What’s so bad about servers?
Both are open source.
The signaling server just sees the IPs of your devices and matches them by roomID.
The turn server sees only locally encrypted files and your IPs (and it is used only IF you are behind a NAT).
As far as I see, there is no way for anything bad happening, but I am happy to learn if you know something. If you need it for a proof, I’d gladly give you some of my IPs and encrypted files - see what you can do with them.
They don’t exist as a company anymore and the device itself was basically just a pi with a display, camera and mic and without a capable software. (afaik)
https://community.openconversational.ai/t/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/13268
You left out two important real world aspects from your thought experiment.
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one person cares about a specific aspect of the messenger - privacy - and the other doesn’t care, they are just on whatever their peers told them to be on. So if their messenger happens to have the aspect I care about I’ll do it. Since they don’t have any such criteria I expect them to do it as well.
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If that person is important enough for me and doesn’t budge I’ll call or E-Mail them. Which is less private than an e2ee messenger, but more private than data harvesting companies.
I just told everybody that I only reply on Threema and don’t use anything else.
My thought process was - if they can’t be arsed to use another app (which is an extremely effortless task to do) then they are probably not worth staying in contact with.
The 3 people that were most important in my life at that point got the app immediately.
After over a decade with threema I now have over 40 contacts there, mostly friends, some colleagues, multiple hobby centric groups etc.
I guess just start and don’t compromise and be patient
has insanely good deduplication and compression. May even fit everything on the 64gb usb.
But it does archives on a file basis, not partitions, so not sure what kind of hackerman admin priviledges you’d need to restore your windows in case you want to roll back. I’ve never used windows for this level of fucking with the os - but I’ve heard you can’t modify sys32 etc. even when you use the admin account.
I’ve been using a njalla domain for my personal website and selfhosted stuff like git, gist etc. and it just works so far.
They have a pretty clear stance publically afaik - if you do something illegal, they kick you out without explanations. I have no opinion on that. But it seems that lots of people who tried to host something illegal there play innocent on social media and cry about how njalla took their domain. So as a result the service seems unreliable.
One more good plugin in this line is Chameleon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chameleon-ext/
I once talked with a colleague from the data-analysis field. Apparently the company they work at is somewhat in the legally grey area.
They advised other companies on hiring candidates, by scraping all possible data about them online (which included buying anonymized advertising data and correlating it to all their publically available data and the data from the application). Using that, they claim to predict worker motivation, loyalty, how often they are sick, their political alignment, what their acceptable rate is, if they are going to ask for a raise, how well they work under pressure and much much more.
Since hearing it this has basically become my thread model.
As I am writing this, I realize that it is probably time to delete my Lemmy account and never post here again lol
I did this a while back for blocking LLMs and there are more methods discussed in that threads comments.
Thereis stuff like
https://meshtastic.org/
https://unsigned.io/private-messaging-over-lora/