Fffffffffffff

Well, one more opt out for the trophy wall I guess.

How does this differ from most other things VCs throw money at?

cough cough crypto cough

Flatten that circle into Russia and you basically have the line between Butter Europe and Olive Oil Europe.

Lovely bangs. So lovely I might spew.

Sort of. It’s at least much much easier because DC is under the jurisdiction of Congress. The Home Rule Act allows 30 days with congressional notification. There’s no other governance structure to fight against.

If there was some real emergency and not just “Stop Talking About Epstein” in other parts of the country, the President can likely nationalize the local NG and direct them to go places and do things, but the governor and state legislature, and the state’s Congresspeople can push back. DC has none of those (sorry Eleanor Holmes Norton, not vote, no count).

Oh yeah, sorry, that’s just the old paperwight I had lying around, not my baby.

Fortunately, here’s the links and instructions. Take 20 minutes a day to knock one out.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

I’ve had to email the Support accounts for brokers plenty of times because, shocker, their opt out page is janky and broken.

Oh, I wouldn’t know about that terrible Windows thing (more than I must). A deb distro is my daily driver, so I was thinking about doing what you’re saying as a more portable alternative that moves easily with any VPN location.

How resource-intensive is your setup?

Not really, but I think it’s more about if the effort is worth it over all vs. just cycling a few public instances. I think I might end up going for that option instead.

Thanks, this is helpful. It sounds like maybe cycling a few known public instances makes more sense for me personally. The inherent MITM aspect always kind of creeped me out, but the results are pretty good, so I always come back to it.

My only thought on a way to easily have it open internet-facing and still not get overwhelmed would be to put it all behind a bare bones login page with super long credentials and rate limiting and I just save the credentials in a password manager. But if it’s just going to bring Big G looking back at me, I’d rather not bother since that’s the thing I’m trying to avoid.

Thanks again - this is a huge help.

Never once used them. My spouse has them on her mac book, which I know because she’ll randomly just lose whatever she’s doing and have some video playing that she can’t find again for another few minutes. So other than a minute of entertainment once every few months, not sure why they even exist.

What other details are helpful to provide?

The home network has a VPN running at the router level, so everything in the house is on the same local WLAN (i.e. LocalSend works between devices). But that’s also where all my “Hello bank! Hello Work! Hello paid streaming service and Meta!” activity happens. Other family members are a limiting factor on this.

Does it make more sense to just run docker locally on my machine and use that as the self-hosting location? Seems like a bit much, but I agree that I don’t really want to expose it to the open internet without…I don’t know, something like just having some password in my password manager. That seems tolerable at least.

These people are genuinely mentally ill and need professional help. Listen to them at conferences, and they have zero concerns about this because the tech bros can afford to buy or sue their way out of anything they don’t like. They just want 800 assistants that don’t speak unless spoken to, to do everything for them.

There’s 2 check boxes about recommending tab or whatever in settings to turn this shit off.

Should have been opt-in BS.

JFC, what are y’all doing, FF?

Great build.

Just keep in mind that anything old than a couple years might be in need of replacement. Especially if already ground.

OP, I and a friend that spent a decade in a similar situation. Therapy helped him immensely. I strongly recommend you consider it first.

I use vanilla FF, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Mullvad in the FF family (plus Vivaldi for Chromium) - I only use vanilla FF for anything that I want to use persistent logins and containers for, so it’s like an hour a day at most. I only installed the update 36 hours ago, do other than set bookmarks, I haven’t searched anything with FF to give it the opportunity to recommend anything.

In the settings, there’s 2 boxes you can un-check about recommendations. Seems pretty easy to disable this.

She really was.

And yeah, I’ll never understand how the overlap of tradwives and rruining one’s face works. Logic is the only way to not understand it.

Worth noting that this is basically only able to tell if a human is in your house by absorbing WiFi.

This also only seems to work on a big company’s equipment. Verizon equipment in your house can do this. Buy your own equipment and this isn’t a problem.

Tambourine only demands a good rhythm.

A very basic “Learn Harmonica” book can get you far enough to improv in the middle of a band and not sound like trash.