A Note About Privacy and Expo for iOS
Providing transparency to the community
RGB lights whose software is open source & privacy respecting?
Hi all, I was looking to buy RGB lights, particularly something like the Philips Hue Light bar.
Aside from it being very expensive, as far as I can tell the software used to control it isn't open source.
I know OpenRGB exists but I'd prefer a manufacturer that supports open source software, if that exists. Any other recommendations welcome! Thanks
Moving photos from iCloud to Nextcloud
Currently all my photos/videos are all stored in iCloud. I want to move these to my Nextcloud instance.
The Nextcloud iOS app does have a feature to automatically transfer an entire iCloud library to Nextcloud, but it's broken right now (and has been for several months, see this issue). Unfortunately it doesn't look like the iOS app developers are going to fix this any time soon.
Instead, I downloaded my photos/videos from privacy.apple.com, and I now have them all in archives. But their structure is all all over the place. I don't think I can use a hacked-together script to convert them to a sane folder/file structure because nothing is dated.
For example, I would want a simple structure like
/{year}/{month}/{day}/{images}. But the iCloud archive's format is
something like /Photos/{images}. Nothing is dated.
Any ideas about what I could do? It looks like my only options are just to have all my old photos in an esoteric folder/file structure, and have new photos/videos properly sorted. But that isn't ideal.
The only other option is to hold out hope that Apple eventually add an option, as they recently added a way to transfer to Google Photos. But I am not expecting them to add support for Nextcloud.
UK to depart from GDPR
Government sends first signal of intention for UK data protection laws to part company with EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
Smoking off window from T Spawn on Mirage
I swear this is impossible. I've tried every smoke I can find online and can't get any to be consistent.
Which smoke do you use?
A few years ago (2017?) I decided I would move messenger apps. The aim (and what I’ve achieved) was all my messaging going through a secure, private app.
Signal was never an option.
In 2017, Signal really was the only option. Element (Riot, back then) was really bad and didn’t feature e2ee (which only got enabled by default last year!). XMPP was and remains difficult to use (not even many people here use it, how could I expect “normal people” to use it?)
I made the choice to use Signal, and I don’t regret it. I only regret that it has taken until now that we are starting to see a glimmer of a real competitor, in the form of Matrix. But a really competitor to Whatsapp and the like, back in 2017, just didn’t exist outside of Signal.
Signal Server is effectively closed source software right now
The Signal Server repository hasn't been updated since April 2020. There are a bunch of links about this here but I found this thread the most interesting.
To me, this is unforgivable behaviour. Signal always positioned themselves as "open source", and the Server itself is under the best license for server software (AGPLv3 -- which raises questions about the legality of this situation).
Signal's whole approach to open source has constantly been underwhelming to say the least. Their budget-Apple attitude (secrecy, i.e. "we can never engage the community directly", "we will never merge/accept PRs", etc) has lead to its logical conclusion here, I guess. I have been somewhat of a "Signal apologist" thus far (I almost always defend them & I think a lot of criticism they get it very unfair) but yeah I'm over Signal now.
Help with safe storage plan for my server that I use to self-host things
Hi all,
Soon I'll be upgrading my server. I want to make sure the data stored on it is safe, so I've spent some time planning the storage. Here's the current plan.
I'll buy 2x3TB HDDs and put them in RAID 1, using ZFS (the snapshots will be what I use for backups). I'll have another HDD in the server which will store the snapshots as backups.
Finally, I'll have the ZFS snapshots sent to my personal PC as well, which will be in a remote location to the server.
As I understand it, that should check all the 3-2-1 boxes. I'm covered if either of the main hard drives fail, or if either of the backups fail, or if some other damage happens to the server.
Does this all make sense? Any feedback or advice is much appreciated. Feel free to ask questions, also. Thanks.
(I've also posted this on Reddit, but decided to post here too).