[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 104 points 5 months ago

Starting from the home screen, your main home page on Apostrophy OS is called the “Domus.” It’s a grayscale page with shortcuts for the Aphy Store (Apostrophy’s own app store), your calendar, contacts, Apostrophy’s VPN service, your files, email, and more. You can’t customize anything on this page, and everything you do here is run through Apostrophy’s servers for maximum security.

So far, not so good...

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 28 points 7 months ago

Welcome to the club.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 28 points 7 months ago

Cracking means decompiling the files, debugging the code and finding the bits that check if you have a key/subscription and changing it in such a way that it passes. Not exactly something you can learn from scratch quickly.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 55 points 8 months ago

The one and only time I was put under I said "you know what you're doing, eh?" And he just put me out. I didn't mean to say that, I was just nervous. I did see a nurse laugh though so that's nice.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 70 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I never really understood the "I have nothing to hide" mindset. I've always been for privacy. I self host everything I use, and when I don't (e-mail) I PAY someone to do it for me. No Google services in my life, no apple, etc, etc.

However, more and more I'm wondering if what I'm doing is worth it. Really, the people who "have nothing to hide" seem fine, nothing bad has happened, and it seems far more likely my information was leaked from a hack (credit carma I'm looking at you). Credit cards know where I am, what I buy.... Its endless. Plus now I have stress about my self hosted services going down.

So these guys who share their location and just live in blissful ignorance, are they on to something? I think life would be 'easier' for me on their side...

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 32 points 8 months ago

So, I'm self hosting basically this. I have a matrix server that is publicly accessible but I'm the only user on it. I'm also self hosting a handful of bridges, signal being one of them. I've played with the WhatsApp bridge, and I'm using an SMS/MMS bridge.

It's basically a man in the middle for all your chat apps. The Signal bridge software will login to your signal account and have full access to everything. The bridge works by watching all the decrypted messages and posting them to a matrix room. The matrix room may or may not be encrypted. This means you need to put a lot of faith into the bridge code and the people hosting the matrix server. The SMS/MMS bridge I use doesn't even support encrypted matrix rooms.

I personally would never use beeper. Even if I couldn't selfhost, I would not trust one person/company with centralized access to all my messages. I'm sure they have good intentions and would never do anything to abuse their position but I won't put anyone there.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 25 points 9 months ago

I've been in a bad place lately and I kind of needed this. Thank you... At first I didn't know how to answer this question.

Going to bed and calling the cats in to sleep with us. Some one always goes in the 'leg basket'. When I wake up I pet anyone around, kiss the S.O. and start my day.

It's not everyday but I leave sticky notes around with sayings or love notes for the S.O. I enjoy everything about this.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 109 points 10 months ago

Amazon employees who refused to relocate near main offices of their teams were told they either have to find a new job internally or leave the company through a “voluntary resignation.”

How dumb does he think people are? This just makes me angry because they're probably going to get away with it too.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 30 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately, we are penalized by the modern Internet for leaving all previously published content live on our site

Even if this is true, which I doubt, why not edit your robots.txt to disallow them to index it and leave the content up?

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

Get a provider. r/usenet has a good list in their wiki. This is the "seeder".

Sabnzbd or NZBget is the software you'll need to do the actual downloading. This is like utorrent/qbittorrent/what ever you kids use these days.

Sonarr/radarr to automate.

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