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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by DcscZx5idox in New Invidious (YouTube front end) instance for clearnet, I2P and Tor. by Rambler

It's just a simple, lightweight and more privacy focused way to access pre-existing YouTube videos.

Unfortunately YouTube is still where the wealth of content exist. I still look at alternatives such as BitChute, Odysee, Tv.gab.com, etc however none of them have the 'normal, every day content' that I'm seeking. It's like 80% political / news, with the rest gaming or tech / crypto talk that I don't care about. Hard to find good content on them for things like music, weird hobby stuff, or just general DIY projects. I recently had to do a bit of work on my car. I found only one video on YouTube to show me what all I needed to do to complete the task at hand. Only one, and it wasn't even for the model I had but a similar one that was 'close enough'. The other sites just don't have that content unfortunately.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to ditch YouTube and not look back. But unlike Google search, for Youtube, there is just no great alternative. There are some good ones, but they're not great, and they're only good for a very particular type of content right now. At least with virtually all other Google products they're easily replaceable. OpenStreetMaps, any other email provider, DuckDuckgo or other search engines, I dont' need cloud storage so Drive doesn't matter to me, etc. But YouTube... Just can't be replaced yet.

Example: Let's find videos on how to frame a wall when building a house.

Bitchute: Nothing

Odysee (Lbry): Nothing

Gab TV: Blocks VPNs, so fuck them.

YouTube/Invidiouos instances: TON OF RESULTS

Case in point: The alternatives just don't have the content to be considered real alternatives. Yeah, they may not ban you from the platform like YouTube will for certain things, but "normal content" that isn't political, news, gaming, crypto, commentary, etc just doesn't exist on them.

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dontvisitmyintentions OP wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in A Heroic Earthbag Project by dontvisitmyintentions

That book looks interesting, thanks. The Natural Building Blog site (whose authors have also written books on it, the late Owen Geiger and Kelly Hart) has some posts on building codes. Most of the blog's reports on legal success are about strawbale and cob, but they mention (expensive) engineer approval for earthbags, which is always an option if you can't escape to a free county or need to get cohabitants to trust it.

I remember a documentary on those desert dwellers. Unfortunately, their outcast society precluded cooperating on a decades-long proof of concept like the original tire-rammed earthship. And I guess they were too mobile for earthbags to work.

The late Monolithic Dome Institute guy sparked my imagination with his experiments with basalt roving and reinforcement on small, strong domes that don't take moving tons of soil to build. But even easier, Aircrete Harry plans on building multiple lightweight domes on his property, and he can pour his mix, instead of using a bunch of expensive and fiddly spray equipment. He's living my dream so far. Though before I start sewing together airforms, I want to try slipform or cast aircrete building. These techniques seem like the cheapest, most-effective ways to throw up durable structures, which can be reinforced with a denser mix later for burial (or built on top of a stem wall for partial burial). But all I've done sit back and watch so far.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to A Heroic Earthbag Project by dontvisitmyintentions

If you want a great book, check out: https://www.amazon.com/Earthbag-Building-Tricks-Techniques-Natural/dp/0865715076

It's been one of my favorite coffee table books for hell, probably going on ten years now. Maybe one of these days I'll get a place that would allow this style of building... or maybe I'll just do a stealth build of a small earthbag structure. Great building for earthquake and fire prone areas.

I recall a study with... I want to say University of California(?) where they have a machine that essentially simulates an earthquake to test building techniques and structures. Not only did the earthbag monolithic dome exceed expectations, it broke the damn machine.

I get called a lot of things, especially nowadays because of this website, but I'm a bleeding heart hippy environmentalist at heart. I'm all about alternative construction, energy, etc. Would love to see widescale acceptance of stuff like this.

If you ever find yourself in the American Southwest, in New Mexico, check out the earthships and natural buildings in Taos (I believe). About an hour north of Santa Fe. I've visited a couple other places, lesser known, than those including some amazing riff-raff misfit type renegade desert dwellers who build with whatever they can and they live comfortably. People nowadays kill themselves to keep up with the Jones and get themselves in a perpetual state of debt to do it, making them a slave to work until right before they die. A cheap, well built and efficient house like an earthbag home (or strawbale, in climates that support it) can really relieve so much burden off a person financially and allow them to work less for someone else, work more for themselves, and just be happier and healthier.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to by smartypants

The clearnet IP of the server isn't hidden and the hosting provider is well aware of the site and supportive of free speech.

The anonymity features are to protect the users, not me.

And the email reset has never worked, I've never enabled it. I need to remove mentions of it from the code.

I'll review this in more detail when not on mobile.

