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solrize , 4 months ago to Privacy in In case you want something to send to your humans that say "I have nothing to hide" when you mention privacy.

I don't need to hear it myself since I think I'm already privacy conscious. The suggestion was that I forward the link to other people, but it's really too long for that. Thus the request for a written or at least shorter version.

solrize , 4 months ago to Privacy in In case you want something to send to your humans that say "I have nothing to hide" when you mention privacy.

This is just under 12 minutes long. Tldw. Can someone explain the argument in maybe 1 paragraph? I watched a minute of the video and got bored. I can't see sending it to anyone. A 1 minute version would be great.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Preferred E-Book Library Server Software?

How many are you talking about? I haven't felt the need for anything like that so far but I don't have a ton of ebooks at the moment.

Converting epub to PDF is fairly easy (I think pandoc can do it, and calibre definitely can) but the other way is harder. Same situation with search indexing (epub easy, PDF harder).

Can you just remote mount your NAS and use calibre or whatever locally? Or just make local copies of anything you plan to read?

solrize , 4 months ago to Technology in Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023

It's not just the technology. Why buy a TV when the subscriptions cost a fortune and the shows are crap? We have the Internet now, and watch less TV than before.

solrize , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Privacy in Interesting article about SimpleX chat's security design/considerations - monero.town

Unfortunately most of these systems still expose the very private fact that you and so-and-so are talking to each other at all. Concealing the content is almost immaterial.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Recommendations for lightweight wiki servers?

Fossil-scm.org is very lightweight (2mb ram) and does quite a lot. See if you like it.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media

Idk about rclone but you can do that with Borg backup.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted VoIP?

I think it means that on Linux, no driver is needed ("driver-free" = free of drivers) since it uses the kernel USB stack. On windows there may be a USB driver that gets loaded. But you're right, it's ambiguous.

solrize , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Selfhosted in Movie Review Site Opinions

I wouldn't mess with react or other client side bling for this. Just keep it traditional. There are very light weight forum and wiki systems out there. Maybe Fossil ( fossil-scm.org ) could be restyled without too much pain. It uses about 2MB of ram.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Movie Review Site Opinions

It'll be public

Probably not a good idea to publicize the contents of your Plex server. And anyway, why not just use a forum or wiki?

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Cloudflare Alternative

bunny.net

solrize , 4 months ago to Privacy in supermarket club cards

At my old group's monthly meetings we'd all chuck our cards into a hat, stir them around to randomize them, and take them out again.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted VoIP?

That is interesting, the least you can pay for a sim here is about 2.5 USD/mo as far as I can tell. A phone number by itself is about 1 USD/mo. Vitelity no longer seems to show prices on its public site, but Twilio has NL mobile numbers for 6 USD/mo which seems pretty high to me: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/voice/pricing/nl

SMS for 2fa is deprecated here because of insecurity and TOTP is generally preferable. Can you use that instead?

I understand about DIY and am interested to hear how this goes for you. I might like to try it myself.

solrize , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted VoIP?

I see, yeah, reasonable point about some services not liking hosted phone numbers. I haven't had serious problems with that, but it is a thing.

If you can use those sims in mobile phones then I'd call them mobile plans. Can I ask what country you are in? Here in the US, mobile service costs a lot more. I have been getting SIP service from vitelity.net but twilio.com and voip.ms are better known here. I don't know about jmp.chat.

I haven't had trouble using a hosted number for banking and it feels better to me than using a mobile number. The cheap mobile providers (MVNO's) I use here are sketchy, mobile numbers change all the time, etc. I use a VoIP number as my permanent stable number and forward it to my mobile. So if I switch mobiles, I just change the forwarding. In theory you can port phone numbers between carriers but I've had significant hassle doing that. That's just here though. It may be different where you are.

solrize , 4 months ago to Technology in What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?

This sounds like more roboticication of wikipedia. Not good.