I've been spreading the word of goodware for the past few years and no matter how well I explain it to people. They just respond with your standard responses. "I have nothing to hide." "I'm too lazy to switch."
FUTO KEYBOARD?!? Oh hell yeah, I'm downloading that instantly! Futo voice is amazing, and if the keyboard is even half as good as the voice app, it's gonna be the best keyboard app ever.
[Edit] Watched the previous video which clarifies a lot of things that mentioned below. - original comment below - I have tried explaining these to my friends and family but asking them to self host is something not all of them are capable of or even think of doing. I don’t know what else to tell them. And not only that, these saas products have created an ecosystem of convenience. I often get asked if I switch to so and so software can I still copy something on my iPhone and paste it on my Mac, and that’s where I lose them. You make a great point but also a little shortsighted because people like us don’t use that copy feature thingy because we tend to think how does it work, is my copied data encrypted, if so what type of encryption is used, where are the keys stored, etc etc. These are some complex systems ( not difficult to implement ) and saas products hide these complexities ( ignorance is a bliss ) and some lie straight through their teeth. I think a middle ground would be: - make people aware of these complexities. - have a service has feature parity with the service people using. - creating a least painful migration path.
The thing is, bad software is much easier to avoid than bad hardware. When looking for e.g. a new phone, car or dishwasher, I have no idea how to find one from a company without some shady practices. It's super easy to compare features. That's what everyone advertizes and most online stores let you filer by that. But to tell whether the bootloader is unlockable or how repairable the thing is you will have to consciously go out of your way and look for. And that's only the known unkonws. The are just so many misfeatures in modern products which you will only ever learn about after you hit them. Wouldn't it be great if we had some kind of database of products and brands where we could flag them for doing 'bad stuff'?
Frickin exactly!!!! This applies to everyone. This is an issue even for everyone. Because even things that non tech people use like appliances are affected. I actually want a database for appliance myself so I know how to get a reliable one when mine goes
In Brazil we have this website called ReclameAQUI (ComplainHERE) which is more broadly used but it's a great starting point. If a company's score is bad, they simply aren't going to be trusted and, thus, you get way better customer support there. Companies are also ranked based on how well they're perceived by costumers and if they find anything to complain about (duh), so it has been a great tool to motivate good practices.
... Because then there's no way to know if the uploaded file is even a photo, and you could just abuse it for unlimited cloud storage of any file type. Why Amazon gives unlimited photo storage is a good enough question on its own, without the contrast to not allowing encrypted "photos".
@@thenautilator661 To be fair, given a clever-enough encoding you could disguise any data as a picture and use that for unlimited file storage anyway.
Thank you for everything you stand for, FUTO. It hurts my heart that we are beyond the golden age of technology, and instead, we're at the mercy of big tech, and corpos are pulling away our right to ownership. And I think what hurts more is the complacency among our peers.
Nah you don’t sound stupid to me and I’m sure to most people. I don’t know much either but I am willing to learn and be taught/shown how to do this tech stuff… I sound like a grandpa that doesn’t know how to do what all these Gen Z cats do xD
I'd like to use the Futo keyboard, but unfortunately, I won't be able to. I am visually impaired, (I only have light perception), and I use a screen reader called Talkback. On the Google Keyboard, you can move your finger around on the keys and let go once you reach a certain key to input a letter. That doesn't work on the Futo keyboard, which means I'd have to turn Talkback off to tap a key, which means I don't actually know where the keys are. I don't know how to tell you to fix this problem. I guess you'd have to look at the Talkback source code or the Google Keyboard source code (if it's available), and those are rather big projects, which probably means it's impossible. I figured it would be good to bring it to your attention though.
I’m curious on whether you think learning touch typing may be an option Edit: to be clear, I’m talking about physical keyboards to interface, but I guess they may be too cumbersome to use reliably on a phone/tablet
@@__-nt2wh No chance sadly. The keys are way too small and pushed together for my big fingers. Plus, it's a touch screen, so the simple act of putting my finger on the screen will press a key when I may not want to. Plus plus, I'd have to turn Talkback off for that, so I wouldn't be able to hear the mistakes I'm making until I'm done typing, so "this is a test" will come out more like "skya td avewfe". 🙂 It's different with a computer keyboard, because I can feel the keys before pressing them, and also mussel memory and all that. There is something called Braille Screen Input for IOS and Talkback Braille Keyboard for Android, however, which allows you to type on the touch screen like it's one giant braille keyboard. That's pretty simple, because there are only 6 dots in braille, and the keyboard takes up the whole screen until you use a gesture to turn it off. When it comes to Talkback and the braille keyboard though, while the screen reader is open-sourced, the recent changes and the braille input mode are only available in a proprietary closed-sourced version of the screen reader. The open-sourced version is only just usable. I'd love it if a blind person went to work with Futo to make an open-sourced screen reader that is equally as great as the modern proprietary version of Talkback if not better.
