Apologies if this is explained in the article (sorry, as a Linux user I don’t care enough about this story to actually read the article), but… how is a filter that avoid taking screenshots of sensitive info supposed to work? I mean, what kind of divination algorithm can detect something is sensitive without looking at it first?

Agreed: now that I’m looking at the whole thing, this looks like a story where the FOSS community left much to be desired.

I know nothing about Wikipedia drama, but the term “logical fallacy” usually indicates a reasoning pattern and does not apply to specific arguments, regardless of how fallacious they may happen be. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

“mesh” is a buzzword that doesn’t make much sense (to me at least) if we are talking about wired and routers… what do you mean by it? can you describe your setup?

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Let me clarify :)

Unless I’m mistaken, mesh means that one a bunch of devices, usually wireless access points, connected with each other (in a mesh) with possibly low-quality connections that automatically switch traffic for each other.

If you have ethernet running from the router to the APs, you always want to use that and so you don’t want a mesh at all.

The best option would be to have a “regular” client that keeps a local copy in sync with the cloud instead of a mount.

BTW: IDK what cloud storage you are using, but IIRC some show files that are not available locally (ie. only the most recent files are downloaded locally - the older stuff is downloaded on request).

Alternatively, you could hack something together running unison locally in the guest to sync the cloud folder to a shared one… you’ll have two copies of the data though.

This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

It nails a different problem on the head.

You don’t have to convince the US government to allow you access to classified information, you just have to convince a lawyer that their (possibly non-US) client won’t be liable in case you are lying.

First of all, saying “based on their country of residence” is either grossly uninformed or (most probably) plain dishonest.

Ignoring that, the GPL-freedoms of companies subject to sanctions are still preserved, so… having established that your “free” is not the same “free” as in “free and open source software”, what the hell are you talking about?

Follow-up story: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements

Finland was invaded by Russia before WWII, then participated in a campaign against Russia with the Axis powers and finally signed the Moscow Treaty with Russia and the UK and joined them against Germany… I fear history is more complex than what may serve your simplistic view (I’d go to far as to say that, most probably, reality is too).

Also, if I may, that happened some 80 years ago… do you think current Finns should be ashamed of that when they were not even alive back then? Can you name a nation that didn’t do anything shameful in the last century?

One way or another, if you want to run an application you are gonna need its dependencies (the key is the name)… they may be bundled into an appimage or come as part of flatpak ruintime, or be confined inside a container, or live in the nix store, but they will “bloat” your system anyway.

Learn how to cleanup your system (ie. uninstall all packages that are not needed by others that have been requested explicitly) and live a happy life. Only bother with other solutions if the software (or version) you need isn’t available for your distro.

Because podman :)

The main difference is probably that I have a desktop PC rather than a laptop (plus, a few old hard disks lying around).

I think I’ll keep the local replica even when I’m finished reorganizing the library: the local copy doubles as a backup and I must say I am enjoying the faster access times.

I also read that drives should not be spun down and up too often, but I think it only matters if you do that hundreds of times a day?

Anyway, the reason I spin down my drives is to save electricity, and… more for the principle than for the electric bill (it’s only 2 drives).

I am amazed at the achievement, and even more amazed at how much people can cheer at anything like madmen.

Never heard of it… OMG that must be the worst name for a backup solution! :D

It reeks of abandoned software (last release is 0.50 from 2018), but there is recent activity in git, so… IDK

Yes, Syncthing does watch for file changes… that’s why I am so puzzled that it also does full rescans :)

Maybe they do that to catch changes that may have been made while syncthing was not running… it may make sense on mobies, where the OS like to kill processes willy-nilly, but IMHO not on a “real” computer

OP, I forgot to say! There are specific communities dedicated to self hosting and/or home labbing (eg. [email protected]), you may want to participate there

Yes, and computers people have laying around are most probably not outdated enterprise servers that draw 120w at idle :)
(if anything, that’s something a newbie self hoster may buy since they are cheap and look cool)

Cheapest? Use someone else’s hrdware (or “borrow” it) and set it up at work/school/friend’s house/cafe. Free hardware, free connectivity, free electricity.

More seriously, set everithing up on whatever spare old computer you have at hand (or use a vm running on you pc). You should not start with buying hardware.

The ones I added recently are all git-related (one key for signing and I started using different keys for codehaus, gitlab and github)