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boobs wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Best resources to learn more about Arch? by Rambler

systemd is objectively a better alternative to things like sysinitv openrc and runit. service managers in the form of interpreted scripts are and will continue to be an irredeemable clusterfuck. the "anti systemd people" fail to see this as they are in a cult.

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boobs wrote

Reply to .onion SSL Certs available. by Rambler

this seems like the opposite of what is needed. instead of making an actually secure and decentralized human readable name system they are falling back to the x509 ca cabal money printer.

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boobs wrote

Reply to by smartypants

ramble's servers are not supposed to have anonymity as i understand it.

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dontvisitmyintentions wrote

Reply to LOSS OF FREEDOM ! : USA Cops everywhere are now ignoring search warrants, and (((courts))) and (((politicians))) are enabling it! Home Invasions: All The Ways The Government Can Lay Siege To Your Property by smartypants

This was news well over a century ago when the 10th Amendment became the gateway for obliterating intrastate activities, instead of keeping to interstate commerce. It keeps making news, and nothing ever happens.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Reply to comment by whitestar in Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data by Rambler

Well, there's [RAMBLE], which, as far as I know, doesn't ban you for using these words, but also 8chan.moe (.se clear net mirror, .cc clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror, Tor2web mirror - warning: clear net mirrors use Clownflare, which is a privacy issue (clear net only)), Nanochan (Tor v3 only), anon.cafe (.org clear net mirror, .co clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror), zzzchan (Tor v3 mirror - warning: clear net mirror uses Clownflare), and maybe some others.

Note that some boards might add rules preventing you from using "racist" words, but I checked 8chan.moe/v/, Nanochan/g/, anon.cafe/comfy/, zzzchan/x/, and it looks like there are no additional rules that ban those types of words.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Reply to disappointment... by burnerben

hello mr FBI glownigger. (75% chance you are)

YOU CAN, but no longer age 18 and no longer even age 19... (((they))) raised age to 21 for you must be 21 for an NFA item like that item.

but its still difficult in the majority of states where you can have carry it on state or private land (avoid accidentally carrying on federal land) ... an important political figure or elected sherrif has to vouch for you, AND the gun typically has to be made with serial number provenance before May 1986 i think (10 thousand to 25 thousand for a vietnam or korean war m16 antique), unless you have business reasons (gunsmith , mil contractor), and you have to be rich enough to store it safely somewhere and... the main democrat jew trick ... you need thousands of dollars for tax stamp and transfer from a local Class three dealer.

If you want to just shoot it and rent it, you can visit outdoor ranges near scottsdale arizona... fun.

If you want to legally temporarily hold it and legally own it momentarily.. get a get a dealer's license and how to get the additional license for possessing of a fully automatic weapon (requires blue prints to your home sent!!!!).

If you are not a dealer you need to pay 200 dollar TAX STAMP that biden wants to increase : https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/legal-full-automatic-machine-gun-range/

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/national-firearms-act-handbook

Pro tip : for the best hard to find gunsmith mods legal to have in Marlyland and built in Marlyland and equipped in Marlyland and purchasable (100 round drums for your non-auto non-burstmode ak-47, or springs to aid bump stocks, other trigger effects toys....) HEAD EAST from the washington DC FBI headquarters drive way past arlington across bridge to queenstown MD region, you cross the bridge toward out of DC across that water... to a interesting gun store that caters to fed workers : grenade barrel launchers, bump stocks, belt fed supplies, handgun silencers, rifle silencers, rare quick-reload revolvers, etc

PS : ITS RETARDED to type "Fully automatic", you just type "automatic"

The normal legal AR15 and legal AK47 lacking 3 round burst and lacking auto mode is called a "SEMI AUTOMATIC WEAPON"

you never need to type "Fully automatic".

Fun fact. in entire USA history, a legally registered and owned AUTOMATIC WEAPON was only used in a criminal act one time. The legal owners of these guns are the most law abiding people on earth.

AK47 is far far less accurate in fully auto mode vs a AR15... but most of either have carbine length barrels in normal configs and a carbine barrel in hand held non-tripod mode is inaccurate except for a few marksmen I hear. I type this to mention that normally you would want to keep a gun in three round burst mode. Tapco trigger on a EU region ak47 offers 3 round via special defective engineering, but many tax-stamp ak 47s are single or auto. Forget AK47 and get a high temperature mil spec barrel on a regular ar15.

That being said, most people I know ONLY practice shooting while running (tangent and full frontal running) , rolling, and ducking. There are competitions involving active motion but none involve firing during those activities. For that its private range on private land... and in all my memories... cold and muddy and soiled clothing. fun times, fun memories.

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