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[–] Fijxu 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice

Piracy in Mexico. in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

AFAIK South America (at least on Chile) doesn't even care about how people use the internet, so you can pirate anything you want. I suppose is almost the same for Mexico, they have more important things to care about.

Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 7 points 3 days ago

This seems really useless

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI scrapping is so cancerous. I host a public RedLib instance (redlib.nadeko.net) and due to BingBot and Amazon bots, my instance was always rate limited because the amount of requests they do is insane. What makes me more angry, is that this fucking fuck fuckers use free, privacy respecting services to be able to access Reddit and scrape . THEY CAN'T BE SO GREEDY. Hopefully, blocking their user-agent works fine ;)

Google's New YouTube Warning: No Ad Blockers or Lose Your Account? in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 5 points 2 weeks ago

Peertube is so good, we just need more people hosting content on it. Something like dedicated hosters for the content of each YouTube's/Streamer/Country would be perfect. If people just use and upload videos on popular instances, the storage of that instance is going to ran out pretty easily.

Google's New YouTube Warning: No Ad Blockers or Lose Your Account? in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just closed it because it never loaded on my phone... Why so many bullshit to load a single article page?

YouTube doesn't let me watch without turning off my VPN? in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think its better to leave it Closed Source, otherwise, YouTube team will be able to see how it works and how they circumvent their efforts on blocking 3rd party clients.

The Decentralized Retro Content Project (DRCP) in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 1 points 1 month ago

Matrix (not Matrix.org please)

DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 5 points 2 months ago

No, this is just propaganda

Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 1 points 2 months ago

And then they will force everyone to use WhatsApp instead of a SMS/Email to verify their accounts on a new login! Wow

Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 1 points 2 months ago

Yes. I host my own using Mailu.io. With the proper records, you will be able to send emails to any big email provider (proton, gmail, outlook). You need to pick a good TLD (.com, .net, .org, etc) so you don't get your email thrown into the spam folder immediately.

If you buy a domain now, you will probably get on the Spamhaus blacklist, which every big email service seems to use (again, proton, gmail, outlook, and probably others), so you will need to wait a few months and keep a good spam record (well, don't send spam emails obviously and keep your email server with the proper configurations).

Also, pick a good VPS provider (No vultr, no linode) with low levels of abuse, because if you setup your email server in an IP range with a lot of abusers, you may get your email flagged. (You can check that using https://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php, but I'm not sure if uceprotect is trustable).

Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID in c/[email protected]

[–] Fijxu 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Selfhosted email I guess.

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Does Google uses Google Chrome users to discover new unindexed pages? (self.privacy)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Fijxu to c/[email protected]

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This is not a long post, but I wanted to post this somewhere. This may be useful if someone is doing an article about Google or something like that.

While I was changing some things in my server configuration, some user accessed a public folder on my site, I was looking at the access logs of it at the time, everything completely normal up to that point until 10 SECONDS AFTER the user request, a request coming from a Google IP address with Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html user-agent hits the same public folder. Then I noticed that the user-agent of the user that accessed that folder was Chrome/131.0.0.0.

I have a subdomain and there is some folders of that subdomain that are actually indexed on the Google search engine, but that specific public folder doesn't appear to be indexed at all and it doesn't show up on searches.

May be that google uses Google Chrome users to discover unindexed paths of the internet and add them to their index?

I know it doesn't sound very shocking because most people here know that Google Chrome is a privacy nightmare and it should be avoided at all times, but I never saw this type of behavior on articles about "why you should avoid Google Chrome" or similar.

I'm not against anyone scrapping the page either since it's public anyways, but the fact they discover new pages of the internet making use of Google Chrome impressed me a little.

Edit: Fixed a typo

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The real history behind the Lunix operating system (self.programmer_humor)

submitted 10 months ago by Fijxu to c/programmer_humor

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BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the 'mp3' program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as 'telnet', which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.