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Honestly I don’t mind additional standards.

But I’m weary of: “does it really matter?”. As I’m sure just about everyone would prefer their data isn’t used, and it’s not the question that people care about.

Instead: How would anything like this be enforced, and by who?

Hmm, how would that work?

I assume if an ad is just trying to track what websites you visit often, this would not work 100% of the time, as they would still get your IP if a request went towards the advertiser, or am I misunderstanding how it works.

This is a stunning experience, and teaches you something at the same time.

Works perfectly fine on mobile, too!

Ever since advertising became extremely intrusive, it’s been game over for them. I’d rather put effort into hiding the ads (Adblocker), switching browser if necessary (Chrome v3 bs) and switching platforms (Lemmy) then seeing them again.

Didn’t we go through this already, and it just started telling fiction constantly?

Fixed! Now I noticed that the phone app doesn’t properly show the red squiggly lines 😅

It is awesome to see how the environment affects electronics, and this is a prime example of such.

It’s also funny that this is impacting speed runners lol, imagine having an advantage/disadvantage based on the age of your console.

Their products require their app, would this effectively turn their devices useless when the servers die?

I know it supports a single button to start cleaning, but I wonder if that will work properly without being able to call home.

Might be time for people to look for alternatives.

Hopefully our AI overlord will be benevolent

I stayed away from Chrome alternatives, as it had the best Canvas/HTML5 performance (Which oddly enough, was quite important for most of my browsing needs). However, this news means I will have to switch. Installed Firefox for my primary browsing needs, and a few Chromium-based ones to try out for specifically the aforementioned use case.

“Save 100% with this simple trick!”

I do not entirely agree.

While what you said might be true for content that we post, things like view history and tracking in itself is much more difficult. That meta data does help with tagging content.

Something like DigitalOcean or Hetzner will set you back a max of 10 euros a month. But that does require some technical know how with a terminal.

Would that suffice, or are you looking for something more ‘UI Based’ that will manage it for you?

Don’t really have a recommendation about which, but I do about how.

For repositories that I deem important, either for practical or nostalgia reasons, I use Gitea to keep an up to date clone. I believe most self hosted Git solutions offer a similar functionality, like Gitlab has one too that I’m aware of.

That’s a very good shout, I wasn’t aware there are pre existing lists. That’s a great step, and definitely one I will look to add to my own instance.

My worry is that these social media alternatives might get scraped by these AI companies as well.

Sure, a company handing it over is much easier (i.e. Reddit). But with the decentralized nature, everyone needs to protect their instances themselves, which I’m not sure how well everyone will be capable of doing that.

Definitely much more difficult, so it’s a step in the right direction.

This is the primary reason I’ve not given agents more power than something extremely controlled (I.e. only a function to turn on/off the lights). As I was always concerned that these generational models might accidentally do something dumb or annoying, let alone something that might be illegal or harmful.

I don’t really see how anyone would ask AI to complete something completely autonomously at this stage, without oversight.

First of all: take a breath!

Pihole is a great start, and an awesome piece of software. As self-hosting is quite broad, there are quite a few options, so I have two suggestions that should still be relatively simple to continue with, and that I thoroughly enjoyed when getting started.

1. Webservers: Something like Caddy, NGINX or Apache (Caddy being likely the simplest choice here), will allow you host your own website! If you open a port on your router, this website can also be accessed remotely (be careful! Without SSL, you should not expose any forms, to avoid those being leaked). A bit outside the realm of “self-hosting” — but Cloudflare allows you to setup SSL with relative ease and also allows you to link a domain your website.
2. Game Servers: Many options in this space, so take a pick for a game you like! I am an avid minecraft enjoyer, and regularly setup modded servers to play with my friends. You can find some more info here on how to get started with a Minecraft server implementation called “Fabric”

Have fun! And if there is something more specific you’re curious about, feel free to ask 😀