Got it. Thanks a lot for the explanation, pretty much agree with everything you’re saying, honestly my bad for assuming the worst. I think it was pretty hard to understand, at least for me, from the initial comment where this would be going and how immigrants would play a role so I mistook it for some right wing QAnon shit. Sorry about that.

We’re talking about Europe wanting to ban privacy and you barge in talking some shit about some immigrant conspiracy crypto war shit, nah man

I like the XMR community for being mostly a bunch of nerds and/or anarchists. You sound like a dick tho.

No I get that, thanks a lot for explaining! I work with a bunch of other stuff where help is mostly also only available on discord so that’s fine.

I really need to read into the whole Android stuff more. I know privacy and security are different topics, it’s just a weird thing to wrap my head around that Android would be the most secure option.

Another issue is that for what I’m doing I need to rent VPSes and there you’re already quite limited as to what you can run on them, probably Android wouldn’t be an option right? And let’s say I want to deploy some apps there would this work on Android out of the box? I know it’s Linux under the hood I’m just not really deep into the more advanced Linux stuff tbh.

Hey! Thanks for this. I’ve worked with Ubuntu and Debian but mostly work on Mac. I’m interested in going deeper into Linux distros and am completely fine with working from terminal. I’m just curious what exactly makes the Fedora and secureblue distros more difficult to understand how far I am from running a secure distro.

AppleTV is smooth but as others pointed out you shouldn’t trust their claims that they’re private. They’re probably more private than e.g. Google out of the box, but not an actual privacy company.

Side note: in case you’re an Apple user and you weren’t aware of this, you can make it a bit better by obtaining your private key so that you have actual E2EE and you can add hardware keys for 2FA which makes it more secure. Of course this should be the bare minimum but it’s nice that they support these things out of the box.

Regarding metadata: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#%3A~%3Atext=This+metadata+is+always+encrypted%2CAdvanced+Data+Protection+is+enabled.

Maybe it’s worth checking if you’re okay with what kind of metadata they’re processing.

Don’t ever mention Winnie the Pooh

No porn and drugs but „free speech“? Yeah right, no thanks. If my account on mastodon gets banned on an instance I go somewhere else.

Of course if fediverse becomes too centralized the couple instances left might just defederate from everyone else, but OTOH what protects me from a couple individuals downvoting me into oblivion on Bastyon?

They’re both decentralized in their own way but communities have to fight against malicious actors that attack the decentralization.

Typical politician, identifies the problem only to draw the absolute wrong conclusion.

Thanks for the reply, still reading here. Yeah thanks to the comments and reading some benchmarks I abandoned the idea of getting an Apple, it’s just too slow.

I was hoping to test Qwen 32B or llama 70b for running longer contexts, hence the apple seemed appealing.

I read their article but didn’t understand their methodology. This is pretty much in contrast to this video where a bunch of apps got audited and to everyone’s surprise Google Authenticator seemed like one of the most private alternatives.

Really not trying to defend Google here because… they’re fucking Google, but I’m wondering why the results are so different.

Somehow I always end up hating Proton. I was using TOR Browser to create an account and they wouldn’t let me. I had to give either another email or my phone number, and I’m not willing to do either. I even tried creating a throwaway with mailbox.org (works using TOR) and sending the confirmation email there but it never arrived, so I gave up on Proton.

I also tried Tuta and they wouldn’t let me create an account at all using TOR. So eventually I’m sticking with mailbox.org