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Ideally, there'd be a simple RPM installer compatible with Alma 9 that I can point to a samba share that holds all the photos, kind of like what I do with Jellyfin. Also nice if it uses an otherwise unused port or I can easily set what port it uses.

My googling is finding a bunch of docker stuff, which always seems needlessly complicated to me vs an RPM... I'm also using a low powered x86 tiny computer to front JellyFin and would like to host this on the same computer vs needing another server.

Any ideas?

So I've been using Kagi for a while now as a paid search engine. I always thought it's $25 a month plan was a little steep for search, but a) I got work to pay for it, and b) startpage nee google was getting less and less useful, and bing and whatever used it has... well been worse for me always.

Anyway, I just got told that they've now adjusted their pricing / added features to Ultimate, and I think (at least now) that's actually added a lot of value if you're into the more advanced LLVM / AI models / chat. I have also been paying $20 a month through work for ChatGPT Plus. I might drop that because Kagi now lets you chat with / use GPT4 as well as Claude2 and a Google LLVM model with the one $25 a month, in addition to all the search and AI Search (with sourcing) together.

I don't know how well paid search is going to ever do - it might be a short term tool. But for now, not having ads in the search, a straightforward pay for service model that seems to work just as well with their stated privacy goals, and getting multiple AI LLVM is pretty cool "one stop shopping" if you will. I also like giving a shot to less ad based models for Internet services that I can't see how they don't become privacy invasions.

Newfie puppy at 13 weeks and 40lbs.

I looked at this, and the idea seems very interesting being tied into a per application "firewall" which I think actually works more like per application routing, or even better per domain. This would actually be a big convenience to send some traffic that doesn't like you being in one location to another vs a VPN. However, I can't actually see how it would be better than a VPN necessarily.

• First - it seems like it could not really work for SSL without MITM it at the browser level? Or it at least has to be DNS based (and still the HTTPS based DNS would thwart this) and therefore not really per domain right?

• Second, what are they charging for here? It sounds like it's access to TOR, though they claim it's only TOR Like, I fail to see why anyone would provide them an exit node or transit node for free when they're charging end users for access.

• Presumably the reason people use VPNs rather than TOR is a mix of issues, but the main one I remember is performance. TOR is slow. I don't see how this would be faster. The privacy one is that you've got the exit node issue which is the same as the VPN exit node (i.e. there are side channels to get identity, and you're still having someone else seeing all exit info - in this case a random person rather than a company, we can decide which is more trustworthy, but I don't think it's an obvious win).

So, we do have a lemmy community for photography, but it has like a 3 pictures a day limit. So if I wanted to share pictures from recent photo trips, is that something I oght to make a itap like lemmy, or should I just post to Mastodon or sign up for Pixelfed. What's the lemmy / fediverse cultural desire here?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1184398

For those of you who do not already know, YouTube has issued a cease and desist to the dev team of Invidious, a privacy-focused and ad-blocking front end for YouTube.

Ironically, the YouTube's complaint cites the devs' lack of a privacy policy for the Invidious service.

Luis Rossmann's video gives a good breakdown of the situation. He also mentions that cloning the repo would be a good idea before it gets nuked by github.

Techlore gives an interesting short video on why he doesn't recommend SimpleX right now.

I think it's an interesting idea, but solves a different problem than the obvious competition in Signal. Signal is not without fault of course, but it does what it says on the tin, gets you secure messaging with your contacts. It doesn't hide that you're talking to your contacts and relies too much on the OS security it's running on IMO. (doesn't lock itself anymore or use a password to launch)

I haven't tried SimpleX yet, but my reading of it is 2 problems.

• like Techlore, it's too new. Let's get some experience and audits under our belt.
• it's worse than the fediverse for non techie people. It reads like manual key exchange, which while secure, is basically unusable for most people.
• the problem it solves isn't one most people have. Hiding your social network... The people you know and communicate with is only slightly desirable for the average person and near impossible to do in today's world. And if you're not taking on govt level threat models, it's irrelevant. For most people interested in privacy, something like Signal keeps their contents of conversation private, and also keeps the people they are communicating with private from advertising and ISPs.
• if you do want SimpleX hiding of who you talk to also, there are tools that have been around for quite a while that you could use, with the assumption you and your friends have the tech skills. The needed skills are maybe slightly more than SimpleX... Debatable.

Anyway I will keep watching SimpleX too, but I doubt it'll be something I can get the people I communicate with to switch too. It's been a lot of work to get them to use Signal, and that used to be a drop in replacement for SMS(still annoyed by that going away).

I was just getting interested in Neeva as a paid search engine with some cool AI tools where you're not an advertising target because you pay. This explains the sudden refund from Neeva - they apparently got bought out and are no longer being a search engine. I don't really know what to make of it all.

I suppose it makes my decision between it and Kagi easier - I don't really have a choice. Kagi is a lot more expensive, but I get work to pay for it. Though that does make it harder to potentially recommend to other people I know.

Not that I ever thought paid search would massively take off, but unlike many tasks, search can be centralized enough on a per user basis that something other than ads is worth exploring.