spacebear

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Comment · 8 months ago

Not the OP, but I alternate between self-hosted instances of Outline (https://www.getoutline.com/) and Nextcloud (with Collabora) for this. Outline I actually like better than Google Docs for most things. Nextcloud is a little rough, but it has change tracking, which I need sometimes.

I’ve also seen a lot of people using Cryptpad recently, which I think wraps OnlyOffice.

Please don't share our Signal messages with your AI Agent touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org

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Comment · 1 year ago

Same. Big fan of the YouTube metadata plugin.

Comment · 1 year ago

I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

Comment · 1 year ago

They’re also all software developers, right?

Comment · 2 years ago

Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.

Comment · 2 years ago

They’re selling your precise location to data brokers that sell it to the police (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admi...) so you can get a deal on french fries that are killing you. This is no way to live.

Comment · 3 years ago

That’s how I used Instagram in the first half of the 2010s. It seemed like the app was designed for that use case back then. Now it seems like it’s designed primarily for watching ads, so I text my friends instead.

Comment · 5 years ago

Yes! Strongly agree with this. E2E is easier than you think and will be much harder to add after the fact.

Comment · 5 years ago

I don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign around user privacy.

I think most people do care about privacy, but they're usually powerless to defend it.

Comment · 5 years ago

Also, that massively centralizes the Internet in a way that's not great. If one of those CDNs gets hacked or just goes down for an hour, it breaks every website that uses it.

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software cnn.com

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Comment · 5 years ago

I think that they can do that is the problem, though? If you don’t like the way Google is running things, you can swap out the OS on your Pixel for one of several open source privacy-focused Android forks. But if Apple does something to iOS you don’t like, you’re stuck with it.

Comment · 5 years ago

Yes. We live in a world where our only real freedom is our purchasing decisions. I think that leads to people making brands, TV shows, video games, etc. a big enough part of their identity that criticism of that thing feels like criticism of them personally.

Comment · 5 years ago

Your every move is quite literally transmitted to Apple. That's how Find My works.