Because most of what you said is true but Lemmy is, unlike the most popular platforms, full of very selective individual. The overton window is different here than the mainstream. We half very different threshold and here in the Privacy community even more so on that topic. It might be “good enough” for most but if it’s not entirely open source, or rather free software, and with reproducible builds, and self-hostable, and federated, and built by people with impeccable background, and… and… and… that starts to be quite a bit.

I said this in numerous other posts, IMHO what matters is doing better, not “best” that unattainable. For some people Proton is better than what they had until now, e.g. GMail, but for others who move away from GMail to Proton and now self-host, it’s not good enough anymore.

So it depends on where you are on a multidimensional spectrum that is unique to your needs.

I’d add criteria, e.g.

• GDPR compliant
• no link with advertising companies
• free software or open source
• self-hostable
• security audit

etc and overall have a reasonable default option but not hide that there are alternative. We want everybody to move away but if everybody moves to Proton as a suite and they enshitify then we are (nearly) back to square one. So I think showing that good alternatives exist is great. Helping people who already use an alternative others, maybe even better one for THEIR criteria also exist, is even better.

I’d also add a Github (or better CodeBerg or self-hosted Gitea) link at the bottom to https://github.com/ente-io/privacypack with the license (MIT) visible.

I’ll just leave this here… https://debian.org/

It’s disappointing yet unsurprising to read the recurring answers, namely :

• cost
• incumbency

precisely because it’s absolutely avoidable and a well known strategy. It’s so well known that it’s precisely why Micro$lop bought Github in the first place. People are there and the free tiers is enough to get the long tail.

Meanwhile since that strategy happened people who consider smart enough should know the genuine cost behind this : it’s a TRAP. Plain and simple, you get there and you get STUCK there.

So… yes it takes some sweat and even some money to leave the trap … but if you care about freedom, as most free software or open-source developers might, then it’s aligned with your value.

So happy with my 2nd hand Pixel 8. No BS, ecologically acceptable IMHO and yes runs most Android apps thanks to GrapheneOS.

Compared to CopyParty, been using it for few months now, does it also means no directory and no way to explore, namely dropping files more than organizing?

Agreed, it’s as if you would let the locksmith go through your mail, indefinitely, after they fixed your frontdoor.

Absolutely ridiculous, right? Well… not so much when your entire digital life goes through gatekeepers like Google, Apple or Microsoft.

That’s the worst part, their justification for more information to make one safer doesn’t even work.

For-profit security theater.

what breaks the immersion

This isn’t a game, it’s about your freedom, our freedom.

If you want to use Brave to watch YouTube… well I don’t think you really care. The fact that somehow watching a video on a gaming rig isn’t fast enough so clearly not normal. That being said honestly it’s good you did try.

Artwork idea : load thermostat.

You can’t start a new application if your room is above a temperature threshold.

Extension artwork idea : load credits.

If you do delegate some load to a non digital form, e.g reading a paper book instead of watching a movie, then you “earn” some credits you might use to bypass the load thermostat “when you really need it”.

Measure your system, e.g. Zigbee thermometer for your actual room power draw so the plug for your entire system, computer obviously but also screen, speakers, etc even AirCo unit or physical fans if you have some for the room itself.

That’s the only way to know what is actually happening.

If you do not want to go down that path then the heuristic is simple : the heavier the load on either CPU, or GPU, or obviously both, the higher the temperature. If you have a dynamic system, anything built this last few decades or so, then the fans will not kick in under a threshold which you can consider won’t significantly heat up your room.

TL;DR: if you start to hear fans spinning, you have to reduce your load.

Sorry to be that guy but… why? The whole motivation behind PDF is precisely NOT to be edited, NOT to be responsive, but rather to provide the SAME output, mostly text based, anywhere and everywhere.

I’m not saying she shouldn’t edit PDF but I also have to clarify it is not "normal’.

I’ll refrain from recommending anything before actually understanding the motivation behind her workflow.

