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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to privacy conscious VPS? by burnerben

What specifically are you looking for?

Privacy in the registration process, privacy friendly VPS location(s)? Not many providers (willingly) allow you to sign up without non-identifiable information. Most of the "privacy web hosts" think that just allowing BitCoin as a payment option is somehow "privacy" but then ask you for your name, address, phone number, etc.

Find a server location outside of the 5/9/14 eyes ( https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/ ) and a provider offering KVM or Xen based Virtual Servers (Though KVM is more popular nowadays). Don't use their premade Linux images, install your own ISO and VNC in and encrypt the disk via LUKS.

I plan on writing up a guide for /f/webguides eventually on installing Debian 10 on a VPS with LUKS disk encryption which will be the same process for virtually any KVM VPS provider. It's been on the to-do list with like 500 other items.

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spc50 wrote

Reply to Internal screeching by Dzedo

Hate to tell people in the States and Your-rope that many countries where zero f-cks given. People are to the point, blunt.

They are helpful too. Run that baby waa stuff and they'll give you a proper timeout in a safe space. Probably knock you out for good measure.

Women like this that is why we created clothing. Yuck.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to Discussion: Striking a balance. by Rambler

Weird. Some folks were very vocal on both sides of the coin in private. Not so much in public.

Today the front page looks fine to me. Sometimes it gets a bit vile.

I think the solution moving forward is proper tagging of posts with [NSFW] which I can add to submission titles if users don't do it themselves. If any particular default forum is too heavily NSFW it may be removed as a default forum simply for the fact that newcomers to the site don't always want to be met with that, but they're free to seek it out or post it themselves.

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Wingless wrote

Reply to comment by spc50 in CENSORING ASSHOLES?! Cloudflare pulls plug this hour on Gab?!?!?! GAB.com BANNED OR BLOCKED??? that link , depending on when you click it proves thousands of people suddenly cannot access Gab.com ! Hurray for Ramble avoiding using Cloudflare! by smartypants

I have no faith in Gab, but I am curious what would have been done to them by governments and supragovernmental authorities had they not taken steps to protect Musk's ransomware stocks.

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BasedPatriot wrote

Reply to Internal screeching by Dzedo

Dude Chinese people are based as fuck. They're openly racist, lack self awareness and really have no concept of social norms. Ask a Europe "Who doesn't know how to queue in a line" and with no hesitation "Chinese" will be the answer.

Chinese citizens are good people with no tact living under a horrible government.

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Wahaha wrote (edited )

Reply to Discussion: Striking a balance. by Rambler

Maybe something like each forum only can have a few of their posts per day appear on the front page? So even if someone creates 100 posts in A, forums B, C, D, E and F with about five posts per day would still be visible.

I'm mostly looking at https://ramble.pw/all/new so I don't care too much either way, other than being interested in optimizing the front page to attract more users.

And as a new user, it would probably be nice to easily see all the forums with some activity instead of just the most active ones. But even then, should there be a point where 5000 forums are active, you again will have a hard time figuring things out.

But for now that's my idea at balancing.

Maybe the front page should even show the few posts from each forum at random. So each time you reload the front page, you get something different, if there are enough posts in the pool. Prevents gaming the front page, too. At least to a degree.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by div1337 in Multi-hop vpn and port forwarding by overvalley

I kind of meant not to run any browser or if so avoid javascript. but... Lynx?

for safety, Lynx doesn't support Javascript, but many web sites, including dark net ones, idiotically require javascript.

Links...?

Lynx and elinks does not support JavaScript, but Links does: sudo apt-get install links then to compile Links with JavaScript support, use the configure option --enable-javascript ... etc

https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/11678/text-based-browser-that-runs-javascript

I would avoid the javascript entirely if possible, or use a remote proxy doing all the javascript and rerendering back through tor to your location

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Reply to Brave Browser, look under the hood or is it a hood... by spc50

Thank you!!!!!!

This is quite brazen of them.

Some of it might be laziness of checking out mods to chrome source they depend on, rather than their possibly obfuscated source alterations.

No way to tell probably without compiling or downloading chromium yourself and confirming what they try to patch over : https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
and https://github.com/brave/brave-core

And now I think you are on to a money avenue they are seeking....

.... if a program is Free... then YOU are the Product

DNS LEAKAGE spotted 23 hours ago from ramble research and formally reported 23 hours ago !:

.onion request in regular window should also avoid DNS leakage #14261:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/14261

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Jumpstarting OPSEC - Cash and online payments by spc50

Good read, for sure.

Do you have any trouble using these cards anywhere? Do you use them for normal online bill pay, online ordering from stores (or ebay/amazon, etc)?

What happens if you, say... Put $200 on a card to pay some bills and you have a $1.28 balance left over or something on the card. Anyway to transfer that to another card or do you just lose it if you can't find a small purchase to apply that balance towards? (So in a way, an added fee to the original card purchase?)

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