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New comment by spacebear in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

spacebear — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:10:38 +0000

Not the OP, but I alternate between self-hosted instances of Outline (https://www.getoutline.com/) and Nextcloud (with Collabora) for this. Outline I actually like better than Google Docs for most things. Nextcloud is a little rough, but it has change tracking, which I need sometimes.

I’ve also seen a lot of people using Cryptpad recently, which I think wraps OnlyOffice.

Please don't share our Signal messages with your AI Agent

spacebear — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:33:38 +0000

Article URL: https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/please-dont-share-our-signal-messages-with-your-ai-agent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914960

Points: 8

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New comment by spacebear in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

spacebear — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:55:28 +0000

Same. Big fan of the YouTube metadata plugin.

New comment by spacebear in "DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player"

spacebear — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 02:47:54 +0000

I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

New comment by spacebear in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

spacebear — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:30:47 +0000

They’re also all software developers, right?

New comment by spacebear in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

spacebear — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:46:03 +0000

Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.

New comment by spacebear in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

spacebear — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 01:52:03 +0000

They’re selling your precise location to data brokers that sell it to the police (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admi...) so you can get a deal on french fries that are killing you. This is no way to live.

New comment by spacebear in "Threads users down by more than a half"

spacebear — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:54:49 +0000

That’s how I used Instagram in the first half of the 2010s. It seemed like the app was designed for that use case back then. Now it seems like it’s designed primarily for watching ads, so I text my friends instead.

New comment by spacebear in "Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence"

spacebear — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:14:39 +0000

Yes! Strongly agree with this. E2E is easier than you think and will be much harder to add after the fact.

New comment by spacebear in "Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence"

spacebear — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:11:22 +0000

I don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign around user privacy.

I think most people do care about privacy, but they're usually powerless to defend it.

New comment by spacebear in "Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)"

spacebear — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:14:07 +0000

Also, that massively centralizes the Internet in a way that's not great. If one of those CDNs gets hacked or just goes down for an hour, it breaks every website that uses it.

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software

spacebear — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 12:47:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/tech/facebook-shuts-down-facial-recognition/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093824

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by spacebear in "Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro"

spacebear — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:48:44 +0000

I think that they can do that is the problem, though? If you don’t like the way Google is running things, you can swap out the OS on your Pixel for one of several open source privacy-focused Android forks. But if Apple does something to iOS you don’t like, you’re stuck with it.

New comment by spacebear in "Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?"

spacebear — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:12:38 +0000

Yes. We live in a world where our only real freedom is our purchasing decisions. I think that leads to people making brands, TV shows, video games, etc. a big enough part of their identity that criticism of that thing feels like criticism of them personally.

New comment by spacebear in "O&O ShutUp10++ – Free anti-spy tool for Windows 10, 11"

spacebear — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 15:28:43 +0000

Your every move is quite literally transmitted to Apple. That's how Find My works.

New comment by spacebear in "Apple is working on iPhone features to help detect depression, cognitive decline"

spacebear — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:42:40 +0000

I would argue that modern TVs and smartphones are some of the most common ways that people are wasting their precious time on earth these days, but do what makes you happy I guess.

New comment by spacebear in "Hmsklt – App to help friends form deeper relationships"

spacebear — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:45:26 +0000

Maybe it's not, but this sure looks like a predatory data grab.

New comment by spacebear in "Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features"

spacebear — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:23:48 +0000

My bet is they wait a few months and quietly announce that they’ll do the scanning on the iCloud servers instead. That would be relatively uncontroversial in the tech press and probably never make it to the mainstream press.

New comment by spacebear in "Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features"

spacebear — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:54:55 +0000

If the million customers they lose also happen to be people who build apps and influence the tech buying decisions of everyone they know, that could be a very big problem over time.

New comment by spacebear in "Linux on the Framework Laptop"

spacebear — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:42:31 +0000

I find the 3000x2000 mode mentioned here works well: https://community.frame.work/t/using-elementary-os-on-the-fr...