Matrix is newer, afaik it is used by more foss projects for communication than xmpp, and it has a more widely accepted standards base for things compared to xmpp, where I have often heard that it has multiple different implementations for things like voice calling and encryption which are incompatible with each other. Don’t take my word on it, but I hope that at least by reading this those interested can search for the issues and whether they are valid.

But then, what do you mean by xmpp being easier to host? I’m not familiar with XMPP hosting.
Matrix requires a home server, and a database server. If you want voice calls it also needs webrtc voice infra.

Running Pi-Hole and a VPN on your router might not be a good idea.

For Pi-Hole the reason is that it runs all it’s components as the root account. One of them includes the PHP webserver for the dashboard.
On a more complete Linux system like raspbian, confining it to a container helps somewhat by limiting what can it do. But I’m not sure if you can run a container environment on OpenWRT. Also, routers are often quite week, so it depends on your model whether pihole would fit in to RAM at all, with all your filter lists.

For a VPN the reason is rather just the performance.
On one hand the VPN may be slow, and on the other hand it could slow down the router while someone is using it, which would affect all traffic that needs to be filtered or routed (to a different network, including the internet) from your home network.

I’m not a pro, so take these with a grain of salt, and verify if these are actually true.

Isn’t production JavaScript usually minified/obfuscated to make it hard to read?

Somewhat, but often it’s still readable. Or maybe I just don’t look at it often enough to notice the worse cases…

Also wasm is actually bytecode, which I believe has a 1:1 conversion into a text-based format called wat.

That’s good to be aware of, thanks!

Yeah, me too, but lately Nitter almost never works :/

Honestly I’m better off this way, personally. At least javascript is text, and very often readable after pretty printing and debuggabke as a user, I’m not comfortable with loading basically opaque binaries for websites.

You can try to read through https://archive.today . It’s a site archiving site, it has a couple of tricks to evade such restrictions. Not the most private one… but better than visiting twitter directly.

Maybe Microsoft responded just now to their inquiry

That, but they couldn’t even insert the advised parameter to the command themselves, instead they had the capacity to basically demand improvement to the documentation, from those “filthy ffmpeg developers”

Also, did you install all updates? Did you already accept Edge as your new web browser?

Why did you copy Xariphon’s answer?

I understand what you say, and I partly agree, but neither do I want the forced simplicity of iOS on Linux, nor graphic design like windows 11. And I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. Please don’t uphold these as some holy grails, they are not.

Please, even if you yourself don’t care about privacy, please don’t recommend google sheets to people. Those who care about privacy can’t view them without giving it up.

Cryptpad sheets, framacalc, grist, ethercalc are alternatives, most of which (if not all) support collaborative editing, formulas, and selfhosting.

Oh, you mean the PAM module?

Yes, but if using an android phone, the Aegis app may be a better choice. Guaranteed to not have tracking, and secrets are encrypted

We should report these as advertisement. Afaik admins too receive the reports and can act on it, in case the mods are away.

While we are here: what do you think about unattended updates on Debian and such? (as such being derivatives, including Proxmox VE)

I’m not quite sure, but I think the majority of the devices in that price range, if not all, fall into that category, being made with 4MB flash memory, and 32MB RAM. OpenWRT can hardly fit into that, it’s only possible with a custom image and making compromises

Do those have any memory (storage and ram) to run a secure, up to date firmware, like openwrt?