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TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
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Open source alternatives to Slack, Google Drive and Google Docs
So I recently started working at a company that uses Slack (free tier), Google Drive and Google Docs. Being a privacy conscious person I decided to do some research to see if we could transition...
So I recently started working at a company that uses Slack (free tier), Google Drive and Google Docs. Being a privacy conscious person I decided to do some research to see if we could transition out of at least 1 of these tools.
For Slack I thought about Element. However I have a question: is it possible to create a closed channel (meaning no unauthorized person has access to or can discover the company chat) on Element with only the free tier (it's easier to convince my boss to transition if it doesn't add to the cost structure)?
For Google Drive I don't think there are other free options that offer the 15GB of storage we have. 10GB would probably be enough. But I am also open to paid solutions.
I found out about CryptPad. They offer cloud storage but one has to pay to be at the same level of Google (which is totally understandable). They also have productivity tools integrated with the storage solution which is great.
Maybe there is some cloud storage solution that doesn't have integrated productivity tools and offers more storage. I would like to know.I'm open to suggestions and thoughts. My functions at the company have little to do with all this, I am just interested in open source and privacy. EDIT: I am not interested in self-hosting.
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Los Angeles Police Department told to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime
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Silia Nanotechnology’s battery technology will launch in Whoop wearables
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Musician Holly Herndon open sources her voice
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Tech workers rebel against a lame-ass Internet by bringing back ‘GeoCities-style’ Webrings
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Discovery Channel's Beyond 2000: Wearable Computers (1992)
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ProtonMail: Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
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Documenting the last pay phones in America
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Why lying about storage products is bad: An IBM DeskStar story
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Apple delays the rollout of its plans to scan iPhones for child exploitation images
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The persistent gravity of cross platform
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Unsecure at any speed?
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The universe is hostile to computers
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Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook
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Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5
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Alphabet’s drone delivery service Wing hits 100,000 deliveries milestone
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The future of discord.py
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People are paying millions of dollars for digital pictures of rocks
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Apple agrees to App Store changes letting developers email users about payment options
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
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Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
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Youtube screws me over for three years and counting
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Little-known Federal software can trigger revocation of citizenship
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Advice on colorful programmable LED lights
Any recommendations for those? I'd like to replace all my house lights with colour-programmable GU-10s. I've had poor experience with Philips Hue... They do the job but I'm not a big fan of them,...
Any recommendations for those? I'd like to replace all my house lights with colour-programmable GU-10s. I've had poor experience with Philips Hue... They do the job but I'm not a big fan of them, the app sucks etc.
I'm sure someone here has smart home / iot as a hobby :) thoughts?
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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
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NotOnlyFans: An open source, self-hosted digital content subscription platform like `onlyfans.com` with cryptocurrency payment
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Researchers who built similar system explain why Apple's CSAM scanning system is dangerous
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Some background regarding the recent OnlyFans changes
@Post-Culture Review: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers and online freedom in general.
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The inside story of how the lowly PDF played the longest game in tech
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Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots
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Technical leadership and glue work
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OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
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Life before Unicode
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You're probably not using the web's best browser (Vivaldi)
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US FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition
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What's the big deal with Electron?
I thought about asking this over here but didn't want to potentially derail the thread. As a lay user, I honestly don't know what Electron is and couldn't tell you whether or not a particular...
I thought about asking this over here but didn't want to potentially derail the thread.
As a lay user, I honestly don't know what Electron is and couldn't tell you whether or not a particular app/program uses it. However, hanging out in techy spaces has helped me understand that people have some very strong opinions on it, often viscerally negative ones.
Think of this like an r/ELI5 thread: what is Electron, and why is it so polarizing? Many companies seem to be choosing it, so it seems like there's some major benefit to it, but many well-informed people, including lots of people in software development, seem to absolutely hate it. What's going on there?
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Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
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1Password 8: The story so far
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Inside Facebook’s metaverse for work
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Yik Yak, the anonymous app that tested free speech, is back
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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
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Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS
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Through the looking GLASS - Om Malik interview with the developers of GLASS, a subscription photo sharing app
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The case for optimism
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Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding, at a valuation of over $10 billion
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Anyone order a USB cable lately?
OK, so this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone here ordered a USB cable recently, and if so, how long did it take to arrive? I ordered a 3 meter USB A male to USB A male cable on June...
OK, so this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone here ordered a USB cable recently, and if so, how long did it take to arrive? I ordered a 3 meter USB A male to USB A male cable on June 27th from NewEgg, who have been fairly reliable in the past. I got an email later that day or the next saying the shipping label had been printed. So I thought, OK, it will go out in the next day or two. It still hasn’t shipped. After about 2 weeks of waiting, I ordered another one from B&H Photo. It also hasn’t arrived yet. I know there is a global chip shortage. Would that affect cabling too? It just seems odd that it’s taking so long to get a single USB cable. Anyone else experience this or am I just unlucky this month?
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Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
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Debian 11 "Bullseye" released
19 votes