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My list of Canadian alternatives to various big tech Internet services. Tired of having your data (and money) flow to a rogue state? Maybe these can help.
Updates/suggestions welcome!
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I used to support Glenn greenwald.
I always knew he was gay. But then, recently I learned that he once had gay sex.
Now I am 100% against Glenn greenwald. He will never recover from this scandal
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According to The Times of London, British Defense Secretary John Healey has said London will increase hacking operations as part of a new military command, including, especially, against Russia and China.Michael O. Billington (EIR News)
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I’m kinda done with Mastodon. It’s been my main spot, but it’s missing quote posting, which drives me nuts—I just wanna comment on posts without resharing everything! Also, it’s eating up my server’s resources, and I’m running a bunch of stuff on one machine, so I need something that doesn’t hog CPU or disk space.
I used Akkoma with Mangane frontend before and really liked how light and customizable it was. Problem? The database got huge, and I couldn’t find simple tools to clean out old stuff. It was like digging through a messy closet. I’m thinking of trying Akkoma again, but is there a way to keep the database under control?
I’m also looking at Misskey—it seems fun with quote posting and a cool community. But does it use a lot of server resources? How hard is it to back up or move to another server? I’d love Mastodon API support since my clients need it.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediPoll #Poll #Akkoma #Pleroma #Misskey
Sharkey. Hands down. There simply is no comparison. The two are in vastly different leagues. Install takes 5 minutes and it uses MUCH less system resources than Mastodon. It also doesn't copy and cache all the remote media your instance sees (by default can be changed) saving you a TON on cloud storage costs.
Sharkey now supports Passkeys too.
Can someone explain to me why any of you give a shit about dead muslims
Seriously.
All statistics show they are lazy, unskilled, violent criminal welfare folks in every country they show up in and you people pretend to care that they are getting blown up.
And their religion maintains the whole subversion attitude of dajoos.
Why do youse care so much for such losers?
I just dont understand
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As was reported earlier, Belarus' gold and forex reserves went up by $872.7 million in April 2025 to reach a record high of $10.942 billion on 1 May 2025.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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Russia’s Permanent Representative to UN: Russia is ready to continue special military operation as long as necessary Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
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I was able to literally 1 hour ago.I changed my DNS from Next DNS to CIRA Canadian Shield (Protected) to test it out.
Then I was only able to connect to the internet through Mulvad VPN.
Then I changed back to Next DNS and I observe the same behaviour.
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How do I solve it?
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Das Problem ist dabei nicht nur, dass die Menge der Lieferungen unzureichend ist. Weitaus problematischer ist, dass Israel mit der Einrichtung der Verteilzentren die Internierung von zwei Millionen Menschen durchsetzen will. Durch Hunger sollen die Zivilisten in abgeriegelte Zonen gezwungen werden.
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Kommentar zu Israel: Die Bundesregierung muss umdenken
Israels Regierung will weitere jüdische Siedlungen im besetzten Westjordanland bauen. Im Gazastreifen setzt die Netanjahu-Regierung Hunger als Kriegswaffe ein, meint Jan-Christoph Kitzler. Es sei Zeit, das Bild von Israel zu überdenken.
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Israels Regierung will weitere jüdische Siedlungen im besetzten Westjordanland bauen. Im Gazastreifen setzt die Netanjahu-Regierung Hunger als Kriegswaffe ein. Es sei Zeit, das Bild von Israel zu überdenken.Jan-Christoph Kitzler (tagesschau.de)
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As I keep exploring alternatives to Google services, I'm now looking into which email services can replace the almighty Gmail. I won't be looking at other big companies services, such as Outlook.com, since they have the same weird practices as Google. Let's look at our options !
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Why quitting gmail
Gmail is a great service. It's free, it has plenty of storage, uses labels, allows to archive messages, and generally looks pretty good. It's also using all your data and reading all your emails. That's the main problem, for me.
Proton Mail
It's a solution designed to be as private as possible, where everything is encrypted, and no information is shared.
Your email account can be created without giving any personal info, and it is of course open source as well.
Proton Mail has a free tier, limited to 500Mb of storage and 150 emails per day, which is more than enough for my needs. More demanding users can part with about 4 euros a month, upping the storage to 5gb and 1000 emails per day. This tier also allows you to use your own email domain, and create up to 5 email addresses.
Interface-wise, Proton Mail looks alright. It doesn't have the clean, nice look of Gmail or Outlook.com, and the colors are not really to my tastes, but if you feel like it, you can use custom CSS to style it the way you like.
Proton mail can import your contacts, but unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any sync options with third party clients. The whole thing being encrypted makes regular email clients unable to read or access anything. There is an application, called Proton Bridge, that allows you to sync your email on a client, but it only works on Thunderbird, and is still in beta.
