Probably AI translated. troet.social is a german instance, there’s a link to the original text at the top.

Edit: The German text also has some AI-like features.

Kinda funny seeing the pope promoting decentralized systems, with the catholcatholic church being one of the most centralized hirachical systems.

As the database is encrypted in your device, you dont really need to self host. A keepass database in the Google cloud is not really problematic, although you should still choose a more private cloud provider.

Its all the AI safety peoples fault, stop expressing your concerns and start blindly trusting us already. /s

There is a folder on your PC containing lots of junk from the old 32 bit era that you don’t need on modern PCs: system32.

So if you need some disc space …

https://xkcd.com/1683/

Oh no, wouldn’t anyone think of the billion dollar companies? The Chinese are stealing the models that they have spent so much effort on getting all the training data. What a shame.

I think it really doesn’t matter if a reaction video used the youtube player or vlc with ytdl. If its transformative content its fine, if its a re-upload with a facecam in the corner then not. Technology isn’t the problem here.

Im not a big fan of meta and WhatsApp, but these claims are a bit much. Any employee gets access to messages through a well documented internal process? “No separate decryption step is required” , so the WhatsApp CLIENT is not doing any actual e2e encryption and no attempt at reverse engineering or traffic analysis has ever seen that this is the case?

Where can one see, what these whistleblowers have actually published? I would expect to see this “simple process” and how that interface actually works… And I would expect any journalist to request some proof (show me the last message i sent to Alice) before trusting an anonymous whistleblower making such an extraordinary claim.

From what I heard so far, that anonymous whistleblower could be a troll or an ex-employee who just wants to cause some trouble for meta.

We should not trust anything blindly, even if it fits with our view of the world. Meta is an evil company, but as long as there is no indication for these specific allegations to be true, we should treat them as unfounded allegations.

Three years ago I made an issue on their feedback page because the android app doesn’t really work on degoogled phones, it requires gms for notifications. Still not fixed.

Nice privacy focused App that can’t fully be used if you take privacy seriously.

Just so that everyone knows:

Dont download patched apks from the internet. Instead, install the patcher from github and a vanilla youtube APK to patch it yourself.

There are no official sites providing revanced APKs and the unofficial sited may contain unwanted software.

I used yt-dl for downloading, but since I have a decent flat, I switched to just using yt music with adblocker or revanced.

What benefits do torrents of music provide over just downloading from yt?

For me nextcloud was the biggest gamechanger. A raspberry pi and a SSD and suddenly I didn’t have to store anything at Google drive anymore. And it’s really beginner friendly, especially when using NextcloudPi