Seed boxes are also dumb. You are making a honeypot for yourself that can be monitored by the hosting provider.

Yes and no. It’s certainly better than stock android. You won’t find anyone who says otherwise. But it creates unnecessary dependancies on apple’s ecosystem and Apple can’t be trusted. Nothing with shareholders can be trusted. Apple might be an ally today but they are a US based-company operating within the confines of what the US will let it do.

All their cloud services are pretty poorly protected too. Every year or so me and my friends will find Chinese gibberish entries in our calendars that link to phishing sites. These get cleaned up eventually but it proves that Apple is lying about not being able to access your shit.

I’m planning my exodus from the Apple ecosystem and looking at grapheneOS but I’m still in the skeptic stage. I have lots of cloud decoupling to do and my self hosting ambitions are big so at the moment my iPhone isnt the biggest priority to change out.

But I absolutely do not trust it.

I2P is king here but it has a limitation that makes it stronger but less practical. I2P doesn’t generally do outproxies. A few exist but they typically aren’t trusted or used. Instead, I2P tries to keep private by only routing around traffic the originated within its own network rather than piping things from clearnet from one place to another. An issue with arrives that do that is you can see traffic from a honey pot going into a black box and with enough monitoring where it ends up leaving that black box. It’s very difficult to track traffic flow within the network but once it jumps back into clear net you can find it again.

Now while you can argue that it doesn’t come out on clearnet, just originates from there, I counter that with Microsoft Windows telemetry, it might as well be clearnet. Windows is the dominant player at the moment so it’s most likely the traffic ends up on a windows machine. There are really benefits behind the telemetry date but they also means there’s a single point an authoritarian regime can apply pressure to to monitor whatever they want. With advances in AI, chewing through tons of collected data is much easier to do, so the idea of “they can’t stop all of us” is ridiculous. They will just pick off the undesirables in smaller chunks.

Ultimately nothing is completely safe but if you really value privacy, make yourself such an enormous pain in the ass that monitoring you becomes a chore.

I2P and postman are free.

Incorrect. It just means someone has to throw money at proton to get that data instead of throwing at ISPs and marketing nuts. They are subject to the same capitalistic pressures as anyone else.

I2P needs more torrents and more people.

It’s also a shit product riding on marketing laurels from its past glory days, like Norton. It leaves pieces behind that can cause malware to come roaring back.

It isn’t hard to just nuke a system or restore a backup people.

Enter the calm and quiet room

Pass out torches and pitchforks, guns and knives

“Snaps exist”

War erupts.

I don’t understand the point of tailscale if straight WireGuard is so simple.

there is no company forcing you to do things their way

IBM would like to do have a few words.

That wiki is by far the best part of arch.

Open source - probably some issues I’m too lazy to find but me and anyone else can search for and fix them whenever we want.

Closed source - there is no war in bah sing sei.

But I only buy boars head so it obviously safe.

/s, although I did reluctantly buy some teriyaki chicken boars head that sounded amazing.

X86 gonna x86.

No. Debian is much easier. Archinstall is still super easy to piss off.

There are easier ways to get that data without having to trick people into downloading an app. Trump has palantir and Israel in his pocket. He already knows where they all are. The app just lets us all know where they are.

Trump doesn’t like playing a fair game because he can’t win those.

These dumb fuckers STILL haven’t figured out the Streisand effect.

It’s possible but not plausible. It’s incredibly unlikely that’s what happened.

It’s certainly going to hurt my country terribly but I’m at least happy that it will help so many others.

I’m honestly surprised it took this long for enterprise to openly reject American tech.

Wouldn’t containers make more sense for some of these rather than full blown VMs?