Net - Courier
Net C, or Net courrier, is a european mail provider. They not only provide an email service, but also some storage space (500Mo by default), an adress book, calendar, and photo storage service.
Creating an account is free, and lets you pick the domain name between a bunch of different propositions.
The TLDR is that free accounts are subjected to ads through third party cookies, including targeted ads, and premium accounts are not. Net-C won't read your emails, though, to offer ads specifically taileord to what you wrote or received.
Looks-wise, Net-C isn't that great, with a huge header, and boxy design, but it's clear enough, and can be customized, with different colors and sizes.
If you don't like the webmail, though, you can sync email with any IMAP capable client, as well as the calendar with caldav and ICS, and the address book with carddav. Net-C also supports Exchange Active Sync if you're into that sort of thing.
Even the storage space can be accessed remotely through FTP or WebDav ! This is great, since it means that your Net-C email, contacts, and calendar can be synced with any client you'd like to use, thus escaping the ads present in the webmail.
Net-C offers a Premium package, for 12 euros a year. This includes 20 Go of email storage, 5 Go of cloud storage, the removal of ads, as well as the access to the POP3 protocol for mail syncing.
If you want more cloud storage, you can buy a "cloud pack", but prices are pretty high, with 500Go costing 40€ per month, so I'd recommend finding another solution.
Zoho Mail
Zoho is a big company, providing services ranging from email, to a full blown CRM, to online document editing, project management, and many, many more. Zoho Mail is a full featured solution, integrating a mailbox, contacts, a calendar, tasks, and notes. Zoho guarantees privacy, and does not use or collect your data outside of what it needs to actually provide you the email account.
Interface-wise, Zoho looks more modern than the other services I tried before.
The free personal account includes your "@zoho.com" email adress, as well as no ads, two factor authentication, imap and Pop sync for email, and caldav sync for calendar. Zoho is a highly configurable service, with a ton of preferences.
Free tier users get 5GB of mail storage, but you can upgrade, with prices ranging from 3$ a month for 30gb, to 6$ a month for 100Gb. Both these tiers include access to a ton more Zoho services, and the prices are pretty reasonable even for an individual user
Conclusion
There are other email providers out there, but these are the ones that stuck with me. For more privacy-focused users, Proton Mail seems like the obvious choice. It has its limits, such a syncing with other clients, but this is the price to pay for full email encryption.
I now hesitate between Zoho and Net-C. On the one hand, Zoho seems like a full featured replacement for a lot of other google services, such as Drive, Docs, Keep, and many more. On the other hand, Net-C seems like a great independant solution, and is more in keeping with the "one provider per service" approach I'm looking for.
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Online guides, tutorials and educational platforms now allow anyone, even without technical expertise, to understand the basics of this technology.Réseau International
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Oriol Arumí (Vic, 31 October 1972) is a Catalan painter and muralist living in the city of Lleida. His work is technically straddling between figurative and abstract art, and thematically between reality and fantasy. This gives him a wide range of possibilities that allows him to do completely what he likes at any given time: “I always have in mind painters as varied as Johannes Vermeer, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt and Joan Miró, not to mention of sketchers like Hergé or Moebius ”.
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TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA) – Medical sources in Gaza report that Dr. Aya Al-Madhoon, a pregnant Palestinian doctor and recent medical school graduate, was killed alongside her husband and their nine-month-old unborn child on Friday.Mehr News Agency
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The oligarchy becoming "Hayek's bastards"
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Üç genç devrimci, Sinan Cemgil, Alpaslan Özdoğan ve Kadir Manga, 31 Mayıs 1971 günü Nurhak’ta katledilmişlerdi.
İnekli köyü yakınlarında, Kürecik Amerikan radar üssünü basmak için yola çıkan üç devrimci bir muhtar tarafından ihbar edilmeleri sonucu jandarma tarafından kuşatılmış ve girdikleri çatışmada hayatlarını kaybetmişlerdi.
Gruptaki diğer devrimcilerden Mustafa Yalçıner ağır yaralanmış, Hacı Tonak yakalanmış, Metin Güngörmüş ve Ahmet Erdoğan ise kuşatmadan kurtulabilmişlerdi.
Daha sonra 6 Haziran da yakalanan Güngörmüş ve Erdoğan, Yalçıner ve Tonak la birlikte THKO davasından yargılanmışlar ve idama mahkum edilmişlerdi.
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Given the renewed interest that major stakeholders – India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, China, and the US – have in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s return to the international spotlight might portend a new era of cooperation and competition between them.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
C++ to Rust Phrasebook
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A book to help translate C++ idioms into Rust.cel.cs.brown.edu
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Trump personally informed Secretary General Mark Rutte about the decision to appoint an American general as NATO commander in Europe. An official announcement is expected in the coming days.
