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smartypants OP wrote

Probably, but maybe it will just limit it to a few minutes per web site.

Also too many new "free web games" that mine Monero while you play the free game. Monero sent to the Russian hackers of course, not to the app game players.

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div1337 wrote

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burnerben wrote

just press skip and select the squares with politicians that give a shit about anyone but themselves oh wait never mind hit skip again.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

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

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 )

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

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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

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

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

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

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