Sure it's easy to set up, but the same behaviour is what I get with my handrolled solution. I rent a cheap VPS with a fixed IP solely for forwarding all traffic through wireguard. My DNS entries all point to the VPS and my servers connect to the VPS to be reachable. It is absolutely network agnostic and does not require any port shenanigans on the local network nor does it require a fixed IP for the internet connection of my home server.

Data security wise the HTTPS terminates on my own hardware (homeserver with reverse proxy) and the wireguard connection is additionally encrypted. There are no secrets or certificates on the rented VPS beyond the bare minimum for the wireguard tunnel and my public key for SSH access.

Shuttling the packets on the VPS (inet to wireguard) is done by socat because I haven't had the will or need to get in the weeds with nftables/iptables. I am just happy that it works reliably and am happy to loose some potential bandwidth to the kernelspace/userspace hoops.

All hail Firefox Sync!🙌

It's probably also highly automated and the staff's job is just to watch for irregularities and alert the necessary teams.

I use Firefox on all my machines and I enjoy having my Sync account available everywhere. If I were to get an iPhone, I'd absolutely choose Firefox again.

Please actually read the post.

That kind of changed recently, hasn't it? There's been an explosion of available plugins as if late.

Dangerously close to TempleOS.

Everybody needs their space every now and then. It's something we sort of knew, but implementing it in a way that feels right for us took a while and is never really finished. It needs some good communication for mutual understanding but it is every bit worth it.

If we all told them more about our everyday stuff, then maybe it wouldn't come off as particularly special if you mention a girl's name once

Yeah, I am kind of sorry for Luke. He made an actually good 69 joke and now it feels SO WRONG to do it. I doubt he'd have made it if he knew what was about to come.

I'm gay and didn't want people to know when I was younger. I think everybody who says they have nothing to hide has either not thought very deeply about what they may want to keep to themselves or does not understand the principle that people should only ever know about you what you want to share with them.

Also, if being an open book is the norm, everybody with good reasons to not be completely open (like I used to be) will eventually stand out from the crowd. Keeping everybody else's private stuff private also means you can keep your own stuff private.

There's a great quote from Snowden about the right to privacy you can look up here. Excerpt from the page:

"people saying they don't care about rights to privacy because they 'have nothing to hide' are no different than people saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say' "

Yeah, it's always very two sided with the EU. On the one hand it brings forward a lot of progressive and positive change, on the other hand it's used to "quietly" walk around the local political climate. Political actors push unpopular things on the EU level, but as soon as people catch wind of it, they market themselves as always having disagreed with them. They often keep pushing for it anyway, because people really don't notice things on the EU level. Everybody only ever pays attention to the national sphere of politics.

In German politics it's often the case that high-ranking national politicians that "fail" in the public eye are pushed higher up into the EU level. Take Ursula von der Leyen for example. Too many scandals in Germany, immediately pushed out of the way and now holds an important position in the EU.