Your story doesn't drive clicks though...

I was really on-board of the idea of Lemmy in the beginning. It all made a lot of sense, and I felt like a part of the community.

But now it feels like its just an echo chamber of people, who seems to have very extreme beliefs.

It's starting to be clear that the whole "ML - Leninism Marxism" was actually a big part of Lemmy.

I'm a centrist, slightly leaning towards the left, but I don't feel like I truly belong in the demographic of Lemmy any longer. Reddit is starting to pull me back, and Boost still works, which only makes it harder to resist...

I'm only here because of you. This goes both ways.

Old price: $20 - 136 kr.

New price: 175 kr. - $25.77

Yes, it's very useful.

I have my own domain, which I use with a service called AnonAddy. It allows me to generate unlimited unique emails on-the-go, which I can then toggle off if spam starts coming in.

I use a unique email for every single service I sign up to.

Now, you are able to do this without a custom domain, but then you are putting all your eggs in one basket, and if the domain(s) you used for signing up, suddenly aren't being renewed, you will lose access.

Thats why I have my own domain for this. If AnonAddy goes out of business, I can just take my domain, and all my aliases, to another service, such as SimpleLogin for example.

I'm sorry but what? You actually raised the price for us in Denmark?

Old cost was 20 USD, and now you're marking it at 25 USD.

People like this are actually the best ones to have running such a project. For them it's not just a pet-project to pass time, or a small way to show their skills. It's a necessary step for them, to be able to keep their online presence.

You'd be surprised at how effective people can be, when they're doing something out of spite.

Even "user-provided awards" should be kept out. It provides nothing substantial to the conversation.

It's like saying "This 👆", "I agree", or "Take my upvote!", all of which can be expressed by simply voting on the comment, which actually has an impact.

I've been using Jerboa for quite a while now. Everything has worked alright, with no big complaints.

After the 0.18 update, I have had issues with using lemmy.world, so I decided to give yourbsuggestion a try instead.

Turns out I had already installed Liftoff, and was quite surprised now that I gave it a second try.

It's clearly still in development, and there are some things from Jerboa that I will miss, but I'm set on giving it a sincere try this time around.

If anyone is interested, its available in the Play Store:

Play Store

There can be other reasons, and while it saddens me to say, we were forced to keep IE for specific web-panels, which hadn't been updated since the 90s.

Edge does, after all, allow for compability with such sites, which is a good thing.

Please note that this is work work-related machines only. I dont see how it's an issue when it has to do with your work account. You shouldn't be using this for other things than work.

Personally I'm more for using a custom DNS server to block ads.

I was using Blokada 5, but found that it used a bit too much of my battery.

Now I just set my DNS to dns.adblock.com, and it gives me the same result.

Yep, yep, yep - Cheers!

Seems like I was looking for "Call Barring", whatever that means. I'm stuck at the part where I have to enter a password (tried 0000), but I will get in touch with my phone company.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yes, you are correct.

If you're using your aliasing-service to "blend in the crowd", just like how TOR works, you may not want to use a custom domain.

For me, the purpose of AnonAddy is first, and foremost, to help me combat spam. Any privacy improving aspects I see as purely bonuses.

I will use the shared domains from time to time though, if I consider the risks to be too high. This goes from posting an email in a public forum, to signing up for a particularly suspicious newsletter for one-time benefits.

As always, you should take your own threat model in mind.

You can put a piece of baking paper in between

Look, I'm all for reminiscing about "the good ole days" of YouTube, but let's be honest - the 5-star-system was pretty useless, and was used in the same was as up/down thumbs.

You would either rate the video 5 stars or 1 star. Always.

The switch to thumbs up/down made it much more easy to judge a video. And with the green/red bar beneath, you badicslly had a more condensed star-rating.

YouTube (or rather Google) have made a lot of bad decisions regarding the platform over the years, but I sincerely think that switching to thumbs was a good change.

LastPass is mpre known for being breached than being a password manager these days.

The last breach was brutal. Turns out notes weren't encrypted either.

