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I would keep it simple and use the zoom web client and restrict as much as possible.
However, if you must have an app, they support linux. Then you can sandbox it as you would other apps on your machine.
Going into another partition might be a bit safer, but I'm not sure the privacy vs convinience tradeoff works.
Signal: Because I want better messaging, and somehow they already achieved some adoption.
Firefox: If Firefox can somehow make their browser miles ahead of chrome, I think that'd be just plain good for the world.
Gitea/Forgejo: I think Github is another one of these centralized platforms that's pretty ripe for disruption (and gitlab is just not gonna do it).
Lemmy: It'd be amazing to have all the kinks ironed out of lemmy.
Mastodon: Same thing as lemmy. Get social media out of the hands of big companies.
Mail-in-a-box: I want to be able to host my own email if I want to. Proton is great, but isn't email supposed to be an open standard?
Framework: Not exactly a software project, but man I'd love to see them get the time to push out a ton of great different products and really spark the right to repair movement. It's the first device I was actually excited to buy.
Linux Mint: I don't use mint, but it seems like one of the most user friendly distros. I would love for them to make everything perfect and create a seamless experience (and really make a year of the linux desktop). I also think it would be great to just have one clear frontrunner for new users.
Coreboot: Make firmware open source? Yes please.
Truly Open Source LLM: I really don't want this tech to be in just the hands of just a big company. I'd love for there to be an LLM that has not only it's weights open, but the full dataset, training methods and everything open.
I think when you just get 10 years of dev time, you get an opportunity to push a project ahead of all it's competitors. It is kind of interesting to get to pick and choose a project to be the frontrunner (even if they aren't currently).
I think using a framework is a unique experience. I don't worry about breaking it nearly as much as I did with my old thinkpads. Like my hardware key shorted itself and took my usb port with it. But, instead of it costing me a new laptop, it was 1 week, ~$10, and I was back in business.
Also, Linux support has been great so far. The only thing I had to do was install the brightness stuff they document.
I also heard they're working on coreboot, so that may be a thing. Also the fact that the motherboard is released to all repair shops is quite nice (at least there is some potential for some type of community audit).
Also, the laptop is super slick. The only complaint I have is maybe the battery life, but I'm not on the newest generation, and I don't know what has changed. Highly recommend.
I'm probably from a younger generation, because as long as I have been around google has never felt like a choice for me. Instead, it was always the default or mandated by the organization I am a part of (university, other web services...). It's kinda a fight to get out of the google grasp.
Hearing you (and I guess the article towards the end) talk about google as not a monstrosity gives me hope that maybe other companies can push through and usurp google's "defaultness". It'd also be great if it was not another giant like microsoft giving competition.
I'd love to be able to a make a non-google choice and not feel like an outsider.
I feel like this enables the dick putting in process.
I really like hugo. Everything is written in Markdown and its pretty light. Definitely not as heavy as a full CMS. I also think the themes are pretty nice.
To deploy it you can use github pages or some cloud services (the hugo site lists some).
Its also pretty flexible, so its pretty easy to change how you want to deploy it, or change the look.
In the spirit of selfhosting, you can also host headscale. Its an open source implementation of the proprietary tailscale control plane.
It allows you to get over the 5 device limit (different depending on tiers), as well as keep your traffic on your devices. And, imo, it is pretty stable.
The only issue is that the control plane (by nature) has to be publically accessible. But imo it's way less of a security target than a massive app like nextcloud.
Edit: device limits were wrong
...and definitely not capitally punish them
Just read through their faq
Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not.
That's a nope from me.
There is actually a whole subsection of AI focused on training one model with the output of another called knowledge distillation.
for “private reasons.”
That's such funny phrasing. Why not say like a misguided effort to protect better against covid.
To give a different opinion than all the thin-clients, old laptops can be a good choice too. I am a bit preferrential to really nice old thinkpads.
If you buy them used you can get insane prices (~$40) and also you get all the laptop conveniences of a keyboard, screen, battery (for power failure). Also I think the power/performance ratio is pretty much the same to the thin clients.
Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.
I wouldn't put him in the corporate shill camp.
What for?
Maybe because of centralization? The article is fine though.
But...I kinda agree with the downvoters. I think federation is the real way to create safe spaces for people. Centralization just does not seem like the way.
Having a minority founder doesn't inherently mean the site will be safe. Everyone has biases and prejudices.
I'd argue that having a sandbox that can run binaries with a limited and customizable feature set is actually a good thing for the web. I think there are more technically competent solutions, but the fact that WASM is available on virtually every machine and os, makes it pretty powerful.
If implemented right WASM might speed up our web apps, keep the browser sandbox that is actually quite nice, and run on pretty much any machine. If they open sourced the code, that'd be even better.
Between minified js and WASM, I think I'd take WASM (I can't understand minified js anyway). Between a pure html site and WASM, I think I'd take the pure html site (but I don't think we will be living in that world anytime soon).
Are there any feature differences between gitea and forgejo?
I can't figure out any differences other than the ownership structure.
My algorithms prof recommended tim roughgarden's course.
I haven't watched the videos but his textbook is pretty nice.
Printing always messes with me a bit. The fact that they are network connected and have so many security vulnerabilites makes me wonder what I don't know.
edit: grammar
I think there is levels of trust.
I am often able to reach of level of trust to believe a company is not straight up lying about the code they are running on their servers.
I am not often able to reach a level of trust to believe a "trust me bro" from a company (especially if that statement is not qualified in a meaningful way).
Imagine spending $400 for 24GB of ram.
Sincerely, another Framework user
Climate change is scaring me.
I think you're right?
I also think they're on the right track (and a better track than apps like telegram - lots of negative social baggage). They really have gotten much farther than any other privacy focused apps.
I don't know, maybe I have a more optimistic view of the situation. It feel like they're knocking on the door of going fully mainstream.
I found OsmAnd~ to not only be good on foot, but also on bike. It sometimes plans more aggressive routes than google which saves time (side streets for less distance, opposite directions on one ways...). Take this with a grain of salt though, because I ride primarily in NYC.
And, idk how, but I ended up reading the entire thing.
Ya, looked into it and I'm wrong. I still think there is potential but...
Telegram is way bigger than I thought. Its bigger than snapchat. 😯
I saw that. I get around 5-6 hrs right now (with napkin math - 61W/55W = 1.1 * 6 = 6.6hrs?) . To be honest I am not sure if the difference is worth it. It is incomparable to the massive capacity of something like an M1.
Federation would be super cool. Lemmy has really sold me on it.
There are so many easier ways to get at Satya Nadella and Microsoft. Why choose this?
Hmm i guess I just haven't spent enough time trying to parse unminified js.
I still would think though, if the code is simple enough to understand when you unminify the js, equivalent code should be similarly simple to understand if it's wasm passed through IDA.
I feel like this is a case for framework support. They were better than your generic IT team when I interacted with them. Maybe they have a better idea of what is going wrong.
I completely agree.
However, I still would rather have all the websites I visit pass through my browser's api than be making straight syscalls.
I think it's not perfect security but a good line of defense.
This looks like it's from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷♂️.
Ya, okay that is understandable.
To be honest I have never tried a wasm reversing challenge. I may need to give it a shot.
She deals with trauma at home — her parents are unhappy; they want her married off. But even in the darkness and the whispers, there is now courage. “I want to study and join the police,” she says. “So I can help other girls like me.”
That hits deep. I hope she gets to join the police.
Consumers have almost zero control and options in regard to privacy, other than simply buying an older model.
This line really hit me hard.
Samara Joy - A Joyful Holiday
Random duckduckgo search brought me to this product. Maybe they are not comercially viable yet?
Why are tax dollar being spent making it a little faster for rich FiDi people to get to JFK. Take the A train like the rest of us.
There is so much infrastructure NYC could improve:
And that is just what I can think in the moment.