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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

True in essence, but OSS is not necessarily synonymous with privacy, security or reliability, this only depends on the developer and the intentions of this and maintenance. There is nothing more dangerous than an unattended OSS, precisely because the code is public and not everyone who reads it has good intentions. On the other hand, not all proprietary software is automatically garbage, abusive or spyware, if we exclude those from the BigBrother companies. In each software or service, regardless of whether it is OpenSource or not, it is always important to read the TOS and PP, if people did, they would often be surprised and not always pleasant. FOSS is always preferable, but do not cling to the fact that it is the universal panacea, it is not, it's the common sense.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For whatever reason, every time the word "telemetry" gets mentioned, in any subreddit (but programming ones especially) a TON of microsoft defenders come out to say how keyloggers are actually a good thing now.

They aren't, and they've never been necessary.

[–] Doomguy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This almost made me spit out my coffee LOL. On a serious note, I'm pleasantly surprised no one here is defending keyloggers yet. Currently inking and keylogging are some of my main selling points to steer friends away from Windows.

[–] peveleigh@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I can't quite pin down why exactly, but I've pivoted hard towards self-hosting these past few months. My biggest issue at the moment is finding a Gmail alternative.

[–] animist@allthingstech.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@peveleigh @Doomguy I try to self-host as much as possible but with email I am willing to go with protonmail (and even pay for an upper tier). However I did learn how to set up my own email server on my raspberry pi using citadel which was pretty cool

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Proton is OpenSource, another alternative is Tutanota or Murena (Nextcloud). This are very reliable mail services.