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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Reply to ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. by Rambler

I was told when I was communicating with the EFF that they'd likely do a write up over the events taking place, and am happy to see this come to light finally. This is how it all began: https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888

For those unaware, I own a small ISP that focuses on speech and privacy. Hurricane Electric is a major transit provider where a customer of ours, downstream of us, had their IPs that were announced by us blackholed and dropped by Hurricane Electric. At the time, their IP announcement was a singlehomed connection to HE only so it essentially meant that they censored and blocked access to this legal content.

This is why platforms and networks like I2P and Tor are so incredibly important, but also why it's important we support organizations like the EFF who fight for our clearnet rights.

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someoneonarchlinux wrote

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

I have currently installed cinnamon, xfce, gnome, lxde, lxqt, mate and plasma on my Debian PC. Most often, I find myself using lxde and plasma. I admire plasma's looks! I primarily use lxde because it is so lightweight, and my computer is 15 years old. However, it does struggle a bit when running plasma...

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to Fifth Circuit Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need Warrants To Search Phones At The Border by Rambler

Even worse, technically, the 'border' extends 100 miles inland within the United States. Your rights are extremely limited in these areas: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

If you've ever lived in, visited or traveled through some areas of the American south, you may be surprised to find border checkpoints 80 miles north of the US/MX border, for example. Borders aren't just land borders, either, as it also includes sea/lake borders.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to Welcome new users by Rambler

Today I learned that Ramble was linked to on Vanilla I2P.

I didn't realize that it occurred on the June 30th release and that this wasn't actually "new" news (2mo~) until about fifteen minutes ago.

Either way, glad to see that the site is directly accessible from both consoles!

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Barnacle wrote

Reply to Welcome new users by Rambler

Thanks for the pointer to i2p+... just installed and it feels much snappier already. Perhaps more importantly, the router page looks way more futuristic.

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Barnacle wrote

Reply to So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

I used XFCE from 2006 until around 2011 and it was pretty nice and lightweight. Then I switched to a laptop running Gnome for a few years, but noticed later versions became a bit sluggish. On my current machine (a laptop based on Ryzen 7 with 40 GB of RAM) I switched to KDE Plasma because its performance is pretty good, it's compatible with Wayland and it has a lot of built-in applets and stuff. And it didn't have the frequent CPU activity spikes I was seeing with Gnome.

Despite the lack of Wayland support, XFCE is really nice, although I'd consider LXDE or Enlightenment on a low RAM machine. Enlightenment looked amazing last time I tried it on an old laptop.

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expiccione wrote (edited by a moderator )

Reply to comment by Rambler in So, I decided to give KDE Plasma a whirl... by Rambler

You can try to strip some part of Plasma to make it less heavy on resources. Still, if your hardware's shit, there's nothing doing. I've got a laptop which barely runs bspwm xd.

What you are looking for is baloo and PIM shit, which is almost useless. if you take a look at htop, you can see what is chugging RAM and other resources.

Anyway, what hardware do you have to not run Plasma?

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mrflibble wrote

Reply to A Brief Review of ReactOS by HMTg927

I tried it on an HP nc6320 a few years ago, and it installed, but I had problems with drivers. I tried the same model again about 6 months ago, and it didn't even boot this time :( I should try it again soon. It's a great project, it's just a shame that it feels like it's moving so slowly. It would be great as an alternative to old OSes like 2000 and XP that are no longer supported, but run expensive equipment like medical or other scientific devices.

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