I was one of the persons that made that argument about self hosting being "free". I think you are right about the value proposition and presented it here in a more concise manner. So I stand corrected. I think setting a price structure makes sense. I still think the cost of self-hosting should not be the same cost of paying Immich to host it for me. Different value propositions.
I missed the video yesterday because I was literally spending hours programming keys on a Ford Transit Connect with a tool that was badly and incorrectly documented. Autel wanted me to buy another tool because they renamed a feature and said the feature didn't exist.
I think there's a lot of value in offering support packages and/or ready-made hardware and/or hand-holding installers for the server infrastructure. Basically, the Protectli/PFSense model, before the recent shit.
Recent shift? What happened with Protectli? (I made a plan to get one of their routers, which I haven't done yet, but you make me wonder whether I have to redo my research on the product.)
The problem with self-hosting is most of ISPs (outside EU) still using IPv4 in a CGNAT, even with IPv6 together in their plan, most sites still use only IPv4. So I can't reach out my selhosting services outside my home easily. I'm with ISP with CGNAT that I asked to be out, but I have to double the price for the internet, and the others ISPs here do the same thing. I have problem hosting services like Jellyfin or a Game server for those who do not have IPv4. I don't want to pay more for the ISP for something I should have already in the normal plan, I don't to pay for other services like VPNs or make others download some software to join selfhosting applications.
We need more Open-core companies. Companies who make the core part of their software open source and build a business around that ecosystem. You are much more resilient against competion if you do it right.
I think the biggest barrier right now is in ease of hosting -- before we can make personal data sovereignty the default, we have to make standing up a server, deciding what applications to run, deciding where those applications will run from, and deciding where our data will live as easy as pushing a button. And changing our minds should be just as easy. Something as simple as plug in one or more generic appliances, set them up from a web browser or phone app, and then install the services you want as if they are phone apps, but also modular, so adding capacity both locally and remotely is just as easy. If you wanted to be more hands on, you could, but the idea is that you wouldn't have to be, and someone who is basically tech illiterate could have the kind of services that only those geeky enough to have their own homelabs can enjoy today. If we can get to that point, back to the proverbial "internet toaster", it's a lot easier of a sell.... buy a box off the shelf, plug it in, spend 2 minutes following directions, and your data is back under your control,
Good luck on convincing a lot of people about the importance of data privacy. I've been trying for years with almost zero success. The overwhelming majority of people like to learn things the hard way.
just installed the keyboard... great didn't know that that great features were possible :) thanks Already a long term user of selfhosted immich... loved your move to help them and other decent devs :)
omg that part of only phones with crappy cameras having an SD card slot hits hard ... And I feel crazy getting pissed about it all the time. Like whole world industry makes a single phone (Xperia 1 ) with good camera and SDcard slot .... aarrgghh
You guys should make a streaming stick device like Roku Stick / Fire Stick. I'd Gladly buy that. Most people are dissatisfied with it but there aren't any real competitors.
i do explain a lot.. but sadly most people just do not care enuff because they just cannot see the negative consequence .. or just do not want to deal with aaaaany inconvenience.. i am sadly mostly just screaming against a wall.. but these things take time
switzerland just passed legislation (as far as i know) to mandate government entities to use open source software you should check if your software can be the choice...
I don’t buy any crap that shares my info. Will never buy a new car or ev bc of tracking. I will build a system with yr software and show it to other ppl / explain why they need to do the same. Thank you Louis.
- Losing SD Slots I would love a small, pocket, portable, bluetooth, 1TB solid state drive, with no bullshit, that connects to my phone. I'll carry a second device just for my files if I have to, but a dongle for a phone is a dealbreaker, I'm not always at a desk with my phone on a stand.
