Oh wow look at that beautiful website that made uBlock shine like a Christmas Tree ! What a beautiful specimen !

Even better, self-host Vaultwarden !

• Works everywhere (android, iOS, linux, windows, macOS…)
• TOTP
• Works without connection and if the instance is offline.
• Add notes, customize URI…
• password/username/passphrase generator
• …

A lot more to it :)

Hahaha dark humor, nice !

Yeah individually your data is approximately worth 200$/year (that’s a real estimation I read somewhere, not something I spit out of my ass).

So yeah not much worth you’re right. But if you stop being selfish for a moment and think as a community and take that portion for 1 billion people on earth, how much is that worth? Yeah you guessed it… It’s a huge amount of money ^^ !

So stop thinking only for your self and start to think how we are all involved in this shit and should fight back as much as possible…

Ohhhh ! Docker container are awesome. If you have an old spare laptop lying around (or you know someone who has) give it a try it’s fantastic ! It similar to a virtual machine but different ! It solves the big issue virtual machine have: fast, portability, lightweight, memory efficient… It shares the underling OS !

I have a 10 years old laptop which is going strong with over 21 docker containers which couldn’t be possible with VMs ! You can host any imaginable service (if available as docker image) in seconds, behind a reverse proxy and access it through your LAN (or externally over a Wireguard connection).

Let’s take a media workflow example, if you want to get rid of something like YouTube music, spotify, deezer… and maintain your music library and own your music:

You can self-host:

• Navidrome to maintain your music library
• MeTube to download YouTube music (yt-dlp frontend)

Install NewPipe (Hope you’re on Android :s) and HTTP-shortcuts to glue everything together ! HTTP-shortcuts allow to communicate with your self-hosted MeTube service via POST/GET requests and send directly your files to your MeTube instance via NewPiped. You can than have a background script on your server which: Removes and changes the pesky YouTube metadata, send your files to your Navidrome service !

This is a rather “complex” workflow but just to say it’s possible. Sure depending your skills with your OS it will take some time to get accustomed to docker containers and the like ! It took me approximately 1 year to really get accustomed to all this new workflow (and get the hang of linux), but now it’s only a matter of minutes !

<— That Community episode is a real banger XD —>

Another use case for your phone: encrypted backup for docker containers ! Nowadays they come with a lot of spare space (over 120 GB). Encrypted, scrambles file/directory names and archived !

I wouldn’t backup any critical data this way though ! It’s more an “in case” emergency backup for docker database and config volumes !

Same thought here ! Wireguard being based on private/public key, even if the port is open every request that doesn’t have a valid private/public key gets dropped !

From a bot’s perspective this means the port is closed !

I’m not an export in the field but there’s also a way to only use key-based connection with SSH, but I’m not sure how good/secure it is compared to wireguard.

As you said, I’m also too scared to let a open SSH server running on my small home lab 😅 !

Haha, some kind of dead DE pixel ? 😅

That’s similar as the saying:

Give them fish, and they will have something to eat for days. Teach them how to fish and they will have something to eat for a lifetime.

Something along the line 😅

I mean… My Mac M1 doesn’t allow right-click create a new file. 😮‍💨 ! Also, if I recall correctly, there is a similar thing that made me go crazy on Gnome DE.

Nowadays, people hate to get everything neatly separated in a nice and well ordered directory structure. They throw everything in the same directory and use the find/search function, for what it’s worth.

That’s some crazy stuff ! Being able to completely change/repair every part is something every smartphone should be capable off…

We are in a buy/throw away generation amidst a big climate change issue/rare ore depletion… That’s depressing.

I do agree that some EU members try to get out of the hands of the US based monopoly/dictatorship, but just proposing to implement such a law is insane and proves how well the US roots are implemented in the EU.

While this is a small win, they will just circumvent and find some kind of loophole. It’s not that they don’t want to implement such a law, it’s only because they know they won’t be the only one abusing that system, because it’s to simplistic and anyone with good connections and money can just get the keys for the backdoor.

IMO it’s just a question of time before they propose a more stupid and insane law only the GOV can use. This is not a real win, more a wait and see situation…

On a final note, It’s great the EU trying to get away from US based software (eg Linux, Office…) 😊

Swiss privacy and neutrality died the day they refused asylum to Snowden. Europe is just US’s little pet.

It’s not because you can’t check on Windows, that it doesn’t exist ! I’m sure there are a lot of different boot issue logs in Windows, they are just hidden behind a “beautiful” Welcome page.

Or the EU might revisit that old SuSe/Mandrake strategy.

They actually are ! I have seen a few posts talking about it. Not sure about SuSe/Mandrake, but they are talking to implement Linux or try to somehow get away from Microsoft.

A better example to show that SMS’ are insecure are the Signalling system 7 protocols.

While it is possible to incerpte SMS, phone calls and 2FA (kinda scary…) it comes with a high cost (14k) and some technical skills.

However, if you are a vulnerable target, just don’t use SMS or any smartphone. Geotracking is also possible !

Somehow… But It feels like the EU gives you the impression of privacy while it tries to takes it back another way… (Chat control)

The EU says it’s for “the kids” and France says it for narcotrafic…

:/

My god does it feel good to read something so well written and not by AI ! <3 Nice blogpost I went through the whole post !

However, I felt kinda uneasy to read about privacy and data collection and then seeing Google Voice being proposes as VoIP solution… :/

I get you ! And you’re right. It’s never to late though, until it is. We/they have been betrayed more than once by big tech and monopoly, so I think it’s justified to feel a bit anxious when something out of bound to user’s privacy/consent is implemented in the only real alternative we have right now…

I mean, sure Firefox is the only last bastion against big tech’s monopoly and all forks are depending on Firefox… So that’s not truely a real long term solution as alternative (If something is going to happen…). But as a long term Firefox user, I also have the feeling they are slowly following a dark/uncertain path.

Sure, right now it’s not that of a big deal, but what if in 3 years it becomes a big deal? Imagine a scenario where all web browsers become controlled by one single entity? Wouldn’t it be good to have an alternative? (Yeah there is Tor already) This is only possible in this kind of “hysteria” where some people take the lead before it’s too late, otherwise we will be stuck for years without any working solution, while depending on big data’s scrapper/hoarder riddled with ads and privacy invasive browsing…

Hope it make sense and that my arguments are somehow comprehensible? Not my first language so giving my best haha !

Edit: It’s not a matter of if, but when (but I hope that doesn’t apply to Firefox)

Edit2:

Just think about the Linux kernel, right now it’s the only best alternative to Windows/MacOS and everything is perfect. But what will happen in a few years when Linus steps down? Will it still be as good as today? Will big tech take a step into the kernel? Will it become the next Windows/MacOS? Who knows… That’s why alternatives are always a good thing to have before it’s too late !!