kate

I hope ublock origin can handle it and by handle I mean make sure my machine never connects to a google server

as it is already

Copies of copyrighted works cannot be regarded as "stolen property" for the purposes of a prosecution under the National Stolen Property Act of 1934.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v.United_States(1985)

so… not the British? Because they’re not EU

cheaper and easier than I expected, at least. wouldn't want to say anyone can do it, you'd need some familiarity with the command line and dns but I'm lucky enough to have some experience with them. either way, this is the guide I followed, and I just pointed it at a hetzner vps https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/blob/master/docs/quick-start.md

matrix isn’t meant to be a discord clone, the matrix project is actually older than discord. the chats in all major clients are end-to-end encrypted now, too. are you maybe thinking of revolt?

got an e-reader recently. thing fits like 10 whole books in jt! technology is crazy

http://photon.uhhoh.com/ :)

yeah I did the ansible. You just fill out a config file & point it at any Linux server with python installed and it’ll set things up for you

why does matrix require you self hosting? There’s a bunch of free open-signup servers available

Personally have been hosting my own server for me and friends. Cheaper and easier than I expected it to be 🤠

I think it’d help them a lot to disable new signups on the m.org home server for a while and direct people to some of the other popular options, they spend too much on their own example server imo