Cloud & AI development make me feel wonderfully silly… I use an old school Pentax K1 with no connectivity whatsoever. What happens under the hood when I put those SD-cards in my Mac is a different question, though… (I mostly know what happens, bear with me…😅)
Yeah Home Lab'ers figured this out a while ago. I can buy a server for $150+100 ship, then buy 2 E5 2699 18c26t cpus for $80. Thats enough to boot a 72 logical cpu hyper visor (Prox Mox) which gives plenty of room for self hosting under $500. Buy some Ram as you grow, and drop in a SFP 10bg fiber cards $20. I even managed to squeeze in a Tesla K80 for $40 and another $30 for the hook up cables.
I’d love to check out that software you mentioned, but it just sounds like you’re saying “image” and there’s no link or title anywhere. Searching for it turns up nothing.
Love this kind of thinking! In last couple of days I started to create a software that encrypting texts, so you can use Facebook messenger etc without worring about sharing your informations. Gonna make it open after I clean the code a little bit. Let me know if somebody has interest! I would like to share it to the World
Imagine this situation. The "removed photos" was sexually spicy photos of your ex, you deleted them years ago after breaking up. Then there is a hack, those photos are spread, you get charged with "revenge prn".
Apple just released info stating that it wasn't previously deleted photos from the cloud reappearing it was from people's phones. The photos had been deleted but the bytes on the drive hadn't been overwritten to completely erase the photos. When iOS updated there was a bug which somehow caused the previously deleted photos to be re-read as if they were actively on the drive. I'm not great at reitering techy stuff, but that's the gist of what happened
@@20NewJourney23 a "bug" you say... Or maybe it's a 3 letter agency FEATURE to easily restore deleted things? The "bug" in this instance would be that it accidentally made its functionality into an update.. If I press delete, the filesystem should be SCRUBBED from that data, ie, the physical data can still be there, but the filesystem has NO IDEA where that data is on the disk any more. To restore it you have to read the entire disk and do checksums and a WHOLE bunch of stuff to _maybe_ be able to restore files, if they haven't been owerwritten with new data. There is a reason there are specialized businesses doing data recovery on deleted data, it is a VERY complicated process taking both processing power and time, not something that "just happens in an update". If you believe such things, you are quite frankly being fooled.
@@20NewJourney23 LMAO, if you believe that, you are quite frankly being a fool. More likely is that it is a 3 letter USA agency FEATURE, just like they had a backdoor on win 10 for YEARS. If something gets deleted from a FILESYSTEM they don't just magically "appear in an update", it is a VERY complicated thing to restore deleted files. There is a reason specialized businesses exist doing data recovery. Now lets see if youtube again deletes this when I removed the letters and instead calls it an "agency".
Personally I assume that all software is malicious and attempting to do nefarious things without my knowledge, so I've decided to make the Local-Area Network great again. I found that my LAN can be a peaceful place to work and enjoy video games, with no connection to the Internet.
Same! I set up some Venstar thermostats in my home with home assistant the other day, and created PfSense firewall rules to make sure that it had no ability to go on the internet. I tried to upgrade the firmware on the thermostat just to make sure it was broken before I began using it.
@@FUTOTECH Yeah, but some will be less problematic than others. We need tools to compare them and be warned where the issues are so that we can make a conscious trade-off. This is precisely what my top-level comment is about. Please make it happen! /self-shilling
Hi Louis can you help educate the public a little bit more on how to host your own server and the logistics needed to do so I've been speaking to friends and family now for quite a long time about these issues and they are interested however my family worries about having a private server and the security involved and the time and money needed to set the systems up I would appreciate some talking points to help convince them to see a better future thank you Luis
How do I search for software which uses a generic word like "image"? Sorry, I don't know which episode conversation ur referring to. I'd like something better than photo prism which feels like crippleware.
From my experience, people don't like being suggested things person to person. I suggested to so many of my friends and they were like "okay, and?". I still continue advertising all the good software I find. People are more willing to download something when they see group of people on the internet agreeing how amazing a software is, than being told by a friend.
its funny that everyone know that schools, an place where we share knowledge with the new generation, are important, but no one understand why open source is important. schools are an open source institution, if we didnt had schools we would have to re discover the fire, reinvent the whell every generation, we would never have the advancements to medicine, technology, transportation etc that we have nowadays, people understand that, people value that, but open source?
Linus, could you please explain how is this different from Free Software and GPL and AGPL? it seems to me that the goal is the same but maybe the approach is different (like Free Software doesn't require open source)
Whoa. Who is FUTO??? I was watching Louis a few years ago fixing Macbooks in NY and looking for new locstion for the company. And now i see some futo.. Could someone explain this to me?
