but what actually happens is that the amount of memory needed to run programs exceeds the amount of physical RAM, but swap is still available, so the OOM killer doesn’t give a shit.

Stop giving technical advice, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Sounds like a great workflow!

Unfortunately, I just can’t get syncthing to run in the background of my phone without chewing up the battery.

it I didn’t make me feel compelled to go harm some Windows users or anything like that, but your mileage may vary

I’m happy to let the conversation take its course, but I take exception to this. You damn well know that’s not what I meant.

Except electric cars are hell expensive and linux is free.

That was literally my point. Some people bought electric cars because the could, not because they wanted to effect any social change.

But other FOSS software (like the ActivityPub protocol) can for sure make a very sizeable dent in the amount of doomscrolling in one’s life.

Is activity pub only used on Linux desktop apps? Can’t a Mac or windows user participate in mastodon? Fediverse use and Linux are separate issues.

This false equivalence between Linux itself and the path of our collective salvation from social media, corporate manipulation, etc, etc is a big problem for Linux, because Linux is just a tool.

btrfs is widely praised… and also a product of Facebook. Google has poured Fons of money into FOSS development. Should we shun these tools?

Especially now, with a sizable influx of users to Linux, articles like the one Op posted create a completely false us v them narrative that just isn’t there.

You want to fight the evil social media? Drop them.

Look, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are treading into virtue signalling territory and your article has the superior tone of those who bought electric cars in the late 2010s to lord it over the rest of us.

Using Linux is not going to stop your doom-scrolling, nor is using Linux by itself telling the big corpos anything at all. Stop conflating using Linux with “sticking it to Facebook”.

Linux is a tool, and it is a tool that allows freedom of its use. That’s it.

You unfortunately cannot solve this yourself, this is where 800lb gorillas like akamai outclass self-hosted.

Netflix alone has many thousands of isps participating in Open Connect alone, these providing CDN peering points all over the world and making Netflix only a few hops away for more end users.

This isn’t an option for op, they’re collaborating with others for work, so they can’t change the involvement of MS.

You didn’t really include any details about your current VPN setups, your subnets, your routing rules, etc for anyone to give you a useful answer.

They likely need to track changes, which look and act weird when using LO on ms docs.

1. A tool used by a state employer only wouldn’t need e2ee, since they hold all the servers.
2. The French government has long been trying to make encryption in use by its citizens inspectable by them (the French government)

I guess the point is, what’s the use of an open non corporate controlled linked in?

LinkedIn serves no other purpose but showing others how much you “play ball” and always has. So I suppose the answer is “nothing”.

I don’t really understand the rest of tour comment.

I mean… It would work fine to use ROS for this, and truly, my mikrotik devices are definitely hands-off except updates and few rule adjustments, but this isn’t really any different from a Linux box. You have about as much initial config in a hardened immutable box as this.

The other thing is that mikrotik code isn’t open, which might be an issue for some.

I want to add that I respect this approach, it just seems like about as much work as any other roll-your-own solution.

Lately? LinkedIn has always been that. Facebook for corporate douchbags.

Finally killed my Discord account and moved my monitoring notifications to a self-hosted ntfy server. Works well.

Very nice, checking out the changes now.

Fair enough.

I am trying to be careful not to disparage the technology, it’s not the tech, it’s the mad rush to AI everything that’s the problem. And in our space, it is causing folks who normally think critically to abandon basic security and stability concerns.

It wasn’t my intention to criticize your choice. Have a good one.

Jeez, i re-read my answer and I always come across more severe than I wanted.

It’s definitely a good milestone for someone potentially getting carried away with buying gear, if only to stop and figure out what one is trying to accomplish. And I say this as a person who worked in it for 25 yrs and has waaay too much gear.

Everyone keeps forgetting

No, I read it the first time.

They show you what commands it’s going to run.

When it works, sure.

I review everything it will do.

Then what, pray tell, is the point of the agent if you need to check its work each time?

I will point out how many posts, articles, and comments there are about how agents with this level of access have repeatedly and consistently failed to follow “safeguards”.

Ultimately, if you feel informed enough, by all means use it.

• Bot can write to file
• Bot can execute code

You honestly think there isn’t an issue with that?!

Not really. Think of FIM like tripwire but for more than just userland files accessible at run level 3.