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To be fair, it's much easier than one can imagine (try ollama on macOS for example). In the end, Apple wrote a lot of longwinded text, but the summary is "you have to trust us."

I don't trust Apple - in fact, even the people we trust the most have told us soft lies here and there. Trust is a concept like an integral - you can only get to "almost" and almost is 0.

So you can only trust yourself. Period.

Great point!

We offer 5 because we're geared toward helping people host appliances as opposed to raw network setup! We also offer automatic RDNS with this as well as the Cloud Seeder appliance!

Thanks again for your comments and as well thoughts!

And for those of you that don't have an external IP, you can use services that provide egress for you like IPv6.rs. [1]

[1] I'm DevOps there! ;)

> if you have to reason about how the operator will handle legal threats, you shouldn't bother reasoning about the messenger at all.

That's true.

You need to run your own platform people. XMPP is plenty simple, plenty powerful, and plenty safe -- and even your metadata is in your control.

Just self host. There's no excuse in 2024.

Wake up people!

Why should the arrest of someone else affect YOU?

I for one am a fan of the short and sweet. I think it's very straight forward -- if someone follows the video they can do the same, with you, in real time and I think that's great.

Good job and good luck with your speech tomorrow. It's really good that you're promoting self hosting -- this really is the final line for the battle of the people vs big data on the internet.

In light of the issues being uncovered about Signal (storing messages and media encrypted, but storing the key unencrypted on the same filesystem) among other things, I thought it might be worth making sure everyone on HN is aware that Jabber (XMPP) is doing very well.