It's a non-profit, funding various privacy-respecting software which Louis now works with (I don't think he gets paid though). Basically, a year or two ago when doing that whole Repair Preservation Group thing he was approached by some wealthy businessman sympathetic to his causes and this is what ultimately came out of that.
Grayjay Is really problematic because creators only get a following because uploading costs $0 and viewing costs $0. If you remove ads from the equation, how is anyone supposed to build a following? Please explain that.
Ads pay for the servers sure. But GrayJay doesn't seem to be trying to replace youtube as much as offer them an ultimatum, which in place of true competition is perfectly valid. Either offer people the freedoms you claim to care about, or you'll bleed users to our free and perfectly legal alternative. And honestly? I think FUTOs focus in the long term should be a healthy sustainable ad network that isn't based on data mining and open sources their algorithm and ad requirements. If they can nail something that's break even profitable they won't need to compromise on anything. Then they can be a truly self sustaining full alternative to UA-cam, IG, Spotify etc.
@@ergerg2 I don't think you understand just how ridiculously expensive hosting videos costs, especially in 4K. You're not gonna pay for that to ads alone. However, if UA-cam treated the users better, a lot more people would feel like UA-cam deserved their money. So if they did that, plus worked on minimizing the amount of scams and ads, it might be possible to achieve something like what you're describing. But as an ultimatum, I don't know. If UA-cam bleeds users, then the only way that they'll be able to fix this would be to make the site even less profitable than it already is. Linus was right, they really shouldn't have had 4K be a free option. There's a reason why every streaming service charges more for that, and I can guarantee you it's not simple as corporate greed.
@@MrGamelover23 To your 4k point, you're answering your own question. 4k shouldn't have been offered, I'm not suggesting grayjay make the same mistake. To your larger point about UA-cam's only option being to make the side less profitable then it already is, that's a non problem. If they started an unsustainable business model, such that a competitor like my hypothetical GrayJay could come out and force them into a death spiral just because GrayJay was willing to build around lower profit margins, their business was only surviving in the absence of true competition. I think GrayJay could do a few things outside of ads for money, same as UA-cam, and more, and not compromise on anything ethically (in app subscriptions to users and per month subscriptions for higher resolutions of first party, on app content for example). I'm not sure how much ad networks would be willing to work with them if they couldn't strong arm them as their used to though.
@@ergerg2 Figure out how a site hosting the largest video library in the world is supposed to be profitable without charging a subscription and get back to me. I may be using youtube revanced and ad blockers everywhere, but I'm not touching grayjay with a 10 foot pole because it completely misses the point.
Bold of you to assume I have an "inner circle of friends".
69 likes, kinda sus
Do not like the comment, we need that juicy number
Hahaha, on account of the multinational loneliness epidemic amirite? Nice! 🤣
Haha... 🫠
I always like to talk to them or listen to them, but I have never seen them.
I've been spreading the word of goodware for the past few years and no matter how well I explain it to people. They just respond with your standard responses.
"I have nothing to hide."
"I'm too lazy to switch."
I can't even buy food at the supermarket without getting close up photoed by the self service kiosk, yes I'm sure they "delete" them too.
FUTO KEYBOARD?!? Oh hell yeah, I'm downloading that instantly! Futo voice is amazing, and if the keyboard is even half as good as the voice app, it's gonna be the best keyboard app ever.
is not done yet
@@ausarma8403 I am aware of that. It's in pre-alpha, and yet it's better than the other open source keyboards by miles 💀
[Edit] Watched the previous video which clarifies a lot of things that mentioned below.
- original comment below -
I have tried explaining these to my friends and family but asking them to self host is something not all of them are capable of or even think of doing. I don’t know what else to tell them. And not only that, these saas products have created an ecosystem of convenience. I often get asked if I switch to so and so software can I still copy something on my iPhone and paste it on my Mac, and that’s where I lose them.
You make a great point but also a little shortsighted because people like us don’t use that copy feature thingy because we tend to think how does it work, is my copied data encrypted, if so what type of encryption is used, where are the keys stored, etc etc. These are some complex systems ( not difficult to implement ) and saas products hide these complexities ( ignorance is a bliss ) and some lie straight through their teeth.
I think a middle ground would be:
- make people aware of these complexities.
- have a service has feature parity with the service people using.
