Note that you don’t know what the hosters know, store and/or sell about you.

I’m glad that you see my point that “other people hosting your data” is not really a good idea.

They host software for anyone to use, and capture all the data, usage patterns, etc, for themselves, to use for their benefit, and to use against you.

So I guess that we can agree that data stored on other people’s computers will not be safe. I honestly wonder why you think other people’s computers are safer if you know their names.

And you want to sit here and tell me they’re the answer?

I would be very grateful if you would only judge what I have written and not what you think I might have meant.

Are you just an apologist for FAANG, etc?

There is no reason to attack me personally, my friend.

Who’s paying you to post this disinformation?

Just in case I’m fundamentally misunderstanding your personal attack so I don’t report it to the moderators without cause: What is ‘disinformation’ about my pointing out that Google and Facebook host software for other people (even if they have their own motives)?

every community has somebody in it who does the self-hosting for the community

That’s what (e.g.) Google and Facebook do: Host software for the community.

You can’t extend, modify, or customize hosted software. Self hosting FOSS applications addresses all of those.

But:

rather than expect everyone to self-host, we should be working towards communities offering services to one another

How exactly are “communities offering services” a different thing than “hosted software”?

A viable alternative is Guix, which uses Scheme for its scripts and could also use the Hurd kernel instead of Linux, but works the same.

Oh no, two of the worst companies have left, all we have left now are (…) Google, apple, Microsoft, Uber

So, all that’s left is even worse? ;-)

OpenSMTPD is the default OpenBSD “sendmail”

Not quite. OpenSMTPD is OpenBSD’s default smtpd though (and it is portable!).

Rspamd - basic spam filter

It can be configured to be rather complicated if you wish. :-)

Or XFS.

Millennial, actually.

I haven’t been to a public library for years.

Why?

I like sex.

Would it make you uncomfortable if they did?

No.

Sorry.

tips hat

I probably will not, I prefer to see my manager in a non-sexual context. (Not really my type, too much penis, I guess.)

your troll hijinks

Sorry for repeating myself: Not everything you disagree with is “trolling”.

Not really. The distinction that has been made here is that “NSFW” only means “pornography” if it 1) takes place during a break at work and 2) does not take place on your own device. Conversely, doesn’t that mean that I can do whatever I want on my own device during my break?

I would have assumed that by now we would at least have overcome the age of puritanism sufficiently to no longer taboo sexuality. I actually watch porn on public transit, but I guess that not many people do.

Not everything you disagree with is trolling.

How would looking at porn on my private device in my down time be a problem to anyone?

Ahh, the husband of Incontinentia Buttocks!