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Cake day: December 26th, 2024

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  • Unfortunately, I say yes. And hear me out first please.

    The Fediverse in my eyes should be free. Free to have instances for everyone, including those we disagree with. Because in my opinion, the right to say and think what we want is very important (absolute free speech). And unfortunately, i think that means everyone should be allowed to say what they want. HOWEVER, free speech does not mean free of consequences. The option of federating with those groups or not is up to each community and fortunately I think many would not be okay with including them.

    I’m always open to hearing input as these are personal thoughts so by all means add to or let me know the errors in my thinking. Thanks!







  • So from what I understand, theres 2 common ways that browsers combat this. Someone add to or correct me if I’m wrong.

    1. Browsers such as Mull combat this by looking the same as every other browser. If you all look the same, it’s hard to tell you apart. I believe this is why people recommend using default window size when using Tor.

    Ex: Everyone wearing black pants and hoodies with the facemasks. Extremely hard to tell who is who.

    1. Browsers such as Brave randomize metadata that fingerprinting collects so that it’s more difficult to piece it all together and build a trend/profile on someone.

    Ex: look like a dog in one place, a cat in another place. They get data for a dog but that doesn’t help build anything if the rest of the data is a cat, hamster, whatever. No way to piece it together to be useful.

    In both my examples, there are caveats. Just because everyone dressed the same doesn’t mean someone isn’t taller or shorter, or skinnier or fatter. There can still be tells to help narrow down. Or a cat that barks like a dog suddenly is more linkable to a dog if that makes sense lol.

    In other words it still depends user behavior that can contribute to the effectiveness of these tools.

    EDIT: got distracted. To answer your question I don’t think so. I think it’s more about user behavior blending in or being randomized. I think the only thing an extension would be able to do is possibly randomize the data but I’m unsure of such an extension yet. These aren’t the only options, these are just ones I’ve read about recently. Online behavior, browswr window size, and I’m sure so much more also goes into it. But every little bit helps and is better than nothing.

    EDIT2: Added examples for each for clarity.








  • If I remember correctly, when I first started the server, it was showing the name on the server as the long name with details instead of just the movie name. Although that could have been my fault.

    On the seeding side, I’ve tried seeding the renamed files through the torrent but it seems since the movie names didn’t match it would start trying to download again instead of seeding directly. I may try transmission but I likes qbittorrents interface linking to the vpn. Transmission seems to need it typed out while qbittorrent let’s you select from a list. I just felt more confident having it selected as opposed to typed out.