Thank you for the work you do maintaining this space. Antagonistic users who don’t know what they’re talking about have myriad other places to complain, it’s not necessary to endure them here.

Disclaimer: I have not attempted this

However, in my experience of resource usage on x86, a recent Pi with at least 2GB of RAM and sufficient storage, should be enough to run monerod.

As for getting linked up to the network and providing data to clients, that’s another story. As I understand it, you need clients to connect in order to “help the network” (I’m hazy on this, so please correct me if I’m wrong). So you might want to find some node lists and add yours once it’s up.

However, one bonus of running a local node (on a Pi or anything else) is that your wallets will sync much much faster over the local network than they will over the internet.

take a peek at lemmy.sdf.org

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Yeah, SDF is a good choice (and a very interesting org in its own right)

Voip dot ms employs a ton of countermeasures versus skript kiddies as voip fraud is a severe problem. You are unlikely to have much luck with Tor Browser. I have to ask them to take my boring data center IP off their greylist every time I want to add cash to my balance.

try voip dot ms

Save yourself a lot of trouble and get a hardware SIP phone like the Grandstream WP826. I spent years struggling with software phones, most of them suck ass and the good ones aren’t very good.

quick unboxing video

Then make sure to enable voice transport encryption and set SIP transport to TLS (not UDP) and set keepalive timers to something below 3 minutes or so. The encryption settings are not just for security, using TLS for SIP transport has way fewer problems with incoming calls than UDP in 2025 network environments.

There are some firmware issues with the Grandstream WP826 but they are steadily releasing new firmware updates every month or two. If you need absolute bulletproof reliability go for something more expensive, otherwise the WP826 or similar model will likely be good enough (I say that as someone who is easily vexed by shitty software/electronics)

Picaridin is very effective and doesn’t do this.

ArchiveBox strikes me as being a rickety pile of hacks, but it does mostly do its job out of the box. The built-in search is abysmal however and must be replaced with one of the other options to be useful.

allowing Instagram is like rolling out the red carpet for the vampire as a method of inviting it in, and then maybe having the kids lie down so their bare necks are on a silver platter.

he has to have done radio or TV before

my treat: I am going to be sad when I can no longer access an 18th century or earlier king’s ransom in spices for a mostly bearable cost at walmart. we’re getting there slowly but surely. as another example, olive oil costs so much now 😑

Another aspect of UPS, they may not like the dirty power from a small gas generator and spend some of their time discharging while the generator is on. They can be pretty sensitive to frequency especially.

Yeah they’re run by Mastodon people who tend to hate cryptocurrency

In the US, many laws have been passed, and more proposed, to punish entities who boycott Israel. Entities being individuals, corporations, cities & towns, etc.

And you know what I say to that as an American? I will boycott whoever the fuck I please, whenever I please, for any reason or none at all as I see fit. And if corporations are people too, my friend, then they have the right as well to self-determine who they’ll buy from and who they won’t. And while we’re at it, so do municipalities, and private clubs, any other collection of people singular or plural.

I find such craven obeisance in service of Israel to be personally offensive, and any American who pays attention to how Israel actually behaves with their own two eyes is likely to come to the same conclusion if they are confronted with the issue and think about it for five seconds.

Anyway, that may be a factor behind loud support of boycotting Israel from random American leftoids.

It’s developed by a French software collective that isn’t really into marketing, they seem to prefer slow organic growth.

This year they are doing a lot of work on the Android app 👍

A couple other cool Peertube instances

https://spectra.video/

https://diode.zone/

The UX still leaves a lot to be desired.

Is it at least easily installable and working properly on Tails yet? Been a few weeks since I checked.

There have in fact been huge discussions of this in the past, which maybe you’d already know about if you didn’t come in hot mouthing off about how things need to be changed to fit your preferences immediately, chop chop!

Turns out the type of blocking you want requires a great deal more code than you (clearly) can imagine in order to be actually functional, as opposed to a fig leaf requiring the full cooperation of every server involved.

This was discussed ad nauseam maybe about 5 years ago, with long hellthreads in microblogging fedi, complex deep-dive technical blog posts, the whole nine yards. No I didn’t save links and I wish I had because this and related issues (Mastodon’s fig leaf “privacy” settings, E2EE DMs) keep coming up.

The answer is that what you are asking for can either be implemented as a porous fig leaf which falls apart the very first time some asshole spins up an instance which doesn’t respect it and vacuums up your posts en masse, or it can be implemented using cryptography which requires an enormous amount of work by extremely well-educated CompSci types to implement a standard, and then implement code libraries, and only then can the developers of platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon get started on implementing the actual feature. No one is paying anyone to do this, and it’s not clear that people with the necessary expertise are even available to develop the standard and the code, nor is it clear that everyone would adopt it if they did. So up til now, it hasn’t been done.

If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.

Evidently you missed the many (many) discussions that took place maybe 5 years ago by some of those exact builders about how this is, and remains, only a fig leaf which requires every server to cooperate in maintaining the illusion.

I wish I’d saved links based on how often this comes up. There are fundamental issues with how federated systems in general and ActivityPub in particular work, and “real” blocking is one of them. People running other instances can modify the code however they want, and no technical measures have been implemented (because it turns out to be very difficult to do so) to prevent any node operator from removing the fig leaf.