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Submission + - Open-Source Social Network Runs on Cheap Home Server (github.com)

mekod writes: I open-sourced Club Threads, a real social platform I have been running from a low-cost Lenovo Ubuntu box at home. The repo includes a custom For You ranking system, realtime 1:1 direct messaging over SSE, public/private communities, image and video processing, behavioral analytics, push notifications, and moderation/admin tooling.

What makes it interesting is that this is not a UI demo or cloud-credits architecture. The code has already been exercised by a small live network: 42 users, 1,885 posts, 132 follow edges, 6 communities, 54k+ behavioral events, and roughly 8.46 seconds average post dwell time.

Submission + - Connected without subscription is still connected (nbcnews.com)

Nkwe writes: NBC reports that the FBI has pulled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’, even though there wasn't an active cloud recording subscription. While this was apparently done at the request of law enforcement, and ultimately may lead to finding the kidnapped, it is a stark warning about privacy with connected systems. Two quotes from the story are particularly interesting:

There’s some legal, legalese you’ve got to work with, but everybody’s working with us on this,” he said. “I can’t even tell you how many different corporate America, Google, Apple, Meta, all these companies have said, ‘Whatever you need, Sheriff, they’re there,’ and we’re utilizing that leverage to get things done as quickly as we can.

“The data is being transmitted to the cloud, but even if it had not gotten there, there are many stops in between where data will reside, and the FBI prides itself on being able to tear into these data streams and pull out bits and pieces of data and piece together an image like we see here today,”


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