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@alternativeto

#Private #cloud for your #memories, with apps for #mobile, #desktop and web.

#End-to-end encrypted, #FOSS cloud for #Photos, #2FA secrets and more!

Ente is a #service that provides a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted platform for you to store your data in the cloud without needing to trust the service provider. On top of this platform, we have built two apps so far: Ente Photos (an alternative to Apple and Google Photos)

ente.io/
github.com/ente-io/ente

enteEnte Photos v1Hello, world!

#Private #cloud for your #memories, with apps for #mobile, #desktop and web.

#End-to-end encrypted, #FOSS cloud for #Photos, #2FA secrets and more!

"Ente is a #service that provides a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted platform for you to store your data in the cloud without needing to trust the service provider. On top of this platform, we have built two apps so far: Ente Photos (an alternative to Apple and Google Photos)"

ente.io/
github.com/ente-io/ente

enteEnte Photos v1Hello, world!
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@ckrypto if@signalapp@mastodon.world wasn't complying with #CloudAct, @Mer__edith would be in jail.

Not to mention even if Signal keeps their "#OpenSource" code updated - which is doubtful, NOONE can actually #verify that it's the code you actually use - regardless if #backend / #Server or #client / #App!

  • #Signal is as secure as #ANØM, otherwise it would've been shutdown ages ago.

Also if Signal was designed for #security, it would've been #decentralized as #XMPP+#OMEMO and not demand #PII like #PhoneNumbers which oftentimes cannot be obtained anonymously in many juristictions at all!

By comparison, @delta doesn't require any PII, only an #eMail account, and @monocles isn't a #VCmoneyBurningParty but sustainable due to #subscription and they don't even require any personal details for #payment: #CashByMail and #Monero are accepted.

Again: It's Signal alone who have to evidence they are trustworthy, and all I get are "#TrustMeBro!" replies, which means they are not to be trusted.

  • Not to mention, it's just not sustainable to run a #service without #revenue, even if it's run entirely by unpaid volunteers and gets all it's #hosting and #costs donated, someone has to pay for expenses due to #abuse of a service (which is an inevitability come mass adoption)...

Whereas with #XMPP I can completely setup my own server and client, even build my own if I don't trust anyone else and pay someone to audit the code.

Whereas with XMPP & PGP/MIME #eMail I can layer @torproject / #Tor over it, make it an #OnionService and keep that thing under my bed with a literal killswitch...

Mir ist etwas bange dabei. Ein Radio aus den 30ern ist mir bisher noch nicht unter die Finger gekommen. Ich hoffe, die wichtigsten Teile sind soweit ok. Wenn es Trafo oder die Drahtpotis erlegt hat, isses das Todesurteil. Den Kondensatorblock neu zu bestücken wird auch eine Aufgabe. Hoffentlich sind die Röhren heile. #radio #vintage #service #reparatur

@peachfront read the article. I singled out the 3x t voter veteran maybe not a guy? And also the #usda democrat who is in public service for #service. So I both-sides my summary.

I’m just trying as a former marketing person to segment the 22.7% of the pop and find out who is recoverable, or at least, where to spend time money energy.

Religious #Magats are a lost cause, possibly 7% US population.

People who thot it would be like last time, possibly 7%, we have a shot.

U.S. Postmaster General Louis #DeJoy’s Thursday announcement that the independent United States #Postal #Service is partnering with the Department of Government Efficiency on a cost-cutting crusade that includes a
🔥planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that one of America’s most trusted and relied-upon federal agencies is on a path toward #privatization.
In a letter to congressional leaders, DeJoy said #DOGE will help the USPS “in identifying and achieving further efficiencies.”
The postal chief listed “mismanagement” of the agency’s #retirement #assets and workers’ compensation program,
“unfunded mandates imposed on us by legislation,” and “burdensome regulatory requirements restricting 'normal' business practice” as issues to be addressed.
commondreams.org/news/dejoy-do

Common Dreams · Alarm as DeJoy Teams Up With DOGE to Gut US Postal Service | Common DreamsOne Democratic congresswoman called the partnership "a blatant move toward privatization."
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#Veterans have been speaking out against the cuts already made at the #VA that so far had included a few thousand employees & hundreds of contracts. More than 25% of the VA’s workforce is comprised of veterans.

The plans underway at the VA showed how the #Trump admin’s #DOGE initiative, led by #billionaire #ElonMusk, is not holding back on an all-out effort to slash #FederalAgencies, even for those that have traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support.

A quotation from Swift

And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English writer and churchman
Gulliver's Travels, Part 2 "Voyage to Brobdingnab," ch. 7 (1726)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/swift-jonathan/10901…

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Spent a few days up in Beacon for a friends birthday. I made them and everyone staying with us pancakes with starter leftovers, Bread 6 with spice additions of their choosing, and my first pizza. We got a pizza 00 flour and my gosh the gluten! It was my first bread in a kitchen that wasn't my own. Half was eaten in one sitting, and the 5 cast iron pizza's were devoured before I got any good photos of them.

On the way back, we stopped off in Jersey City to visit some neon I made in 2019 and installed later in spring of 2020. After 5 years in the window, some of the glue on the polycarbonate tube supports were failing. I replaced the now brittle zip ties with twisted wire, and the tube supports got some holes with nuts an bolts. Five years later and the neon still looks just as good as day 1, and the acrylic backer is still in good condition. Nice to see my favorite radio station gearing up for their party time.

#bread#pizza#gluten