sloppy_diffuser

joined 1 year ago

The DNS is cheap. Something like a penny a day for privacy. I typically paid like $50 every 2-3 years for both renewal and DNS on a couple domains.

Was kind of a PITA to be honest as I remember their login process was a little weird. I eventually moved on when they were slow to adopt some of the newer TLDs.

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The registrar owns the domain then, not you. I made a root comment about Njalla which offers this service.

edit: Well you could use fake data. Still risk losing claim to it. I tried doing this with name cheap and they figured it out somehow that the info I gave wasn't real. Was years ago so I don't remember what I put in. My guess is it was one of those soft credit lookups (where did you live between X and Y?). Could also be misremembering.

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

One of the pirate bay founders created https://njal.la/#home but with the caveat:

For instance, when you register a domain name in our system, we can register with our own data. We will be the actual registrant of the domain -- it's not an ownership by proxy as found with all other providers. However, you will still have the full control over the domain name. You can either use our information (and our nameservers) or you can go with your custom data. And you can move at any time. Simple, flexible.

I believe it is required (ICANN?) to have a real entity attached to every domain, even with a proxy for the public whois. They simply offer to be that identity to avoid giving any identifying information, but they will have all claim on it if it came to a legal dispute.

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've been getting weird walking instructions. Like 6 min walk is +30 to avoid some invisible barrier.

I have a few of those. During the reddit exodus when the API changes went live, I had to register on a few servers to finally get a working and stable account. Issues with email or setting up captchas to prevent bots resulted in a few of my accounts not going live until a week+ later on some instances.

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

https://feddit.org/post/3143093

  1. Multi-community simulator
  2. Defederation avoidance, usually paired with accounts on special interest servers you don't want to risk losing access to.
  3. Porn and non-porn.
  4. Privacy by dividing online activities between multiple accounts to make it difficult to profile you and to maintain some pseudonymity.
[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Download 5 seasons of some show from multiple sources or some artist's entire discography, and want to normalize all the file names? It is way easier in the terminal.

I'll check this out, but I use https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim for such tasks as I have nvim's full suite of editor commands to rename all the files way faster than I could in a GUI. I'm sure there are GUI apps to perform a similar task, but I already know how to use nvim.

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Something like vim-table-mode work as an improvement? You got me there though, tables can be a real pain in a terminal.

For the second, I setup an on save hook or watch script to build a PDF and open it. Its been a minute, but I think I had to find a PDF viewer that would refresh if already open and keep the current position on subsequent opens.

Best of luck finding something that works for you!

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Need more info.

The answer will still and always be, just use nvim.

What features do these dedicated tools have that make you want to use something other than nvim?

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My work laptop is a Dell Precision. It was a "data science" model that came with Ubuntu. Wiped Dell's modified Ubuntu and put vanilla Ubuntu on it and now running Nixos. Works great. There was a weird period when using triple monitors with their dock had an intermittent issue on boot where resolutions and monitors were not being detected. Cause was Nvidia drivers. It eventually got resolved and it was easy enough to rollback the drivers to one that worked.

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