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  • I agree that’s an important aspect of open source, but for me personally it’s more about being able to audit what is running on my machine. the fact that they show you the code lets me see and confirm for myself that they aren’t doing anything shady like spying. Though it might not be good enough for some people it definitely is for me.

    It’s a level of transparency you won’t ever get from truly “proprietary” software.


  • CausticFlames@sopuli.xyztoADHD@lemmy.worldWhat's your job?
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    3 months ago

    Network Administrator at a growing company. We’ve expanded quite a lot at this point, and although that’s my title I do basically everything with my small team from writing code and pissing with the servers, to installing cameras and helping old sally when her computer freezes.



















  • The thing with VPN’s is that you’re only shifting the trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. That provider can still see pretty much everything you’re doing and your real IP, if they wanted to. To add to this, plenty of VPN companies have been found logging when they said they didn’t. I would say either set up traffic for I2P, or simply go with an actually no logs VPN company like Mullvad, who’s been battle tested and doesn’t log, and you’ll be fine.

    People also say that because it’s important to understand what a VPN is and does as well. It wasn’t originally meant to be any sort of anonymity tool, the technology exists to make it seem as if your traffic is coming from somewhere else - which allows for things like remote work on a local network.