Hardly took a three-letter intelligence service to have seen the power struggle between Wagner and regular forces. All you had to do was subscribe to them on Telegram.
These days I go straight to GitHub when I search for software. Google search sucks ass, utterly drowned by SEO, and app stores are a mire of dark subscription-gotchas for even simple functionality.
Huh? They are interested in improving their app - to do that, understanding what choices people make (which buttons do they press, which so they miss etc) is helpful. They’re not trying to monetise your behaviour for goodness sake, but give you a better experience.
Yeah this is what I don’t get. They already hold your most precious secrets and now you don’t trust them with a telemetry system?! Seems an odd order of concerns to me.
Isn’t it depressing? This is literally where humanity has come to? Two billionaire tech-bros acting like spoiled children and we, the plebs, cheering like we did for the kings who sent us to slaughter so they could satisfy their ambitions of empire in medieval times.
Come on - this is 1Password we are talking about; I think they’ve earned a little bit of goodwill given their past behaviour. Transparency is key. Keep in mind that they could do almost whatever they want without telling us.
Firefox is in a pickle, because unlike the IE/Firefox, where FF was winning share by the boatload against a stagnant competitor, Chrome is super actively developed, active and heavily pushed by Google. Basically FF is now kept alive by Google the way you’d keep a single competitor city alive in Civilization to ensure you game wouldn’t end with a military/domination victory. FF is a Native American reservation surrounded by white folks not giving a shit about what happens on your dust bowl.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server on a tiny Dell Optiplex 7000 server (Intel 12700T), strapped under my desk, hosting everything in docker:
Plex
*arrs, on top of a Gluetun container for privacy
QBittorrent, to download big files, like … eh … linux distributions
NginX Proxy Manager
PhotoPrism (I subscribe, it’s awesome, cannot recommend it enough)
Portainer, as a management interface
Wireguard VPN server, to enable me to get into my LAN and prevent having to expose anything to the public internet.
Watchtower, for keeping things up to date.
A Synology 718+ with 10 TB in a a dual SHR RAID.
PhotoPrism storage
Plex media storage
In addition, I’m hosting a couple of Wireguard VPS in the US and a Nordic country to give me access to regional content (I pay for a few regional services through friends living there - i.e. they pay monthly and I pay them yearly for an account on a region-locked service) - not sure if that counts as “self-hosting” :)
Despite my willingness to self-host almost everything, e-mail remains the last frontier for me. Keeping abreast of standards, keeping up today, avoiding implications in abuse and many, many smaller issues abound … and that’s despite my fixed IP and ISP willing to set up a reverse-DNS for me.
Instead I’ve gone with a paid email provider that I’m REALLY happy with.