One of the worst shopping basket designs I have ever seen, was where they added additional items together with the thing you wanted, forcing you to remove the thing they added before paying.

Why do we even care what these tech-bro ass hats think? We already collectively know his vision apply only to “poor people”.

I thought we already had this discussion. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Presenter: claims there is no 20-minute process to make a video Presenter: makes a 20-minute presentation of how to get it set up

On a more serious note, this is fucking terrifying.

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Very informative and a interesting read!

I used to use ansible and helm, but it is overkill for my case. Today I basically use a combo of markdown and bash scripts, the combination of them allows me to run the scripts straight from my IDE.

Ah, more glue on pizza incoming. Personally I don’t understand taking reddit posts as a source for LLM training. It’s like they never visited reddit and think that all posts/comments are true, or even useful. Depending on the sub, sarcasm can account for anywhere from 5% to 100%.

Sounds like a stasi dream world

I had the same idea a couple years back and even though I would love something that you download and just run and it would work, I realized that in order to get a decent adoption rate, you would need a whole ecosystem, similar to apple in order for it to work.

I still think you can develop something like a hub where you install services like apps, but I doubt it would attract anyone outside selfhosting circles.

There are several things you can and should do to harden your server, many of them can be found here.

The day after the 5th of November. Nothing bad ever happens when you suppress the freedom of speech and the right to protest.

People confusing privacy with secrecy.

Hard to implement, but I would like to have a dead man’s switch that just erased every single trace of me, then post an obituary that says: 404 - person not found.

I’m not disagreeing, but most of the things you list are true for any major internet servive.

First of all, I try to offer her alternative and better ways of doing things. I selfhost a number of services that we both use and she also knows that she can come to me for advice and technical help.

I also got her a hardware key that is used together with a software password manager, to keep her passwords safe.

We also have a rule when it comes to social media. If she wants to post a picture of me, she needs to ask permission first.

Installing apps without having to deal with Google or shady app stores.

You could look into apps like authelia, keycloak, authentic, etc.

GrapheneOS on a pixel6. The irony is not lost on me either.