Implied consent

I was in this situation with family. I ended up doing the expensive-ish option and setting up some cameras through the roof and replacing the front ring doorbell with a reolink doorbell camera.

Idiots use these doorbell cameras. Soon I’m going to just have a regular doorbell and an actual good camera on the front porch ceiling.

I suggest Reolink local only, sd card, and if you can have a small Frigate or something server so they can access at least the video. I only suggest reolink because that’s what I’ve only ever used.

I use posteo and simplelogin together.

I have a feeling you’re on to something, but also feel this might be needed for a niche use case.

And like another comment pointed out, in-browser extensions obviously only impact the browser. But like you said you’ll be using it to prevent sites from knowing you’re using tor so that should be alright.

I like this idea for using “free” or suspicious VPNs. But all this routing would totally slow down the connection, especially on the already limited free vpn connections.

I was 7 when I started and learned what “syntax” meant along the way. Teach examples and in-practice stuff. It’s all just learning how to do stuff and apply it for other projects, like a kid learning how to play a game or something.

Protocol and client are different. I know Cheogram has some kind of sticker thing, but I don’t think it’s as robust as what Signal probably has. I can download Signal stickerpacks to use on Cheogram (the xmpp client), but using them was a tad difficult.

Any good mobile apps? I’d love to have a place to share updates with my friends like social media does. Integrated with XMPP makes it all the better I’d say.

Right? Although I’d love to communicate with everybody in my community and be reachable on the ready, do I really want to give up my values for people who don’t care to understand them? If you wanna contact me outside of face to face, then use what I use. And it goes for the other way around too. Not worth the stress.

Oh okay! Didn’t recognize the GNU in there. Was there a trademark issue in the past?

Yeah people have been talking (real life) about their breaks from it and thoughts on leaving the social media sludge whenever I say I don’t use that stuff. It’s refreshing, but I still reject sharing my number except for work and maybe a baddie every now and then. Wish I didn’t even need to pay for one even for how cheap it is.

Just an unrelenting FOSS agenda and weird aversion towards social media 😭

We still probably show up as green bubbles though. Might have given the baddies the ick.

I’ve been slimming down the services that I don’t personally feel the need to use. And Jellyfin is right around the chopping block. Started Jellyfin to replace costly streaming services. Only one person is using Netflix and that’s the only reason my parents are paying for it still.

What’s that? GNU-Jami?

Pretty much any encryption you can send over text. My favorite clients support PGP instead. But it’s up to the clients to implement envryption and not really the protocol I guess.

I think this post is a noteworthy response. Against Silos+Signal

Signal is a much better recommendation when leaving Telegram. And the OMEMO implementation concerns are something I need to consider. That unprofessional response from one of the devs is not a good look at all.

Though as a comment pointed out, control of servers is like the one main checkbox that I really need filled.

On the point about clients not being OMEMO by default or enforced. This isn’t the biggest issue for me. I’m not doing crimes, but I still wouldn’t want my saucy messages to be read by server admins or third parties. Whenever I message somebody, I confirm that they are the proper recipient and are using OMEMO. And the clients I found myself comfortable with all support PGP key use instead. (That would be Cheogram & Gajim if anyone was interested.)

This was a great read though, at least to me. It gave me some thoughts to consider.

I’m gonna look into what kind of threats these improper dependency versions and such might pose. Hopefully by now most of these issues have been resolved.

The biggest thing is getting people into the loop of “secure apps” before they really need it.

There two kinds of nerds. Ones that are actually curious to try new things, and ones that conform and sully the name. It’s like tech bros vs real IT professionals.

Such a benefit indeed. Like email, you can use any server and app. Except it has more instant messenging features.

We should definetly not make it a habit to store files for long on volunteer servers. :(