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Re:I built something that changed my friend group's social f... by hn_acc1 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:41PM (#44438954)
This. I don't even want my computer to send data / check email unless I tell it to. And I ESPECIALLY don't want it sending telemetry / receiving ads asynchronously.
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Re:I built something that changed my friend group's social f... by dbcoopr on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:14PM (#44439683)
This is basically how computers in the 80s and part of the 90s worked.

I wonder if we could really bring back modems and BBS. How could we make that happen again? I feel like with modern internet, we’re stuck in this streaming TV, social media daze.

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Re:I built something that changed my friend group's social f... by aspenmayer on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:09AM (#44440169)
They never really went away, just sort of evolved, but a lot of the old ways were lost.

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

Impulse: We Resurrected Underground 1990s BBS Software in 2025.. With Docker [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44422006

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Re:I built something that changed my friend group's social f... by bmacho on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @03:58AM (#44441188)
> This. I don't even want my computer to send data / check email unless I tell it to. And I ESPECIALLY don't want it sending telemetry / receiving ads asynchronously.

This should be the job of the OS, but ironically the OS is the biggest offender.

Should be solvable by a strong firewall/local proxy that blocks everything by default, only allows browser, and has an easy and convenient way to allow some outgoing traffic temporarily.

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