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Joan Westenberg mentioned this in her "Trump-proof tech stack" post; anyone have any experience with this? It says it's open source, self-hostable, and based in France.

Unfortunate Andy Yen comments aside, a big plus is that cozy actually has a Linux desktop client (!), unlike Proton.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, ignoring anything else, cozy lacks the encryption proton drive has.

Which makes it little or no better than any other cloud provider, afaict.

But, if you can't make use of proton being encrypted because they're dipshits about making their stuff Linux friendly, then they're no better than any other options. So you might as well go with whatever gives you the most bang for the buck

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, ignoring anything else, cozy lacks the encryption proton drive has.

Do you by any chance have a reference for that? I believe you, I'd just like to read a little more about it. Of course then there's also Cryptomator if the host doesn't properly protect your stuff . . .

I can make use of Proton Drive, but using the web client only, which is extremely cumbersome. There is rclone, but I'm not smart enough to understand how to set it up. 🤕 IIRC, of all the Proton Apps, Drive is the only one lacking a Linux client.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A reference? No, but I checked out their site, searched for any mentions of encryption, and the only part of their services that mention out is their password keeper. Since they only mention it there, that would point to that being the only part that has it, since neglecting to mention it for other aspects seems like a giant gap in their marketing

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I couldn't find anything much there either! Oh well.

[–] grumuk@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

If you don't want to host your own data, take a look at TarSnap

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've seen like 30 of these threads today, which seem to just being shotgun around the internet feeding into people's fear of an authoritarian government...but calling it Trump proof? The disconnect from reality here is just as hard as Trump's relationship with reality.

Privacy is important, but don't hock your merch by feeding into people's fear. It looks fucking disgusting my guy.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not hocking anything—notice the question mark at the end of the title. I don't have any association with Cozy; I know nothing about them. Also, I'm referencing someone's blog post, not endorsing it or necessarily agreeing with it. Like I said, Andy Yen's comments aside, Proton Drive doesn't have a desktop client for Linux which is why I'm looking for a replacement anyway. I'm keeping my other Proton stuff, for now at least. Maybe read a little more closely next time?

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

All the other threads must have been deleted. I browse subscribed communities by new and saw upwards of 4-5 new threads (in a row) on this software within the same 10 minute span--and now I can't find any of them.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If the US wants your info they’ll just beat your ass half to death with a rubber hose.

The rusty wrench approach

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still worth doing. At that point they have to make a deal for your compliance.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The deal is they kill you, you are not that valuable to them in the end. If you are, you wind up at a black site with some guy who’s not in the military.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And at that point its up to you if you want to give it up. The point is you are enforcing compliance to protect your rights. Please go lick boot somewhere else.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Who’s enforcing whom to comply with what now?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If you encrypt then you enforced your rights protecting against unreasonable searches.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My friend, everything you don’t understand is not bootlicking. Grow up. I’m an anarcho-communist.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And yet you ask people to relinquish part of their defense?

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If the US wants your info they’ll just beat your ass half to death with a rubber hose.

Your statement here and every follow up suggest you are asking people to not encrypt. I am saying its worth doing regardless as you impose your own compliance on unreasonable searches.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

You don’t understand what I’m saying at all.

You need to understand your exposure, and who your adversary is. Is it big corps? Hackers? Oppressive governments? NSAs?

What I’m saying is if you’re trying to hide stuff from the last two, you shouldn’t have anything encryptable that they can get to. Keeping that information digitally and not clandestinely is not good.

If you’re trying to not get tracked online by Google that’s an entirely different approach.