solrize @ solrize @lemmy.ml

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Thanks, it's late here now but I'll try to look soon. I didn't realize significant improvements over Goldberg etc al were really possible. I'll try to understand that too.

Is there another post somewhere giving a general description of what you are doing?

Do you have a link about your messaging app? And PIR doesn't conceal the existence of traffic, so it doesn't seem like the right thing for messaging. It's more for databases as the name implies. What exactly are you trying to do?

I used proxmox and have played a little with nix and guix, but simplest is just use debian, put /home on a separate logical partition from the system partition so you can reinstall the system without clobbering user files, and as people keep saying, backup early and often.

If you look at the petapixel article, they complain about the speed (10mb/sec not 100) and have serious doubts about the reliability. Using this for backup or for security cameras sounds like a bad idea. It could still be good for some things like carrying your movie library on your phone, while still having a stable copy at home.

This seems to be different and is geared towards directly looking after other humans. Hactivism as I'm used to the term, can often be technocratic.

scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

Sorry but that buys into the data miners' self serving myths. It implies the protocol is ok unless some failure makes it leak more information than was intended. In fact it's invasive even if it works exactly as hoped. "Tracking" is a misnomer too. It's hostile surveillance even if it's at population level. (Any nonconsensual surveillance that produces info to be used by people you don't like is hostile by definition. And it's near guaranteed that some of the buyers-advertisers, political campaigns and funders, govt agencies, whatever-will be people you don't like). So shut it down.

Simplest is use /etc/hosts to set up names, if there are just a few.

Did you just discover this? It's a Microsoft site after all.

No a lot less, twilio is $1/mo, see also VoIP.ms and vitelity.net

This was basically Blondies Pizza back in the day. Also the nitter thread is from 2019.

I'd say run a local imap server rather than dealing with the weirdness of storage shares across multiple OS's.

If we told just anyone, it wouldn't be private!!!!

Srsly any phone app is inherently insecure because the phone itself is insecure. And there's lots of metadata leakage, like the phone broadcasting its location. There is no "go to app". It all depends on what you are trying to do and who you are trying to communicate with.

If this is for live disks or mirrors (not backup), LUKS is reasonable. Backup is different from mirroring since one of the things it protects you from is accidentally deleting files. If you delete a file from your main drive, it also disappears from the mirror drive, so mirrors are not backup. For encrypted backup, I've been using Borg backup which is quite well thought out, though confusing at first. The backups go on a remote server which is ok since they are all encrypted.

You mean the blog link? That's an awful lot of articles. Is there a single sentence somewhere saying what it is?

What is the project anyway? It's not obvious at all.

Sort by newest first.

They want to obsolete all our phones again? No thanks.

There is already a subscribed tab, and I use it most of the time when I want to catch up on selected topics. I use the local or all feed when I want to browse a wider view of what's going on in general. Right now the total amount of Lemmy traffic is small enough that browsing that way is tolerable, which it wouldn't be e.g. on reddit.

I do think that the Lemmy software design is more meme-oriented than I'd prefer, because of stuff like the thumbnail pic with every post in the main feeds. The more interesting parts of reddit to me were text-only and we don't have that here.