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  • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
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    14 days ago

    What I pay for:

    What I “pay” for (through donations, if that counts):

    • The EFF
    • Wikipedia
    • GrapheneOS
    • Asahi Linux
    • Python

    I don’t really subscribe to much, but I’m definitely looking to expand the latter list, so I’ll probably start donating to the maintainers of ad blocker filter lists and seek out more organizations fighting the good fight.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Oh shit I forgot, Mullvad is such a given that I didn’t even consider it a paid service, it’s more like a utility bill for me, like electricity or broadband access.

      I cannot overstate how legit they are, if there is one company on the planet I trust like my family it’s them. Don’t ask how I know, but I have first hand information the lengths they go to to protect their customers. It’s run by Swedish 80’s OG hackers who have NO need for the money, they’re involved in other projects and have fuck you money, this is an idealist run outfit and they are legit as a MOTHERfuk. Trust that. They are on OUR side, they are TRON as far as I’m concerned, they fight for the user!

      • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Honestly I’d love if more companies could adopt their payment model. Phreeli looks like a solid cellular provider and I’m sure their double-blind armadillo thing is legit, but if I could just mail them an unmarked envelope with nothing but a numeric account identifier and some cash I’d like it way more. Same with Tuta. But I understand there’s some possibility for logistical concerns there (what happens if the user loses their account identifier? Too many banks still use SMS 2FA, etc. etc.).

        • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Hahaha yeah I love that. What other VPN provider can boast “cash in an envelope” as a payment option for absolute privacy? I’m telling you these guys take privacy very seriously, I know first hand.

          • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Well I’m not gonna lie, I envy your firsthand experience, lol. I’ve looked at jobs they have open from time to time, but alas, they generally either don’t fit my experience or are more aimed at candidates from Europe.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

    I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

  • TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    Youtube red, not only for the removal of ads but because it pays the youtubers I watch way more then ads do.

    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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      6 days ago

      Does it? I’m pretty sure Google played with subscriptions people could pay to remove ads from the internet and the value they came to for break even was far more than anyone was willing to pay

      Also, I’m pretty sure things like Patreon will put more money in creators hands

        • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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          5 days ago

          Ha. I guess me deleting YouTube Red must have been a bigger hit to Google than I’d hoped (avoiding US tech, especially those that pay Trump directly), otherwise they wouldn’t bias the algorithm that way

      • Strider@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        Ah, bummer. Slightly put wrong and you called me out rightly.

        My tld to be provided on a root. I was in the wrong mindset. Apologies!

        • Luc@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          I wasn’t meaning for it to be calling out so much as attempted humorous way of misunderstanding / literally interpreting your post 😅

          I’m still not fully sure what you mean though. Does “root” mean VPS here (a system which you have root access to), and “tld” a domain name or even the DNS server for it?

          • Strider@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            Ah, no worries! It’s purely about DNS!

            If you own a DNS zone you need to have that hosted somewhere in a datacenter.

            So say you own example.com you need to have a server (but usually a more redundant setup) that is queried for everything regarding that: which ip(s) is www.example.com, where does the mail go, some other settings (time to live), all subdomains, text records (various purposes).

      • drascus@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        They do, I was using nextcloud for a long time but wanted to support the project directly. You can also use, local, pretty much if it can store files you can use it.

    • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Which plan do you have? Is the Pro version better with “Email to note”?

      Curious because I used that in the past but stopped I don’t remember why.