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New community: Landback - Reclamation of everything stolen from the original Peoples

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The movement isn’t saying that every precolonial society was better than ours in every metric, or that we should roll back the clock a thousand years, all it’s saying is that we should work towards giving back what was lost through the countless genocidal policies and violent colonialism that indigenous people across the world have faced.

Also I will say, at least in North America, which I’m most knowledgeable of, many indigenous societies were absolutely far more egalitarian and democratic than most western democracies, but are painted in a far different light when reading of them from the colonial perspective.

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Petition to Defederate Monero.Town

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I’d argue that like most leftist ideologies it’s about both the ends and the means to get there, so we shouldn’t ignore the utility of privacy in transactions as we work towards that future, but I do agree with what you said. We should try to use currency only as necessary. It’s unproductive to hold one currency on a pedestal for its qualities, it should only be seen for its immediate practical utility while also weighing negative environmental and political impact

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Tried a corset and it feels so good!

I really like voyager, it’s stable and its got pretty much every feature you’d need, development is very active. if you’re on ios you might have to use the pwa because i think the testflight is full but on android you should be able to run it fully native, check the github if ur curious

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Wike: Wikipedia Reader for the GNOME Desktop

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The first use-case that came to mind for me is research. A distraction-free dedicated application for wikipedia could be a great way to keep organized, especially if new features are added and expanded upon over time that go beyond the typical browser experience.

It’s not a workflow for everyone and if wikipedia is something that’s usually just accessed through other search engines then this probably won’t be all that useful to you.

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Sun protective clothing

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Literally nothing beats a white linen button-up! Only downside is they can be a bit see thru, but pairing with a lightweight undershirt (cotton tank/crop tops are my favs), you'll still get 90% of the cooling effect

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How did you guys use reddit and discord?

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lol the absolutism of people in privacy communities can be really be so unhelpful and tonedeaf at times

For discord there’s a couple things that can increase privacy to some degree, OpenAsar has some options related to privacy and tracking and will speed up load times, no clue how effective the anti-tracking feature is though. You could also use modded or 3rd party clients, I remember hearing about Powercord back when I used discord more and Replugged seems to be the continuation of that project. I also remember hearing of clients that basically simplifies the app to an IRC client with a super basic gui, I’ll edit if I remember the name

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Search engines compared

anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column

absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than some others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes