Oh! I should get back to it… Togrther with the winamp skins I had downloaded from internet archive.

Plus projectM from Steam, and Spotube… I could stop using the monthly subscription for (*1) an ugly UI that barely handles drag-and-drop and is a mess to make my playlists with.

(*1) tbh, the recommendation engine got me hooked at first, but my interest has been fading away.

Mullvad is trustworthy (imho, and because of audits).

Anyway, you can have both, and run purple i2p with blackjack and torrents!

The closest would be a folder, synchronized between phone and computer (e.g. using syncthing) where you save the torrent files. Then the client scans and automatically adds torrents from there. It will remove such files, so while at it, you should also configure to save completed torrent files somewhere. When possible, torrent files are a better option (they bring metadata, required if you ever wanted to re-share some content).

They were cutting files in smaller parts and spreading over multiple locations and countries. At least that was the claim in the early days, so anything illegal would require lawyers on many jurisdictions sending the same letter (e.g. DMCA takedown)

Ironically, it did work but now that Durov is in jail channel admins would do good to take precautions.

Nice write-up. I’d take this as a blueprint. Anyone can swap 3rd-party services to their like (e.g. headscale, xmpp bot on that vps, backblaze s3, etc.) and extend upon (e.g. oidc providers, mailboxes, arr suite, etc.)

A cheap VPS with headscale. Or just ZeroTier.com free plan.

Oh. And an invite-only could also work for new accounts.

On an instance level, you can close registration after a threshold level of users that you are comfortable with. Then, you can defederate the instances that are driven by capitalistic ideals like eternal growth (e.g. Threads from meta)

But terrible handling of metadata. Which is the case for all chat apps AFAIK. Like, even with OMEMO, who talks with whom, and when, can be exposed. Which sometimes is enough to get legal issues (e.g. Ola Bini’s case)

The “other criminal activity” probably includes many horrible things. Not just a teen selling shrooms. So, I am not so sure that’s really what we want.

AI (e.g. face recognition) is riddled with false positives. Such a tech already does wrong on civilians without being a weapon (e.g. cameras on subways). What you said is somewhat naïve.

OpenCamera is good, but could do better. But I’d say video editing is the biggest void.

Also, gesture typing keyboards are an empty niche of foss alternatives. HelioBoard requires loading some proprietary blob unfortunately.

I guess the most heavy machine learning use cases are not filled in.

Just yesterday I deployed it locally, and was about to migrate from my keepasDX (+syncthing)…

Oh, fair point. Perhaps rclone.org then! :O

Syncthing. Look no further, just check the “untrusted device” so that you don’t give unencrypted data to your friend’s disk.

Oh, I didn’t remember. Time to report my own post… Lol. Let’s see if mods want to lock this thread then they can do it.

It’s been always the same. Backend, server logic, database… dynamic content; on one hand. JavaScript runs on the browser for almost anything, sometimes for dynamic content. But it’s not tied. You could have an in-browser button with a counter for the numbers of times it was pressed (that’s actually an entry-level programmer exercise) and that’s a static site. If you saved the counter value to the server (e.g. database) then it’s not static anymore.

This! And, baby-steps: don’t go about installing every app you see. Try backup strategies, put them to test (bring service down and up again with data from backup). Play, have fun.

Or euros

Don’t forget the file indexing (baloo or ak-… something), I had terrible experience with them in the past.