The next U.S. candidate for the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe (EUCOM) is U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkevich.
Trump made it clear Washington does not intend to abandon participation in European security issues
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) separatist group has reportedly claimed control of Surab city in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province after intense clashes with security forces, according to multiple media outlets.Tasnim News Agency
"Britain will 'without a doubt' spend £10 billion extra on defence, says Labour."
"The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has estimated that reaching 3% of GDP by the next parliament would cost the UK an additional £17.3bn in 2029-30."
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#JonathanCook | Starmer understands: Shed a few tears and we'll forgive him arming a genocide
"Starmer understands that if he sounds upset, even as he actively helps Israel murder Palestinian children, the media will be able to write him out of these crimes against humanity and wash his hands of the blood of tens – probably hundreds – of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.
And worst of all, too many of us will go right along with this grand deception."
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All cabinet minister Heidi Alexander needed to do was sound upset at the "harrowing and sickening images" out of Gaza, and she won a round of applause from the audienceJonathan Cook
After we reviewed a few services that allow you to switch from Google's, it's time to move on to something a bit more complex, but more secure as well: hosting your own services ! To do so, there is something fantastic, that can replicate most of what Google offers: NextCloud. It's not only a file storage solution, but it can also handle email, photos, music, calendar, an online office suite, and a lot more, since it has a giant gallery of apps that you can add to your own instance !
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Commands:
Create a user:
adduser "YOUR USERNAME"
Give it the sudo permissions:
usermod -aG sudo "YOUR USERNAME"
Log out of the root user:
logout
Install Nextcloud:
sudo snap install nextcloud
Setting up the server
There are plenty of ways you can go about doing that. You could use an older computer, a rasperry Pie, or any machine at your house, and turn it into a server by installing the server version of your distro of choice. If you don't want to mess with that or you don't want to configure too many things, you can also turn yourself to cloud-hosted server providers, which is exactly what I'll do. There are plenty around, some geared towards having more storage space, some providing powerful GPUs for distributed calculations, and some oriented towards CPU power. Here, I'll be createing an entry-level server with Linode. I bet you didn't see that one coming !
Most providers will allow you to pick between pre-selected distro to install, or will let you choose a custom one to put on the server. For servers, debian-based distros are often the most robust, as are everything based on Red Hat. But here, Ubuntu has a distinct advantage over most other available options: you can install nextcloud with just one command line, thanks to snap. I know some of you aren't fans of this technology, but it's honestly the easiest option here. I'll be going with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which should be stable and perform perfectly well.
Here, I'll pick a small Linode, called a Nanode, since I don't plan on using my server for file storage, but if you're planning on replacing Google Photos or Google Drive with Nextcloud, you should get something with a bigger hard drive. Most providers also allow you to add storage to your existing server afterwards, so no worries.
Creating a user
Once your server is created, and your distro has booted, you can access its console to install whatever you need. That's where we'll be installing Nextcloud through snap. To begin, we'll need to create a user that is not the superuser, called Root, so we'll login as root to do that. Enter "root" as the login, and the root password you selected when you created your server.
If you installed Ubuntu on your own server, you probably already created a user during the distro's installation, so skip that step !
We'll just type "adduser", followed by a space, and the name of the user we want to create. We'll have to answer a few questions such as the user's full name and its password. The rest is not important here.
Our user does not have the rights to run super user commands, which we'll need to install anything, so we'll start by adding our new user to the sudoers group.
Let's type usermod -aG sudo. followed by a space then the name of the user.
And we're done ! Now, we just type logout, to quit being root, and login as our new user, just by typing its username and password.
Installing Nextcloud and logging in
Using SNAP, it's only one command line:
sudo snap install nextcloud
Once the command has completed its task, we'll need to access our nextcloud instance. Simply get the IP address of your server. To do so, either look in your server manager, if you're using a cloud provider, or type:
ifconfig
Your server's IP address is the first series of numbers in the first line.
Copy and paste that in a browser's window to access your nextcloud instance. You'll be asked to create an admin account, so just the username and password you'll want to use to manage your nextcloud instance, and you're in !
Now, this method is pretty easy, but is has one drawback: it will install using its own HTTP and mysql server, so if you want to use the same machine for something else on top of nextcloud, you'll run two servers at the same time, which is not that efficient, but for our simple purposes here, it's not an issue.
And that's it ! Now you have a nextcloud instance up and running. You can explore its various settings, the apps you can install on it, all from the gear menu in the top right corner. I highly recommend you register a domain name and install an SSL certificate, so your server uses HTTPS instead of HTTP, it will be a lot more secure.
