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I really dislike that this is always the argument that's being attacked. It's not even what most people are thinking when they respond.
It's clear that the exchange is privacy for effort. If I want to self host, I need to pay time and money to get it all working, then continue to maintain it forever.
Yes, the only solution is self-hosting and yes it requires being your own sysadmin and it’s hard and not convenient. That’s why I’m building https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks. It’s a NixOS collection of modules that sets up services that fit well together and have declarative setup for LDAP and SSO. They have integrated backups, https and other features required for self-hosting. Also, the LDAP and SSO setup is tested with e2e NixOS VM tests that use playwright to make sure users can login if they have access.
I’m hoping to lower the bar to self-hosting significantly.
Gave it up a while ago, for:
Librefox on the linux device.
Waterfox on the android device.
Orion on the APP£ device.
This reminds me of the old meme: > Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. > Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
One of my computer science professors from MIT has installed a smart home. I was over for a dinner and he told me a story about how he hit a third-party API rate limit on opening his garage door. Apparently, these things aren't self-hosted for the most part.
> can’t be bothered to host my own email Never host your own email. It’s a nightmare if legacy systems, edge cases, layered on trust systems, malicious actors, and endless spam. It’s a good way to spend a bunch of time and effort making sure most of your mail never gets delivered.
I host a few of my own domain emails using mailu (a system of docker containers), but not my primary (so I'm slightly hypocritical). It's a certain amount of hassle, but as long as you do the SPF and DKIM things, it seems to work pretty well for me (in the limited amount that I use these domains for email).
> I use Cloudflare's DNS because I trust them more than other companies; purely based on their business and how their incentives align It's a very naive way of thinking about some businesses. What did Cloudflare do to earn this trust? It's just another VC-backed company and 1.1.1.1 is a free service. So Cloudflare is going to lose money just to protect my privacy? I don't think so.
dude who wrote the article works for Cloudflare. I'd say receiving a paycheck is a pretty good way to earn trust
It's just DNS. I'd say using cloudflare DNS is a step up from whatever the ISP's default DNS is. But if you're hawkish on Cloudflare, just use something else. There are plenty of good options
The future is suckless philosophy.
> "I don't need to care about privacy because I have nothing to hide." is an argument that I have heard countless times. I found this argument difficult to counter in the past, yet deep-down I knew the reasoning was flawed. This one is pretty easy to counter. Just ask the person to hand you their phone and go through their messages and photos. There's no one that wouldn't feel restless about it.
Ask them for their children's names and the school they go to.
Ask them their mothers maiden name, their first pets name, and they street name they lived on as a child.
Ask to film them going about their job (if they're law enforcement).
Ask them for a copy of their bank statement.
Ask to see their browsing history.
Ask for a key to their house.
Finally. Someone in the wild that runs passwordstore.org I thought there was only a couple of us.