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Dude still claims X is his preferred social media platform. Talk about brainwashed....

for most, i would assume it's largely just that during the time of the naïve web, there was a period where google kind of was the company, so people started using it for everything…

in practice "security" only comes from Monero and buying it anonymously via cash

"eternal september" refers to when the internet became accessible to "normies," thus supplanting the old internet vibe (mainly hackers, engineers, etc) in favor of being useable by…

go to instances.social, pick a relatively small one and sign up for an account. now you're on mastodon and have a fediverse account. this account can interact with everything fediv…

HTML, CSS and at least the basics of JS can be learned for free from codeacademy. Once you have those, code a website for yourself so you get how they work. Shouldn't take more tha…

This article is absolutely pointless. It could be summed up in one sentence: "write stuff and post it online."

The author essentially states themselves that the feeling they have is nostalgia, and it should be noted that we as society should not let our longing for the past prevent our movi…

15,000 years of domestication Not really "evolution" for humans but we wouldn't have things like Chihuahuas or Pugs without humans breeding dogs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma…

this is totally paywalled, here's a mirror https://archive.vn/wTCM4

i use magic earth for maps, libre programs for word/excel etc (not cross-device though), searxng for searches (pick an instance and try it), tutanota for email (they focus on priva…

https://njal.la privacy-oriented domains for 15€ a year.

100%. Private, no tracking, can index all the major search engines. You can even host your own relatively easily. This is the way.

i believe everyone who has social media should instead primarily create and post on their own website. i kind of just add stuff to it whenever. my (somewhat small) website so far h…

use a searx instance. can aggregate search from almost any relatively known search engine and bypasses tracking.

I said something akin to this on a 4chan post a little while ago and people hated me for it, but I stand by it. People need to 1) get more in touch with the technology they're usin…