When Hamachi became unusable I switched to Tailscale to connect my phone, my laptop, and all my local PCs together. It just works, flawlessly. There are more features they offer like Exit Nodes (proxy servers to force Internet traffic through another PC on your Tailscale Network) and sharing your tailnet nodes with another Tailscale user on a separate tailnet, but realistically I just use it like I used Hamachi - as a dead-easy VPN between all my personal devices.

I’m assuming 1172 is a count of donations to official mainstream servers. I have definitely contributed to my local server.

I use FireFox + uBlock Origin, and never see ads. I did have to disable my other adblock/privacy extensions (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, PrivacyBadger, and Ghostery) for YouTube before its anti-adblock stopped complaining, but FF+uBO seems to work just fine with default filters enabled.

I’m in favor of this, but how did it pass when “two out of four commissioners voted against the measure”?

I’m guessing that they’ll sell Reddit Gold for money (or give subscribers a monthly stipend), then share a (small) portion of the money they made to contributors when they receive and then sell back said gold.

DuckDuckGo uses Bing as well, so I’m not sure why it’s better for you than Yahoo or bing.com. I personally am fine using DDG, as it provides the results I’m looking for and doesn’t track me for asking.

https://feedly.com

In the fediverse it’s very hard, and impossible if the spammer owns the instance. If many more spam posts originate from the same instance and the owners of other instances notice, then they can defederate with that instance. Or if just one account is found to be unsavory (i.e. you can report them) then the mods of the communities they spam can ban them. Otherwise, there’s not much you or I can do…

Thank you for telling us all who we should DEFINITELY NOT use for carpet cleaning.

Sincerely,

Go Fuck Yourself