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And people complain about cloudflare/anubis/etc. Unfortunately, it's looking like this is the alternative.

They wrote about it here: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependenc...

Rate limiting is ineffective against rotating residential proxies, though

Why would you buy a phone to run as a server anyway? If you really want linux you can root the phone and chroot.

I'm aware. But I've never found it difficult to get a phone with an unlocked bootloader. Also, to my knowledge, bootloader locking is more common in the US.

Well, there's various linux options like postmarketOS. So long as you have the fundamental freedom, that is, an unlocked bootloader, everything else follows. If you decide to write…

I would be impressed if you could link to some human generated music that everyone will agree is good.

https://xkcd.com/1162/

https://xkcd.com/331/

> you can't just buy a smartphone and install any operating system like you can with an actual computer, despite technically being one. What's stopping you from buying a phone, unl…

You might find this guide helpful: https://guides.viren070.me/selfhosting/oracle

You could have a look at https://freehosts.eu/ ; but I haven't tried myself, so I couldn't tell whether it's legitimate or not.

You can't use them on the Always Free tier, but if you have a PAYG account you can spin up free instances (free so long as you stay within the limits).

But lineageos, grapheneos etc. are based on AOSP and do run on actual phones.

You can root it if you really want (and if the bootloader is unlocked)

On the latter point, the GP is not entirely accurate. Any citizen could be expelled, so long as they had the greatest number of people vote to expel them. The practice was known as…

> everyone has the same 24 hours of attention to sell In general, I agree with what you wrote, but I think advertisers will value "attention" differently based on your purchasing p…

Horses and carts didn't need to be banned to become obsolete.

> We could really use some fresh air in our political system with more participation by the actual society Sentiments like this always make me think of https://xkcd.com/977/ (under…

It wasn't an option because people weren't willing to pay. A bit tautological, I know, but it simply wasn't a viable way to fund content. Think how many people use google versus pa…

If you're privacy-minded, I suggest Librewolf.

Probably because most people don't care.

Hosting isn't the expensive part, maintaining mediawiki is. For example, unifying the parser for the markup language: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/en

Well, I didn't know the term until I looked it up just now (though the meaning was obvious enough). It appears to be a US term.