People are lead to believe that the FA extends to all facets of their lives. I think that’s one of the reasons why they let corporations get away with so much deregulation. People often don’t realize how much less responsibility corporations have than them for the same actions. I still get shocked pikachu faces when I tell people what limited liability is and they ask how is this shit legal.

Corporations aren’t people and they don’t act in ethical manner you might expect. Any corporate action that isn’t furthering its profits one way or another should be considered a coincidence or a mistake. Very few firms, typically smaller, private, and or with special ideological predisposition fall outside.

Err, that’s not true on the last fee devices I’ve used, Pixels and a Fairphone. Installing apps from APK files doesn’t require me to enable dev options. In fact trying to install an APK from say Files brings me straight to the permission setting. It’s also per-app. It can be accessed under Settings > Apps > Special app access > Install unknown apps.

Yes, but self-hosting does whatever the HOWTO, YouTube vid or AI slop the user follows tells them to do. If the user doesn’t know the basics, how could they know what an instruction for activating UPnP does or opening a NAT port does and why that might expose their data? Laymen don’t even understand what making theie stuff publicly accessible means. It might simply mean “Yay I can access my stuff on the go.” 😄

If on the other had the user learns the basics, they can tell when a doc instructs them to do something dangerous and they can do something about it to avoid disaster.

high-performance

You bury your lede by mentioning “your project” at the end.

Basically means the user has to trust that project to do the right thing and be maintained to keep their setup secure.

Same. No WAN ingress without VPN.

“If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting.”

If this is an example of gatekeeping, I think you are misjudging.

Whenever self-hosting there’s a very real risk of exposing your private data to the internet. Potentially a lot more private data than you’d otherwise expose via cloud providers. This risk necessitates a basic understanding of some of the importand bits and how to operate them securely. If not for that, then anything would go.

Understanding docker, reverse proxy, and YAML which is used to configure those is part of probably the simplest way to get to secure self-hosting. I’d add a self-hosted VPN to access local resources. I’m not aware of a magic UI solution that does it all and securely. Docker compose files are very accessible. A couple of those followed by docker compose up -d and you have a basic env up and running.

Generally the lack of knowledge in X or Y doesn’t mean there’s necessarily an easier path than learning X and Y and that you’re being gatekept by being told you have to learn X and Y. Some things are harder than others. Buying Apple Cloud and setting it up is easier than self-hosting Nextcloud. I don’t think that should be the case, but today it is as far as I’m aware.

Same boat. I guess brother in law is gonna have some GN coasters too. 😆

Also the new retro coasters are fabulous:

Nice.

Internally, and for their shareholders’ benefit alone.

There’s research that shows the process of accumulating so much wealth both selects and creates sociopaths. This is why they’re very overrepresented in the upper class. Sure, not all of them are. Maybe you’d be the exception. I also think I’d be the exception but I’m not too confident. :D

The only important indicator. Everything else is window dressing.

We’d likely have to go through socialism before that anyways so yeah.

It may be even better than sliced bread.

You make Karp sad. Why won’t you buy his profit-driven narrative?

Of course he does. But false dichotomy aside, China has a good chance “winning the AI race” anyway. Given their existing work, the investment they’re doing in higher education, the additional internationally trained talent they get every year, and the industrial base that lets them make cheap energy and hardware, I think at the very least China has a decent chance to create equivalent tools at a lower price than whatever the US AI industry creates. If they come out with a competitive hardware and sell it at lower margins, along with free models as they already offer… I think a lot of firms and governments would opt for that instead of paying for NVIDIA and OpenAI.

Opaque ones.

I’m going to buy some powder detergent today.