overview for hexagonwin

Donating a gaming PC, how can I let them try my games in a safe way? by hexagonwin in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 23 hours ago

tbh i would just pirate and block network

South Korean ISP is serving malware! by hexagonwin in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago

being korean this is pretty embarassing lol

I asked duckduckgo chat whether duckduckgo respects the privacy of their users... by hexagonwin in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 3 weeks ago

i just use my local searxng instance and get results from like 10 engines including ddg, then filter with ublacklist

If your life story was turned into a book,, what would the title be? by hexagonwin in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

"I Die at the End"

Youtube is now unusable without a frontend by hexagonwin in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago

also be sure to disable cookies on youtube, it gets rid of weird suggestions and usually only suggests videos related to the current one

XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? by hexagonwin in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

One of the members and I used to chat on Matrix some time ago. I didn't encounter much issues but he had an awful experience (android/Windows, encryption related things and minor glitches on the client such as when syncing) that he refuses to move to Matrix unfortunately...

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XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago by hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi. I have a group of 6 people using Discord to chat. Recently Discord changed a lot and we're looking for an alternative. We have a few requirements:

Good client on multiple platforms
Easy to use search
Self hosted
Permanently saved chat history & attachments on server (no expiration)
Easy image upload (Ctrl+V to post image from clipboard)

IRC isn't an option as chat history is saved on the client, and there's no good integrated way to share files and preview images. Matrix would be an overkill as we're a small group not interested in federation, and the available clients had a few bugs. Mattermost lacks a good mobile app (their current one had bunch of bugs). XMPP appears to be the best as it is extensible and has many clients available.

However, I tried configuring prosody on my FreeBSD server and it seems like it doesn't permanently save chat history or attachment files. Does anyone know if these can be solved? Or is there any better alternative than XMPP?

Thanks.

tricks to bypass soulseek "filtering/censorship" by hexagonwin in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago

afaik they blacklisted certain search terms after getting copyright strikes, not sure where i read that though.

https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/717

TIL about SearXNG -- search like the old days where you get relevant results instead of a page half full of weird nonsense by hexagonwin in c/til@lemmy.world

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 months ago

The only con is that its super slow with many engines enabled..

I had no idea that you could download movies from the 90ies from archive.org by hexagonwin in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 8 months ago

Damn its gone now.. I really think we need to backup IA. Contents frequently disappear because of copyrights..

What is the device you want, but that does not exist? by hexagonwin in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 8 months ago

A Nokia N900 with modern specs and capacitive touchscreen.

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[Question] Unbound and AdGuard Home with OpenWrt? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello. I just upgraded my ramips router (ipTIME A3004NS-dual, 256mb ram, 64GB USB) to OpenWrt 23.05, so far it's working well. I'd like some extra privacy (my country is known to do some internet censoring) and filter connections to sites I do not want (advertisements, telemetry) and AdGuard Home paired with Unbound seems perfect for this.

Before upgrading I used to run a DoH setup on OpenWrt with CloudFlare's DNS, but I now want to remove dependencies to these public 'private' DNS servers.

I did try searching a lot, but unfortunately as I'm pretty new to networking and hosting things I'm not quite able to understand what I read. Some guides mention using Unbound but still does setup Google/CloudFlare DNS, is that used as a fallback of some sort?

If someone has already done something similar I'd very much appreciate some guidance on how this should be done.. Thanks!

EDIT: I think I got it working.. but I'd be glad if someone can please tell me a way to test it. dnsleaktest.com shows "None" for hostname..

I followed [1] to install unbound, then changed unbound's port to 5353, set AdGuardHome's port to 53 and set AdGuardHome's DNS settings (Upstream, Bootstrap, Private reverse) to 127.0.0.1:5353. After a reboot it seems to work properly, except that I can no longer connect to other machines using their hostnames. (Previously I could just ssh the machine darkstar using ssh hexagonwin@darkstar, now I need to ssh hexagonwin@192.168.1.XXX) [1]: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/dhcp_configuration#replacing_dnsmasq_with_odhcpd_and_unbound

youtube on modern phones sucks by hexagonwin in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 8 months ago

Yeah, Newpipe is a lot better option.

Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find). by hexagonwin in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 9 months ago

Not really though, more like if you need open source drivers. Nvidia cards with the proprietary driver work great on OSes like Illumos (solaris) or FreeBSD, Linux on X11 where no other card works properly.