- creating a least painful migration path.
The thing is, bad software is much easier to avoid than bad hardware. When looking for e.g. a new phone, car or dishwasher, I have no idea how to find one from a company without some shady practices.
It's super easy to compare features. That's what everyone advertizes and most online stores let you filer by that. But to tell whether the bootloader is unlockable or how repairable the thing is you will have to consciously go out of your way and look for. And that's only the known unkonws. The are just so many misfeatures in modern products which you will only ever learn about after you hit them.
Wouldn't it be great if we had some kind of database of products and brands where we could flag them for doing 'bad stuff'?
Frickin exactly!!!! This applies to everyone. This is an issue even for everyone. Because even things that non tech people use like appliances are affected.
I actually want a database for appliance myself so I know how to get a reliable one when mine goes
In Brazil we have this website called ReclameAQUI (ComplainHERE) which is more broadly used but it's a great starting point. If a company's score is bad, they simply aren't going to be trusted and, thus, you get way better customer support there. Companies are also ranked based on how well they're perceived by costumers and if they find anything to complain about (duh), so it has been a great tool to motivate good practices.
Think about why Amazon gives unlimited photo storage unless you encrypt the photos before uploading them.
... Because then there's no way to know if the uploaded file is even a photo, and you could just abuse it for unlimited cloud storage of any file type.
Why Amazon gives unlimited photo storage is a good enough question on its own, without the contrast to not allowing encrypted "photos".
@@thenautilator661 To be fair, given a clever-enough encoding you could disguise any data as a picture and use that for unlimited file storage anyway.
@@mskiptr They have clever ways of detecting that
@@thenautilator661 because Amazon and Facebook/Meta combined own over 50% of all existing cloud storage
Thank you for everything you stand for, FUTO. It hurts my heart that we are beyond the golden age of technology, and instead, we're at the mercy of big tech, and corpos are pulling away our right to ownership. And I think what hurts more is the complacency among our peers.
Need more tutorials for dummies on how to install the software. IDC if i sound stupid, i just wanna know how to install the things.
Nah you don’t sound stupid to me and I’m sure to most people. I don’t know much either but I am willing to learn and be taught/shown how to do this tech stuff… I sound like a grandpa that doesn’t know how to do what all these Gen Z cats do xD
I'd like to use the Futo keyboard, but unfortunately, I won't be able to.
I am visually impaired, (I only have light perception), and I use a screen reader called Talkback. On the Google Keyboard, you can move your finger around on the keys and let go once you reach a certain key to input a letter. That doesn't work on the Futo keyboard, which means I'd have to turn Talkback off to tap a key, which means I don't actually know where the keys are.
I don't know how to tell you to fix this problem. I guess you'd have to look at the Talkback source code or the Google Keyboard source code (if it's available), and those are rather big projects, which probably means it's impossible. I figured it would be good to bring it to your attention though.
Perfect is the enemy of good. I guess this is something that might be addressed in the future. There will always be edge cases.
I’m curious on whether you think learning touch typing may be an option
Edit: to be clear, I’m talking about physical keyboards to interface, but I guess they may be too cumbersome to use reliably on a phone/tablet
@@__-nt2wh No chance sadly. The keys are way too small and pushed together for my big fingers. Plus, it's a touch screen, so the simple act of putting my finger on the screen will press a key when I may not want to. Plus plus, I'd have to turn Talkback off for that, so I wouldn't be able to hear the mistakes I'm making until I'm done typing, so "this is a test" will come out more like "skya td avewfe". 🙂
It's different with a computer keyboard, because I can feel the keys before pressing them, and also mussel memory and all that. There is something called Braille Screen Input for IOS and Talkback Braille Keyboard for Android, however, which allows you to type on the touch screen like it's one giant braille keyboard. That's pretty simple, because there are only 6 dots in braille, and the keyboard takes up the whole screen until you use a gesture to turn it off.
When it comes to Talkback and the braille keyboard though, while the screen reader is open-sourced, the recent changes and the braille input mode are only available in a proprietary closed-sourced version of the screen reader. The open-sourced version is only just usable. I'd love it if a blind person went to work with Futo to make an open-sourced screen reader that is equally as great as the modern proprietary version of Talkback if not better.
Thanks for sharing! I hope this can get added as a feature
Also, I don't think he would need to look at any source code, it'd just be as simple as coding it as described in your comment :)
As a software dev, I am insanely curious regarding the FUBS project
I was one of the persons that made that argument about self hosting being "free". I think you are right about the value proposition and presented it here in a more concise manner. So I stand corrected.
