Ah, I always associate my .txts with notepad++ - notepad.exe is only started from Win+R as a temporary clipboard.

Have they removed the option to disable the alias and bring back the old notepad.exe?

Interesting, it seems that while IronFox has the protections activated by default (and with some changes) you can also activate most of them on Firefox.
https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/blob/dev/docs/Features.md#fingerprinting

Ironfox Devs themselves say that the only browser that can truly protect you against fingerprinting is the Tor Browser.
https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/blob/dev/docs/Limitations.md

Do you feel IronFox breaks many sites for you?

I definitely understand your view and personally don’t see a way to disrupt the market either. I just hope someone else finds a way.

Ah - there’s your problem. VC companies simply don’t do that.

They most certainly do and then either cash in by selling to the next more risk adverse VC or sells it at a loss if they believe the company failed to disrupt the market.

When is the next VC driven company that focuses more on growth than profit coming? I feel Netflix and all the other streaming services are ripe to be overtaken in the same way Netflix overtook tv channel packaging.

Yeah, my morning brain was trying to say that when it is used as a tool by someone that can validate the output and act upon it then it’s often good. When it is used by someone who can’t, or won’t, validate the output and simply uses it as the finished product then it usually isn’t any good.

Regarding your friend learning to use the terminal I’d still recommend validating the output before using it. If it’s asking genAI about flags for ls then sure no big deal, but if a genAI ends up switching around sda and sdb in your dd command resulting in a wiped drive you only got yourself to blame for not checking the manual.

I find that an extremely simplified way of finding out whether the use of an LLM is good or not is whether the output from it is used as a finished product or not. Here the human uses it to identify possible errors and then verify the LLM output before acting and the use of AI isn’t mentioned at all for the corrections.

The only danger I see is that errors the LLM didn’t find will continue to go undiscovered, but they probably would be undiscovered without the use of the LLM too.

Honestly I’d like to say that docker is pre-built legos. Instead of putting it all together yourself you get it all built and ready to go.

Yeah, email at home sucks. Even if you wanna selfhost you wanna do it with a static ip and an rdns pointer to the email server and good luck getting that at home.

If you go for openwrt instead of librecmc the amount of guides and docs will skyrocket.
Compatible hardware for openwrt is found here:
https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal
A tip is to sort on the 5.0GHz table so all the devices that support ac and ax (newer wifi standards) are shown first.
They have a lot of good guides here:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-quick-start/start

Regarding home server you would want to decide on the host operating system first. Examples are proxmox (hypervisor, controlled mainly through a web ui), a standard linux server with kvm/qemu and docker, openmediavault (NAS operating system) or Windows 11 with HyperV (please don’t).

First thing after that is to figure out of to make and restore backups of the system. Knowing that you can restore everything to how it was last night makes tinkering a lot less frustrating. Proxmox has builtin backup systems, with linux I like BORG Backup.

Regarding services you will want to read up on dockers and find a docker management system you like. I run portainer, others swear by dockge and yet some prefer the command line.

Regarding video streaming; If you don’t a lifetime license for Plex I would go for Jellyfin. Plex free is continuing to lose, not gain, functions as of now.

Immich is popular for photo storage.

Regarding game servers I think https://pterodactyl.io/ is popular to make it simpler but you can probably find a plain docker image to host minecraft. If you wanna mod mc I know Pterodactyl makes it simpler to add mods on the server.

For wifi what you can do to break free from the proprietary black box “mesh” networks is to build it youself using openwrt. I’d only recommend it if you find learning networking fun, not a chore, as it takes some fiddling.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/roaming

Having a pfsense between your LAN and the ISP means the ISP won’t know as much about your LAN devices, they are usually the true admin of the ISP router and can see what it sees.

I imagine you’ve run factory reset on the switches you bought second hand, should be enough.

Bonus: If you want to break ip cameras free check out https://thingino.com/ and https://frigate.video/

I played around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and realized that I’m quite unique whether I allow js or not. Many trackers get blocked by the absence of js though so that would hamper them somewhat.
My Sony phone with 21:9 screen ensures I’m uncommon compared to most.

My goal isn’t to be untrackable but to block the ads they try to shove in your face as step 2.

Particularly owners of custom domains, do you find your custom domain is allowed more often than not or do you run into the same problem?

I’ve never had my own custom domain be blocked for signing up at a service personally.

First thing I did when I tried GNOME was replace nautilus with nemo. Then I started adding extensions as time passed to finally realize that I spent too much time recreating KDE with extensions that broke all the time.

For Firefox you find the proxy settings within about:preferences
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-settings-firefox

in GNOME you can use the GUI by going to Settings -> Network -> Network Proxy and similarly in KDE you can go to System Settings -> Network -> Settings -> Proxy

You still need to have a proxy server somewhere to connect through though so I would probably just setup a VPS with Wireguard or OpenVPN and do a full tunnel forcing all traffic through the VPS for your download.

libro.fm has a nice drm free audio bookshop if you change your mind and do want to keep the audio files afterwards

It wouldn’t be such a bad idea if they were able to remain mindful of the fact that there is no way to tell how old somebody is over the Internet.

yet.

I imagine they will force the large social media sites to require “MitID” (Danish eID) if the visitor IP resolves to Denmark. Meaning only kids who learn how to use a VPN gets to use social media.

edit: Seems they mention the eID in the article:

Officials in Denmark didn’t say how such a ban would be enforced in a world where millions of children have easy access to screens. But Stage noted that Denmark has a national electronic ID system — nearly all Danish citizens over age 13 have such an ID — and plans to set up an age-verification app. Several other EU countries are testing such apps.
“We cannot force the tech giants to use our app, but what we can do is force the tech giants to make proper age verification, and if they don’t, we will be able to enforce through the EU commission and make sure that they will be fined up to 6% of their global income.”