I’m not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn’t figure it out or that it isn’t good enough…
I think as the enshittification marches on they’ll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
I’ve started using Firefox to install sites ‘as a web app’. I use that for cloud services and things I self host. Basically works like a native app but way more control over data.
Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.
After working with computer software most of my life I’ve come to understand that if success relies on people ‘paying attention to something, making an informed decision and then performing an action’ that it is nearly impossible to get the desired outcome more than half the time.
We’re so fucked.
So… how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things…?
Yeah it’s worth considering risks. If I lose access to my credentials it would be a ridiculous amount of work to recover, probably losing access to some things forever.
Bitwarden caches passwords locally so if your self hosted instance goes down or is inaccessible to can still access those cached credentials and OTP codes.
I tested this thoroughly and was very nervous that a server outage at home would lock me out of the credentials I need in order to fix it. It’s been good enough for me to get by until I can fix whatever is broken.
I’ve had a good experience self hosting Bitwarden (using Vaultwarden). I’ve printed off some instructions for my wife or family to gain access in case something happens to me. I haven’t done this yet but I also want to occasionally export my vault to an encrypted USB to keep alongside things like passports and birth certificates.
Those might be good options for you too considering the risks you’ve outlined.
I self host Bitwarden (aka Vaultwarden) and recommend that to anyone who is comfortable hosting a container. For everyone else I still think Bitwarden cloud is the best most trustworthy free cloud credential manager.
KeePass rules though, I used it for years. I no longer recommend it mostly due to the difficulty of securely syncing the database which generally forces people to rely on a cloud provider anyway.
This is probably the most ‘old man yells at cloud’ thing about me but I hate voice assistants and they have yet to work consistently enough to be worth my time.
It is completely insane to me that something simple like “Add ____ to the grocery list” has worked and stopped working multiple times for years now. How hard is that to get right? Cannot believe such a simple action is so inconsistent.
I’m in a pretty bad fucking mood but I kind of figured that was more my problem.
Maybe next time they’ll lose by even less! That’s about the best progress I can hope for in this country in my lifetime.
A couple of multi-millionaires would pay you to stop and then you’d implode.
Still a net win for everyone else though, I support this.
I’d take it. Truly mastering any single skill is almost certainly beyond my ability anyway.
I’m only okay at some things so being okay at all things is a total win.
This breaks things like Whoogle that used the JavaScript-less api to pull search results.
Democracies around the world rightly shouldn’t tolerate the blatant corruption and manipulative business practice of American tech companies.
Mostly infrastructure as code with folks installing software natively on their windows host (terraform, ansible, powershell modules, but we also do some NPM stuff too). I’m trying to get people used to running a container instead of installing things on their host so I don’t have to chase people down when they run commands using the wrong version or something.
I’ve been really trying to push for more usage of dev containers at my org. I deal with so much hassle helping people install dependencies and deal with bizarre environment issues. And then doing it all over again every time there is turnover or someone gets a new laptop. We’re an Ops team though so it’s a real struggle to add the additional complexity of running and troubleshooting containers on top of mostly new dev concepts anyway.
I met my wife via online dating just before Covid…
Feel like I caught the last chopper out of 'Nam.