I think setting a price structure makes sense. I still think the cost of self-hosting should not be the same cost of paying Immich to host it for me. Different value propositions.
I missed the video yesterday because I was literally spending hours programming keys on a Ford Transit Connect with a tool that was badly and incorrectly documented. Autel wanted me to buy another tool because they renamed a feature and said the feature didn't exist.
I think there's a lot of value in offering support packages and/or ready-made hardware and/or hand-holding installers for the server infrastructure.
Basically, the Protectli/PFSense model, before the recent shit.
Recent shift? What happened with Protectli? (I made a plan to get one of their routers, which I haven't done yet, but you make me wonder whether I have to redo my research on the product.)
I didn't even know this channel existed, I thought it was just a project or company.. subscribed :D
The integration with video sources, particularly this one, with "GJ" , is absolutely amazing. Thanks Louis and FUTO
The problem with self-hosting is most of ISPs (outside EU) still using IPv4 in a CGNAT, even with IPv6 together in their plan, most sites still use only IPv4. So I can't reach out my selhosting services outside my home easily.
I'm with ISP with CGNAT that I asked to be out, but I have to double the price for the internet, and the others ISPs here do the same thing.
I have problem hosting services like Jellyfin or a Game server for those who do not have IPv4.
I don't want to pay more for the ISP for something I should have already in the normal plan, I don't to pay for other services like VPNs or make others download some software to join selfhosting applications.
You can get a VPS for $5 and host it there. You don't own the hardware, but the software stack will be controlled by you.
Oops, typo in the title
not anymore :) - that softwasre error has been finally fixed ;)
We need more Open-core companies. Companies who make the core part of their software open source and build a business around that ecosystem.
You are much more resilient against competion if you do it right.
I think the biggest barrier right now is in ease of hosting -- before we can make personal data sovereignty the default, we have to make standing up a server, deciding what applications to run, deciding where those applications will run from, and deciding where our data will live as easy as pushing a button. And changing our minds should be just as easy.
Something as simple as plug in one or more generic appliances, set them up from a web browser or phone app, and then install the services you want as if they are phone apps, but also modular, so adding capacity both locally and remotely is just as easy. If you wanted to be more hands on, you could, but the idea is that you wouldn't have to be, and someone who is basically tech illiterate could have the kind of services that only those geeky enough to have their own homelabs can enjoy today.
If we can get to that point, back to the proverbial "internet toaster", it's a lot easier of a sell.... buy a box off the shelf, plug it in, spend 2 minutes following directions, and your data is back under your control,
Good luck on convincing a lot of people about the importance of data privacy. I've been trying for years with almost zero success. The overwhelming majority of people like to learn things the hard way.
i will dedicate my life to this once ive achieved sufficient financial freedom. im almost there already too
just installed the keyboard... great didn't know that that great features were possible :) thanks Already a long term user of selfhosted immich... loved your move to help them and other decent devs :)
omg that part of only phones with crappy cameras having an SD card slot hits hard ... And I feel crazy getting pissed about it all the time. Like whole world industry makes a single phone (Xperia 1 ) with good camera and SDcard slot .... aarrgghh
Love what y’all do, keep it up
You guys should make a streaming stick device like Roku Stick / Fire Stick. I'd Gladly buy that. Most people are dissatisfied with it but there aren't any real competitors.
We've been spyed on for years, but it is really starting to get out of control.
I'm glad high profile people like you are spearheading initiatives like these.
No video description?
I really like the idea of a "home cloud" which hosts your files and can serve as your chat/message server.
i do explain a lot.. but sadly most people just do not care enuff because they just cannot see the negative consequence ..
or just do not want to deal with aaaaany inconvenience..
i am sadly mostly just screaming against a wall.. but these things take time
switzerland just passed legislation (as far as i know) to mandate government entities to use open source software
you should check if your software can be the choice...
I don’t buy any crap that shares my info. Will never buy a new car or ev bc of tracking. I will build a system with yr software and show it to other ppl / explain why they need to do the same. Thank you Louis.
Just to help aglo grow nicely < waters >
FUTO = Freedom to Use Things Openly
Inspiring!!
