overview for hexagonwin

i have that issue as well,, sometimes it's missing results and other times i get the same result repeated on page 2. not sure why that happens, but i guess it's just a bit buggy.

I asked duckduckgo chat whether duckduckgo respects the privacy of their users... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

yeah it works but if you use a local instance you have to compile the extension yourself to include your instance.

I asked duckduckgo chat whether duckduckgo respects the privacy of their users... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago

i just use my local searxng instance and get results from like 10 engines including ddg, then filter with ublacklist

Tips about NoScript in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm still using uMatrix (actually a nuTensor fork) because of other features. uBO doesn't have the exact same features..

is it possible to block XSS requests and enable cookies for selected domains on NoScript as well?

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XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I have a group of 6 people using Discord to chat. Recently Discord changed a lot and we're looking for an alternative. We have a few requirements:

Good client on multiple platforms
Easy to use search
Self hosted
Permanently saved chat history & attachments on server (no expiration)
Easy image upload (Ctrl+V to post image from clipboard)

IRC isn't an option as chat history is saved on the client, and there's no good integrated way to share files and preview images. Matrix would be an overkill as we're a small group not interested in federation, and the available clients had a few bugs. Mattermost lacks a good mobile app (their current one had bunch of bugs). XMPP appears to be the best as it is extensible and has many clients available.

However, I tried configuring prosody on my FreeBSD server and it seems like it doesn't permanently save chat history or attachment files. Does anyone know if these can be solved? Or is there any better alternative than XMPP?

Thanks.

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[Question] Unbound and AdGuard Home with OpenWrt? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello. I just upgraded my ramips router (ipTIME A3004NS-dual, 256mb ram, 64GB USB) to OpenWrt 23.05, so far it's working well. I'd like some extra privacy (my country is known to do some internet censoring) and filter connections to sites I do not want (advertisements, telemetry) and AdGuard Home paired with Unbound seems perfect for this.

Before upgrading I used to run a DoH setup on OpenWrt with CloudFlare's DNS, but I now want to remove dependencies to these public 'private' DNS servers.

I did try searching a lot, but unfortunately as I'm pretty new to networking and hosting things I'm not quite able to understand what I read. Some guides mention using Unbound but still does setup Google/CloudFlare DNS, is that used as a fallback of some sort?

If someone has already done something similar I'd very much appreciate some guidance on how this should be done.. Thanks!

EDIT: I think I got it working.. but I'd be glad if someone can please tell me a way to test it. dnsleaktest.com shows "None" for hostname..

I followed [1] to install unbound, then changed unbound's port to 5353, set AdGuardHome's port to 53 and set AdGuardHome's DNS settings (Upstream, Bootstrap, Private reverse) to 127.0.0.1:5353. After a reboot it seems to work properly, except that I can no longer connect to other machines using their hostnames. (Previously I could just ssh the machine darkstar using ssh hexagonwin@darkstar, now I need to ssh [email protected]) [1]: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/dhcp_configuration#replacing_dnsmasq_with_odhcpd_and_unbound