@bob I always report and block. My problem is I need the collective *you* to report and block. And more.

@disorderlyf probably. I know folks are reporting posts and that's almost certainly creating some blocks right now.

@alex02 you're threadjacking, feel free to post your critique on your own post. I'm out here talking about sexism, that's a whole different problem.

@eq "don't let the idiots get you" - do you see how that puts it on me?

I trust you mean well, but respectfully: no. The correct response is "men should fight back when they see this amongst themselves."

It isn't my responsibility to "not let them get me down." It's men who need to step up and fight this battle.

Deleted my post about the sexual harassment I'd received on Fedi, because it was driving more sexual harassment toward me.

Y'all want women on Fedi? Fight that shit. I can't do it for you.

@TheOneDoc I don't want to call them names. I want to call them "banned".

I redact the names because the one time I didn't, I had death threats in my inbox.

Dudes are so afraid of being embarrassed by their own behavior that they'll threaten moms on the internet who make silly tech videos.

This is still up on a major Lemmy instance right now, in a post about my Clonezilla video. So, yeah, Fedi is not immune to this nonsense.

Do better, dudes. If you're a mod and you see this type of behavior, boot people.

And if you can't moderate because of scale, delete your instance or get mods who'll do the damn job.

@socketwench yes!!!!!

@mausmalone I was thinking something like that, but I'm imagining you need three of *the same model printer* in order to sufficiently deal with it. Alternatively the encoding might be robust enough to detect through that.

@Kiloku I look for one every month on Craigslist. It's on my bucket list of video topics to cover. "The sweetest copies you'll ever smell"

@ozzelot hmmm, I wonder if that's why someone still uses it

Just an FYI in case anyone was interested: if you're printing something potentially clandestine, be careful about where you print it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

@daria there's some good tools for that, Pangolin comes to mind- I run one on a VPS so I can share a few things with folks for testing.

Of course, keeping it behind the firewall and just using a VPN is totally fine too.

@yoshemitzu computer clubs can be amazing. There's almost certainly someone nearby who is not only self hosting, but wants to help others do the same (or share resources about it). Finding or starting a computer club/Linux club/etc is probably the best way to go.

@Meznor dozens of them, but it depends on what you want to self host.

For a lot of things, Nextcloud is a reasonable place to start, and their docs are pretty good. The community snap for Ubuntu, in particular, is very easy if you're new and just trying to get your feet wet.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html

@daria Reasonable folks could have different opinions on this, but I consider self-hosting to be "I administer the server and manage the software", and I'm willing to include "someone else manages the hardware" as part of that.

So, IMO a VPS counts. But I'd consider whether that's necessary or if you can get away with running your stuff on an old PC should the need arise.

Learn to self host now. While you still can.