- Losing SD Slots
I would love a small, pocket, portable, bluetooth, 1TB solid state drive, with no bullshit, that connects to my phone. I'll carry a second device just for my files if I have to, but a dongle for a phone is a dealbreaker, I'm not always at a desk with my phone on a stand.
Cloud & AI development make me feel wonderfully silly… I use an old school Pentax K1 with no connectivity whatsoever.
What happens under the hood when I put those SD-cards in my Mac is a different question, though… (I mostly know what happens, bear with me…😅)
8:25 I'm pretty sure he didn't say that the videos were deleted, they were just set to private
Yeah Home Lab'ers figured this out a while ago. I can buy a server for $150+100 ship, then buy 2 E5 2699 18c26t cpus for $80. Thats enough to boot a 72 logical cpu hyper visor (Prox Mox) which gives plenty of room for self hosting under $500. Buy some Ram as you grow, and drop in a SFP 10bg fiber cards $20. I even managed to squeeze in a Tesla K80 for $40 and another $30 for the hook up cables.
For engagement
Thumbs Up!
My God this is refreshing
I’d love to check out that software you mentioned, but it just sounds like you’re saying “image” and there’s no link or title anywhere. Searching for it turns up nothing.
Immich
Where can I find the aoo for searching pictures locally? Which studio or maker made it?
I'm doing my part.
facts
What’s the software you mentioned?
Love this kind of thinking! In last couple of days I started to create a software that encrypting texts, so you can use Facebook messenger etc without worring about sharing your informations. Gonna make it open after I clean the code a little bit. Let me know if somebody has interest! I would like to share it to the World
What is this image software you're talking about? I can't find it. You should link it in the video description.
Immich
*Just shout, "Rally" some more and everything will be alright...*
Btw.What does name Futo means?
Imagine this situation.
The "removed photos" was sexually spicy photos of your ex, you deleted them years ago after breaking up.
Then there is a hack, those photos are spread, you get charged with "revenge prn".
Apple just released info stating that it wasn't previously deleted photos from the cloud reappearing it was from people's phones. The photos had been deleted but the bytes on the drive hadn't been overwritten to completely erase the photos. When iOS updated there was a bug which somehow caused the previously deleted photos to be re-read as if they were actively on the drive. I'm not great at reitering techy stuff, but that's the gist of what happened
@@20NewJourney23 a "bug" you say... Or maybe it's a 3 letter agency FEATURE to easily restore deleted things?
The "bug" in this instance would be that it accidentally made its functionality into an update..
If I press delete, the filesystem should be SCRUBBED from that data, ie, the physical data can still be there, but the filesystem has NO IDEA where that data is on the disk any more.
To restore it you have to read the entire disk and do checksums and a WHOLE bunch of stuff to _maybe_ be able to restore files, if they haven't been owerwritten with new data. There is a reason there are specialized businesses doing data recovery on deleted data, it is a VERY complicated process taking both processing power and time, not something that "just happens in an update".
If you believe such things, you are quite frankly being fooled.
@@20NewJourney23 LMAO, if you believe that, you are quite frankly being a fool.
More likely is that it is a 3 letter USA agency FEATURE, just like they had a backdoor on win 10 for YEARS.
If something gets deleted from a FILESYSTEM they don't just magically "appear in an update", it is a VERY complicated thing to restore deleted files.
There is a reason specialized businesses exist doing data recovery.
Now lets see if youtube again deletes this when I removed the letters and instead calls it an "agency".
What does FUTO think about games and game development
Personally I assume that all software is malicious and attempting to do nefarious things without my knowledge, so I've decided to make the Local-Area Network great again. I found that my LAN can be a peaceful place to work and enjoy video games, with no connection to the Internet.
Same! I set up some Venstar thermostats in my home with home assistant the other day, and created PfSense firewall rules to make sure that it had no ability to go on the internet. I tried to upgrade the firmware on the thermostat just to make sure it was broken before I began using it.
What smartphone does Louis recommend?
They all suck, IMO.
@@FUTOTECH Fair enough, I tend to agree.
@@FUTOTECH Yeah, but some will be less problematic than others. We need tools to compare them and be warned where the issues are so that we can make a conscious trade-off.
This is precisely what my top-level comment is about. Please make it happen! /self-shilling
Please create something as clean as Linux mint but doesn't require the ability to code 😭🙏🏼
Hi Louis can you help educate the public a little bit more on how to host your own server and the logistics needed to do so I've been speaking to friends and family now for quite a long time about these issues and they are interested however my family worries about having a private server and the security involved and the time and money needed to set the systems up I would appreciate some talking points to help convince them to see a better future thank you Luis
How do I search for software which uses a generic word like "image"? Sorry, I don't know which episode conversation ur referring to. I'd like something better than photo prism which feels like crippleware.
