The question is why is this the case? The simple answer is p2p solutions struggle with asynchronous communications due to variable uptime of consumer devices. That said, that can be overcome by various means.

Establishing a user base for any communications platform is a challenge, largely adoption is driven by user experience and project narrative. There is no reason a p2p project couldn’t meet these criteria, they have before many times for file-sharing.

In fact, I think a self-hosted cloud storage solution with a communications platform built on it could be a great way to get a network of this type established. I know various file-sharing platforms like Soulseek have had these features, but I wonder if you slapped a WhatsApp clone UI onto it and push it as “own and share your files securely, no one you don’t specifically share the file with ever holds the files” if that wouldn’t pick up some steam.

Sadly Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol is abandonware, as is it’s more scalable but far less tested successor PZP

The p2p social approach seems so necessary, but projects that actually implement it are fraught with challenges it seems.

DEX is actually pretty good when used with a keyboard and external monitor. I also dont love thr Samsung walled garden, but I end up buying their products because I use my phones for several years at a time before replacing them so top end hardware specs are a priority and especially cameras.

I would go Sony but the data band support in the US is incomplete, and I can’t get caught out by poor cell service while traveling.

I am considering going Pixel next but Graphene hasn’t been announced for Pixel 10 yet so I’m a bit on the fence, I guess I could buy an older model and give it a try wifi only for a bit to see how I like it.

A lot of the issue with foldable is the non-standard aspect ratio. This gets to a standard tablet aspect ratio, so should run out of the box with most apps without additional modification.

Also DEX support on-device means it can run fully windowed applications and use mouse and keyboard natively, which is a big boost in functionality for productivity applications.

Thanks, that is very clear

Does Delta Chat / Arcane Chat suffer from the same vulnerability?

https://arcanechat.me/ https://delta.chat/en/

Seems pretty out of date compared to main branch

Looks like the F-Droid link just goes to the main ArcaneChat page. What are the advantages vs ArcaneChat?

And the internet is largely a platform for capitalism, and most available content is from the internet. Capitalism fundamentally relies on the confidence games of profitable pricing and marketing, not to mention speculation on finance.

LLMs and the entire field of reenforcement learning is fundamentally biased towards the production of Influencing Machines. We are training models at the fundamental level to be subtle and devious con artists.

Thinking about implementation, it seems like tooltips would be a great way to handle this. Linking out from the tool tips to some kind of more comprehensive outside IT/cybersecurity resource would be a good bonus. Tool tip text generated by llm could take some of the heavy lifting.

Could this be the run-up to Apple acquiring Perplexity? I remain convinced that Apple defending their internal AI division shows they are close to a major acquisition and are just waiting for a valuation dip on one of the major competitors. Distribution is a solved problem for Apple, what they need is proven usecases and a competitive tech stack.

That said, search and consolidating multiple model APIs isn’t a great match for what Apple needs, and their optics aren’t great. My bet is still on Apple acquires Anthropic in 2026.

As a non-coder interested in self hosting and somewhat aware of cybersecurity, this is the most relevant take for me.

An application that facilitates safe self-hosting of many different service is great, however for it to be actually safe and useful it must either be a cybersecurity service keeping up with the pace of threats (which is essentially the corporate closed source model) or from the ground up be an educational platform as much as an application. Documentation needs to not only be comprehensive, but also self-explanitory to a non-technical audience. It is not enough to state that a setting or feature exists, it must also be made clear why it should be used and what the consequences of different configurations are.

This approach is almost never done effectively by FOSS projects unfortunately. Fortunately I think we are at the point where it is completely feasible for this type of educational approach to be fully replicable and adaptable from a creative commons source to the specific content structure of the application user manual using LLMs (local ones). The big question is, what is the trusted commons source of this information? I suppose there are MIT and other top university courses published for open use online that could serve as the source material, but it seems like there is likely a better formatted “IT User Guide Wiki” and “Cybersecurity Risk and Exploit Alert List” with frequent updates out there that I’m not aware of, perhaps the annals of various cybersecurity and IT associations?

Anyway I’m aware this is basically calling for another big FOSS project to build a modular documentation generator, but man would it help a lot of these projects be viable for a wider audience and build a more literate public.

awesome! glad to see it.

https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng

Welp, looky there, an expansion port right on the bridge of the headset with PCIE compatibility.

I don’t see it in the hardware design, but from a software perspective the groundwork is there for modularity. Offloading the core compute to the PC frees up onboard processing to run peripherals like full color front cameras (onboard are black and white / IR) and more advance proximity detection, hell hook up lidar and go nuts with full body tracking.

That said, all of that would depend on decent I/O. 2x USB4 ports would go a long way.

It days right in the marketing text that the headset is “a PC” which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.

It’s too bad it leaves the door open for age verification requirements, but the language is overall pretty decent.

Well there are 15 days left on the kickstarter but it has been up for a while. I didn’t catch the medical office thing before, but makes perfect sense, they are clearly a commercial/enterprise targetted business and this is their first kickstarter. They just don’t know how to market to the masses.

I agree the software documentation is lacking, they claim it is easy to setup but they don’t show what it is actually like.

I get a sense that this could be a diamond in the rough but to your point about drivers I agree support is going to make or break this device. I think there are some indications that could be decent, the company itself appears to be software-first and targeting highly regulated industries (medical and transport) that require zero downtime. So long as the company itself survives I would guess drivers will likely stay updated. As long as the company survives.

To that point, it seems like this kickstarter is a line in the water for rebranding their enterprise “private cloud” hardware for general use, but they half baked the launch.

IDK, I’m tempted, but without better documentation it’s hard to spend that cash.

What do you think? It isn’t cheap but seems like great hardware to a n00b like myself, I like the future-proofness and repairability of the slots it has. Possibly worth it?