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LnWpxtqPEXyDjAH9rs27 OP wrote (edited )

The repository is not about these kinds of services. It's about websites that send you email notifications or do email support using encryption/signing. For example, if ramble has a public key, they can sign every email they send you (notifications, password resets, etc.) so you can verify you are not getting phished and the email comes from them. Or if you have sensitive info to send them, you can encrypt it before sending it, regardless if you use fastmail, posteo, tutanota, protonmail, gmail or any other email service.

This also doesn't have to be limited to email communications/notifications. If a website decides to only support notifications through XMPP or any other method, it can still apply, it's just that email is the most widely adopted.

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LnWpxtqPEXyDjAH9rs27 OP wrote

Is there a better link explaining it than this blog post? Thanks for the suggestion.

As for GitHub, I know it's owned by Microsoft but I needed git where most people have an account so they can easily contribute. Apart from being owned by Microsoft, they are not behind Cloudflare, they don't use reCaptcha and you can view the README without JavaScript.

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Rambler OP wrote

I'll send food back if it's made wrong, no big deal. It happens. When I was younger I worked in restaurants and have had steaks I was proud of sent back and have other food sent back that I either made incorrectly or the waitress wrote the order incorrectly.

"Shit happens".

Respect and understanding goes a long way regardless of what side of the coin you're on.

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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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