I’m not on there, but you might have more luck in !localllama@sh.itjust.works

You might also want to list the hardware that you plan to use, since that’ll constrain what you can reasonably run.

DDLC is available on many different major platforms, including iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and more.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/

You’re not wrong that you’re not safe posting on Reddit, but if this case is any indication you’re not any less safe posting in Reddit than any other site, including Lemmy.

You can choose the location (and thus legal jurisdiction) of your home instance, but yeah, in general, I think that people need to be aware that server operators on the Threadiverse are probably not going to fight legal battles on your behalf.

We had someone ask about turning over IP addresses to law enforcement a while back on lemmy.today. The lemmy.today server admin gave what I’d call probably a pretty accurate answer.

https://lemmy.today/post/7255213

How will Lemmy Today handle IP subpoenas?

Lemmy instances are run by volunteers who wants to see a social media network without big tech.

I dont think you can trust any of those volunteers, including this one, to not comply with law enforcement. Thats not why we are running instances. Its about providing a platform without tracking, ads and algorithms for talking to other people and having a good time.

Hope that makes sense.

Use a VPN if you have a reason to. :)

It linked to a similar question for lemmy.dbzer0.com:

How will dbzer0 handle IP subpoenas?

Don’t know man. I’m not making enough in donations to pay for the server costs, never mind hiring lawyers. I’ll deal with this when I have to 😅

There are platforms more-aimed at providing harder pseudonymity. I’d put Hyphanet fairly high on the list of “a pain in the ass to track a poster down due to technical barriers” list (though that comes with very real performance and latency and suchlike costs).

There are also some vehicles that permit turning the rear wheels a bit as well to get the turning radius down a bit more. My impression is that it’s kind of a luxury feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering#Active_four-wheel_steering

And, of course, a short wheelbase helps.

Oh. I don’t mean people posting memes or reaction gifs or stuff like that. I don’t recall the specifics of the community, though.

EDIT: Though the only meme community I subscribe to is !linuxmemes@lemmy.world.

No; I’m not subscribed to any communities that deal with trolling. I wasn’t even aware that there were any out there.

I think that all of the people I’ve blocked for a reason that I can recall have been users who were repeatedly spamming comments in threads to try to make them unreadable for other users. One was just commenting over and over with a couple of giant inline Simpsons images.

The University of Michigan’s latest consumer survey released Friday showed that sentiment declined 11% early this month to a reading of 47.6, lower than anything seen in the post World War II era, including during the Great Recession, the pandemic downturn and the historic inflation surge afterward.

That’s actually kind of amazing. I mean, yes, double-whammy from tariffs and fuel costs from the war, but I wouldn’t have expected it to go that far.

Donenfeld, the WireGuard developer, told TechCrunch in an email: “If there were a critical vulnerability to fix right now — there isn’t! I just mean hypothetically — then users would be totally exposed.”

Well, the Windows users would. I assume that they’d still release builds for the other platforms.

Ah, so I bet what they’re doing is looking like a single VPN from the Android OS level, setting a default route into that, and then doing routing in userspace.

Without looking at the protocol at all, I generally think that blockchain stuff is a solution in search of a problem, but distributed storage might be used to make the system resistant to traffic analysis, the way Hyphanet does.

looks at GitHub repo

Session Router (formerly Lokinet) is an onion routing IP network built on Session Service Nodes

If it’s doing onion routing, then it probably is intended to be resistant to traffic analysis.

The crashes also come just weeks after one of the manufacturers announced it was integrating a new mapping system trained on “Pokémon Go” data which is designed to improve navigation accuracy.

Oh, great, so Nintendo is logging where its players are traveling and selling that data?

I have not used such a configuration, but I believe that it’s fine to have multiple WireGuard VPNs concurrently up, at least from a Linux client standpoint. I have no idea whether your phone’s client permits that — it could well be that it can’t do it.

Your routing table would have the default route go to a host on one of them (and your Internet-bound traffic would go there), but you should be able to have it be either. Or neither — I’ve set up a WireGuard configuration with a Linux client where the default route wasn’t over the WireGuard VPN, and only traffic destined for the LAN at the other end of the WireGuard VPN traversed the WireGuard VPN.

From Linux’s standpoint, a WireGuard VPN is just like another NIC on the host. You say “all traffic destined for this address range heads out this NIC”. Just that the NIC happens to be virtual and to be software that tunnels the traffic.

EDIT:

It sounds like this is an Android OS-level limitation:

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/261526/are-there-technical-limitation-to-multiple-vpns

In the Android VPN development documentation you can find a clear statement regarding the possibility to have multiple VPNs active at the same time:

There can be only one VPN connection running at the same time. The existing interface is deactivated when a new one is created.

That same page does mention that you can have apps running in different profiles using different VPNs at the same time. That might be an acceptable workaround for you.