Please look up the breaches of LastPass. Such things are simply unacceptable for a password manager.

Yes, that is a core aspect of how these "aliasing services" work.

You are able to simply hit the "reply" button, in which ever email provider the emails are routed to, and whatever you write will be delivered exactly like that to the person who sent you an email. From their perspective everything will look exactly as if they were talking to a regular email address.

This is a feature of both AnonAddy and SimpleLogin.

Regarding catch-all, that is basically also how I configured my usage of AnonAddy. Usually you would go and create a new alias, before you want to receive incoming mails on that address. All emails to aliases that are not already created will be dropped. But they also offer a, to me at least, superior version, where aliases are automatically created once the first email arrives on it.

This way you basically have a catch-all address, but with the benefits of being able to respond as all "identities", as well as toggle off individual ones if you start receiving spam. If you read below, avoiding spam is my ultimate goal with all of this. Your use-case may be different.

I have written a small add-on for Firefox, which will automatically generate a random [email protected] for me, and create that alias in AnonAddy with the current URL as a note. But yesterday I was checking in to a hotel, and the reception asked for an email, so I just typed [email protected], which will clearly indicate to me that it was created for that hotel only. The downside to this is that it's easier to spot that it is indeed an alias address, but I'm also well aware of how spammers just buy active email-addresses in bulk, without caring about where the leaks come from, so I'm not too scared that it will stick out too much. You shouldn't do stuff like [email protected] or [email protected] though. That's gonna stick out like a sore thumb.

I've spend many holidays alone at this point. Even last Christmas.

For New Years I usually try to get to the city, and walk around for a couple of hours enjoying the chaos around. You might bump into some random people, which could lead to who knows what?

I have had the same number for close to 10 years now. Been using it for everything. All sorts of crap. After the big Facebook leak in 2021, I've started getting flooded with robo-calls, which is something I've never had to deal with before, since it's not a US number, but a small European one. I also signed up for some Crypto site, long ago, and my number has seemingly been sold over a couple of times, since I'm also getting those "You have an account with us with 9000 dollars worth of Bitcoin" scam calls.

I've been meaning to get myself an actual good number for a while, so I purchased one with a lot of repeating digits, which I've slowly been transitioning to for family and friends. I keep both numbers though, as I have so many accounts tied to the old one, that it's very hard to keep track of. Sometimes I still encounter a site, which I used years ago, that asks me to verify the login via my phone.

And that's why I still have it. Whenever a site asks to verify via phone, I will give the old number, which I already know has been breached multiple times. By doing this, I will keep my new number clean, and never give it out to an online service.

I'm just tired of the endless robo-calls, and as I'll only need to be able to receive texts, I figured I might as well completely disable inbound calls.

הסכסוך הזה הוא הסיבה שבגללה עזבתי את למי. זה ממש מבאס, כי התחלתי ליהנות מהמקום, ואני מעריץ גדול של "קוד פתוח". אבל אני לא יכול להסכים עם האנשים כאן.

חשוב לזכור ש"למי" נבנה על ידי קומוניסטים קיצוניים. לכן התחום בשלב הראשון הוא ".ML" - מרקסיזם-לניניזם. המקום הזה היה מאז תחילת הדרך כר גידול לקיצונים, ועם הסכסוך החדש הוא רק הלך והחמיר.

כשה-7 באוקטובר קרה, הלב שלי דמם לכם, המסכנים בישראל. איך יכולים להיות 2 צדדים לסיפור זה מטורף בעיני. אבל תראה את המצב עכשיו. יש לנו אנשים חסרי שכל מתרוצצים ברחובות וצועקים "מהנהר לים". אפילו מרחיק לכת עד לשבח את חמאס, ועכשיו את החות'ים. זה קורה במערב. במדינות מתורבתות. הכל בגלל שהיינו שורצים באנשים רדיקליים ופרימיטיביים.

ישראל היא הדמוקרטיה היציבה והמתפקדת היחידה במזרח התיכון. כל אדם במדינה מערבית צריך לתמוך בכם. אני יודע שאני.