deadcatbounce

“Your” content? I seem to remember that everything you post is their (meta’s) content.

Why would they delete their own content?

Email isn’t private. It was designed to be robust not private. Encryption never really caught on; and your counterparties using Gmail or some Microsoft server in the background will kill any expectation of privacy you might have.

WW II’s Gordon Welchman is worth reading about. Similar nasty end as Turing. Not as well known as Turing but a similar contribution before the encryption was actually solved.

Have used Zoho for decades. Dozen domains, three/four actual accounts. Don’t seem to have had any issues with them selling my info - use them with Addy.io. I don’t gain anything from this reference/comment.

Sometimes: a laughing hyena.

If you don’t have tested backups, you don’t have a backup.

If you haven’t tested your backups, you ain’t got a backup.

Nice try Elon.

Just like the seventies, anarchy is the only way forward to get out of this lying twisted thieving divisive oligarch of politics running my country for the last quarter century plus.

Isn’t it strange that when you believe in an oligarch, they never disappoint.

systemd seems to like mounting stuff on /media. However, I would consult the Linux filesystem hierarchy documents around (eg. Wikipedia and then follow the references) for the most compatible place.

/srv /mnt tend to suggest themselves. /home is for your personal stuff not shared user wide stuff.

Don’t put stuff in local directories, leave it in a NAS location and mount it where you need it using fstab or auto/mount units and the appropriate filesystem. Maybe I’ve misunderstood something you wrote to think of this last bit.

The very first part of my youth. Can’t thank him enough for getting me through shitty parents.

As my ex-wife wive have it, he “Hit the b².”

Great geezer.

Well, well done, western leaders for trying to stop us using currency and move to traceable electronic funds. They’re only looking after us. Bless.

There’s a change detection add-on for Firefox I use for websites which don’t have RSS feeds. Might work on that other thing.

SiteDelta Watch.

Syncthing is fast. I have an IPv6 setup too which seems to help.

I have my downloads directory on my desktop linked to a downloads directory on my Android; you can’t link to the real Android downloads directory anymore so I use another.

When the file is removed from the desktop downloads directory it disappears from mobile.

I tried using Bluetooth between them but it’s more fiddly than Syncthing with my config. Switch Bluetooth on on desktop, connect to desktop, send file, disconnect, move file. Whereas Syncthing is always on.

However, before I started using Obsidian notes I used to transfer URLs using Signal’s Note-to-self thing. Signal on both desktop and mobile.

Obviously, I sync between mobile and desktop Obsidian using Syncthing.

Thank-you for your kindness. And it is really kind!

I’m old so my view of prop software is rooted in the change of early Microsoft et al bringing real change to the dubious parasitic entities that they are today. I watched it slowly happen and have been delighted and contributing in a small way with Linux since the turn of the century.

RedHat had been sold to the ‘no-one ever got fired for buying IBM’ (I still can’t believe that they believed that that was a winning slogan). In these trying times the love for open source isn’t translating into enough cash; average people are stretched.

I can’t wait for the leaders in my country to stop pandering to the world’s oligarchs and serve the people that elected them.

Upvoted.

Appreciate the reply, but I don’t mind some proprietary code. There are very few reviews of open code by respected bodies (I’m writing in generality here). I’m certainly not qualified to review code. Just being open is only the beginning of the journey.

As we’ve seen with some open software recently there are some active hackers successfully targeting open software because it is open. Such exploits are not always discovered in good time.

https://thenewstack.io/why-so-much-open-source-software-is-vulnerable-to-hackers/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/github-desktop-vulnerability-risks.html

Etc etc.

I place store by the warrant responses and action of government entities against some software.

Fuck. They told me that they were storing my backups.

Signal. It’s changed a lot. For the better.

No.

As opposed to Microsoft, Google, … NSA, or GCHQ servers. Or all of the above.

Don’t fill copy-on-write fs more that about 80%, it really slows down and struggles because new data is written to a new place before the old stuff is returned to the pool. Just sayin’.

I wouldn’t worry if you’re backed up. The SMART values and daemon will tell you if one is about to die.

I’ll have to try it with something meaty.

Thank-you again.

What I meant to imply is that most, if not all, of the pages/sites that I visit, I am logged in to their site for whatever valid reason as we all are. The data collected is directly attributable to me (although, as I said, I give as much false/unattributable info as possible) to make selling it unhelpful.

I’ve not heard of Andi before. I had been using StartPage (a Google proxy) but Proximity is so good that I’ve switched. Bad move but what can you do. Google isn’t great anymore.

I’ll have a look at Andi. What’s the underlying search engine(s)?

Thank-you for the recommendation. 😁

Thanks for the dirty ticks reference. That’s going to be fun to read! May give me an idea.

Much of my browsing these days is on account-based web pages and apps, so it’s unavoidable, but I use addy.io to avoid a single email address and try not to enter any identifying data like full name; and use one-time credit cards. I do what I can to minimise anything resembling a tracking file being on my PC for any length of time if it is downloaded at all (pi-hole, uBlock Origin, cookie autodelete, VPN, i2p, blah blah), but it’s a losing battle as we all know.

I’m trying to only interact with LLMs locally, and be generic with my queries for Perplexity (my current fav engine). With LLM being trained on all our data without our agreement, it’s a concern.

OpenAI say that they’re not making a profit on even their pro plan. You know what they say about free services and being the product.