I disagree with main post and agree with edit. I’ve only seen abuse material on Lemmy once and it was on an instance that didn’t have an automated moderation tool for image uploads and they promptly added that mitigation step after it happened

Social media is pretty unhealthy, honestly. Especially when used excessively, no matter if it’s for profit or not.

It’s very stupid to install a rootkit spyware on your computer to play a video game. Now that spyware is owned by the Saudi government too. Assuming you play on PC.

Great place for harm reduction and drug education, the world would be a better place if when people googled compounds or drugs google promoted erowid instead of burying them and putting some propaganda anti-drug websites on the front page.

I’ve tried to use Jellyfin every year or two for the past six years to replace Plex, but it sadly just isn’t there. It’s not good in a lot of aspects, especially when it comes to full bitrate 4K HDR movies (100GB movie files), HDR tone mapping, and especially subtitles (which I always have on).

Also, I’m pretty sure on their GitHub page there’s like a huge list of some significant or moderate security vulnerabilities that have been known for many years and are never going to get fixed due to breaking compatibility with some old devices if their fixed.

Religion is easily one of the most horrendous and harmful inventions humans have ever created. It’s devastating that children are indoctrinated into moronic religions before they develop any kind of critical thinking skills.

Child abuse tbh

I sorta dig Frame™

All these servers are self hosted, and every server admin can set any image banner they want. The instance I host has two simple banners I like that aren’t anime https://4get.lurx.net/

I agree with your analysis on open source software though

Good! I’m glad it works well

Every server owner can set their own banners. Freedom you know, my instance has minimal banner https://4get.lurx.net/

Yup, I’m not sure how accurate this is since I’ve never used SearX but I find this funny, from the creator of 4get.

• https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

And not that I’m aware of

Hey, man, I’m right there with you. I’m not planning on buying a new car unless I’m 100% confident I can disable or remove all of its networking and spyware services. I’m just stating that it’s stupid that the average American will buy a new car and then say this shit about these cars just because they’re Chinese.

Honestly a Chinese car spying on you probably has less negative impact on your life vs any other brand that does business with American companies, of course assuming you yourself are american and live in America.

Why would I give a fucking shit? Every new car is a piece of shit spy ware device that collects and sells your data. Honestly, I’d rather china have my data than a fucking capitalist company or America. At least china won’t do anything to me, our government is more of a threat to the average American than china is.

Respect

ProtonVPN is no log and so is Mullvad I think. Basically it’s mostly reputation, some also pay for outside audits of their systems so they can more effectively boast.

No log vpns probably do cooperate with authorities, but the fact that they are no log means they don’t provide anything. They get a warrant for logs and identification, they comply and send a letter “we have no logs, or way to trace the identity of a user”.

Generally speaking, if you’re paying for a VPN, then you should be paying for a provider that is no log. Free VPNs, you get what you pay for, which is nothing. So you don’t really get any security with that.

Drink occasionally, I vape cannabis flower often. I don’t use all that much though, less than 0.35 grams a week usually.

I used to go fucking ham on the weed, but I quit at the beginning of this year, and had the most incredibly horrible withdrawals I could imagine. Literally didn’t know you could get withdrawals from THC so bad. I had to take a week off of work. I was dizzy to the point of vomiting if I moved my head at all for two weeks, miserable fucking experience. Anywho now I try to indulge responsibly and take breaks often.

Never smoked tobacco, I would hit my friends nic vapes in high school mostly just try try their flavors, they made their own juice and were big dealers In the school selling it haha.

Why do I get high? Well I suppose I really enjoy the feeling of being in an altered state. It feels different, it feels good. It also helps me a decent bit with OCD symptoms most of the time, although I’ve read online it makes symptoms worse for some people.

You are correct, it is just a privacy respecting meta search engine! I self host my own instance, another thing to love.

4get is wayyyyy better imo, here’s a list of many instances. https://4get.ca/instances (my instance https://4get.lurx.net/)

Edit: because I think it’s funny as well, here is the creator of 4get self made comparison between 4get and searx

The key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.