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They don’t even run their own index anyway, they rely on other search engines too. Kinda like how DuckDuckGo uses Bing under the hood.

So you might as well use SearX anyway, same thing.

This is the privacy community, not the piracy one.

You might want [email protected]

Now is not the fucking time to give governments unlimited access to user data. If the UK has it, the US will have it too.

AWS does have plenty of VPN solutions for this, but likely not with the credentials you have because they’re usually very specific. And it’s probably intentional, if they wanted to give you VPN access they’d give you VPN access.

The website requests an image or whatever from 27748626267848298474.example.com, where the number is unique for the visitor. To load the content the browser has to resolve the DNS for it, and the randomness ensures it won’t be cached anywhere as it’s just for you. So it queries its DNS server which queries your DNS provider which queries the website’s DNS server. From there the website’s DNS server can see where the request came from and the website can tell you where it came from and who it’s associated with if known.

Yes it absolutely can be used for fingerprinting. Everything can be used for fingerprinting, and we refuse to fix it because “but who thinks of the ad companies???”.

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

IBM, in 1979.

This is wide open to send a nuke on allies and blame the AI.

It’s going to depend on how the access is set up. It could be set up such that the only way into that network is via that browser thing.

You can always connect to yourself from the Windows machine and tunnel SSH over that, but it’s likely you’ll hit a firewall or possibly even a TLS MitM box.

Virtual desktops like that are usually used for security, it would be way cheaper and easier to just VPN your workstation in. Everything about this feels like a regulated or certified secure environment like payment processing/bank/government stuff.

but I’m curious if it’s hitting the server, then going the router, only to be routed back to the same machine again. 10.0.0.3 is the same machine as 192.168.1.14

No, when you talk to yourself you talk to yourself it doesn’t go out over the network. But you can always check using utilities like tracepath, traceroute and mtr. It’ll show you the exact path taken.

Technically you could make the 172.18.0.0/16 subnet accessible directly to the VPS over WireGuard and skip the double DNAT on the game server’s side but that’s about it. The extra DNAT really won’t matter at that scale though.

It’s possible to do without any connection tracking or NAT, but at the expense of significantly more complicated routing for the containers. I would do that on a busy 10Gbit router or if somehow I really need to public IP of the connecting client to not get mangled. The biggest downside of your setup is, the game server will see every player as coming from 192.168.1.14 or 172.18.0.1. With the subnet routed over WireGuard it would appear to come from VPN IP of the VPS (guessing 10.0.0.2). It’s possible to get the real IP forwarded but then the routing needs to be adjusted so that it doesn’t go Client -> VPS -> VPN -> Game Server -> Home router -> Client.

You probably want something like Aether instead of the fediverse: https://getaether.net/

It’s peer to peer, encrypted, anonymous, ephemeral and all that.

The fediverse is plainly just not appropriate for this. The ActivityPub makes too many assumptions that the data is fully public.

End-to-end encryption: Encrypt all user communications, private messages, and sensitive data

That could work probably, it’s a lot of work and will break interoperability but could be done. You’d still have to vet your users very well though, which might contradict the next point. It takes one user to leak everything.

Anonymous accounts: Allow users to create accounts without requiring personally identifiable information (PII), such as email or phone numbers. How can we balance this with the need to combat spam?

There’s a fair amount of instances already that will let you sign up with a disposable email

Tor and VPN Integration: Ensure compatibility with privacy tools like Tor, and provide guidance on using VPNs.

A fair chunk of instances already allow VPN/Tor traffic. The bigger ones don’t because of spam and CSAM and all that crap, but even Reddit is fully functional over a VPN.

Remove or minimize data collection, including IP addresses, geolocation, and device information. No web server logs.

That’d be very hard to enforce, and the instance owners have to do some collection for the sake of being able to handle lawsuits and pass the blame. But you can protect yourself using a VPN or Tor.

Ephemeral content: auto-deleting posts, messages, etc after a set period.

As an admin, I can literally just restore last month’s backup and undelete everything that got deleted. If someone’s seen it, you must assume it can at minimum have been screenshot.

Instance chooser that flags which instances are in unsafe countries.

Anyone can get a VPS in just about any country, so you’d have to personally verify the owner which is PII and probably one of the most vulnerable part of the group. You take down the owner you take down the whole thing.

Once again however users have plenty of choices already for that, if you trust your instance’s admins.

Defederate from instances in unsafe countries?

Same as previous point. Plus, one can still use the API to fetch the content anyway.

Better opsec around instance owners, admins and moderators

Also pretty hard to enforce.

It makes the fediverse look about as bad as Lemmy did when the Reddit apicalypse happened.

I think we mostly need to communicate the state of things well and frequently to keep users aware this is super alpha preview software and that the the technology is sound but just needs time to mature properly. It’s the cost of freedom: patience. As long as the fixes and improvements keeps coming, buggy shouldn’t be that much of a problem.

As someone that admins hundreds of MySQL at work, I’d go with PostgreSQL.

The quality of what the community is doing vs what they shipped with NSO especially on launch is laughable.

Native OoT and MM on the switch would have been really sick. Instead they went with 90s level of emulator quality.

Arch is, not sure about the others. I would imagine Debian also is.

Versions 3.0+ of Audacity are affected. It’s not like it’s malware and unclean but they did add telemetry and crash reporting and stuff.

It’s still going but I think a good chunk of the FOSS community avoids it. Distros that still ships it disable the telemetry.

Definitely feels like the desperate attempts to monetize it, and the enshittification that typically arises next.

As far as I know it’s still fine to use if your distro disables the telemetry, which is what most people had issues with. It’s still under the same license in the end, which is probably why they’re now pivoting to cloud features: that they can make proprietary. I’m sure cloud-based AI plugins are next.