Nice! Thanks for posting this. Does it run on all wifi bands? Is there provision for mesh extension by wired Intranet?

This is the biggest struggle of the decade at least. It needs to be forced on every politician as an issue to make statements on. No votes for Digital ID supporters.

What are the implications for users of FOSS? Should we not be downloading from github?

Links in the article. Hugging Face and Swiss Telecoms host

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/software/qualcomm-linux

hmmmm, sounds like a mix of open and closed source, but a good starting point.

glad to see this info getting slated on an official channel.

I appreciate the fundamentals of the effort, and I also wonder whether this will trigger an IP strategy response from the major manufacturers.

It seems like a complementary FOSS chipset project would go a long way. I look at Linux native hardware like the SteamDeck and wonder, what hardware is lacking from this stack to make this device a phone?

Also if your job is Dominatrix. That's it.

The thing that confuses me is, wouldn't a whitelist for federated instances and request frequency throttling at the account level solve this issue?

I suppose this would require that the client not have a public front end that keeps full navigation functionality, but for a smaller instance that seems like an easy sacrifice to make in exchange for stability.

"But then how will new instances get federated?" maybe they have to actually talk to the admins of other instances to get vouched in to the whitelist. Just because the network is distributed doesnt mean it needs to be fully inclusive by default, and in fact it explicitly isn't.

I'm assuming I'm missing something super basic that makes all this not enough, bots spoofing the requests with the credentials of a whitelisted instance maybe?

Seems like maybe the instances should have encrypted keys that handshake each other with batch requests.

Am I on to something or just wildly gesticulating?

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.

aren't I glad I just bought an Onn instead.

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.