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Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google's the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. Since the project's inception over a decade ago, users have been able to compile the BSD licensed code into a browser that's almost the same as the closed-source Chrome. As such, most distributions offer their own package for the browser and some even include it in the base install. Unfortunately, that may be changing soon.
[...] To the average Chromium user, this doesn't sound like much of a problem. In fact, you might even assume it doesn't apply to you. The language used in the post makes it sound like Google is referring to browsers which are spun off of the Chromium codebase, and at least in part, they are. But the search giant is also using this opportunity to codify their belief that the only official Chromium builds are the ones that they provide themselves. With that simple change, anyone using a distribution-specific build of Chromium just became persona non grata.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @08:38PM (2 children)
"The ruling class shut down Gab a few years back and Parler some months ago because they were new competitor social media websites to our current social oligarchy. They also attack competitors at the DNS level and the financial level: pressure domain name registrars to drop your domain and for payment processors to drop you or not take your business irrespective of your creditworthiness."
and? quit using and supporting centralized, controlled shit. Is everything perfect and finished? no, but that doesn't mean people can't use what's available. host you own sites, or use p2p software or build new stuff. stuff like handshake for dns and monero (and other privacy coins) for currency. if you use the international criminal bankster cartels' "money" and host your shit on amazon, you're a dumb ass slave.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday January 28 2021, @02:28PM (1 child)
Doing this from a PC in your home is likely to either technically not work (because your home ISP applies carrier-grade NAT or otherwise blocks incoming TCP connections) or cause your home ISP to stop carrying your traffic in either direction (because the home plan's acceptable use policy bans publicly accessible servers). This can cause harm to people who live in an area where only one or two wired home ISPs offer service.
Doing this using your own domain name and a virtual private server (which doesn't have to be Amazon's) is called the IndieWeb route [indieweb.org]. Say I make articles and videos and host them on my own site. What steps should I go about taking to get my first dozen viewers now that I no longer have the recommendation engines of the big silos [indieweb.org] behind me? And now that RSS/Atom/h-feed readers are no longer widely used nor included with web browsers, how would I go about notifying viewers that a new article is available to read?
What steps should I go about taking to get prospective viewers to install software capable of viewing said "new stuff"?
How does one go about buying Monero, or buying home Internet access with Monero, other than by exchanging "the international criminal bankster cartels' 'money'"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @07:46PM
i don't have time for all these reasonable questions! :)
1). yes, you would generally require a commercial internet connection or self host in a mom and pop-ish datacenter.
2). manual web/traditional marketing and self-built and run mailing lists.
3) marketing
4) sure, it;'s problematic but you can mine monero and you may be able to find debit/cc cards that can be "loaded" with crypto currency. The gatekeepers are a problem but if people would just start using and accepting it we could get tpo a critical mass and force the issue with our governments or route around governments completely with smart contracts, web 3.0, etc. Of course this is all much more difficult than just being a slave.