Wish you a lot of strength and hope you stay safe! It’s understandable that you’re concerned and scared, as this is a dangerous situation. Wish I could say anything else but just want you to know that I hope this will be over soon and cause no more suffering or losses.

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.

Based

Tea lots of sugar, more sugar than tea probably, coffee just large amounts of espresso without milk or sugar

Spanish food sucks! Although I think I already died in that hill today.

Not really but public transportation usually sucks so I’m doing most things by car nowadays. I’m probably getting old but the idea of driving at lethal speeds through crowded spaces actually terrifies me. I’ve never been in any serious accident but to think that I’m sitting in some death machine is unnerving.

I think you’re gonna need to implement function calling in some way. If you add it yourself that’s kinda complicated to implement in a non-annoying way but there must be some assistant frameworks that you can connect with your local LLM instead of an external API

This is honestly awesome! I was thinking about a similar setup for a long time but wasn’t sure how to do this exactly, this seems exactly like the setup I was looking for. Thank you!

Love the approach! I would also teach them to address me and my partner as Sire & Ma‘am, if they get good grades in school temporarily they’re allowed to say father and mother.

This kind of ignores all the proxy wars in between and shit like inventing that Iraqi soldiers killed newborns in Kuwait in order to justify Operarion Desert Storm. In a sense, the author mentioned it, politicians worked much harder on their propaganda efforts. The propaganda is done in 2025 to silence opponents and justify atrocities is on Soviet Russia levels imo. I appreciate the optimistic and long-term perspective, I’m just frustrated and horrified that we can’t stop a live-streamed genocide from happening at all, and it doesn’t help people in Gaza or Sudan that our protests might have an impact in the long run. What I see though is that we absolutely changed the narrative, the truth is now a mainstream opinion and the propaganda is seen for what it is. It’s a small success, but it’s a success nevertheless.

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.

I think cops are just getting fucked over by dealers so they don’t know the real prices

You can drploy a Cloudflare worker that exposes an APi endpoint with an SQLite DB completely for free and without doing any maintenance. I don’t think the DB is encrypted , so it wouldn’t be my first choice if privacy is a concern. There’s a bit of a learning curve with all the UI bloat but once you figured it out it’s a very hassle free solution.

I’ve read a lot about using a VPS with reverse proxy but I’m kind of a noob in that area. How exactly does that protect my machine? Couldn’t an attacker with access to the VPS still harm my local machine? Currently I’m just using a WireGuard tunnel to log into my server, from what I understand you’d tunnel the service from the VPS to the homeserver and then on the VPS URL you could watch right m?

And do I understand correctly that since we’re using the reverse proxy the possible attack surface just from finding the domain would be limited to the web interface of e.g. Jellyfin?

Sorry for the chaotic & potentially stupid questions, I’m just really a confused beginner in this area.

Shit just works as usual

OP that’s a killer list of books you’ve read. IMO you have a point. To all the people who say that you’d be alienated from watching old movies, that method acting is important and that special effects of the last 20 years are what makes it different, idk. It really depends on what you’re looking for.

Hitchcock movies or the stuff with Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, even the super racist Italo Western movies, the very old Kubrick stuff, that’s all great cinema.

I’m as left wing as it gets but I also get very alienated by the “diversity” and “feminism“ modern Hollywood & Netflix cinema. It’s the same type of diversity and feminism that exists in corporate, where there is diversity in terms of ethnicity and sexuality, but only within class. It’s a fictional world to me the same way the old movies are, just done by a different bunch of people living in their own world.

There’s still some good cinema and good shows out there every now and then, but to think old movies can’t compete with modern TV & cinema just because they’re old is a very simplistic take.

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.