My team is in a tough spot where management doesn’t want to pay SaaS vendors but also doesn’t want to spend years on projects, so yes we would absolutely consider self hosted versions of auth and CRM.

They also still fully control the tools and are hard at work finding ways to update them to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

I don’t really care if they hand metadata to authorities. I want to replace “we give you free services, in return we spy on you, then we ALSO want you to pay us later and we’ll still spy on you” with “pay us for our services, we literally can’t spy on you bc of encryption”.

Whoever has that will get my money, (well, except Proton because fuck that CEO).

I was considering buying their subscription but that’s going to be a tough sell after reading this. Anyone have any good alternatives?

I doubt it. This administration has shown the world that the US is capable of electing an administration that will do stupid shit. Even if they can trust the next administration what about the one after that?

Probably all they had to do was buy a bunch of crypto “currency” from World Liberty Financial. Nothing to see here.

It’s the only way they can be sure it’s not full of AI slop.

Does their CEO even DO Ketamine? How many outlandish promises have they made recently? Have we even seen ONE “Roman” salute at a government function?

How are we even supposed to determine a valuation?

Especially on mobile… It’s crazy how many times I tried to do a food order or some checkout process and mobile Firefox just hits some error.

Practically a penny stock now at less than a dollar

It’s not a good long term market because retirees will be gone in 20-30 years and millennials+ will never be able to retire.

Is this just lack of dedicated GPU on mobile?

Is it because Netgear is a “US” company? Meaning they are on the US stock exchange, have corporate offices in the US, and manufacture everything in Asia?

Yeah, it’s not a trivial problem to solve either, especially if platforms censor mentions of decentralized alternatives.

However, it’s hard for the oligarchs to censor the fact that an organization like EFF exists, and hopefully someone clicks on one of their posts and reads something on their blog about decentralized alternatives.

Yeah, he seems to think that the over-moderation is a good thing, and Cindy tries to convince him that censorship is bad and the answer instead is more like what you can do with the Fediverse, you can move servers if you don’t like how the server is moderated and who they federate with, but people are free to say what they want in their servers.

I think it’s for rough terrain, like carrying packs of supplies through war zones. So not full climbing but at least able to step over rocks and debris.

Both IBM and Oracle I haven’t really worked with because they’re heavily used by massive companies. We had an Oracle database when I was in banking that was because we were self hosting a loan accounting system. IBM does backend data processing stuff for massive companies like American Express and Bank of America. All of the smaller shops I’ve worked in have built things on Microsoft’s stack.

It’s more that local authorities are offering incentives to big tech to bring in those data centers, ostensibly because they think it will benefit the area, but more likely because it is benefitting the local authorities personally through kickbacks or campaign donations.

This is the first I’m hearing of Aurora, that seems promising. I’m guessing you’d use FDroid for anything that is available there but use Aurora for anything that is only on the Play Store?

Thoughts on pros and cons? Do you still install apps through the play store or are you using FDroid?