Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

Angie Wormwood said:
SaaS isn't just an issue of spyware/adware/malware/etc. Putting all your shit onto someone else's infrastructure makes you directly tied to them. If they shut down, so do you.

As the saying goes: "No good businessman builds their empire on rented land."
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People should think about just that Google issue. Or maybe it was cloudflare?

Or maybe it was Google but it effected people using cloudflare too because one is relying on the other.

Basically one of the services went down because of some issue. And it took down all the sites relying on it along with them. I can't remember exactly what caused it. Maybe it was something with authentication? But that doesn't matter. The real problem is people aren't thinking about what happens if you are relying on another company for your site to function.

Or even worse. What happens when all your data is stored on someone else's computer. And you can't access that companies service anymore.

The tranny that store everything on GitHub is a perfect example. If they didn't get unbanned. They truly would have fucked themselves.
 
Be aware that with AI and LLM, it'll be more efficient than ever before to scan your email and other corporate-owned messenger exchanges. They'll be intimately familiar with you. Even more-so than already. This is probably already utilized as you read this.
 
Betonhaus said:
What about a system that does some sort of segmented encryption system? Where instead of one big encrypted blob there's a series of blobs the exact same file size, and the decryption utility pulls the folder structure and filenames from the first blob and downloads only the blobs that contain the requested files?
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You mean like every file is exactly 4096 bytes in size and named 00000000 00000001 etc ? The filename is the LBA.
Should be pretty easy to hack up a simple ublk backend with this.

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Or even easier, just use losetup, dmsetup and luks

Code: 
#!/bin/sh

NUM_DEV=4
BS=10485760

seq 0 `expr ${NUM_DEV} "-" "1"` | while read LBA; do
        dd if=/dev/zero of=${LBA} bs=${BS} count=1
        losetup /dev/loop${LBA} ${LBA}
        NS=`blockdev --getsz /dev/loop${LBA}`
        echo `expr ${LBA} "*" ${NS}` ${NS}  linear /dev/loop${LBA} 0
done 2>/dev/null | dmsetup create donald

echo TTD | cryptsetup luksFormat -q --key-file=- /dev/mapper/donald

echo TTD | cryptsetup luksOpen -q --key-file=- /dev/mapper/donald trump
mkfs.ext4 /mnt/mapper/trump
mount /dev/mapper/trump /mnt

This creates 4 10MB files. They are joined together using losetup and dmsetup into a single device.
The device is encrypted using luks and finally mounted under /mnt.

Then from time to time just sync the directory and all the 0 1 2 3 ... files with your cloud drive.

This is to create it from scratch. Modifying it no not create a new device but mounting an existing device left to the reader.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
I think even the cloud name is so people don't think about what it really is. Sending all your data to someone else's computer.
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there is a gnu page about the most loaded language in the computing world. guess what is on there, in between "artificial intelligence" (as used to describe llms) and "consume" and "content"
Unintelligence Score said:
Yes, extreme.
Extremely based.

Everything that Stallman has warned the world would become a problem because of proprietary software practices has become a problem. We would all be better off if there was more Free software and less SaaS spycuckware.
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it seems pretty extreme, and it is quite extreme, but you just keep noticing certain things happening, over and over and over again

AmpleApricots said:
Be aware that with AI and LLM, it'll be more efficient than ever before to scan your email and other corporate-owned messenger exchanges. They'll be intimately familiar with you. Even more-so than already. This is probably already utilized as you read this.
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i think neural nlp has been fairly decent since 2019 and probably has been on the table since 2014
llms are just the shiniest new technology that is so good it can be used to generate coherent-looking text too

Kola said:
Because he's asleep at the wheel. He's the most ineffective activist I've ever seen.
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alright; let's see you do better then
 
I just run my own cloud like a normal person. My 'cloud' backups are encrypted drives I take to my storage unit a few miles away which is at a higher elevation and thus closer to the clouds.
 
