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  • It’s building out federation and you can already host your own account and control your own data and run your own feeds. The investors don’t have control of the company (public benefit corporation).

    The only difference between it and Mastodon in terms of scraping is that scraping public data is a bit easier. Nothing about Mastodon makes that scraping difficult, it’s just more annoying to do. The company itself is not doing AI BS.







  • Natanael@slrpnk.nettoAndroid@lemmy.worldProxy per app?
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    26 days ago

    Multiple VPN apps on Android allows you to set per-app rules including forwarding to different VPN servers

    The Cloudflare app allows setting exclusions

    However you can’t have 2+ active VPN connections simultaneously on Android without root, so while for example OpenVPN allows you to set multiple VPN profiles with different app exclusions (binding chosen apps to a certain VPN connection) you’re forced to pair this with a firewall to keep different groups of apps offline while their VPN profile is inactive, then switch which apps are online by switching VPN profile.

    Alternatively - set up a single Wireguard VPN to your own server somewhere (it may be a rented VPS) and then set multiple outgoing VPN connections on that server, and then set forwarding rules based on which domains/IP each app communicates with (beware that this may make a mess with browsers and such if for example a single web page gets split over different VPN sessions due to content being hosted across different servers on the same page)





  • Most early vaccines were less dangerous viruses related to more dangerous ones and which provided cross-immunity once the immune system had learned it.

    Then there’s been plenty of vaccines with dead virus particles, as well as modified live viruses (dangerous viruses which was weakened, neutralized, or sterilized, or even mild viruses equipped with recognizable but harmless proteins from dangerous viruses) to more safely expose you directly to the pathogen.

    Then mRNA and protein subunits and some other types drops the full virus part and provides methods to expose you to only small pieces

    It’s generally speaking risky to try to create custom infectious viruses. A significant factor is that triggering the mechanisms for mass production of virus particles in the body can be enough to trigger harmful reactions (immune dysregulation, cell death, etc). Stuff like this is why even viruses you think are harmless still kills people every flu season