In high school, but not much party politics, I mostly read old anarchists. At college you kinda have to go through the post-structuralist course, but it was then that I got more into reading economy and post/neokeynesianism - which wasn’t even part of the stuff I had to study…
I used to care about arguing about politics and economy, but since my 30s politics became “not my thing” because I watched American politics being spread through Twitter and young people reading more trending American internet liberal activists instead of their local union newspapers, and then I watched all the biggest media conglomerates of my country raising the flag of those activists and they believing they are “winning” without realizing they became so harmless they are being mocked. Nowadays, I just believe we absolutely deserve everything we get.

I’m particularly tired of the echo chambers social media created that turned everything in an “us vs them” mentality that when you don’t agree 100% on every topic you are a them and an enemy and everyone is under that homogenizing peer-pressure to conform… and I include the Fediverse on that, it’s the same crap. I don’t feel like being a part of any “us”, especially because I see everything corrupted by the American WASP-culture addiction to guilty and shaming that equally encompass conservatives and liberals, as the “us vs them” slowly kills all the real transgressive. I want distance from all the “us”.

I feel you.
I recommend checking photopea.com, it’s a very light photoshop webversion that can do almost everything photoshop can do, a very cool tool.

As a life-long pirate, having full MS Office, Macromedia and Adobe packages weren’t ever a problem, but one day I decided to start using FOSS stuff… and man, getting into GIMP was damn painful, oh, the horror!
I’m very glad for photopea.com when I need to do some quick stuff, but for GIMP, this guy here made a very cool setup to help us Photoshop users https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

owning them libs

I asked them exactly that hehe
So, technically the sites you are redirecting from will never know you tried to access them and the addon is not interacting with any page, but the dev didn’t address/think of probing. I don’t have enough tech knowledge to confirm the addon won’t react to anything, thus making itself known. I don’t know which probing techniques there are and how all those resist-fingerprint and sandboxing settings from privacy-conscious browsers work against it… it does, however, sound like a sophisticated and resource-consuming method that I don’t think they would be using on regular internet unless they have specific targets, so if they have such probing techniques they are probably using it on IPs going through the TOR network (and you shouldn’t use any addon on Tor anyway).
It’s all about your threat model, if you just want to avoid regular tracking and profiling the addon should be fine, now if you are afraid of some sophisticated and resourceful threat actors targeting you, don’t take your chances with any addon.

I use libredirect.github.io to not have to worry about clicking links

If you use some WFP manager you can block all incoming connections and also block all OS connections… I basically only let my browser communicating with the internet, the rest has no business online.

Oops, I forgot to mention the OS, it’s Win11 (I edited the main post now).

thanks, going to try it :)

Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

Wait… that’s what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha

I don’t know much about Lemmy and I’m new here, but on Mastodon there seem to be just an illusion of federation because it’s actually ruled by peer-pressure. Instance A doesn’t like instance B so it defederates from it (absolutely fair), then it goes and tell instance C to also defederate from B else its going to tell instance D, E and F to defederate from C, and so on… remember when people bullied mastodon.lol admin into closing his 18k members instance just because he didn’t want to ban users for liking the Harry Potter game?

I feel like the Fediverse has even more thought police than regular social media.

If I could get a single person to use Signal instead of Whatsapp… or even the nerds I know to use matrix instead of Discord…

update: Lumo sucks.

If you use something like simplewall or Portmaster you can block every OS communication with the mothership and make it look like you are offline for them :)
Probably soon they are making it that you can’t use Windows offline though lol

But up until recently you could download packages and utilities directly from their site, now you are forced to do it through Microsoft Store. I just started this new Win11 laptop and right after debloating the shit out of it I noticed the updates didn’t install HEIC and AV1 codecs and there was no way for me to install them without getting Microsoft Store back, so I restored it and downloaded them and then removed Microsoft Store… guess what? Removing it removed the downloads as well lol

maybe the guy is just brown and afraid of the ICE?
being brown is a dangerous activity nowadays.

My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

thanks :)