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No self righteousness here. How did you even get that from my comment? Where did I insinuate anything that made you think I was higher than anyone else?

Again, you’re letting your feelings guide your opinions and shellac them with academic frippery while you still blind yourself to the simple fact: you’re conflating the tech with those responsible for promoting its use in this disgusting, indefensible way.

Where did my feelings show? I expressed an opinion thats it. You took offense and replied with hostility and insults.

You call me kiddo. I was here before myspace. I was here before AOL. I was a member of facebook when it was invite only. I’m a programmer by trade. I helped build the algorithms that you claim help your cause. I have seen first hand how they work. They don’t help you. I try to make amends for my work by educating people but some, like you, have fallen victim to the algorithms. I feel pity for you.

Feel free to check my history here. Its clear that I know what I’m talking about with regards to computer science.

You are mistaken in your argument and your attacks on me.

Mapquest… Looks like you have to be signed in for it to work.

Great info. It tells me not to use MapQuest.

I think you are trying to use keywords and things you have heard without knowing their meaning to support your “debate.”

I did not muddy or conflate the topic.

I’ll rehash it for you. The topic is that social media has been banned in a couple states. The effect is that kids cannot use social media.

The comment that I originally replied to absolves all the bad social media has done so that a few may be helped. You supported this by saying “That’s the abuse of it by corrupted fucksticks, not the underlying tech itself.”

First off, the underlying tech is the problem.

Second issue is that it’s the same argument for the death penalty. To paraphrase, it’s okay if we kill a couple innocent people if most are guilty. Inversely, it’s okay that society is negatively effected if we can save a few LGBTQ+.

To clarify again I support LGBTQ+ but social media is bad for society.

Agreed. Great additional and needed information that I neglected to mention.

I don’t understand. How was my “debate” unclean?

I understand your argument and fully support LGBTQ+ but I still think social media is a net negative for society.

The suicides by kids because of social media, the rampant misinformation for kids and adults on almost all issues, the algorithm controlling content, increased rates of depression, suicide, narcissism, eating disorders and loneliness… The list can go on.

A key-based SSH login could not be relayed this way.

There is no good reason to use ssh with a password. Always use key based authentication.

Here is a tutorial for anyone who may need it. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-ssh-keys-with-openssh-on-macos-or-linux

Telegram (also known as Telegram Messenger) is a Russian-Emirati … instant messaging (IM) service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)

Enough said. Anyone who uses this service is a tool of the lowest level. I’ve had better screwdrivers.

I don’t know if this helps you but I use yt-dlp to download from my favorite channels. Then I stream them from jellyfin to my appletv.

No ads and yt-dlp can use sponsor block to get rid of that part of the video automatically.

I have years of programming and sysadmin experience but have never tried pen testing. I have a Kali Linux live usb ready to go but I don’t know where to start. I know that Kali offers training but the $3000/year cost is absurd to me. I would love to pen test my homelab but I don’t know where to start.

What is a recommended resource that does not require an account or credit card?

You can self host a copy a stack exchange and many other sites offline using kiwix. https://kiwix.org/

You can browse the availabe sites for self hosting at https://browse.library.kiwix.org/

What is recommended for a TV box?

I have tried google/android TV but the ads are everywhere and I don’t trust google not to track everything.

I have tried a raspberry pi running Kodi but it’s not very good for anything except jellyfin. I still want to view streaming services on occasion.

My next attempt will be an apple TV but i don’t trust apple and despise their walled garden.

I would like something FOSS and optimized for TV viewing. I thought about using a linux OS and using the browser for streaming, but it does not look good from the sofa and requires a keyboard mouse.

So what do you recommend?

I use ublock origin for my browser and use Mullvad DNS with content blockers. I don’t know what VPN you use but as long as you can set your own DNS then Mullvad servers should work.

If your router allows you to set the DNS server you can block ads network wide.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls