Alas Poor Erinaceus

(Not as scary as I look, I promise, just old and lonely)

  • 20 Posts
  • 70 Comments
Joined 4 months ago
cake
Cake day: December 18th, 2024

help-circle




  • Could you explain/elaborate to a know-nothing (me) on the following from your link?:

    Caveats of federation: Metadata leaking

    When using federation, Matrix’s room states (containing a lot of Metadata) get replicated and stored indefinitely on every homeserver any user connects with or connects to. While this is a feature for enabling distributed chat rooms, it comes at a serious privacy cost.

    To avoid this, you can either disable federation, or make sure that your users signed up with no linkable identifiers other than their user names.

















  • Well, ignoring anything else, cozy lacks the encryption proton drive has.

    Do you by any chance have a reference for that? I believe you, I’d just like to read a little more about it. Of course then there’s also Cryptomator if the host doesn’t properly protect your stuff . . .

    I can make use of Proton Drive, but using the web client only, which is extremely cumbersome. There is rclone, but I’m not smart enough to understand how to set it up. 🤕 IIRC, of all the Proton Apps, Drive is the only one lacking a Linux client.


  • I’m not hocking anything—notice the question mark at the end of the title. I don’t have any association with Cozy; I know nothing about them. Also, I’m referencing someone’s blog post, not endorsing it or necessarily agreeing with it. Like I said, Andy Yen’s comments aside, Proton Drive doesn’t have a desktop client for Linux which is why I’m looking for a replacement anyway. I’m keeping my other Proton stuff, for now at least. Maybe read a little more closely next time?