sir_reginald

sir_reginald, 1 year ago

Not all what is proprietary soft is crap

You’re wrong. For privacy, being proprietary is one of the biggest red flags.

nor all FOSS is the panacea

That’s absolutely true tho.

sir_reginald, 1 year ago

Which search engine do you use? If FOSS, which engine do it use? VPN?

There’s a relevant difference here. If the proprietary software runs on the server side and everything on the client side it’s free software, that’s very different than running a proprietary web browser on your own machine.

So as long as my search engine does not execute proprietary JavaScript and I can connect to my VPN using the OpenVPN or Wireguard client, it’s okay.

Nonetheless, it’s of course very much preferable that the server side is free software too.

I don’t care if the proprietary software comes from a mega corp or a small startup. It’s still proprietary.

sir_reginald, 1 year ago

docker images have a ton of extra processes from the OS they were built in. Normally a light distro is used to build images, like Alpine Linux. but still, you’re executing a lot more processes than if you were installing things natively.

Of course the images does not contain the kernel, but still they contain a lot of extra processes that would be unnecessary if executing natively.

sir_reginald, 1 year ago

Telemetry, even if well intentioned, might end in the wrong hands (by a company acquisition, a data breach or a government request). And the data collected is probably enough to make cross referencing with other sources and identify you.