FWIW bought my Pixel 2nd hand

Yep. To give you some example I login to my self-hosted forge this way. I also use PAM on my desktop to login this way. I also sudo this way. Unfortunately I don’t use this on my phone anymore as I switched to GrapheneOS which requires GooglePlay Services for this kind of auth mechanism (with possible work around https://codeberg.org/s1m/hw-fido2-provider that I didn’t try yet).

Please note I’m no security expert but to clarify few things are important precisely when you are not a professional :

• does it support standards? Basically acronyms like TOTP, FIDO, U2F, are what you should be looking for
• is it supported without additional software by supporting standards? can you use e.g. PAM on Linux with it or does it need a companion “app” somehow?

If the answer to either is “maybe” then I recommend before buying you search online and insure it does work with your specific setup. If the answer though is yes to standards and no to additional software then you are, unless there is a weird bug basically, pretty sure to be able to use it however you want, wherever you want.

Sidenote that it’s the same heuristic for IoT. If you buy a “brandname smart thing” then you probably need their idiosyncratic stack whereas if you rely on standards, e.g. Zigbee or ZWave, then you are nearly guaranteed a smooth experience.

Hope that helps. I know that navigating acronyms can be tricky but IMHO here it’s worth investing a tiny bit of time to recognize them.

Finally as we are talking about open hardware and security I would also add 3rd party audits. I don’t have the competency to insure that the hardware and software implementation are cryptographically safe. I can test that it does in some case what it claim to do, e.g. lock after 3 failed attempt, but could some kind of weird collision hash or bad pseudorandomness be used to practically limit the pool of potential keys or passwords? I don’t have the knowledge for that. I also can’t trust that NitroKey did it right based on the claim of their website. So… audits help bridge that gap in trust. If I can’t trust the vendor and I don’t have the expertise despite being entirely open then I look for others who did verify on my behalf.

Yes precisely because I don’t rely on Microsoft or Google to handle that.

I have my own physical keys. I started like most with YubiKey, including a YubiKey Bio, then learned about NitroKey https://www.nitrokey.com/ thanks to NLNet https://nlnet.nl/project/Nitrokey-3/ so now I have passkey that I could verify https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=nitrokey as they are certified and audited https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2015/nitrokey-storage-got-great-results-3rd-party-security-audit

That being said… IMHO your doubt raises an interesting question, why? Why do you NOT trust them? Do you imagine they have your data? Do you think an interactive explanation where one exchange data would help to understand why no trust is required or maybe better, where it matters?

I’m not familiar with lcpi but I’d ask in https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/issues as it’s quite active despite not being maintained.

There are some already, e.g. https://docs.brilliant.xyz/ with firmware you can replace or https://mentraglass.com/ and I even made one by sticking a RPi with its tiny camera on 3D printed frames https://twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/status/1449023602079240194/

I’m not saying it’s a good idea or that it’s private enough, just that it’s not a theoretical questions, alternatives to Meta or Google Glass do exist already and some of them are not cloud dependent.

IMHO what’s important is to be explicit about usage, understand how it’s used and have informed consent. If you use them to be sneaky and hurt others, even if they are private, fuck off.

lol, $100k+… HP revenue in 2024 was $53,559,000k.

Dell same year $88,000,000k and Lenovo $69,000,000k, so ~$50B to $90B

I let you calculate the percentage but… I’d guesstimate it’s approximately nothing.

Honestly it’s trickier than most think.

There are plenty of theoretical use cases, sure, especially for AI because it’s basically just either statistics on very large datasets or heuristics. Most of us, if not all of us, use that pretty much daily.

LLM though is a lot of less obvious but one can easily imagine public research on language, namely being able to study how language evolved.

GenAI… also, in itself honestly it might even be the most interesting of all because it’s makes us pragmatically ask what it’s like to be creative.

Yet… all that is so SO different from the commercialization and the capture of it.

So public research in AI, I’m 100% behind it. It can be useful. VC backed for-profit systems that extract and capture value, no, nearly nothing legitimate can come out of this… but to be fair it’s not limited to AI, AI just happens to be the last thing they try to capture.

Ugh… just replace them with robots! So easy I should be World CEO. /$ (obviously)