mtset

joined 2 years ago
[–] mtset@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

If someone curiously inquired me on this type of information I’d tell them without giving a second thought.

This is the difference between you and people who care about their privacy, then. I would happily talk about that to someone I trusted, but not a random person on the street, and certainly not someone whose interests I know don't align with mine, which is mostly true of every company on Earth. Not to mention that any of these companies could be subpoenaed for this information at any time, which would be an issue if the law changed to make something I do illegal.

[–] mtset@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Poor data management practices on the part of this admin.

[–] mtset@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bill Nye (the Science Guy). Total jerk, unfortunately.

[–] mtset@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Good timing on their part; I just rejoined Tumblr in order to reconnect with some friends and this is just the push I needed to delete my account again.

[–] mtset@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

This seems unnecessarily snarky.

[–] mtset@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, yeah, that sounds like a really frustrating situation. I wish you all the luck in figuring it out.

 

I've seen a lot of people saying things that amount to "those tech nerds need to understand that nobody wants to use the command line!", but I don't actually think that's the hardest part of self-hosting today. I mean, even with a really slick GUI like ASUSTOR NASes provide, getting a reliable, non-NATed connection, with an SSL certificate, some kind of basic DDOS protection, backups, and working outgoing email (ugh), is a huge pain in the ass.

Am I wrong? Would a Sandstorm-like GUI for deploying Docker images solve all of our problems? What can we do to reshape the network such that people can more easily run their own stuff?