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Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by weq »

sargun wrote: post #193
ebbi wrote: post #157

Taking inspiration from the East India Company, Apple should colonize the UK and take over the government - the iGovernment, if you will. Citizens will regain their right to e2ee privacy, they will not have to deal with voting for mediocre politicians to lead them. Instead, Tim Cook will be their new leader, and every morning over the mandatory installation of HomePods in each home, citizens will be greeted with an e…

I have wondered why the likes of McKinsey, KPMG, and PWC do not put up candidates (don't even sponsor them, just say you're electing _well known consultancy_).

Because they can milk either side. Gov needs private partnerships as much as the privates need their money.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by shuckles »

zmmmmm wrote: post #227

I know this is a tangent but honestly, this is why the Google decision to de-openify Android is insane even from Google's point of view. Who would want to be an iron clad gate keeper when the world is descending into authoritarianism? You just paint a giant target on your back for the authoritarians to come after. If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't e…

> If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't even be a discussion now.

You think the OS vendor is unable to snoop on data written to 3rd party clouds from their devices?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by ctrust »

ebbi wrote: post #157

Taking inspiration from the East India Company, Apple should colonize the UK and take over the government - the iGovernment, if you will. Citizens will regain their right to e2ee privacy, they will not have to deal with voting for mediocre politicians to lead them. Instead, Tim Cook will be their new leader, and every morning over the mandatory installation of HomePods in each home, citizens will be greeted with an e…

What's the catch?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by zdc1 »

We need to make it easier to work with client-side encryption. Keys on the devices, ciphertext in cloud storage.

I was using CloudMounter to do this, but the software was unfortunately a bit rough around the edges and didn't feel as reliable and seamless as the other options.

These days I have some hacked together tar + PGP scripts for encrypted backups, but still rely on iCloud + ADP for the rest.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by al_be_back »

this is not practical or desirable in my view: de-google, de-apple, de-meta, de-aws etc etc etc

What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;)

Come on, what happened to moderation, discipline and planning? How about use what you need, hedge your risks (mix providers, products), be more proactive than reactive to demands for consumption?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by Cheer2171 »

al_be_back wrote: post #275

this is not practical or desirable in my view: de-google, de-apple, de-meta, de-aws etc etc etc What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;) Come on, what happened to moderation, discipline and planning? How about use what you need, hedge your risks (mix providers, products), be more proactive than reactive to demands for consumption?

Make intentional, rational, specific decisions about which people and companies to support with your hard earned cash based on alignment of values and interests.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by sayamqazi »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #215
caconym_ wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E2EE cloud storage is not some kind of magic that only tech bigcorps can provide. I de-Dropboxed a few years ago, replacing it with Syncthing running on a local NAS with e2ee backups in Backblaze and Wireguard VPN out to my mobile devices. Sure, this is not the sort of thing most people can set up for themselves, but I don't think that's particularly relevant in context.

Syncthing and e2e is great but the issue is that the law force you to give away your phone and your password if asked. Meaning, they have the encrypted data on your phone and the password to unlock it.. same for computer ofc. If you're in England and have to keep things secured (including from government eyes), i have no idea how you can do. They soon will be allowed to put a camera in your small room and watch you t…

Memorize a long passphrase for encryption, dont keep it anywhere and when forced to give it up, say "I forgot it". This is partly a joke but only partly.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by eloisius »

peterspath wrote: post #148

Maybe it is better to de-tech a bit. Go back to some older decentralised stuff. Like buy cd's and blu-rays instead of digital/drm locked/streaming service shit. Be an owner again instead of a renter.

I don’t think you have to go that far backward. You can get a QNAP or Synology NAS, a storage VPS and use syncthing. I don’t even have the NAS yet, just a Pi with an external drive and I’ve gotten pretty far.

The part I haven’t been able to crack is syncing the Documents folder on my iPhone. All the syncthing apps for iOS are abysmal because there’s no real background sync. You can add a SMB share in the Files app, but that doesn’t get you offline access.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by sayamqazi »

raincole wrote: post #209
jcynix wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>where do you keep secret.txt exactly? Hidden. Encrypted. And the passphrase is: at 5,21 which is the 5th line on page 21 of your favorite book. Which you have more than one copy of, because you like it that much. And you need copies to lend. Or you have the PDF from Gutenberg.org? And 5/21 might be the birthday of your first child, or your wedding day, or whatever? It might be a favorite quote, like "Those who would…

> And the passphrase is: at 5,21 which is the 5th line on page 21 of your favorite book Yeah, it's one of those things that you'll forget in N years. That's exactly what prompted "where do you keep secret.txt" question.

Some people are lucky with memory that works extremely well with numbers. My memory is average but when it comes to numbers, I remember serial numbers of certain products, enrollment numbers etc from more than a decade ago.

HP-L170 (A monitor I bought) QW4HD-DQCRG-HM64M-6GJRK-8K83T (Windows XP key) 10396-9 (My enrollment number for board exam)

I remember a bunch of long-ago-abandoned phone numbers as well.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by SXX »

shuckles wrote: post #272
zmmmmm wrote: post #227

I know this is a tangent but honestly, this is why the Google decision to de-openify Android is insane even from Google's point of view. Who would want to be an iron clad gate keeper when the world is descending into authoritarianism? You just paint a giant target on your back for the authoritarians to come after. If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't e…

> If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't even be a discussion now. You think the OS vendor is unable to snoop on data written to 3rd party clouds from their devices?

If they leave backdoors they will eventually be known.
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