Your bank probably wants to make sure your account isn’t being hacked. Either they think you’re using a VPN, and they believe it could be a malicious person from literally anywhere, or they think you’re in Sweden, and they have no idea how you got there.

It’s cases like these where you might want to temporarily disable the VPN or make a special exception for your banking app, but that’s up to you.

You assumed and misinterpreted everything you could assume and misinterpret in order to paint standard notes in the best possible light.

the old approach wasn’t very secure or scalable?

No, the older approach was more scalable, and they made it more difficult to do

95-99% of the Javascript that has ever run in your browser is open source frameworks or packages

No, I was not talking about frameworks.

Your response was so offbase and full of assumptions that I simply edited my original post.

All FOSS projects have a team of dictators…

And the Standard Notes team makes a lot of bad choices that make self-hosting harder.

“Just fork it and make your own” is a Hail Mary response… Because most people cannot.

Standard Notes wants to charge you money to run open source JavaScript code, including other people’s markdown and spreadsheet editors, on your own server. To do this, they go out of their way to make self-hosting harder.

1. Standard Notes went out of their way to make it harder to self-host extensions a couple years ago, which IMO was pretty tasteless on its own. Instead of letting you install a single bundle of extensions with one URL, you would have to manually add each extension and then manually update it later.

2. They opted for charging for other people’s work. Their editor extensions were other people’s work. For example, their rich text editor was somebody else’s rich text editor with a thin wrapper that allowed it to run in Standard Notes. (Using so many other people’s editors also led to a bit of a lack of stylistic direction.)

3. And then, more recently, they decided to shut off web app access to third-party servers entirely.

“FOSS” only means so much when they dictate what goes into the source code. Unfortunately.

If you see something that says it uses blockchain to store your data, run away from it. Blockchain is used to make records permanent, not private. The only way to delete data from a blockchain is to erase the blockchain from existence, which cryptocurrency bros will never want to do (because that’s where all their money is).

I miss the good old days when crypto meant cryptography and not cryptocurrency.

That sucks. The “you get no SD card” trend started in the highest end phones (like the S20 had no slot but the lower-specced S20FE did) and apparently since then it’s kept migrating to lower-end phones…

like SD cards

No longer in the most expensive phones?

Signal does a decent job just out of the box.

This is why metadata matters so much. Plenty of “end-to-end encrypted” apps only handle the content of messages, but know on the server side what people are in what places. Or even keep a historical record of who joined and left. Or just don’t bother encrypting…

How long until that sort of thing goes the way of Bibliogram/Barinsta?

The guy who wrote this announcement is named “Rob.”

Just a little on the nose, but OK

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If I need to fudge info, I tend to put it into a password database’s “notes” field for easier note-keeping, FWIW.

Not a full-on identity, but bits of info like stated name, address, etc.

For now, I’ll take requests… But the tool is running on a potato.

Interesting

Sounds like you have too stable of a temperament to be a Lemmy server admin to me. Just wait until I tell you what I know about the guy who built a server just to downvote someone else on here, the one platform where downvotes don’t matter.

Extremely intended! They built a model to lie and a surrogate model to say the first model was being truthful.

They called it LaundryML.

Considering the news about OneRep… Definitely steer clear of Mozilla’s scrubbing service.

OneRep is what Mozilla uses to remove your data from the internet, if you pay them for Monitor Plus.

Didn’t somebody make a biased AI and a laundering AI to say it wasn’t biased, just to demonstrate how easy it was to do?