age using a credit card or form of ID on a porn site

    How did they think this is a good idea?

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall in ~tech

  11. Comment on Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall in ~tech

    notopygos
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    I don't think that is a problem these days, there is a lot of unused bandwidth on Tor network and more people using Tor = better for everyone. I am a kid and me along with lots of other normal...

    But it still is best practice not to use up all the bandwidth

    I don't think that is a problem these days, there is a lot of unused bandwidth on Tor network and more people using Tor = better for everyone. I am a kid and me along with lots of other normal people using Tor means the ones who actually need it can use it to hide among normal people.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall in ~tech

    notopygos
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    This is false, Tor doesn't limit anything. It's the exit nodes bandwidth in most cases that is the bottleneck if your connection is fast.

    AFAIK Tor limits you to 5 kbps or some low speed like that

    This is false, Tor doesn't limit anything. It's the exit nodes bandwidth in most cases that is the bottleneck if your connection is fast.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on aerc: Email Client for the Terminal in ~comp

    notopygos
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    Then it's fine because you'll have nothing to lose. I prefer to keep all my emails forever locally that is why I use a client. Doesn't matter if webapp works for you.

    I practice Inbox Zero

    Then it's fine because you'll have nothing to lose. I prefer to keep all my emails forever locally that is why I use a client. Doesn't matter if webapp works for you.

  14. Comment on aerc: Email Client for the Terminal in ~comp

    notopygos
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    Isn't that a feature? This will speed up loading emails and searching, also you can view your emails offline. If you are using IMAP then it should be deleted from the server also. (moved to trash...

    Setting up Thunderbird is not as easy as it seems either, I could never prevent it from trying to download my entire Gmail database

    Isn't that a feature? This will speed up loading emails and searching, also you can view your emails offline.

    and I never knew what would happen with my deleted messages - are they deleted on the server too?

    If you are using IMAP then it should be deleted from the server also. (moved to trash if that's a thing)

    I need my email service to be simple and automatic, I have other matters to attend.

    Have you tried using claws-mail? It is super light and fast, I use it daily with 1000s of emails on disk and lots of filtering rules.

  15. Comment on aerc: Email Client for the Terminal in ~comp

    notopygos
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    Who knows if one day they just disappear (see lavabit), what will you do? For this same reason I prefer a local email client. If all your business clients use protonmail then it's probably okay...

    But I actually prefer their webapp, as I don't see a need for a standalone email client anymore.

    Who knows if one day they just disappear (see lavabit), what will you do? For this same reason I prefer a local email client.

    I trust their privacy and encryption claims.

    If all your business clients use protonmail then it's probably okay because messages will be e2ee (i guess) but email was not meant to be used like that. I don't care if the company uses xyz service, I'll use mine and can still communicate with them. If your clients don't use protonmail then isn't is not that useful because your emails still lie on your clients email server and protonmail could've stored it in plaintext before encrypting?