• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          Graphene OS is superior IMO. Android is open source already and Graphene fully removes Google.

          I don’t see any advantage of trying to build everything from scratch again, which would mean giving up the enormous app ecosystem and existing work.

          It’s way easier and more practical to just hard fork Android.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        6 months ago

        Self-hosting can be a “Let them eat cake” kind of first-world answer for Japanese users. Most of them get tiny apartments to begin with. A desktop computer and enough space for it is a pretty heavy luxury to begin with. A dedicated always-on machine is another step above that.

        Much of their lives revolves around mobile or smaller devices (part of why the Steam Deck was popular there and introduced many of them to Steam)

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caBanned from community
      69·
      6 months ago

      Stop right there criminal scum!

      Encryption means you’re hiding something, and that you’re probably a criminal!

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
        4·
        6 months ago

        But not the most convenient.

        There are Apps which automatically mirror the content. someone commented a name below my comment, I think.

        Rsync can encrypt and sync. I think there are implementations for phones.

        For desktop users: Kde plasma has a feature for encrypted containers, that’s quite well integrated, IIRC.

  • Hupf@feddit.org
    72·
    6 months ago
    • be me
    • want to be able earn and spend money
    • need bank account
    • online banking is only option
    • mandatory usage of the bank’s proprietary mobile app for 2FA
    • bank blocks evil hacker tools such as GrapheneOS
    • app only available for Android or iOS
    • Google and Apple can terminate your ability to use any smartphone for any reason

    Guys are we really at the whim of just two unregulated private corporations?

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    69·
    6 months ago

    I recently completely finished completely decoupling my life from Google. My GMail account isn’t used for anything of importance anymore. People really should take a moment and think about what would be the consequences if Google suddenly mistakenly deleted their account like that. A lot of people’s entire lives are connected to their GMail account.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      I have self-hosted my own personal email server since the late 90s. It has been a tedious, often unpleasant chore. I hate email. But it’s the one thing I’ve never compromised on, because to this day they try to tie your identity to your email and giving up control of that seems insane to me. Apps that use your phone number are doing the same thing, but you can’t self-host that, so I won’t use them. I’m sure Signal is very nice and people keep recommending it, but my phone is an untrusted device, and my phone number is an untrusted identity I don’t control. I am not going to use it for anything important.

      • UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I remember reading Signal got rid of the hard requirement of a phone number. Haven’t tried it as I’ve already got it attached to my number. At least starting a chat with someone new I didn’t have to give them my number, used signal’s internal id.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        YouTube is fine by me. I don’t care that they track my activity there because they use it to recommend videos and I usually only go there when I have time to waste, which actually makes sense. My YouTube account is its own thing that I don’t use for anything else too. On top of that I use ad blockers so they can’t even make money off of me. If anything, I cost them money by using YouTube.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      6 months ago

      If anyone has any suggestions for an alternative to Google Docs for my university essays that can track my writing literally word for word, I would be forever grateful. Getting really tired of having professors flag me for AI use just because I can string sentences together with an em-dash, and also getting tired of feeding all my essays to Gemini.

      • Slashme@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        It’s not word for word, but a git repository with frequent commits with meaningful descriptions is easy to do, and then you can push to codeberg or wherever to have backups. That’s cryptographically signed and therefore strong evidence of what you wrote when, and what you were thinking.

        • forestbeasts@pawb.social
          3·
          6 months ago

          To be fair, you CAN monkey with timestamps and stuff in git. It is cryptographically proven that a given history results in a given commit hash, but you’re free to rewrite that and just have a new commit hash. If you give anyone else your repo, though, then if you rewrite history later they can be like “huh? this doesn’t match!”.

          Not that that matters much here. Proving beyond a reasonable doubt is the goal, not Absolute 100% Certainty level proof.

        • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          5 months ago

          This is really helpful for my CS/mathamatics courses actually, but if you think my English prof is gonna be able to parse a git repository… :/

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
      1·
      6 months ago

      Maybe typst.app would work for you, or the likes of a self hosted next loud with only office (which is also an office suite in the browser)

  • rafoix@lemmy.zip
    41·
    6 months ago

    Having AI make decisions should put corporate leaders in personal legal problems.

    A human is always to blame.

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
    39·
    6 months ago

    On the one hand this really, REALLY sucks for the artist. I wouldn’t wish it on my personal enemies if I had them.

    However stories like these are instrumental in teaching the broader public that AI is to be boycotted.

