Ahhh okay okay, maybe I misunderstood. I was under the impression that it could only send messages between devices on the same LAN.

Sooo, dial up is slow. Very slow. But the data being transmitted over the physical cable is still using TCP/IP protocols to communicate with the broaderinternet.

Look up something called the OSI model.

The routers and switches downstream from you don’t care about the nature of your connection-fiber, copper, wireless, dial up, it’s all the same. Converted into frames which contain packets which contains bytes which contain bits, which are made up of 1s and 0s.

So from a security perspective? The line can be tapped, but that’s true of Ethernet and fiber as well. What’s amazing about information technology is that it’s built around protocols that exist independent of the physical equipment involved.

Does it really need to be said that OP is probably trying to retain the ability to send messages outside of his own network?

Theoretically, they don’t have access to the photos even though they’re running the server between. That’s what end to end encryption means, it’s encrypted on your end and decrypted on the recipients end.

Unless the middle man in question retains both your and the recipients encryption keys, they can’t read the messages. This requires trusting the vendor in question.

However the only alternative to trusting a vendor is not only purchasing your own equipment, but also deploying it on your property, and building and maintaining your own isolated physical connections between those locations. This is what nation states and militaries do, the US military has an entirely physically separate and independent “internet”.

There’s a concept in information security not to spend more protecting information than that information is worth. Your gifs are probably not worth the effort of building your own infrastructure, unless you’re sending some highly sketchy content.

So it’s totally useless as a communication tool

I have mixed feelings on ME tbh. It shouldn’t be in consumer grade hardware at all, but it definitely has applications in enterprise environments as far as device management goes. Having an out of band solution that runs independently of a given OS on your devices is handy.

Kinda like iDRAC for Dell servers

Jfc this community

Don’t use anything ever, at all, if that’s your take. Almost every business, industry, and sector users windows in some capacity. You cannot avoid it. Your bank uses windows, your local government uses windows, fucking Taco Bell uses windows.

What would you prefer, every company use individual home grown, poorly maintained software?

Every company use only Linux? That’ll create so many more problems.

Go live in a cabin in the woods if you’re this paranoid. Otherwise bank on the fact that regulations surrounding healthcare data are pretty strong and are taken pretty seriously, and Microsoft knows that.

Ehhhhhh video storage is one of those things that’s a little too data intensive to federate well

gasp

I have several servers I’ve acquired over the years setup in a proxmox cluster

Lemmy.world is absolutely wild. I had a comment deleted that was a response saying we shouldn’t nuke innocent people, I had a comment removed saying confederates are bad. I don’t know what the fuck their mods are smoking.

I will say that from what I’ve read your city sounds like they’ve struck a good balance and I’m glad there’s positive and effective programs out there

And this right here is the problem I’m trying to get the keyboard warriors in this thread to wrap their heads around.

you’re speaking from complete ignorance.

You know nothing about me or my life, but I’ll tell you this is the dumbest thing you’ve said so far.

I agree with what you’re saying and I’m telling you that these systems break down when they get taken advantage of without any kind of oversight- up to and including section 8 housing.

Yaknow that doesn’t sound like a terrible compromise

No, and I never claimed that was the case.

And when residents refuse those services? When they simply want to take the free space and be allowed to continue whatever pattern in their life led to their current circumstances?

A lot of the times that wouldn’t be an issue- people using the resources available to uplift themselves(the majority, I’d argue) will stay for the time they need, and move on when they’re back on their feet.

It’s the ones who have no interest in getting back on their feet that would be the source of problems, and there has to be a way to deal with that.

The worst case scenario is that over time, each residence will eventually be filled by someone who takes it for granted and does not use the opportunity to improve. And all the while they’re there, there could be another individual that could use the same housing and actually progress their lives.

Seriously talk to anyone who actually works with the homeless or in social services, these are the pragmatic problems of public services.

I agree it’s not simple, and there would need to be a system in place to mitigate those complexities. These are the types of concerns that voters on these projects would have.

It’s not worth the cost (in terms of social worker manpower etc.) to try to separate them out from the non-chronically homeless on the front end

Yes it is. Homeless shelters, food banks, rehab clinics etc. all have minimums you have to meet to be there. Resources are limited and you can’t pour resources into someone who isn’t trying to utilize them to improve.

I agreed wholeheartedly with your second point.

In the 21^st century, we’re talking about placing people into mixed-income housing, where all the neighbors paying market rate set a good example and the peer pressure is directed towards improvement instead of wallowing in poverty.

Yeah I don’t think that’ll work out the way you’re thinking it will. Peer pressure only works if people care about their peers, and local residents won’t be super fond of free housing popping up next to the housing they paid for, affecting their property values.

That point makes my above remarks even more important.

That’s what’s rough about working with homeless populations. You want to save everyone, but sometimes trying to help one individual who doesn’t want help subtracts from helping the four that do.

I’m getting downvoted by people who haven’t had to work in and around shelters before I’m assuming, because it’s a very real issue and is the cause of a lot of the negative perception of homelessness.