Barcelona pff… now do it in Oslo! 🤣

Dummy question… if you have an ssd, why not swap? Sure not the best but also that is the last resort and on ssd Is not as bad as it used to be on hdd

I am confused. Aren’t their clients open source? How many milliseconds will take till 100s folks will fork it?

Their server is useless and Vaultwarden is already a superior option

While I agree that they are a “at risk” company, I don’t think the software itself is at risk

I would recommend to give a read to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License

The problem is not the difficulties of any of these… if you are reasonably skilled you’ll master any of them… given enough time.

When I was a student I maintained a Slackware up/running/updated for my gf at the time… was it hard? No but it was a gigantic waste of time… and what I learned is not comparable to the amount of wasted time.

Same with OpenBSD… I love that operating system for networking (the most elegant firewall/netfilter I ever seen) but (1) didn’t have support for multi cpu for a looong time (2) drivers either worked out of box magically or good luck

All people you mentioned have better things to do than babysit an operating system and Debian (fedora I don’t use for decade, can’t say) is a pretty reasonable compromise of not treating you like a kid and not making you waste time

Sounds average San Francisco to me… or, at least, my average friends in San Francisco 😅

To be fair that is pretty much AGPL 🤣

Oh and the ridiculous MongoDB license that is so extreme even Open source foundation thinks they went too far 🤣

For sure, you need a public (dynamic) IP for this.

NAT sucks, been there, done that… ugh! And, yeah, nothing can be done short of some sort of proxing that adds latency and unreliability

You need static IP only if you want to host the autoritative DNS server for your domain (spoiler alert: you don’t).

You don’t need to proxy your traffic via VPS (higher latency for no good reason) and the dyndns providers are over priced.

What you need is:

• Buy your domain
• Use a free DNS provider (I used for years the excellent dns.he.net but it is a bit cumbersome. Nowadays I gave up and I now use cloudflare without any proxying, just pure DNS)
• Point your registrar to the dns provider
• use ddclient to update the IP of a domain entry (e.g. server.example.com)
• add as many CNAME as you want that point to that entry (so you can have stuff like Jellyfin.example.com www.example.com Nextcloud.example.com)

That’s all… ddclient will update that single dns entry every time your server restarts (or the IP lease expires and you get a new IP)

The only thing you need to pay here is the domain (you can get free domains but that is another story and tbh I would not recommend, there are cheap domains out of there)

Genuinely curious… why using root for operations like these?

sudo apt-get install friends

Awesome package! Still figuring out what it does though 🤔

I haven’t looked in the tor protocol for more than a decade but if routing was done based on traditional networking parameters (ttl distance, ping, etc) pretty sure you would end up all your nodes in your jurisdiction.

If you were using pure random, routing may involve only US (where there are a significant percentage of nodes)

Instead you can see that rarely there are two nodes in the same jurisdiction.

Years ago there were a config file mapping countries to jurisdictions and maybe that has been ditched but still I don’t buy that it is pure random or using traditional routing criteria

Of course not! For this reason you need different providers and jurisdictions for datacenters, operating systems, encryption providers.

It’s the very same principle tor works: sure you can do traffic analysis and be able to “unmask” a tor user… and for this reason tor deliberately sends traffic across 3 different jurisdictions. Is it still possible to force 3 different nodes to cooperate for the unmasking? Sure… but you need 3 jurisdictions to collaborate with that.

Also, fun fact: bank secrecy is still in effect for Swiss residents (regardless of the citizenship) and people resident outside of the US and EU. Because things are always more nuanced than they seem 🙂

Real world example

Yes, of course, it was a mistake, I reworded that sentece

The only safe phone is a phone with no data.

Otherwise there will be tools to gain full access.

Without forgetting the good old rubber hose attack

FWIW I think the only way to keep confidential information is hosted in another country, encrypted, with no credentials (or even the name of the server) cached, all on open sources stacks, with the infrastructure provider different from the operating system provider different from the application provider and encryption provider

Is this convenient? No Is this accessible to the average user? No

I just think something at certain point went extremely wrong in history. We accepted control in exchange of convenience

But hey built and forgotten works great with vibe coding… 🎉🎉

The argument on Kling seems pretty weak to me… is he Fascist because… he doesn’t support violence and an assassination? 🙄

By this logic for being not fascist one must support the death penalty?

I am pretty sure fascists are in favour of violence and murder (in fact the person cited was killed by a fascist)