    Telling Joe Schmoe that datacenters are a rising problem just doesn’t register. This they could relate too.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
      25·
      6 months ago

      that AI is to be boycotted

      I don’t think the AI part is the relevant bit here.

      I think the message should be that trusting your data to off-site storage where it is subject to third-party moderation should be boycotted. So boycott Google Drive, One Drive, icloud and keep your data on your own computers.

        • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
          8·
          6 months ago

          How was it lost?

          Because you put it in the hands of a third party who is not accountable to you, and gave them full control over it. Whether they exercise that control via AI or a human is rather irrelevant here. There are plenty of documented cases of people losing their account in pre-AI times due to human moderation.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 months ago

      Telling Joe Schmoe that datacenters are a rising problem just doesn’t register.

      The Joe Schmoes have been uniting against the data centers and winning in many cases.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      6 months ago

      No one should have anything on google specifically, or on a non-privately owned and properly secured server in general.

      There was a guy, during covid lockdowns, whose child developed a severe rash in the diaper area.

      because lockdowns, the doctor asked them to send photos of the rash so he can diagnose.

      googles auto-moderator labeled it child pornography, immediately deleted their account (which was very much all eggs in one basket. his phone number, email, data, everything was tied to his google account, all of which went away with no ability to recover anything on any of it) and called the authorities.

      Police came to his home, talked to him, talked to his doctor, said there was nothing untoward there and went about their business.

      Google said it didnt matter what the police said, it was child pornpgraphy.

      the doctor sent a letter to google saying it was a legitimate medical necessity.

      google said it didnt care, its child pornography.

      That their expert photo-lookers said there was no rash in the area that they could tell, so there for the doctor was wrong, the police were wrong, and that man was a pedophile and he would never get anything back in any circumstance.

      and for proof of that, they pointed to a video in his google data from 6 months prior that had the mother laying in bed, naked, with the baby on her chest.

      Because, according to google, the only reason to be naked in the same room as a child, or to take a medically dictated photograph of a childs rash, is if you are a dirty dirty child molesting pedophile sexually exploiting your child.

      Which I imagine makes almost all of our parents and grand parents pedophiles, by googles standards, because I guarantee the overwhelming majority of us have a parent that has a picture of us naked, probably in the bath, that is compltely fucking harmless to any sane, normal human being, unlike the actual pedophiles that google has looking at this shit who gets their rocks off to it and assumes everyone else is just as fucked up as twisted as they are.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
      11·
      6 months ago

      Encrypting something with your own key before you upload it is a solution for backups, but you do lose the convenience factor of cloud storage. If you are only using Google Drive for backup, that could work.

      The alternative is to use a service with built-in end-to-end encryption.

        • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’m not really interested in remote services out side of that - they kinda sounds like a scam

          I don’t think they’re a scam. They’re just more honest: you use x amount of storage, you pay for x amount of storage and you can do with it as you like.

          It’s not presented as “free” where you actually pay with your data, a dependency on the service and hidden content restrictions.

    • skepller@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 months ago

      Just use a zero-knowledge end-to-end encrypted service. Which means the company literally can’t ever read your files!

      I use Filen for a long time now, and I’m super satisfied.

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    This makes as much sense as having my shelves and cabinets judge what socks I put in them and trash it.

    GTFO

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
      4·
      6 months ago

      I mean, you’re not wrong but the problem is that the online storage that you (and most people) think of as “your storage”, is not “your storage” in the same sense as those cabinets and shelves are yours. You’re really just borrowing the storage, and have given the actual owner the right to freely snoop through it and kick you out for anything they find they don’t like.

      The only storage that’s actually yours is the one on your computer. That you own. In your house.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      3·
      6 months ago

      Yes. And ban me from using any other doors or drawers in the house.

      Something to look forward to with smart houses, I guess.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    Imagine paying for more storage and keeping anything on the drive that is actually important. I just use mine to share pirated ISOs for games from popular systems to emulate.

  • 4grams@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 months ago

    It is more important than ever to get these fucking services out of your life. Do not rely on a third party for your critical data and infrastructure. Use it if it’s convenient, but ALWAYS have a copy under your own control.

    I can’t bring myself to blame the victims of shit like this, we’re up against massive corporate and government pressure to give over our lives to them. It takes genuine effort to protect your shit these days, but it’s more critical than ever and well worth the difficulty; even if you never need it.