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Sophie :nixos: :ferris:

OpenTorment is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Torment Nexus. With OpenTorment you can easily torment yourself, enhancing your pain and suffering without compromising your privacy.

23 June at 13:49 | Open on mastodon.catgirl.cloud
42 comments
Sophie :nixos: :ferris:
Brie (robot girl)

@sophie wow! the privacy first alternative to destroying your privacy :ms_robot_grin:

how cool, I can't wait to use it! /s

23 June at 14:01 | Open on tech.lgbt
aburka 🫣
Malin

@sophie 3 weeks old, with 1.4k stars...apparently some people value this project.

23 June at 15:29 | Open on u.fail
Anonax

@sophie I think this actually fixes the two biggest problems with Recall: it's on by default (although they changed that after pushback), and it's controlled by a thoroughly untrustworthy company with a history of exfiltrating data without meaningful consent and sneakily changing settings when they find it convenient. OpenRecall has other issues, but at least those issues are fixable; MS Recall's are not.

Side note: I feel like these tools are overkill for what they aim to accomplish: most of their utility could be achieved with just a browser extension to save and index the text on each webpage (and some image analysis too?) and maybe a plugin for LibreOffice and Obsidian/Joplin. That approach would also keep messaging apps unindexed, and would have no risk of grabbing passwords since it could tell what's a password field (and could also keep a list of login pages not to index).

@sophie I think this actually fixes the two biggest problems with Recall: it's on by default (although they changed that after pushback), and it's controlled by a thoroughly untrustworthy company with a history of exfiltrating data without meaningful consent and sneakily changing settings when they find it convenient. OpenRecall has other issues, but at least those issues are fixable; MS Recall's are not.

23 June at 15:35 | Open on defcon.social
toadjaune

@sophie Linux users going full : "look, of course it's a terrible idea, but we can't have anything that windows can do but not Linux" X)

23 June at 19:00 | Open on hostux.social
charlesesmith

@sophie I came to make the joke that OpenTorment was obviously developed by the makers of the TormentNexus, and sure enough…

23 June at 19:11 | Open on mastodon.social
peacememories

@sophie they had me at the screenshot of a melon husk tweet /s

23 June at 19:23 | Open on chaos.social
DocRekd

@sophie This is what I hate about current debate about #ai, people tend to throw the baby with the bathwater.

And yes #microsoft_recall has a kernel of good idea implemented by the worst corporation ever

23 June at 21:47 | Open on hachyderm.io
Asta [AMP]
Dźwiedziu

@sophie As an #AuADHD person I wouldn't throw this out of the window (ha ha) outright… :thonking:

24 June at 14:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Jon

@sophie is it written in Perl, Scheme, or Objective-C?

23 June at 14:26 | Open on mstdn.social
Angus McIntyre

@sophie I am intrigued by the idea of OpenTorment, but I wish to torment others and be tormented by them. Does OpenTorment support a distributed tormentverse based on a robust Torment Sharing Protocol (TSP)?

23 June at 14:32 | Open on mastodon.social
xconde

@angusm @sophie I am offended by the stance of the OpenTorment maintainers on LGBT so I switched to LibreTorment, and urge everyone to follow.

23 June at 19:36 | Open on social.chinwag.org
malte

@angusm @sophie i think they implemented a just barely incompatible and unversioned gossip protocol named "agile containment breaches". you can glean most of it's functions by reading the source-code, that the binary packages are inspired by.

😬

24 June at 18:19 | Open on anticapitalist.party
:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑

@sophie Also since it's open source it's actually three guys on two continents that does ALL the work and they have to defend against "slow updates" from people trying OpenTorment coming from XOrment and MS Torment which both has "much quicker updates and more features".

23 June at 14:35 | Open on topspicy.social
Philipp Riederer

@sophie Since the license changed from SIL to WBL, I just cannot stand anyone recommending OpenTorment anymore The real community is around LibreNexus now!

23 June at 14:36 | Open on sueden.social
🐙🐙

@sophie (openTorment has telemetry baked into the source code)

23 June at 14:47 | Open on jade.moe
Etherbloom

@sophie plot twist: it has actually good ui/interface, further tormenting you via reverse psychology by removing the usual torment of using foss software.

23 June at 15:39 | Open on chaos.social
Förbundet Sverige Namdalen

@sophie I much prefer LibreTorment as it licensed under the LibreRPL license. Now torment is really unrestricted.

23 June at 15:51 | Open on social.spejset.org
jonossaseuraava
@sophie
No subscriptions
No cloud
No bullshit
All torment
23 June at 19:09 | Open on post.ebin.club
Maxi 10x 💉

@sophie LMAO, is this a reaction to this toot?

»you’re a fossbro if your main problem with the Torment Nexus is that people should be using OpenTorment or LibreNexus instead«
woem.space/objects/fa67f9c8-46

23 June at 19:11 | Open on chaos.social
laalsaas

@frumble @sophie I also saw that one and was like: I won't be able to find that post again. Now something like recall would come in handy.

23 June at 19:31 | Open on c3d2.social
Maxi 10x 💉

@laalsaas @sophie Or just the Mastodon search? Found it with query for "LibreNexus".

23 June at 19:44 | Open on chaos.social
laalsaas

@frumble @sophie You're right on this one. Tbh, I've been disappointed by mastodon search so often that I didn't even bother trying. (Don't get me wrong, I know it's harder in a federated system)

23 June at 20:43 | Open on c3d2.social
hazelnot :yell:

@frumble @laalsaas @sophie there's instances that disable text search, like the one I'm on

But that's a feature lol

24 June at 15:35 | Open on sunbeam.city
Maxi 10x 💉

@hazelnot @laalsaas @sophie It’s not a disabling, rather enabling Elasticsearch is rather costly.

24 June at 16:40 | Open on chaos.social
miketcope

@sophie is it free as in speech or free as in fall?

23 June at 19:17 | Open on techhub.social
Normal Human Being

@sophie @jwz unless it’s BSD licensed like LibreTorment it’s really a nonstarter for me.

23 June at 19:18 | Open on defcon.social
@frueheneuzeit

@sophie instead of mere pull requests they take requests to be drawn and quartered.

23 June at 19:28 | Open on fedihum.org
Jef Poskanzer :batman:

@sophie What you're referring to as OpenTorment is in fact GNU/Torment, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Torment

23 June at 19:34 | Open on mastodon.social
FurryBeta

@sophie So it’s just Linux, right? /s

23 June at 22:52 | Open on shark.community
Feoh

@sophie The torment nexus is one of the most delightful inventions to come out of internet culture IMO :)

24 June at 13:23 | Open on oldbytes.space
⊃ ∪ ∩ ⊂ ∆ ∩

@sophie Clive Barker is the Sam Altman of OpenTorment

24 June at 17:20 | Open on mastodon.art
malte

@sophie i like the missing documentation, sketchy download-links, and artistic deviations from conventions which establish a wide variety of pain and frustration even before the installation has even started!

24 June at 18:24 | Open on anticapitalist.party
Jessica's new Main

@sophie@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I searched it and found the post you left on nodeBB ​:neocat_googly:​
I thought it was a program

24 June at 20:08 | Open on kitsunes.club
Jess
meejah

@sophie I prefer Free Torment which offers an alternative license and a plethora of pain options, including Pain Plugins and support for all the BDSm distros!

25 June at 2:50 | Open on mastodon.social
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