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Guy Swann 1y ago

The government is stealing our money so they can spend it on stealing our data and spying on us extralegally, and propping up the most invasive surveillance apparatus in history that treats every user like a cow to be milked of every byte of useful information it can.

Thanks govt, what would we do without you. Guess I’ll go pay my taxes to do my part in killing millions in undeclared wars and having my entire life harvested like I’m plugged into the Matrix… so excited! nostr:note1avgapsqaxwmahsy57umlermdn6q25c7xlsa0q80u490m6yc60xrq5dzfq0

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Nic 1y ago

"but, but who's going to build the roads without taxes Guy???"

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ΛM 1y ago

Don't be afraid, the state only wants the best for everyone

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nobody 1y ago

I've been beating the privacy drum for years and all my friends think I'm a tinfoil hat nut. But this shit is real.

It takes a lifestyle shift to fight back but you can do it. I use GrapheneOS on a pixel. Linux on all my computers. I host a server with services that replace centralized services.

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Guy Swann 1y ago

Awesome! What services do you host for yourself and what tools do you use for them if you don’t mind my asking?

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nobody 1y ago

All kinds man. I have a pretty ridiculous homelab set up simply because of who I am as a person (and engineer).

My data (~120TB) is stored on a Synology NAS and I have a r610 with dual Xeons 32 threads and 192GB of RAM which does my compute. My service stack is all in Docker.

For services I have:

- Wireguard VPN for connectivity away from home

- Bitcoin infrastructure (core, lnd, lnbits, mempool, explorer, joinmarket)

- Matrix/Synapse for encrypted & private comms

- nostr-rs for Nostr relay

- Hugo static site generation for several different sites/blogs I run

- Pihole for blocking trackers/malicious things

- Documents, photos, drive are all Synology because their software is really good

- Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr stack for media

- Plex for video consumption

- Navidrome for audio media streaming

- Vaultwarden for password management

- Gitea for code repo

- FreshRSS for RSS fetching

- Hauk for location sharing with friends/family

- ihatemoney for expense sharing/tracking

Those are my most used. There's also a smattering of other things I'm POC'ing or just playing with not really worth mentioning.

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nobody 1y ago

It's not perfect. For example, I want to get away from Plex but Jellyfin has not been a viable alternative for me yet. But all in all I feel I have a great mix of convenience, privacy, self sovereignty and capability.

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Guy Swann 1y ago

I haven’t found a reliable alternative to Plex either… but I’m hoping I may be able to contribute to that at some point. Hopefully this year.

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jgbtc 1y ago

I detect a hint of sarcasm.

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Liberty Gal 1y ago

The Federal government makes a big deal when they have budget problems and threatens government shutdown. The best thing they could do is shut down. The harm they do is so much greater any good they do.

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Rob 1y ago

* Pays taxes aggressively *