Brave derives revenue from advertising.

Brave devotees are the only people I’ve ever seen defending advertising as a user friendly revenue model.

Any minute now one of those brave-browser idiots will be along to tell us all how great ads are because they can make us aware of products that we had not yet discovered or remind us of products we didn’t know were near by.

This is /c/aboringdystopia

Fair enough.

Having known victims of vandalism I can say it hurts more than theft.

allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

Also it’s sabotage, which might attract heavier penalties than mere theft?

Obviously that depends on how you define “leach” and this community is going to give you a fairly skewed perspective.

Doing subpar work under a “not my job” mentality isn’t just unprofessional - it displays poor character.

It’s easy to say it’s poor character but we just don’t know what has transpired in the lead up to this thing being painted.

Some people are absolute assholes to work for. There may have already been significant problems in performing this contract and the person doing the work is being exploited through a bad contract or what have you.

I would think very carefully before contacting the police. I am not suggesting that you should provide a safe harbor for people sharing CSAM, or obfuscate their crime. You absolutely should take action, but carefully weigh your options before calling the police.

While it may (possibly!) be true in your jurisdiction that platform operators are not liable for user content, police aren’t on “your side”. Even if you assume the highest standards of professionalism from them, they need to represent the interests of the victims (not you) and need to diligently investigate the crime. That means they need to confirm beyond reasonable doubt that you are not involved beyond operating the host.

Just because you self-disclose does not mean that you are innocent. You could’ve been actively participating and when threatened with blackmail you’ve decided to self-disclose to avert guilt.

Another consideration is what else I have on my server. I’m catch and release for pirate movies and TV these days so there’s only 100gb or so. I do have several hundred pirate audiobooks though. Deleting all that before handing my server over will look very suspicious.

With all of this in mind, the only course of action is to talk to a lawyer. A lawyer will know exactly what laws are relevant, and can guide you through the process of self-disclosure while minimising the imposition on you.

ok so don’t hate me but h001, h002, h003, and so on.

That’s h for host. I also use n to number networks, and k to number physical keys.

I list them all in my keepassxc password database, where I can include any additional information.

With the prevalence of vms, docker containers, and docker networks, there’s just too many things to name. By numbering them I can just side step that whole game.

This is what I was thinking.

Syncthing will be the quickest to set up.

There’s a potential for collisions but that would likely be manageable.

Searx just proxies other engines, so the results are the same as the upstream results.

I’ve never really had a problem with results from any engine TBH.

The main thing I’ve learned over the last few years with Searx is that some instances are terrible while others are great. Some are slow, and often get blocked and take days for the admin to get a new IP or whatever. Right now I’m using perennialte.ch and it’s been great. They also redirect results at reddit to an alternative frontend which is a nice touch.

Yeah I think most of my searches start with the name of the site I want results from.

I was with kagi for a year.

It was fine.

Their CEO is an asshole though. There was that thing where he went a bit nutty over some mild criticism. I don’t remember the details.

Anyhoo. Searx is nice for the moment.

sorry its: https://searx.perennialte.ch/

Searx can provide a much better experience.

For example, on the instance I’m using if a search result is a Google thread, the link will direct you to a redlib reddit proxy.

Surely it has to be the paid APIs. You can’t build a service hoping Google won’t notice your bots running searches.

In case anyone was wondering:

• namecheap: US
• porkbun: US
• INWX: Germany
• OVH: French
• onlydomains: NZ

I personally have been with onlydomains for a decade or so. No complaints.

I have a server with OVH. I hadn’t realised they’re a registrar also.

I’m not surprised. Honestly I had wondered why he hasn’t already tried this.

I use ungoogled-chromium & thorium are worth a mention.