dnsmasq with a blocklist, like /etc/hosts except you can use wildcards on whole domains. Then you just make your router’s default dns to point to the computer running dnsmasq. https://landchad.net/dnsmasq/

Why do programming language developpers even feel the need to reinvent package management every time? Like, just use the system’s package manager?

Perhaps an addition to your guide: Although I have not tried it myself, I hear it is quite easy to run local open-source AI models. By instructing the AI to reformulate your texts whilst adopting a certain personality, one should be able to efficiently protect against stylometry. This can even work with realtime chat.

That’s why internet anonimity is so important for free speech.

I believe pdfs can load remote images, which pings a server. There are other reasons, I haven’t got sufficient knowledge. Some pdf readers will offer a sandboxed mode improving security. I think zathura has this for instance.

Tip: if you are going to store data on “the cloud” aka someone else’s computer, encrypt it locally before sending the data! There are existing solutions to do this in a cloud-optimized way (that is, not sending in an archive which has to be fully reuploaded for any tiny change) such as cryptomator. I think rclone also has an encryption feature but haven’t checked.

Goes to show how much of a joke copyright is. These laws are bought by and made to protect the interests of corporations. disgusting. rip aaron schwarz, your ideas live on.

“By using a VPN, aren’t you essentially transferring your accountability to the VPN provider?”. This is true if you aren’t paying for your VPN in an anonimous way, which is why 99% of the “VPN fOr PRiVacY” are scams.

Wants to run a ‘debloated OS’ and asking about Windows 11 installation advice. Wut?? Litteraly no reason to be running Windows nowadays. You can game on GNU/Linux just fine and if you really need something Windows specific you can always run it through Wine (with Bottles for instance) or in a Windows VM (if you have a gaming PC then you 100% have a powerfull enough computer for virtualisation).

tor is an onion proxy software, and tor-browser is a custom version of firefox which uses tor to connect to the web. Usually when people say tor they mean the tor browser but you can actually have any browser use tor (although it’s less safe). You should look into something that can control a headless browser like puppeteer and have the headless browser use the tor SOCKS interface. I don’t actually know if that’s possible, never tried that, but I think that’s where you should be looking.

what you are saying is plain wrong or not explained well. Using tor with javascript enabled you are getting the javascript anonymously, however in the process of running that javascript there is a risk of deanonymisation (for instance, that javascript code could be doing fingerprinting and other bad stuff).

ahahahhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

Every time a windows/mac user switches to libre software, Saint iGNUcius (aka GNU/god) smiles. Keep it up.

Glad I use arch btw, pacman manages my python packages so I don’t have to deal with all this mess.

Yet another python packager............... insane that such a popular language still doesn’t have this basic problem solved.

I don’t. No. This isn’t real. He’s lying, surely he’s lying. It’s just a person on the internet making a joke right?

If they were honest, they would call it Unfair Source. 'We get to put bully our users for two years, and then they can have their freedom" - what’s “”“fair”“” about that? Yes, I said bully, because they can put spyware, malware and bad features without anyone being able to redistribute a copy without the mal-features. So either you get bullied, or you wait two years before the software goes open source. But by the time it’s gone open source, the software will most likely be obsolete, because that’s the pace of modern software development. Completely stupid license. If you want to keep your freedom, stick to free software.

You would be surprised with how common it is for the lay person to have problems on their computer. I like to start from there, and suggest a free as in freedom software solution. Then, once their issue has been solved, I will talk about the free software movement, explaning that these are the reasons that have motivated the authors of the software solution I promoted. Hopefully this leads on to a discussion about freedom in the digital world.

That is definitely not a good starting point. WSL is much more complicated and prone to breakage than running a distro directly. It litteraly changes the whole system to make Windows run on top of a hypervisor. A better way to try out GNU/Linux is to boot up a live environment on a USB stick or use a VM. Plus, WSL is only command line, and I would think that showing a friendly desktop environment is the best way to blow the assumption of GNU/Linux being hard/only for nerds.

Github is one of many public software repositories like Gitlab, Codeberg, sourcehut… You could search there also.