Yeah, I got called an idiot for pointing out that connection here a few weeks ago.

Even if it’s as simple as choosing which Root CA’s we want to trust, how many people will know to do that and be able to do that? A couple percent at most.

Of course we need full ownership of our devices, and trusted computing has always referred to the trust of for-profit corporations, but this in itself doesn’t help the vast majority of people who either don’t know that they’re compromised, think they have nothing to hide, are unable to do anything about it, or a mix of all three.

Privacy and security are already a privilege. Proposals like eIDAS only make it even more unaccessible.

Watch the opposite happen.

Nah, they’re dropping chat control for something bigger: breaking SSL.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

That shared experience of oppressed peoples everywhere is really key for me.

As I see right now, the main difference between the USian and Israeli colonial projects is time, and maybe scale.

I’m honestly not sure if there was a moment or a thing. Probably just the unending saga of one Israeli atrocity after another. At some point I just realized it wasn’t a complicated situation at all. Palestinians are a colonized people, Israel is a colonizing and occupying force. We’re talking about decolonization elsewhere, why not when the region in question is Palestine?

As far as I can tell this just fixes some relatively minor issues the contributor was experiencing deploying the hacky self-host stack on his Kubernetes home lab or private server. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table, and I’m not sure that a full on Kubernetes or similar distributed swarm deployment is really what the average self-hoster needs or even wants.

It could just be that Omnivore tries to do too much for it to be feasible to self host. It was also conceptualized with certain third-party backend services in mind which makes it tricky to adapt.

Maybe I’m asking for too much, but I would be looking for a two service stack, one for the app and one database service. The current and forseeable future state of Omnivore is four backend services excluding the database, and like I already pointed out you’re not even getting the full feature set.

Just the simple fact that Tor was started with a bunch of US intelligence money is cause for concern.

From their blog post (linked to by the docs page) about self-hosting:

The following Omnivore features will not be included in this minimal Omnivore setup:
- The web app (we will use the iOS app from the AppStore as our client)
- Search of PDFs
- Saving URLs instead of pages (more on this below)
-Receiving newsletters via email
- Text to speech

Not only that, they use a non-self hosted elasticsearch provider.

Their example docker-compose file in the repo has no less than four containers defined, not including the database server, and you have to build them all yourself, so it’s more of a local dev environment type deployment rather than production.

Here’s their “make self-hosting more practical” Github issue, coming on two years old with no progress: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/25

All of that was more than enough for me to not even bother to try to deploy my own instance. I manage with Wallabag for now, it’s not the greatest implementation either but at least it can be self-hosted. Omnivore looks slick but the backend just doesn’t keep up.

That’s an incredibly naive take.

Looks like a cool app but it’s super unpractical and hacky to self host and you can’t even use a bunch of features when it’s deployed that way.

The EU was never designed to be a democratic body.

They tried chat control and got pushed back on, so they gave up on that track and quickly switched to a sneaky effort to break SSL.

Just as previous initiatives were voted down by the people, but forced through the parliament anyway.

The EU exists to protect private property and capital, not to benefit the people.

As far as I understand, this subscription “option” comes from a couple EU member state data protection agencies saying that the “choice” between give up all your personal information or don’t use the service isn’t good enough.

It remains to be seen if give up all your personal information or pay and still give up all your personal information will be accepted by those and other regulators. I can’t imagine it will be.

Also fun fact, it costs more on the mobile apps as Meta passes the Play Store/App Store fees onto the end user.

Enter eIDAS.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

That a VPN automatically makes your online activities more private.

The Google Drive backups are not encrypted by default. It looks like they’ve recently added the option to encrypt backups with your own key or password, which is a decent feature.

The so called free world was never free.

I’ve been reading a lot about the chat control plans but hadn’t seen this yet. Maybe this new eIDAS agreement is why the parliament has reportedly let chat control go for the time being?

In general it’s quite shocking how easily the EU can propose, iterate, and often pass really insidious legislation very quietly.

Thanks for providing a source.

I am just reading this post now, I’m pleasantly surprised.

I am however also sure that chat control will be proposed in some form again, as truly private communications for the masses are a serious threat to oppressors.

Don’t worry, chat control is coming to the EU soon and then the fun really starts.