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That's a good discussion, but improving the model and sustaining the institution are orthogonal.

I do agree though that a lot of the problems are structural and systemic - that also does not negate the public's negative outlook towards journalism, or the sense of entitlement (read the comments here).

I do agree though that not enough tech people who can afford to don't pay for their news. Why? IDK. How to make them? Well maybe this post will persuade a few to do that.

News is not perfect, just like any other platform or business you use is not perfect.

I think paying for news and not reading all of it are orthogonal. If you don't like curation, RSS is still solid.

The different is that in the 90s, there was no clear evidence for pessimism about the future. The same is not true now.

Standard of living for most Americans is actually bad right now - trillions of student loan, no prospect of home ownership, no jobs, extreme income interest, weak authoritian governments,and let me know even start of climate change.

But hey, we have a new iPhone so I guess it's all fine.

That's awesome and I've tried nextdns and loved it. But - and this is just me - I just don't trust anyone to delete my logs or not log in the first place.

That's why I'll probably not move off of my pihole

For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.

I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.

Since when is thinking about others you work with called "political correctness"?

I go to work to do my job and get a paycheck, ideally without drama. I don't give a day's ass about your MAGA hat.

Seems like people in this thread want an E2EE alternative. May I mention https://standardnotes.org/.

It's a very well built notes app, cross-platform. The dev team makes really solid decisions (they say no more than any other company to feature requests).

I'm in no way affiliated to them, just a happy paid customer who agrees with their mission and values.

I use ovh (although the tor network is saturated with ovh) and https://tor-relay.co ; literally takes 5 mins after vm is provisioned.

Here's a giant list of hosts you can look into - https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/g...

I spent maybe an hour researching based my in criteria. You can host just an exit (most helpful), or a couple of relays (aim for 100mbps+, and decent bandwidth). You can get a lot for $5/month for each relay.

I would be surprised if many of the common public believed that warrantless searches of anyone are reasonable, while exempting federal elected officials from the same law.

Now's a good time to call you senator (if they voted against this) and tell them that they fucked up by weakening your rights and freedoms.

Then, get a VPN or better use Tor as much as you can.

Pi-hole 5.0 6 years ago

Woohoo been waiting for this for months.

I host pihole on a home server in a docker container and spend 5 mins a month just updating it. No other administration. Definitely use it to get rid of trackers and ads.

(I should add that I also pay for about dozen publications/newspapers that I read frequently in lieu of not seeing ads)

This x1000 is why I subscribe to a dozen publications (even though I don't read them all), and donate to non profit newsrooms whatever I can.