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Rambler wrote

Reply to Thoughts on emojis? by txt

I think it's funny that all companies turned their gun emojis into water guns.

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Surprised the cancel crowd hasn't gotten rid of 👌 yet.

But to answer your question, I hate seeing emojis usually. 👀❓💥🤷🏿‍♀️🦄🙀🧠🐄🌼🕷️☕🛑🎮🔋♻️

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to Account Whitelisting by Fish

I have the ability to exclude image uploads and the creation of new forums to only whitelisted members.

But everyone has that ability to create forums or upload pictures as of now since it's not been abused.

I could also have the wiki modifiable by either everyone, whitelisted members, or admin(s) (me). Right now only I can edit wiki pages.

Furthermore: Whitelisting will allow a user to bypass IP bans and some flood protections. Additionally, their IP addresses will no longer be stored. But if you're accessing the website via the Tor onion service, your IP shows the same as everyone else on the site accessing it via the Tor onion service. If you access the site via the LokiNet SNApp, it's basically the same. It's the same IP address shown for everyone using it. If you use the I2P site, it's the same IP regardless if it's me or you signed in. Because of that, those networks don't have flood limits now so it's like being whitelisted. Using Tor on the clearnet site will just be the IP of the exit-node obviously and the clearnet site by itself would be your identifiable IP unless behind a vpn. Those logs aren't kept anyway but I still encourage the use and support of any other network.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in If you could create any TLD, what would it be? by txt

Doesn't pretty much everything exist at this point already? I don't need any special top level domain.

Yeah, but unfortunately many names you want is taken. That's why the clearnet version of this site is ramble.pw, because it was available, and all the 'normal' TLDs were taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

Most common word domains get squatted anyway. I've flipped many a domain in my time, and usually would just buy up things specific to a particular industry and then do nothing for a year or two then list them for sale. Buy a .com for $12, renew it once, got $24 tied into it total and then sell it for a few hundred to someone who will either actually use it or sit on it longer and re-sell it a year or two later for more.

Though my domain portfolio is empty nowadays, but when 'cloud' was the new buzzword for anything related to computing and hosting, boy did I make some extra coin.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to Does your warrant canary WORK? by Wingless

For those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary and /w/warrant_canary

Good question, and it wasn't created with any sort of legal consultation to be fair.

I guess January's notice my have different phrasing that that goes along the lines of, "Be aware of any prolonged period of no updates to this notice" or something. The goal is to update it monthly however. I guess one could be placed under legal order to continue to update it, I'm not certain as I've yet to see a case where that has been required.

I'm not going to be at the keyboard at the strike of midnight at the beginning of every new month, however, if (for example) it's January 4th and I've:

  • Been active on the site still
  • Haven't updated it yet.

Then there is the possibility it slipped my mind ( I have a reminder set, though ) or, y'know. It's working as intended and not updated on purpose.

With that said I want everyone to understand what is even available if a request was made, which is shockingly little. Can't share what we don't know. One of the benefits of the end-user accessing this site through the various network is this:

  • Tor traffic looks like localhost traffic. (Same local IP for everyone)
  • Lokinet traffic looks like localhost traffic (Different local IP as Tor, but still local and the same for everyone)
  • I2P traffic is all logged as the IP address from the I2P router that the HTTP tunnel is created on, regardless of user, the IP is the same. I'm not going to pretend like I know enough about the network to tell you how I can not determine the difference between I2PUser_A and I2PUser_B, but like the above networks, I can't tell the difference between them as far as logs go.
  • Yggdrasil is a bit different and not necessarily as anonymous as the above methods however you should be able to browse with different Yggdrasil IPs as set by the end-user.
  • The clearnet is obviously the least private of all the above and I encourage use of the alternative networks where able.

The inability to diffrentiate between User_A and User_B while using the anonymity networks is one of the reasons why I've stated that in the event of severe abuse stemming from any particular network, I'll close access to that network (temporarily) to prevent it.

If anyone is concerned about their privacy, my suggestions are to:

  • Use a unique username that isn't used elsewhere.
  • Use a unique password that isn't used elsewhere. That's just always good practice regardless of what you're doing or what you're signing up for.
  • Don't use an email address, because you don't have to and I don't want to send you email anyway.
  • Assess your OPSec needs and if you know you're doing stuff outside of the eye of the law then do all of the above and also don't post stuff that would make it easier to pinpoint you. Basically, don't copy/paste content you posted under a different alias elsewhere, I'd refrain from mentioning things that can pinpoint you to any specific geographical location, etc.

IF YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOUR OPSEC HAS BEEN COMPROMISED OR YOU NEED OR WANT TO START FRESH

  • Click your name in the top right corner.
  • Go to "My Account"
  • Click, "Delete This Account"

That will delete all your posts, submissions, votes, everything. We do run backups of this site and without giving away too much because it's really not the public's business, in a matter of a short period any available backup that had any of that information stored will be overwritten a newer backup, one that doesn't contain that info. Backups are for when I inevitably mess something up by mistake and need to recover from it without much (hopefully) data loss.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha

Firefox ESR, since it what comes with Debian's desktop. But the browser alone doesn't do anything if your browsing and privacy habits are poor.

Definitely use some of the plugins mentioned here and use something like a Pi-Hole device to filter out unwanted junk (analytic trackers, ads, etc) at the network level. Can go all out and serve normal CDN junk locally too, things like fonts and javascript.

Just sort of depends on what you're wanting to do.

But to answer your question: Firefox for normal use (with some plugins and network stuff on my end).

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