Look on Starlink.com. I don’t expect it’s much worse than your typpical evil ISP or phone caerrier in terms of privacy. Certainly you could route everything through a VPN and that might help a little.
Edit: oh wait, I confused this thread with a different one when I looked at my inbox. Starlink is a high speed service with a roof antenna. For satellite phone stuff, look at https://skylo.tech.
I’d either get an older model for cheap, or get a 9 because of the satellite capability. I wonder if GrapheneOS supports the latter, and for that matter whether it supports the 9 at all yet.
I think if your photos are on any kind of public website, AI idiots will scrape them regardless of the provider. So at minimum you have to password protect them. That said, I’d feel ok using this:
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
It basically runs NextCloud. You’d configure it so that only logged-in users can view the pictures, and give accounts to your friends and family. I don’t think Hetzner is likely to train AI with it, though you could check through their privacy policy. Part of the issue with eg. Google Drive is that everyone wants stuff for free, so Google recovers some of its costs by advertising, AI training, etc. Hetzner charges enough to actually make a profit, while still being IMHO affordable at the level we’re discussing. That means they don’t have to do crap with advertising etc. I have 5TB in their Storage Box product and am happy with it.
If you want to be more hardcore, you could set up a dedicated server with an encrypted HDD, but now you have to deal with the hassles of self hosting, including backups. It still wouldn’t be end to end encryption, which would require your users to run some kind of special client, or maybe use some awful javascript client.
It would help if you gave some numbers. How much data, within a factor of 1000 say? A few megabytes? A few gigabytes? A few terabytes? A few petabytes? The approach you need will change depending on the level. What is your budget?
What bothers you about cloud storage? Are any of the photos edgy?
Anyway it sounds to me like you would be fine with a decent web hosting plan and a basic photo gallery app.
Never heard of U-prove but for what you are asking, is FIDO2 similar?
I wouldn’t count on google drive doing anything in particular after expiration, unless that is expressly part of the product description. Just because you can observe it happening now doesn’t mean you can expect it to keep happening. For that matter, Google cancels products all the time. So I wouldn’t even rely on the paid plan not being withdrawn at some inconvenient moment. If you really want to use it, then best strategy is probably use it as long as it lasts, but have some plan B in mind if it goes away.
Oneprovider.com shows lots of offers in Istanbul, though servers are expensive there compared to a place like Hetzner:
https://oneprovider.com/search?&cities[]=62&price=0&price_max=9999999999999999&price_any=0
1.1 USD/mo for 2TB is basically a giveaway or free plan, i.e. you’re the product not the customer. So I’d be suspicious. How much storage are you looking for? Hetzner unfortunately jumps from 3.2 euro/1TB to 11 euro/5TB. So 2TB is kind of a bad spot on that scale. But if google drive is working for you and your stuff is encrypted, why not keep it?
Tbh you get jerked around less with paid plans. I’m happy with Hetzner Storage Box. I have 5TB there for 10 euro/month. I’d never use Google Drive. borgbase.com has a 10GB “free forever” plan and I could see parking some stuff there, but 10GB is pretty small and IDK the conditions. Why not use a VPS provider with better storage options?
It was ok at the time, and if it isn’t ok now, that means you want to run something that is too bloated for its own good.
Really though, special hardware for this doesn’t make too much sense. A raspberry pi with two ethernet interfaces would be great, but if you can live with ethernet plus wifi, the current rpi’s will do it. Otherwise there are lots of similar boards that really do have two ethernet.
I have not really felt much use for self hosted server hardware at home. I use VPS’s for that and it’s less hassle. Maybe it doesn’t count as completely self hosted, but conceptually it’s a miniature colo box.
There is something called auto clicker(?) Such is simpler but similar. It’s on fdroid.
Sure. Normally I think of visiting a site in a browser as navigating to that site on purpose. If Mozilla sells placement in the browser so that the browser navigates to that site automatically (unless you disable that), it’s invasive. That said I do remember Mozilla sets the default start page to something annoying and I had to reconfigure it to about:blank when I set up the system.
I think you are saying Mozilla sold tabs screen placement to Accuweather, which means Accuweather gets user IP addresses (and therefore approximate location among other things) when the user launches the browser. So I guess the answer to OP question is yes.
And yes, opt-out is possible, but a pro-privacy approach would require opt in.
Thanks, I’ll ask my crypto homies about it. I remember they were trying to handle some subtle problems.
MLS info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging_Layer_Security
Group chat is a tricky problem and the modern crypto group (moderncrypto.org) talked about it at great length a few years back. I don’t know whether any software exists that incorporates all those ideas, but that’s mostly because I haven’t really been looking for it.
This is pretty good, a discussion of possible motivation of the founder’s arrest, and comparison with an earlier scuffle involving the RIM Blackberry.
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2024/08/25/pavel-durov-and-the-blackberry-ratchet/
Hmm, so this is kind of a dup thread. I wonder if there is a way to lock and forward it, or at least mark it as a cross post. Thanks.
Sure, I just have never used telegram or paid attention to it until that guy got arrested. So the quick overview by a cryptographer was helpful.
Thanks. I’ve run gitea without docker and it was fine. I’ll have to figure out docker someday though.
It seems more important to ensure Larry Ellison’s good behaviour than Joe Schmoe’s. Ellison is able to be far more destructive. Maybe some surveillance at Oracle HQ could help.