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  • Honestly, this is a really innovative project. I wish it came in an extension because I feel that is likely your biggest bottleneck for getting people to try it. I don’t think many are going to build a browser from source & then port all their stuff over strictly for the integration. Plus it looks like a primary advertisement for it is that integration, but it also disables a lot of the QoL features that FF has that some don’t have any problem with. Like the fact that Sync is removed as a whole is a major dealbreaker for me, as I do like the feature and I am not concerned about the privacy aspects of having it on.

    If an extension version ever releases for the lemmy integration though, I would for sure be looking at that!


  • I think my only real complaint about the deployment of this, is from a security standpoint. The password is hardcoded as “changeme” for the GitLab Runner container. which when run from an automated script like this the script itself doesn’t make the user aware of that. Like the script itself mentions that you should move credentials.txt but it never makes you aware of the hardcoded password.

    it would be nice if it prompted for a password, or used a randomly generated one instead of that hardcode



  • This. Next cloud was /so/ slow and bloaty for me when I tried it. I also got turned away by their lack of ambition with security that went through lemmy about a year ago. I don’t like that they were advertising an encryption feature and then not actually encrypting anything past the first folder level. The feature is fixed now I believe but I didn’t like the how nom-chalant that process went. Especially for a program that seems to want to be commercial.

    Maybe the slowness was fixed, I should look into it again but my main use case was file storage/backup and syncthing more than manages that with way less overhead



  • I’m in this same boat as well. As someone who ran an XMPP server in the past, then stopped and eventually moved onto Matrix. I have to hard agree, in my experiences, XMPP was so much better administration side than having to deal with matrix, and its quite a bit more fleshed out(not to mention the sheer amount of clients available) Being able to just log into a management panel and have the panel do everything administration wise for me was super nice, instead of having to ask “is this only available via the API or is it available via a client or is this config only”, these types of tools from what I’ve seen don’t really exist for matrix.













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    5 months ago

    The counter argument on this is, you need to be an authorized person on the account to enable and considering authorized people are the people who are paying the bill they have full control. In the eyes of the Telecom the authorized user owns every device that’s on the account so they say they want to track it they’re allowed to track.

    If you’re worried about privacy and someone tracking you that’s part of your plan, you need to isolate into a separate plan. You lose so many areas of privacy by being on someone else’s plan, like the saving money is nice but they can look up your call history, some carriers allow you to look up SMS history it’s not good