DavidS877 said:
I just run my own cloud like a normal person. My 'cloud' backups are encrypted drives I take to my storage unit a few miles away which is at a higher elevation and thus closer to the clouds.
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I'd rather a bank's safe deposit box to a storage unit, personally, given how frequently the latter are broken into.
 
Ed Special said:
I'd rather a bank's safe deposit box to a storage unit, personally, given how frequently the latter are broken into.
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They're encrypted, worst case I lose $200 in drives. And there's much less friction so I update them more often. I wish I had high speed Internet there then I could just power them on and update them with block sync from a local encrypted drive of the same size. Once upon a time, long long ago, I paid for Internet at my family's vacation house to do just that, had my own file server in the garage. Was far cheaper than any commercial solution at the time.
 
Ed Special said:
I'd rather a bank's safe deposit box to a storage unit, personally, given how frequently the latter are broken into.
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I just have the copy on my server and synced computers. If the server dies any of the computers can be a backup
 
If you want to back up to the cloud, just use rclone. Cross platform, and can create an encryption layer to encrypt individual files as part of the upload, including filenames. The feds could know the folder structure and that's it.

Opendrive.com sells 10TB storage for $10 a month. Their support and speeds aren't great, but it's perfectly functional for power users. Use their WebDAV option though if you're using rclone.
 
Ed Special said:
Is at least one of those computers off-site? If not, you still lose all your data in the event of a house fire or a bad lightning strike.
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Meh

Anything really important can be recovered or replaced. I think I have the really important bits in a fireproof suitcase with the key taped to it because it doesn't fucking latch without it
 
Kola said:
Because he's asleep at the wheel. He's the most ineffective activist I've ever seen.
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“Erm achuhaly a man whose work resulted in software written by his organization being widely used thought world without which there wouldn’t be escape from goyware is le hecking ineffective”
As far as FOSS activists go stallman is one of the most effective ones.
 
WielkiWapiesz2137 said:
“Erm achuhaly a man whose work resulted in software written by his organization being widely used thought world without which there wouldn’t be escape from goyware is le hecking ineffective”
As far as FOSS activists go stallman is one of the most effective ones.
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He was effective in a brief window of time decades ago. Now the most widely used software platforms are locked up to a level where you're not even allowed to install what you want, with further restrictions in sight. GPL is widely disregarded or circumvented. It's no longer the first choice of most open source (or free software if you're that kind of autist) programmers.

He has not been relevant to software development in any form since early 2000s. Other people took over. This isn't an opinion or judgment of character, it's a fact. He just keeps touring obscure universities and giving the same old tired, no longer relevant lecture, without considering how the world has changed around him.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
At least when I was going through school still. Teachers had a computer at work. and likely another at home. I think it would be very easy for someone to only use Microsoft for their teaching And keep personal things on another computer. It's not like that would be a hard thing for even a normy to do.

I'm sure if they really, really wanted to. They could even run linux. And access microsoft 365 just through the web. The best option is to have either a work computer, and a personal computer. And keep personal data separate.
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This assumes that the worker knows that what MS is doing is bad. However, Microsoft (and other Brands) are working hard to either brainwash (or if they know it's bad, peer-pressure) workers in these institutions to become redeemed. People, who don't know better, see Cattle365 as an Essential Product. Something that MUST come preinstalled at best.
They are being conditioned to not have second-thoughts when handing their personal Data to major Brands (that have infiltrated), no matter if at work or at home.
WielkiWapiesz2137 said:
“Erm achuhaly a man whose work resulted in software written by his organization being widely used thought world without which there wouldn’t be escape from goyware is le hecking ineffective”
As far as FOSS activists go stallman is one of the most effective ones.
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Also, his work against Software Patents (at least in the EU) prevented worse things from happening.
Kola said:
He was effective in a brief window of time decades ago. Now the most widely used software platforms are locked up to a level where you're not even allowed to install what you want, with further restrictions in sight. GPL is widely disregarded or circumvented. It's no longer the first choice of most open source (or free software if you're that kind of autist) programmers.
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DEIsoft & Friends made sure to kneecap Stallman's efforts. It didn't fail, people have to push harder against their psyops.
 
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