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Heute vor einem Jahr sticht der Afghane Sulaiman Ataee mit einem Messer auf den Islamkritiker Michael Stürzenberger ein und ermordet den Polizisten Rouven Laur. Seitdem verschweigt die Bundespolitik sowohl den Namen von Stürzenberger als auch den islamistischen Hintergrund der Tat. Unterdessen lädt man auf der Gedenkfeier am Samstag in Mannheim zum „interreligiösen Friedensgebet“.
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Die #linksgrüne #Asyl-Industrie verdient sich an den #Flüchtlingen dumm und dämlich.
In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem
Während die Bundespolitik am Jahrestag des Anschlags verräterisch schweigt, gedenkt man in Mannheim dem islamistischen Attentat mit einem „interreligiösen Friedensgebet“.NiUS.de
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Political tensions flared over the government's stability following threats from senior United Torah Judaism officials to quit the coalition over a bill granting draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox menJonathan Lis (Haaretz)
Reading Picks & Shovels by Cory Doctorow. Excellent story, fun to see Marty Hench's formative experiences, and wonderful characters. Thanks for the engaging read, @pluralistic !
Air Pico has been released for the #pico8.
Pilot flights for a small aviation company, performing deliveries and charter flights across a 16km x 16km island map.
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A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all.Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
The prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) truthfully described the problem of inceldom:
“There are incels who were born that way, and there are incels who have been made incels by others—and there are those who choose to live like incels for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” Jesus identifies three types of “incels” here: natural incels (“born that way”), forced incels (“made incels by others”), and voluntary incels (“those who choose”).
Truecels, or the truest incels, are born with facial deformities such as lopsided faces or eyes that are too close together or too far apart... but most incels today have been created by man. It's just not possible to buy a house and have 3-4 children anymore, and most women aren't interested in it. If you're a man in your 20s and you've got good income from a job, and cheap rent somehow, then you'll likely have to wait until your mid-thirties until all the women have got the careers and promotions that they want. Then they will "settle".
It's almost as if our society is designed to create more incels. Personally I am a volcel. Society is a cruel joke and I'd rather become an orthodox priest, than work 12 hours a day in a busy warehouse, driving forklifts or carrying timber. Sometimes I question why I bother contributing to society.
Fuck jesus, and fuck you for following that fictional loser.
"Jesus identifies three types of “incels” here: natural incels (“born that way”), forced incels (“made incels by others”), and voluntary incels (“those who choose”)."
That's not a thing. You're just full of shit. You can't even tell reality from this bullshit religious fiction.
That's why you're a voluntary celibate. Your religion talked you into devoting your life to them. Which makes you a giant fucking loser. Because everything you dedicated your life to is just stupid religious hate fiction.
Incels are a product of the Internet. Before that, we had winners and losers, and most losers weren't that way on purpose.
I'm ugly af and I've had plenty of action over the years. Looks aren't everything, bro. Be funny. Have interesting hobbies. Be deserving of respect through your own actions. Can't really stress that last one enough.
The public's "mood" on immigration didn't come from nowhere.
It was manufactured by a nativist political party, a compliant media that refuses to distinguish between lies and reality, and a reactionary political opposition that would rather "just not".
Basically, for the last 30 years GOP/Maga has been inventing lies about immigration, the media has been reporting them uncritically and without context, and the Democrats have been like "WE AGREE!"
So if you want someone to blame...
The point here is that when you let disingenuous or evil political arguments fester, they eventually *become the conversation*.
GOP/Maga is *extremely* good at this long game of seeding cultural "truths" for decades and then reaping huge rewards as shortsighted and feckless politicians, businesspeople, and liberals dismiss them.
It helps that there has never been a major political party as narratively incompetent as the modern Democratic Party.
What's working for YC companies since the AI boom
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The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds.Jamesin Seidel (Jamesin’s Substack)
Täuschend echte KI-Videos von News-Events und Protesten: Googles neuer Veo-3-Generator macht das bedenklich einfach. Laien können sie kaum noch von echten Aufnahmen unterscheiden.
Neue Google-KI ermöglicht Flut an falschen Nachrichten-Clips
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"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, improvements to the Bluetooth pairing wizard, and tons of tweaks and corrections for the upcoming versions of Plasma.
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#Plasma6 #freesoftware #OpenSource #desktop
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 stabilizes
This is how you fight back. Everyone’s fed up with men cheating in women’s sports, finally some real action.
Why do people fear being more outspoken about this absurd clown show? Who are they afraid of anymore?
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The video from the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) State Championships has laid bare the raw emotions surrounding trans athletes inJohn Dover (Defiant America)
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