Immich
@@CoreyTyhurst thanks Corey
I can't find the image viewer ?
It's called Immich
From my experience, people don't like being suggested things person to person. I suggested to so many of my friends and they were like "okay, and?". I still continue advertising all the good software I find. People are more willing to download something when they see group of people on the internet agreeing how amazing a software is, than being told by a friend.
covfefe softwasre.
So will you guys be funding existing open source projects?
Go check their website
Oh, it's Immich, not Image
its funny that everyone know that schools, an place where we share knowledge with the new generation, are important, but no one understand why open source is important.
schools are an open source institution, if we didnt had schools we would have to re discover the fire, reinvent the whell every generation, we would never have the advancements to medicine, technology, transportation etc that we have nowadays, people understand that, people value that, but open source?
Linus, could you please explain how is this different from Free Software and GPL and AGPL? it seems to me that the goal is the same but maybe the approach is different (like Free Software doesn't require open source)
My videos were not monetized for the first three years I made content on youtube. Often, people donated if they found the content useful.
Whoa. Who is FUTO??? I was watching Louis a few years ago fixing Macbooks in NY and looking for new locstion for the company. And now i see some futo.. Could someone explain this to me?
It's a non-profit, funding various privacy-respecting software which Louis now works with (I don't think he gets paid though).
Basically, a year or two ago when doing that whole Repair Preservation Group thing he was approached by some wealthy businessman sympathetic to his causes and this is what ultimately came out of that.
FUTO is a for profit corporation
The softsware doesnt mean much to me - the human is the key!
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Great sales pitch Louis, but I think we need to understand the problem better before selling solutions to it.
Great video, but FUTO needs a better microphone. Sounds like there's a woollen sock on it.
Grayjay Is really problematic because creators only get a following because uploading costs $0 and viewing costs $0. If you remove ads from the equation, how is anyone supposed to build a following? Please explain that.
Ads pay for the servers sure. But GrayJay doesn't seem to be trying to replace youtube as much as offer them an ultimatum, which in place of true competition is perfectly valid. Either offer people the freedoms you claim to care about, or you'll bleed users to our free and perfectly legal alternative. And honestly? I think FUTOs focus in the long term should be a healthy sustainable ad network that isn't based on data mining and open sources their algorithm and ad requirements. If they can nail something that's break even profitable they won't need to compromise on anything. Then they can be a truly self sustaining full alternative to UA-cam, IG, Spotify etc.
@@ergerg2 I don't think you understand just how ridiculously expensive hosting videos costs, especially in 4K. You're not gonna pay for that to ads alone. However, if UA-cam treated the users better, a lot more people would feel like UA-cam deserved their money. So if they did that, plus worked on minimizing the amount of scams and ads, it might be possible to achieve something like what you're describing.
But as an ultimatum, I don't know. If UA-cam bleeds users, then the only way that they'll be able to fix this would be to make the site even less profitable than it already is. Linus was right, they really shouldn't have had 4K be a free option. There's a reason why every streaming service charges more for that, and I can guarantee you it's not simple as corporate greed.
@@MrGamelover23 To your 4k point, you're answering your own question. 4k shouldn't have been offered, I'm not suggesting grayjay make the same mistake. To your larger point about UA-cam's only option being to make the side less profitable then it already is, that's a non problem. If they started an unsustainable business model, such that a competitor like my hypothetical GrayJay could come out and force them into a death spiral just because GrayJay was willing to build around lower profit margins, their business was only surviving in the absence of true competition.
I think GrayJay could do a few things outside of ads for money, same as UA-cam, and more, and not compromise on anything ethically (in app subscriptions to users and per month subscriptions for higher resolutions of first party, on app content for example). I'm not sure how much ad networks would be willing to work with them if they couldn't strong arm them as their used to though.
@@ergerg2 Figure out how a site hosting the largest video library in the world is supposed to be profitable without charging a subscription and get back to me. I may be using youtube revanced and ad blockers everywhere, but I'm not touching grayjay with a 10 foot pole because it completely misses the point.
I don't think soft arse can be non-abusive lol.
Guy looks like Beetle Juice.