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Matrix is still in my “recommend” category for real time federation. With third room still being the coolest example of what that can mean so far. They build on the same libs that make Peertube work too for the video sharing aspect (not the video metadata sharing and socials that all ActivityPub).

I’m really excited to see dendrite make it to client devices for real p2p servers, maybe even as a micro service deployment. I do want to try out the Conduwuit too.

That said the metadata leakage is an issue to me and consider that a serious flaw depending on your threat model, and you want to extra steps to preserve your identity from an untrusted matrix network and/or stick to a private one you trust


Adding evidence not an answer. Its wild to me when it predicts my Duolingo lesson words to me. Like that anomaly is just wild to me





“Hey I’m going to buy your location data tonight.”

“I like to know where you go on Thursdays”

This what Google, Facebook, X, your ISP, and the junk apps on your phone actually get from you, and everyone around you when you use their creepy apps.

Hit me up on Mastadon, use Tor, use DDG, we should have an restraining order against these creeps. Worse yet they don’t just want it for themselves they sell and share it with company, countries, anyone they like, and don’t tell you.

This is how I WANT to talk about because it’s how I feel. Their just strangers, I wouldn’t tell a stranger on the street any of this. I feel like this is such a fringe thought for people though.


Right. It’s the difference between I’ve been to Holland and I’ve lived in Springfield Missouri and I am at Holland right now and my house in Missouri is currently unoccupied and full of valuables.

Time of info can make a heck of a difference


Privacy is a foundational right. Without it inviduals suffer from the imbalanced power dynamic of the states resources.


And they should be held liable for the costs occurred to employees and customers.



From the article: “Even knowing that Kamkar’s silent, invisible, long-distance laser spy trick exists, how does anyone hide their secrets from it? He suggests that companies install double-paned or reflective glass. Some security device companies also sell protection devices that affix to windows and vibrate them to prevent laser microphone spying, and Kamkar concedes he hasn’t tested his attack against those. But he also suggests a safer countermeasure: “Don’t work on computers visible from a window,” he says. “Or just have dirty windows.””


Hey that’s what I did with Mimic2 (the Mycroft project’s TTS) and DeepSpeach (Mozilla’s STT) for a Lil bit. Hard to handle streaming data right, but it was doableish.


Yes. It is.

Any system with this level of access to the system should be opensource and tested against actual workloads before shipping updates to prod.

Something like ebpf would make more sense too.


As a citizen of the world its because they are slavers and fuck slavery. One of the biggest lobbiest against fighting slavery too.

Having been friends and family IT though its because they suck. They suck to work on. They suck to devolop for. They suck to run server stuff on. They suck to game on. And they cost an arm and leg for the privilege.


Use a Foss client that blocks the client tracking aspects, tor to connect, and only post pgp encrypted messages on it?


Is narcissistic disorder a prereq to be a billionaire or is it just a common symptom of having too much wealth for some.


For sure, if you need paid support (which if you aren’t a tech giant, a fledgling startup, or a system with no need for uptime metrics, you probally do) the you have:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (aka SLES and only still Libre option in this category unfortunately)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Ubuntu are

if don’t need paid support then Debian, OpenSuse, Rocky, or Fedora are all good picks.


Stopping low effort attempts to get data it seems good, as an addition too software encryption it seems great. Of course hardware can range from child toys, gimmicks, to serious hardened hardware, so results WILL vary.



Why are we making such huge steps backwards. Didn’t we get federated learned to reduce data collection like a decade ago?