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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote

cordial enough

Eh, I didn't read it that way at all. Tone is very easy to misinterpret over written communicaiton. So you may have typed what you typed with a friendly and warm state of mind, but your words could easily me interpreted (in my opinion) as someone who is annoyed. Nothing you said was really unhinged or awful, but I don't think the majority of users would read your posts as cordial.

I still stand by what I said though.

That's why I'm here. If you don't like something online, go somewhere else. Free speech, contrary to the back assword understanding of the concept as described in their /w/freespeech page, is an essential tool for the underdogs to ensure the establishment doesn't become corrupt, out of touch, and predatory.

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Stegacite OP wrote

This program isn't doing steganography or encryption of any kind. Encryption means you want to send something to someone you don't know who has a special key to understand it. The goal here is to send something to someone you don't know who doesn't have any advantages at all over the people you don't want to receive the text. So it's like a CAPTCHA for censors to fill out - a way to make it harder for a machine to tell tens of thousands of people what information they're allowed to pass on.

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Stegacite OP wrote

Sorry - the link in the text is an HTML file ... it turns out that Github's idea of an HTML file is their page showing you the HTML source. So you actually have to copy and paste it into a text file and save to desktop to use it. Unless there's some feature/setting I missed, which is more likely than not.

Meanwhile, I think you should be able to run the demonstrator for real at https://jsfiddle.net/Lke6p3dq/ - which, with some hint to apply the suffix to JSFiddle, can be described as myrtle fame jail totally

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Rambler wrote

Sounds interesting, and I'm just getting up and moving around so I need to rub the sleep out my eyes and look at it closer.

To demonstrate what I mean: Pony Tough Feature Post is a URL for the Ramble Privacy forum,

I searched, but couldn't find this site. Care to send me the link?

Any project that teaches you something new is a project worth doing.

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Rambler OP wrote

reloading is a great idea, however, really hard to find primers right now.

Seems like a lot of other gear is out too. One of the shops near me seems to be more geared towards hunting and sport and they always have a large reloading section. Looked pretty bare last time I went in a month or so back to just window shop and shoot the shit since I was in the neighborhood.

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Rambler OP wrote

Yeah, I was a bit taken back by it. I thought I was being cordial enough with emma, especially since her and I had communicated offsite before and she was polite and helpful.

I still stand by what I said though. I don't have to agree with someone to understand that they have rights that are important.

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hideyourlies wrote

It's funny because my Grandfather was a 3D printer before he passed he had a couple printers that I know of one being a Anycubic Predator and a Ender 3, he printed so much stuff and uploaded his work onto Thingiverse and made YouTube videos of his prints.

He passed some months back and seeing this just made me smile as it's cool to see.

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote

So you said:

I'd just as happily allow an antifa forum just as I would a proudboys forum. They both deserve a safe platform for discussion as far as I'm concerned.

And then this "ziq" fellow, an admin, said:

(nazis) deserve a safe platform

banned

So you literally were banned for saying that the Proud Boys have free speech. That's telling. Usually people like that make excuses and blame it on your "hateful conduct" in your back-and-forth argument with emma. I'll give ziq credit: he came right out and said it's for believing that his political enemies had rights.

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote

Rad. Lots of affordable VM hosts out there!

Yeah, that there is the timeless conundrum. If you make a complex system easy, you have to make it a black box that you don't actually understand. It's only safe if the black box's engineers did a good job of make sure it's air tight. (The MiiB engineers may well have!) On the other hand, if you let the complex system be complex, you have to do a dang homework assignment to figure out how to do something.

It's nice to see that hosting infrastructure has evolved to the point that VMs are commodified and companies compete and drive prices down and that if you know how to tinker with operating systems you can have quite a powerful machine that you have full control over for, like, dirt cheap.

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MasterDestroyer wrote (edited )

nice. i like ramnode, it's 3 bucks for a 1-core, 512mb ram, 160~GB hdd, 2TB bandwidth. 5 bucks gets you double those specs

there's some ssd ones too but for a personal email server i figured hdd is probably plenty fast enough

and man mail in a box was easy to set up. too easy tbh, now it's kind of like a black box that i dont' really know how it works. i set up a mail server with dovecot/postfix etc back in like 2012 and it was .. complex

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote (edited )

Not a bad idea!

I'm trying not to come across as a VM salesman and just to be thorough and specific about the information I'm sharing. Here I go. Vultr rents out a VM for $2.50/mo., full specs below. That easily out-competes most of the private email services reviewed, price-wise! You just have to figure out how you're going to do backups.

(Message me for a referral code if any of you are interested so we each each get a couple bucks free credit.)

Specs for the cheapo VM:

  • 10 GB disk space on an SSD
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 500 GB monthly bandwidth
  • But... it only does IPv6!
  • The pre-configured OSes available to choose from includes Ubuntu, and there are numerous "get Mail-in-a-box installed on Ubuntu" guides available online.
  • Note: The $2.50/mo. IPv6-only box is only available in some Server Locations such as New Jersey, USA. Not sure what the rhyme or reason for that is.

If you can handle the fact that you'll only get an IPv6 address, that box is more than sufficient to serve email. It's $3.50 for the same machine but with IPv4.

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote

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