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Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

No ads. Easy to buy. It you're really concerned about privacy, just flash KOReader on it which is an alternative backend. The easier alternative is to never connect to the WiFi and manually transfer ePubs to the device through Calibre.

Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Buy a Kobo, never connect it to WiFi. Or flash KOReader on it. Either way much better than the alternatives.

Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I ran Qwant by Alibaba locally, and these censorship constraints were still included there. Is it not the same with DeepSeek?

Wachon Island by Walking Jay Art in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I want to live there!

University pirated content? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I've never heard of someone sharing university course material on a tracker or similar for people to download. But have you checked whether there are any MOOCs from reputable universities that are similar to the one you linked? They are often free.

Peertube is now available on f-druid in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (15 children)

I wish PeerTube was a reasonable alternative to YouTube but I have a hard time imagining it will ever be.

Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I've found that there's a few common themes to the posts that pop up... not that many. I have like 10-15 at most.

Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Use an alternative front-end like Tesseract to filter out specific words on desktop. For mobile, you can use e.g. Voyager or Interstellar to filter out specific words. Unfollow news and politics communities.

Spanish PM calls to end social media anonymity, force digital ID in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If you offend the royal family you can get punished. There was a case some year back about a rapper that sought asylum in the Netherlands or Belgium I think, as he risked imprisonment in Spain due to his song lyrics criticizing the royal family. It's crazy to me that one could seek asylum fron an EU country in a different EU country

Cooler Master doesn't allow VPN users to use their RMA contact form in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I hate reCaptcha with a passion. I always get them and always fail 1-2 times before it allows me through. Just because of my VPN

TikTok users including myself moved to Xiaohongshu, they banned me for life for posting a comical video critical America through Mao. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Ironically enough it's actually super popular in China to "Rent-a-Mao" or Chiang Kai-Shek or whoever else from China's modern history. There are a lot of Mao impersonators, just like we have impersonators of Elvis.

Will generative AI images' popularity create a bigger demand for human-made art? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd say we've reached the point of AI art becoming mundane as of this moment. Most people don't really care anymore about AI art, and many actively avoid it. It doesn't have that same "Wow!"-factor it had the first couple of months when it was becoming "good".

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Best FOSS RSS reader for Linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I've tried Raven but it's archived and not maintained anymore, Fluent Reader and Feeds both of which doesn't feel smooth at all. Any recommendations? Preferably desktop and not a self-hosted service.

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Why do anarchists stay on reddit or other corporate-run platforms? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
64 comments fedilink
 

I know these federated communities exist as well as raddle, but it still seems like most people will stay on toxic and corporate-run platforms like reddit or Twitter. I'm far from perfect myself and I still use reddit sometimes, especially for more niche communities, but when it comes to ideologically strong communities like the anarchist ones, it just feels wrong that the majority still hang out on reddit. Or you know, moving to something like Bsky when Twitter became too toxic but which is still run by a large, for-profit corporation (if they moved in the first place). What are your thoughts? Is there any justification for this?

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What RSS feeds do you follow and why? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I've been trying to lean back into using RSS again after realizing I shouldn't let the algorithms decide what I see. What RSS feeds do you people follow and why? Any recommendations? Do you tend to follow the RSS feeds of Lemmy as well?

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How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
28 comments fedilink
 

So I'm just being introduced to the concept of using a VPN or something like Tailscale to access one's services, instead of opening the services directly to the web, but I'm thinking for streaming purposes or just accessing your services on the run, isn't it an annoyance having to connect to your home network all the time? Or do you keep the VPN running on your phone for example? What if you use a VPN provider for privacy purposes, wouldn't one need to then switch VPN connection?

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Out of Eden Walk with Paul Salopek - In 2013 a storyteller set out to retrace our ancestors’ global migration. On foot. (outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org)
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What's the best way to search the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I've had real issues trying to search the fediverse. I've had bad luck with the search function of both Lemmy and Mbin, and while https://fedi-search.com/ exists the Whoogle server is down and either way the search just seems to be a list of various fediverse instances and nothing fancier (which also means that it's not a complete search?). Other than that it's quite the hassle to list all the instances you'd like to search for every search. What's the best way to search the fediverse? What works for you? And is it somehow possible to add a shortcut to e.g., DDG that searches specific sites without having to type for example site:lemmy.dbzer0.com and all the other instances all the time?

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