Anecdote: some years back, when Google was just getting their self-driving program going, I remember pulling up next to one of their early self-driving cars, rolling down my window, and pointing out to the safety driver that they were supposed to merge into the bicycle lane if doing a right turn and that his car wasn’t doing that.

Today, I was sitting in traffic in the right-hand lane of a road, and a Waymo vehicle — that program, after years more of development — pulled up, merged into the (large enough for a car) bike lane, and then properly stopped and did a right-on-red.

searches

As of Christmas, several months back:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy2025

Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing

Hopefully in 2026 we’ll see X2 Elite support morph into a more formidable contender for Linux use but as it stands now the Linux support and performance is better off with AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptop options.

For those who, like myself, have never heard of Session prior to now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(software)

Session is an Australian, currently Switzerland-based, cross-platform end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application emphasizing user confidentiality and anonymity. Developed and maintained by the non-profit The Session Technology Foundation,[3] it employs a blockchain-based decentralized network for transmission. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, including various media types such as files, voice notes, images, and videos.[4]

Session provides applications for various platforms, such as macOS, Windows, and Linux, along with mobile clients available on both iOS and Android.

Stephen Miller?

https://catholicvote.org/pew-poll-52-of-catholics-including-61-of-white-catholics-back-trump-over-harris/

Pew poll: 52% of Catholics including 61% of white Catholics back Trump over Harris

Should be interesting to see how that plays with the electorate.

EDIT: Also, I don’t have my finger on the pulse of the Catholic Church in the US, but the current pope, Leo XIV, was the first born in the US. I know that John Paul II, Polish, was the first Polish pope and was highly-regarded in Poland, and I can imagine that there might be a similar effect in the US among American Catholics.

upx - compress binary files

Just to be clear, the parent poster means “binary as in executable binaries”, rather than “binary as in non-text”.

mlocate

This was replaced by plocate some time back in Debian, which IIRC was generally faster. Some distros used a compatibility package for some time; you may actually have plocate installed yourself.

My own personal thoughts on things that might change to improve:

• I’m pretty interested about the prospects for something like “curated lists”, where people can publish ban lists or “upvote lists” or something like that that users can subscribe to if they decide that they like a particular curation list’s material. Something that can leverage positive and negative recommendations more-readily. My understanding is that Bluesky has something along those lines.

• Reddit originally was intended to rely on voting to do per-user recommendation. Over the years, it kind of drifted away from that. At the time I left, it still didn’t do that. I think that it’s probably also possible to create automated recommendations based on things like a user’s upvotes. I suppose that there’s some echo chamber potential here, depending upon how one votes.

• I see a lot of people being negative on the Threadiverse, people that sound often depressed or something, but not really people fighting between each other that much. There are people who could be nicer, but in terms of interpersonal fighting, I don’t see that much. That being said, I do avoid some instances.

• Beehaw.org has a relatively-restrictive moderation policy. That’s not what I personally prefer, but I will say that it has a fairly-upbeat set of discussions on its communities compared to most instances. It defederated with lemmy.world, but has not with lemmy.today (my home instance) and a number of others, so if you’re specifically on the hunt for more-positive conversation, you might investigate it.

• My own personal belief is that making votes public has reduced the amount of “I disagree with you, so I downvote” stuff. It’s also possible that there are other factors going on, but I think that after lemvotes.org in particular became widely-available, the amount of what I’d call downvoting in discussions on controversial topics declined on here. There have been some instances that disallow downvotes entirely (beehaw.org is an example of an instance that does this).

• From a moderation standpoint, there are some policies from Reddit subreddits that I think were generally successful. /r/Europe had a pretty hard “do not edit article titles” rule. This went further than I personally would have, as sometimes I think that adding context to a title could be useful, but that avoided a lot of issues where people would insert their personal positions into post submissions rather than in a top-level comment. I think that some form of that can be a useful convention.

• On an directly-opposing note: I think that a lot of articles are clickbait (and some are ragebait, and the latter tends to drive unpleasantness). I’ve seen various proposals to try to let users submit alternate article titles and those be voted on or something like that. Maybe it’d be a good idea to let users submit alternate titles and mods pick from them or something like that. Reddit didn’t do that, but maybe things along those lines could be successfully done.

• In general, I don’t think that Reddit got many things wrong. One thing I think it did get wrong was to change how blocking worked at one point from “I ignore all comments from a user” to “that user cannot respond to me”. The Threadiverse software packages presently work like “old Reddit”. I think that that’s a good idea. On Reddit, this change to how blocking worked resulted in a lot of people posting inflammatory content, then blocking the other user so that they couldn’t respond, so it’d look like the other user had conceded the point. Then the other user — now infuriated — would go start responding to other comments in a thread pointing out that this first user had blocked them. That never ended well.

• We do have automated stuff to try to detect tone, sentiment analysis. This sometimes gets used to do things like identify users getting upset in automated calls and direct them to a human. It might be possible to automatically flag potential flamewars for moderators, to reduce the time until they get noticed.