Buy and use a burner phone while you’re there, and remember that VPNs are illegal.

Same

Ah. That’s not an issue for me, per se, but it is wholly unethical. I guess I’ll stop using it then…

I trust Mullvad with my card number a lot more than Amazon, and I did mention that I would have paid with Monero if only I had any.

As for Posteo, great experiences all around. It mostly just gets out of your way and, unlike more popular providers, isn’t always telling you about how great it is. However, the SPAM filter could be better.

I use that too, and I also still have Libre.fm.

So far, though, I just haven’t seen any reason to stop using Last.fm.

Damn

No, I mean hacking. Breaking into computers remotely, malware production, etc.

SimpleX?

Tox would also be fantastic, but they need to improve their encryption and get it audited. Also, some nicer UIs in the various clients would be nice.

Bitwarden.

If you’re just writing those languages, here are my picks:

For Linux and Unix:

• Xed (just called “Text Editor” in the menu)
• Geany
• Notepadqq
• Micro (terminal, but very friendly)
• Nano (also terminal, also friendly)

For Windows:

• Notepad++
• VSCodium

For macOS:

• Micro
• Nano
• VSCodium

NOTE: URLs written in italics are unofficial/self-hosted instances of their respective version control systems.

• Forgejo (https://codeberg.org/) and Gitea (https://tildegit.org/) are great.
• sourcehut (https://sr.ht/) is fantastic, and also offers Mercurial hosting.
• source.community (gemini://source.community) is interesting.
• Fossil (https://code.rosaelefanten.org/) is also interesting, and doesn’t use Git.
• Savannah (https://savannah.nongnu.org/) is the version control system used by the FSF and the GNU project. Uses CVS and Git, with ViewVC and cgit frontends. You must make regular commits, otherwise your account may be pruned.

My firewall varies from installation-to-installation, as it’s always client-side with a custom DNS provider. Right now, I’m using YaST Firewall on my main machine, iptables on my old ThinkPad, and my other machines are currently between operating systems. In the past, I have also dabbled in ufw, pf, and awall.

In addition to that, I generally use NextDNS (though I also get excellent results with Mullvad DNS).

My policy is simple: reject all incoming connections, except for Torrent and Syncthing.

This was mentioned in Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. So, what do we do about it?

Yeah, this is so fucking annoying. I’ve been banging on about Signal for years, but everyone except a small handful of my wisest friends insist upon using WhatsApp and Discord.

Almost everyone I know also uses Instagram, and no other social media. I am yet to meet someone in real life who even has Mastodon.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! What the actual fuck, Google‽

I swear to Hephaestus, at this point I’m considering switching to UBPorts or Sailfish OS or something…

I2P is brilliant, yes, but I can’t use it for clearnet sites.

Besides, in this case I would be using it purely for tunneling without detection by my ISP. Anonymity would be more of a bonus.

I’m already using the Shadowsocks bridge in Mullvad. If things get more serious, I’ll do some research and consider switching to Tor with either obfs4 or WebTunnel on Tails, and Snowflake on mobile.

I got on very well with it. You don’t get a lot of storage on the free tier, and it functions exclusively as a web app/PWA, but it was quite seamless.

Same here. I started buying CDs in 2015, and I haven’t been back to streaming since.

Honestly, this sounds like a job for Tor. Install Orbot, possibly enable a bridge, and you should be good to go. Onion Browser is recommended for use with Tor, but Safari will work just fine.

I have never tried calling over Tor, but I have never had an issue with the speed before (although it is inherently slower than a VPN).