StartOS facilitates the entire process of discovering, installing, configuring, and using any variety of open-source software from anywhere in the world without trusting anyone.

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    2 months ago

    How’s it standing out? What’s the benefit over other self-hosting distros like YunoHost, Cosmos, Cloudron etc? Except the added Bitcoin?

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      32 months ago

      Start9 tunnels all traffic through TOR.

      That seems like terrible idea. Sure it’s private. It’s also slow as shit. That’s why you don’t use TOR for daily tasks.

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      32 months ago

      “Sovereignty”, that big white whale of the dysfunctional far right?

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          22 months ago

          It’s been a buzzword among the ultra-libertarian, anti-government, tinfoil hat wearing set for decades.

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            2 months ago

            And how do ultra-libertarians tie into the topic of hosting open source services?

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              12 months ago

              The title literally says “Sovereign computing”. Are you okay? I do recommend reading from the top down, for more information please re-read.

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                62 months ago

                Oh wow, thx. No. I’m just clueless. And there is a cultural difference, so souvereign citizens aren’t the first thing that comes to my mind when reading that word… But thanks for explaining the joke to me, anyways 😅

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                  12 months ago

                  Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. I think there is a certain overlap in the language used around general privacy principles and the more… out there, political anti-society movements.

                  Sometimes it’s innocent and random but when I see somebody putting cryptocurrency up front in their project and using “sovereign computing” as a tagline, my internal crackpot detector goes nuts. I’m fairly sure that deep down these people would want to see the world burn to stay warm toward the end.

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                    Hehehe. Yeah they put everything in on their site. From a canary to their company ethics, to an origin story, all necessary buzzwords, job offers (which they have none), a marketplace … Lot’s of flowery words. And honestly, it doesn’t even smell like AI generated text. They’ve probably mastered the bullshit bingo and decided to go all in. I kinda like it (in a twisted way.)