It might be my personal preference, but i find conversations on mastodon hard to follow once there are more than a handful replies.

Lemmy (or reddit) keeps the flow of comments well ordered and perfectly readable.

I don’t think your brain can be reasonably compared with an LLM, just like it can’t be compared with a calculator.

It’s absurd that some of the larger LLMs now use hundreds of billions of parameters (e.g. llama3.1 with 405B).

This doesn’t really seem like a smart usage of ressources if you need several of the largest GPUs available to even run one conversation.

There is no way to be 100% sure, but:

• bitwarden and ente have open source clients that ecrypt all data locally in a way that the provider can’t restore data
• nextcloud isn’t optimal, while you can encypt data at rest, the provider might be able to spy on you
• With mail providers it is difficult, but mailbox.org has my (personal) trust by building their business model on data protection and open source

I can and do self host, but I’m not willing to provide these services for free. I don’t want to be responsible for other peoples passwords or family photos.

Thats where good, privacy-respecting services come into play. Instead of hosting for my neighbours, I would recommend mailbox.org, bitwarden, ente or a hosted nextcloud.

The blog post contains an interesting tineline. Apparently, the first fix was not sufficient. So if you have updated Vaultwaren before November 18, update it again.

Copy of the timeline:

• End of October 2024: ERNW assesses Vaultwarden for the customer.
• November 08, 2024: ERNW discloses the vulnerabilities to the Vaultwarden team.
• November 10, 2024: Fix and release of Vaultwarden v1.32.4.
• November 11, 2024: ERNW retests the software and identifies that the fix is not sufficient.
• November 11, 2024: Public merge with fix and request for feedback by the Vaultwarden team.
• November 12, 2024: ERNW acknowledges that the fix is complete.
• November 18, 2024: Release of Vaultwarden v1.32.5.

My HP has a 65 watt CPU built in, when it’s running at full load it is quite loud.

Small, 10 inch rack, with some 3D printed rack mounts.

Maybe try some TLS-based VPN? This should work almost anywhere, because it looks like a standard HTTPS connection.

Wireguard - even on port 443 - is special as it uses UDP protocol and not the more widely used TCP protocol.

No, with these reasons:

• Bandwidth isn’t plenty
• My “uptime” at home isn’t great
• No redundant hardware, even a simple mainboard defect would take a while to replace

I have a VPS for these tasks, and I host a few sites for friends amd family.

AFAIK, the only reason not to use Letsencrypt are when you are not able to automate the process to change the certificate.

As the paid certificates are valid for 12 month, you have to change them less often than a letsencrypt certificate.

At work, we pay something like 30-50€ for a certificate for a year. As changing certificates costs, it is more economical to buy a certificate.

But generally, it is best to use letsencrypt when you can automate the process (e.g. with nginx).

As for the question of trust: The process of issuing certificates is done in a way that the certificate authority never has access to your private key. You don’t trust the CA with anything (except your payment data maybe).