Maoo [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I recommend installing a Linux distribution that requires a hands-in approach like Gentoo or Linux from scratch. If you don’t have an extra computer you can do it on a virtual machine on the computer you do have.

    The process will require you to use the various incantations and rituals of using the terminal. As you do so, learn what they do by googling them or using their man page.

    For more practice, write a shell script or otherwise choose a task you want to do using the terminal like browsing through your files or searching for a file whose name matches a pattern and so on.




  • Congratulations! Reddit is mostly terrible.

    If you want to participate in some niche communities I can understand wanting a new account. Most likely they’re tracing you through these things, with the first ones being more likely:

    • Email address (hopefully you’re using different ones but this is an easy way for them to associate accounts).

    • IP address.

    • Browser or phone fingerprinting.

    For your IP address you can just try to get a new one. Sometimes restarting your modem will do that. Ask Google what your IP address is before and after.

    For browser fingerprinting, I’d just clear the cache and that’s probably enough. Alternatively just use a different browser for Reddit for a while.

    For app fingerprinting that’s a bit harder and I’d say to just not use the official Reddit app if that’s what you were doing before.











  • Gentoo is good for learning. It’s not really a privacy or security-focused distribution per se. It promotes you being comfortable with the command line, configuration files, networking, unix-ie things, and of course compiling programs. If you’re tired of the compiling there is basically no downside to switching to Arch as a “one step up” distribution.




  • The normal thing on Reddit is to parrot the imperial line and ban socialists and their subs. This leaves a political chasm where fascism can be normalized. It’s usually not normalized so obviously as “look at these Nazis isn’t it cool that meemaw met this genocidal fuck” though. Most fascism of the empire is already mostly normalized and these folks just push for it even more: scapegoating immigrants, creating forms of acceptable racism against out-groups, promoting privatization, demonizing socialists, justifying settler-colonialism for their “friends”, blood & soil rhetoric, etc.

    Two examples:

    • Frothing-at-the-mouth blood & soil rhetoric premised on Russophobia and giving Ukrainians the “white” treatment.

    • Pretending to care about Uyghurs while spending zero time researching it and only caring to the extent that they can hate China and fantasize about Balkanizing it.

    Re: these particular posts, Reddit has been astroturfed for ages. In addition to oddly-timed posts, the dramatic difference in opinion and tone between large and established vs. and small or newer subreddits is massive. You’ll see polar opposite levels of astroturfing between “worldpolitics” (fashy chauvinist opinions and banning the left on sight) and “fauxmoi” (filled with better opinions that are common among 20-30 year olds). It’s kind of entertaining to explore why zoomers on a gossip subreddit are more politically informed and worldly than the “commenters” on a much larger subreddit dedicated to the topic. A lot of it does seem to be bots and left-punching directives from corporate.