[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Just tell them unlock their phone so you can take a look of his browser history. Works quite a few time for me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have simplex notification service running 24x7. while rarely open, i never missed a message when it arrive (i use it as a message bridge between my devices). Nor I feel it uses more battery that it can't hold a day of use despite it running constantly in the background. I'm using S21FE btw.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Define your criteria for an ideal messenger. What do you need actually? What's your security requirement?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

What FS you're on? I'm using BTRFS and have the same problem. Simply because disk analyzer doesn't read snapshots.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You sure you can train a model deterministically down to each bits? Like feeding them into sha256sum will yield the same hash?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not just LLMs but all kinds of models are equivlant to freeware, aka the model itself and other essential bits for it to work. I won't even call it source avaliable as there is no source.

Take redis as example. I can still go grab the source and compile a binary that works. This doesn't applies on ML models.

Of course one can argue the training process isn't determistic thus even with the exact training corpus, it can't create the same model in terms of bits on mulitple runs. However, I would argue the same corpus provide the chance to train a model of similar or equivalent performance. Hence the openness of the training corpus is an absolute requirement to qualify a model being FOSS.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So you're including free models like freeware, not FOSS only, by non big tech.

Your choice of models will be quite limited as the compute resource and training corpus needed to make a viable base model isn't anyone can do.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What's FOSS-AI? A model everyone can download and use for free? Or in the OSS spirit that everything need to be open and without discrimination of use, aka OSS training data corpus and no AUP attached?

Or you mean the inference engine running those models?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

On features ZeroTier > Tailscale, but the existance of headscale and ionscale brings me back all because ZeroTierOne is BSL, aka not FOSS.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Decide what good for me

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

It is quite a bloat. Llama3 7B is 4.7GB by itself, not counting all the dependencies and drivers. This can easily take 10+ GB of the drive. My Ollama setup takes about 30GB already. Given a single application (except games like COD that takes up 300GB), this is huge, almost the size of a clean OS install.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh. I get it now.

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Recently I just hit by stolen card detail and makes me searching a virtual card service. Anyone knows any works in the UK and EU region? Apparently Privacy.com needs SSN to work now. Thanks.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

We all know PGP is old and got a myriad of problems, like key management.

Thus, I'm looking for a generic encryption and signing tool that also available on mobile devices, both Android and iOS.

I know age+minisign is the preferred choice but unfortunately there ain't an mobile app for them.

I know Magic Wormhole is great for P2P data transfer but it's slow and not reliable. I often have corrupted files even the size is small. I would much rather encrypt locally, upload to GDrive, and share it.

I know Signal, WhatsApp and other messaging apps now offers E2EE to exchange many data forms but the political sphere is shifting and given the current trend, they might forced to backdoor the protocol, drop E2EE entirely, or cease operation. Something independent from messaging tool is needed.

I'm not seeking perfect forward secrecy as that wasn't achievable for non conversations use case unless parties manually negotiate a session key.

I don't care the web of trust either. Putting PII on a key server for public viewing doesn't fit today's privacy trend.

Nor anonymity. I'm talking to my family members and friends and I don't find a reason to hide that. The only thing matters is the content.

While it will be great to follow some kind of widely used standards, it is not a requirement.

Thanks for the input.

EDIT: Added GPG to the title

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm considering to switch to Proxmox for my main PC, run a Windows VM on top and passthrough the GPU to play games. However, I heard anti-cheates aren't that friendly to VMs. Had anyone tried this? Thanks.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello fellow c/privacy members.

I'm not new to privacy related things but I had a hard time persuading my family members and friends to switch to Matrix/Element. It is a reponse to UK's Online Security Bill and Investigative Powers Act that may soon in effect.

While it is just a preperation and planning in case those actually became law, I already face resistance from them. When I ask them would they switch, their first reaction is "Why one more app?" then follows with "That's cumbersome." or "I don't want to learn a new app." and suggest something more popular like Line, Telegram or Discord. Sometimes they would "Install WhatsApp because X is on there and he/she won't install one more app just for you."

What can I do to persuade them to use a new platform? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I think I should elebroate more of what Online Security Bill and Investigative Powers Act does[1]. As far as I understand, OSB will break E2EE by require scanning data on client device, like CSAM but much more generic. IPA requires companies to submit security funcition to the government for approval before releasing, and disable such feature upon request. Apple[2], Single[3] and WhatsApp made the announancment of exiting the UK market totally or partically if two were signed into law.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/thenextweb.com/news/uk-investigatory-powers-act-default-surveillance-devices-privacy
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/07/21/apple-threatens-to-pull-facetime-and-imessage-from-the-uk
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230809125823/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65301510#2023-08-09T12:57:48+00:00

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