I think the 98% of people not in nerdy privacy communities like ours would be shocked about this so it is something to write hone about.

And rightly so, devs need to eat.

Well, they’re going on my big list of “throw money at orgs to make this hellhole a bit less shite” I’ll check in January when I know my earnings for 2024:

https://spenden.piratenpartei.de/

Another reason to hate AI!

It’s only second prize so can’t be scam

Mmmh, no idea about that, sorry …

Im petty sure you don’t need to root a phone to install a custom ROM nowadays (unlocking bootloader, yes. And it is obviously more work installing a custom ROM than buying one that comes with it preinstalled).

I’ve always had a bad feeling about them since I read a pretty damning critique years and years ago (I can’t really recall what it was about now but I think it was privacy fuckups, devs not communicating very well and they included apps from rather shady sources from then internet that could potentially to not very tech-savy people installing malware through their official apps store).

That they somehow managed to fuck up their own cloud infrastructure recently (as others have hinted had) doesn’t really make me hopefull that they changed much from back then. Mind you I now next to nothing about this incedent but if you have a service that potentially thousands of people rely on with their data you should have working backups and rollbacks in place.

(Personally I also just can’t deal with the fucking branding, it just looks pretentious, unsearchable and weird.)

I would (and have) just always gone for Lineage and MicroG with F-Droid/Optanium for FOSS apps and Aurora for the few Google Play Store apps I need. Plus Netguard as a firewall.

Here’s a very in-depth German review of a pretty well-respected security researcher on the not-so-stellar privacy aspects of that ROM:

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-nicht-zwangslaeufig-sicher-custom-roms-teil6/

I’m pretty that Lineage does not fare much better, though. If you’re into privacy the only real option seems to be GrapheneOS which only runs on Pixel Devices 👌

Jitsi, Nextcloud Talk and Signal are all very good options (if you don’t need screenshare with desktop sound (e.g. a watching a tutorial video with sound), I haven’t found a FOSS solution that can do that - though tbh it’s been a while since I tried it with something other than Signal)

Sorry but the video quality is atrocious (and the video loops before I make out the tiny, long answer …)

Found this very video super helpful a few weeks ago!

Paseo is still working perfectly fine for me, been using it for years, what features are you missing?

Almost have as many people speak Tamil as Russian? Interesting!

Ohh, that looks cool! Thanks!

Oh, that sounds nice! I think it would be very smart of Europe to build their own (open-source) infrastructure just in case someone not reliable were to become US president … Can’t hurt to start preparing (better far to late than never …)

I’m really having high hopes of Schleswig Holstein doing of right (I’m also being prepared of these hopes being crushed 😸). A Swiss Linux podcast (Captain, It’s Wednesday) did an interview with one of the politicians responsible for the project and it sounded like the looked at why these projects have failed in the past and are trying to learn from the mistakes:

https://gnulinux.ch/ciw085-podcast

So I would love if this would be the case (German gov using open soruce software) but tbh this reads like marketing bs to me, sorry. “Aims to transform public administration”, “providing Germany’s public sector with a secure and open-source alternative”. Yes, good. Nice. Cool. But are any government agencies are actually using it? I feel like if they wpild be they’d surely name them …

You’ve checked out this:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#subtitle-options

? I think I’ve used --write-subs and --sub-langs all and it worked as expected in the past.

Make Peertube more known! Tell your fav people on YT!

I don’t know about any newbie friendly resources, would be interested in that as well. I guess most datahoarders are also selfhosters, so I’d to look into that as well. Start small, get a smalll cheap, used computer, maybe with an external drive. Check out some docker(-compose) tutorials.

As for data corruption this is something I thought about recently as well. I have not seen a good solution, someone said ZFS with redundancy will autocorrect bitrot. Not sure if this is even possible (or practical) on a computer (can you have the redundancy in another pool partition?)