It’s absolutely bonkers.

There’s so many people here that fight against their own interests by letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Got to love ignorant hot tapes based on article headings.

That’s… Literally just a long password.

I assumed you were talking about a private key as in cryptographic private key, where your data is encrypted on the remote server and your private key is required for it to be decrypted and for you to use it.

If you just talking about something to get into an SSH key then all that is is a longer password.

It should be $0 because this was a credential stuffing attack (Using breached passwords people reused), and affected people who knowingly shared their data with other people.

23&me didn’t leak data, they didn’t have any database breaches, their infrastructure wasn’t compromised due to negligence…etc The majority share of negligence is in the users here.

Yes, they should have MFA, but also no, most sites and services don’t force you to use MFA to begin with, and that’s not a regulatory requirement anyways.

This is, for the most part, the fault of the folks using terrible security practices such as refusing passwords and sharing their data with other users. And this is a shitty precedent to set where the technical reasons for this event are thrown out the window in favor of the politics of it.

That’s literally just a long password that you can never recover your data from when you inevitably lose or forget it (remember we’re talking about the majority of users here who do not use password managers).

Custom launchers have their own issues. I’ve tried them such as Nova launcher and I really just don’t like the experience.

Yeah but this requires you to use an entirely different launcher which has its own caveats…

You can if you are in the EU.

Google just says fuck you to everyone else because they get away with anti-competitive practices.

For a huge number of phones it’s a requirement because Google and Android do not allow you to customize or change this aspect of the device.

Unless you’re in the European Union in which you get the right to.

Fuck Google.

If only we had a choice to… You know… Not use the stupid thing

Unfortunately that right is only reserved for EU Citizens.

Google needs to be broken up.

Yes, literally anyone that wants to sell a product or provide a service relies, to a large degree, on advertising.

It’s been this way for over a century.

You literally can’t.

There’s a ton of stuff you can’t do with the new garbage settings.

Let’s not even mention that on an operating system called “Windows” you can only have one “window” of settings open. And opening new settings will just replace where you just where. Which is extremely rage inducing.

I very specifically want an app that collates all the information that can possibly be gathered about me in a way that I can utilize and abuse it myself. For me there is a lot of utility and value to be found with this sort of thing.

Of course the security posture of said app needs to be rather robust. And instead of it being an app it should instead be an SDK that I can then choose and control my own storage medium for.

Never not

I hope it happens one day, but that’s an almost insurmountable task given the scale.

Take the entirety of the fediverse, and it’s entire history, and you’re probably talking a days worth of search engine indexing compute & storage.

The scale is large and the fediverse is incredibly small. Keeping my fingers crossed, but definitely not holding my breath.

In the meantime, I’ll use Kagi.

No, it sums up a very specific type of AI…

Blanket statement are dumb.

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The bullshit asymmetry principle is in full effect here.

It takes nothing to make up bullshit and it takes hundreds, thousands, of times the resources to refute it.

Meanwhile another hundred pieces of bullshit have been created.

This is all just a bunch of red herrings and we waste so much time and effort into giving them attention.

This… Isn’t how large scale technologies work. Not even close, not even “same planet” close. That’s also not how antitrust breakups work, why open source private technologies? How do you think that’s supposed to work? How does that precedent work?

You could open source all ~15,000+ repos from my company, and be entirely incapable of actually operating the grand majority of it. And we’re, maybe, 1/10,000th the size of Google on the tech side.

You also can’t just “split” a single technology apart, that’s gloriously, ignorantly, simplistic. You’re talking potentially years of dedicated work by hundreds, thousands, of individuals to achieve something like that. How do you expect that to operate?

It’s going to be a nightmare to just rip seemingly unrelated, but interdependent, verticals of Google apart. Your request here is wholely unrealistic.

They could, but as it currently stands media hosting on the fediverse… Sucks.

It’s obscenely expensive for everyone involved, and scales poorly. It’s just not ready to operate at scale at this point.

I’m sure it will get better, but large storage costs are better off being handled by a distributed file-system where a minimal level of duplication is baked in, but the storage load is reasonably spread out instead of fully duplicated on each peer.

There are technologies for this, but they all have their own issues. And tomorrow there will be n+1 distributed filesystems, fragmenting it further.