1. Get a cheap mobile specifically for protests, especially using it for pictures and video.
2. Set it up to livestream everything, so that any video evidence gained can’t be taken away.
3. Get a faraday bag for when you need to put that mobile away and not be tracked.

Maybe I’m missing something though?

My problem isn’t with open-source online services existing. Of course some things are inherently net-based. My problem is with the way everything is being done as a server even when it’s completely unnecessary. Syncthing alone - which is not server-based btw - is more than enough to take care of cloud needs for everything from calendars, to photos, recipes, text files, password databases, and more.

Hell, it’d actually be pretty interesting if someone did come up with a way to make a e2e chat client that works through Syncthing.

My point is I just want to download an app, have that app convert a recipe webpage into its own standard format, and then save that file on my own device. I do not want to deal with the hassle of getting Docker installed and working, nor to have it gobble up tons of computer resources just to do that one simple thing.

Synthing does not use a server based architecture.

*Slaps on top of fusion reactor*

“You can boil so much water with this.”

Those same routers that still have problems with security updates, and are frequently the targets of cyber attacks? So how is it in any way a good idea to run entire server stacks, and databases (which throw a wrench in data portability compared to standard file formats), creating so much bloat and unnecessary attack surface, and then making all of these apps network-facing - opening them up to attacks?

How about instead I just use a standard text editor to save my recipe as a markdown file, and if I need to move it I can either get a usb cord or use Syncthing? Sorry but this whole self host movement is pretty insane.

On the one hand I do support the existence of open-source self-hostable alternatives to surveillance-capitalist offerings. But at the same time it has been driving me crazy how many things are being shifted toward this server-based architecture. For one example, I want an open-source app that will allow me to import recipes from any text or website automatically. But I want those recipes to save in files, be offline, and I do not want to maintain a whole damn server just to manage my fucking recipes.

Not everything needs to be web connected by default, and most people have no interest in running any kind of server.

Right, they’re still tantalizing even knowing they’re annoying. Bandai also has something now days called a Vital Bracelet, kind of like a smartwatch meets Digipet. You train your monster by exercising. I got one because they were steeply discounted. Then I found out it was deprecated and replaced by a better model. It also only supported military time. And shortly after they ended up sunsetting the entire franchise, and taking down the associated apps. Like, c’mon Bandai, put a little effort in plz. 🫠

They still make these and other similar devices. I got swept up in the nostalgia, got a new one, convinced a friend to also get one, and the damn thing was so annoying we were over it in a week.

I hate programming. But I love when I try to do programming and I get to see a program thing come to life and do stuff. I have all these cute little pets that bark, “Hello, World!”

Seems a bit naive. The assets in one way or another would most likely just be redistributed to other billionaires.

I have a popcorn popping machine like what they have in theaters. I was going to sell it because it takes up way too much space and I need the money, but then I tested it out and it is one of my favorite things. When I have cravings, I flood it full of perfectly cooked, salted, and oiled popcorn within minutes, and fill an 8 qt Instant Pot pot because cylinder shapes hold more popcorn than bowl shapes can.

Sometimes the adult thing to do is have popcorn for dinner.

At least The 4400 was nice enough to continue in book form… which apparently also ends in a cliffhanger.

Torvalds had this kind of energy throughout the entire video.

I remember trying a Game Shark on a few games back in high school, and what I found is that it made the games boring really fast.

More recently I tried applying cheats in Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I still didn’t make it past the first level. 😭

Higher taxes on the rich don’t go far enough, because they can just leverage their assets to corrupt democracies and roll everything back.

Corporations need to be banned.

I love some classic Mario Kart 64, but a family member and his friends kind of ruined that one for me. It’s a game that has relatively little content and is best played in small doses to not get sick of it, but they didn’t do that. They went through a whole phase of playing it every day and gaining expert level skills in it. I was not aware of how deep the meta for MK64 is, because the last time I played against them, they were exploiting glitches in virtually every track and leaving everyone else in the dust.

Was always more of a Diddy Kong Racing fan anyway.

I have skepticisms about the accuracy of that claim. Measuring yield isn’t necessarily cut and dry in the first place.

Big picture, conventional agriculture is not sustainable, and moreover, we are always going to continue having these toxic pollutions occur so long as we continue to depend on conventional ag. The only way to stop the poison is to stop taking the poison.

Seeing as the free and open-source software movements have been a very effective, enduring, and successful method of liberating a lot of digital infrastructure, I think it provides a powerful model as an alternative to “seizing” the means of production.

One example already in practice is Open Source Ecology. FOSS industrial machine schematics have to be the basis. But the factory itself needs to be reinvented, from a linear process to a circular and, I think, general purpose one. Like a maker space scaled up enough to provide for the needs of one township.

And part of the reinvention needs to involve using a property trust framework to ensure the physical production property is in common ownership. We need to copyleft the means of production.

Secure from what? Security isn’t a dick measuring contest, it’s a living process and arms race. If someone is trying to tell me, “My stuff is the mostest of the biggest security because, hard!” - what I’m hearing is that their threat modeling is ill-defined, maybe not defined at all, and something misleading is going on. Especially when the lead dev of a platform appears to be screaming and shouting about everyone else with a dubious persecution complex.

So in the drama between the Graphene team vs every other privacy-focused Android dev - who should I trust?