You said the ISP’s router is in bridge mode, which means your router is exposed to the wild, so it’ll be attacked as well, and of course it’s up to you to run a good firewall on it.

I don’t know how to test for malware, but I do know that basic consumer routers that can run OpenWRT are very cheap. I can’t speak to pfSense as I don’t have experience with it.

Outside of states with a parliamentary system, “state” and “government” are synonyms. In states with a presidential system, the police are an arm of the executive branch, which is an arm of the state/government.

As I hinted at, you could add some random garbage to each address so it can’t be guessed.
Example: paypal@MyDomain.com → paypal-x4t@MyDomain.com

2 What is the best structure for creating emails for services? For example I’m currently using <ServiceName>@CDexample.com

That’s more-or-less how I use Fastmail’s catchall/wildcard alias feature.

but the downside of this is if someone knows your domain they can effectively figure out what services you use and this possibly could be used for osint and doxx you.

How would someone know that what services you use based on that? To do that they would need to know what email addresses you’ve actually created/used. In any case, you could salt each local-part so it can’t be trivially guessed.

3 Should I use my custom domain for Banking and other financial related services?

I use mine for nearly everything.

5 If i use my custom domain on my cv would my whole domain forever be correlated with my other personal data on my cv and sold to data brokers?

Perhaps. When I want an extra layer of anonymity, I use a Fastmail’s masked email that’s not associated with my domain.

Yeah, this is community rule 2. I’ll leave this up, but please refrain in the future, @ExtremeDullard@piefed.social.

This isn’t particular to one Lemmy instance, nor even to Lemmy, but to ActivityPub as a whole and federated architectures in general.

This is not a private platform; it’s a public, pseudonymous one. Any person or web scraper, including the Internet Archive, can see all posts and comments.

‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common

If liberals genuinely want to understand and confront the rise of the far right, then rather than smearing the left they should perhaps reflect on their own faults.

Thanks for the tax write-off “gift,” Chris, some of which comes back to your crypto company in the form of rent. Must be nice to be able to steer how government is run at no cost to you.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: User uses special letters that look like a mix of q, b, p, and d making the comment near unreadable without having a stroke.

We know. Just downvote and move on.

Please don’t tarnish your quality comments with ableist slurs so I won’t have to regret needing to remove them.

Are those people actually leftists? Because they sound like liberals, not socialists.

German philosophy professor: Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

In terms of “why?” it’s not causal on its own, but in terms “why now?” I believe it is. It’s the two-by-four that broke the camel’s back.

Yes, I use Podman for personal projects for that reason (and for FOSS reasons).

No idea. But you may be able to restrict its file access at the OS level just to be safe, or run it in container(s), which it appears to support: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Docker-apps

Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_site

curl -s -w "\n" -H "authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
    | jq -r '.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.email'

Yes, I just checked the API and I don’t see it exposed anywhere except to the user.

I assume it’s removed from your user record in the Postgres database. Presumably there are database backups that will retain it. I haven’t worked on the Lemmy codebase nor do I sysadmin the server, so that’s all I can speculate from my past past experience designing & managing services of this kind.

Maybe call it your gaming console and don’t use it for anything else, so Microsoft can’t see anything that matters to you.

🙏🍆👄 No Zionazis.

I mean we can generally agree that China is worse.

We cannot agree, “comrade.”

They’re not only identifying immigrants, though. And they may be using biometrics from Real ID, which everyone needs to drive or enter many government buildings or receive many government services.

My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.

Some eat up pro-AI drivel, some others anti-AI drivel. Tech bubbles are a wild ride. At least it’s not a bullshit bubble like crypto or web3/nft/metaverse.

It’s as if some people will believe any grammatically & semantically intelligible text put in front of their faces.

🙄, but I’ll only address:

the US justification for using nukes in Japan was that forcing a surrender via attack against civilian targets prevented a years-long slog and invasion.

That was the US’s public-facing narrative, not its actual justifications. Japan was already ready to surrender at that point, but the US was worried that Japan might surrender to the USSR instead, and the US wanted an unconditional surrender, not one with conditions. It also wanted to scare the living shit out of the USSR, to discourage it from further spreading its influence. And it wanted to test the bomb on a city that had been left intentionally undamaged during the war, namely Hiroshima, for its own nuclear weapons research & development.

But for you to say Iran isn’t authoritarian is ignorant of the facts.

We are not ignorant of the facts, but you are ignorant of your carrying water for Western imperialism. Which is understandable thanks to a lifetime of propaganda, but it’s never too late to stop.

It’s amazing how Russiagate malarkey and the Ukraine war has people thinking Putin is some cartoon evil mastermind. There is no greater “max evil potential” in the world than the US empire itself, of which Palantir & Clearview are constituent parts.

For keeping cookies in bento boxes:

• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Temporary Containers

No way that’s happening short of an imminent, credible threat of socialist revolution.

Logseq can be run locally (without any “cloud”) and is free & open source.

Virtually all of crypto is a scam as far as I’m concerned, but Privacy Guides seems to endorse RetoSwap: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/#buying-monero

The location of our nuclear wessels.

OP, you’ve made this into your personality? 🙄