Some youtubers like Networkchuck and Chris from BigBearTechWorld. Especially the last one convinced me with his structured and kind style. His Discourse forum is really helpful.

Legendary. Love what they are doing. I have issues with getting people on their platform because of the cartoonish style.

Mullvad will coat you 5 bucks a year. If you don’t pay for it, you’re the product.

Finamp whips the lama’s ass?

I’m running Home Assistant on mine at the moment. It’s amazing. Really. Apart from being an great smart home solution I’ve found it a good solution to create dashboards for life.

I have set up our family calendar, train schedules that change routes depending on the time. Waste collection notifications. It warns me to get a raincoat and umbrella in the morning. I get news headlines for my interests…

Before that I’ve tried a lot. It was my first step into home labbing 2 years ago. It brought me back to my youth. Breaking the family computer and trying to fix it before anyone noticing it.

Most of the stuff I ran used Docker.

• Joplin notes
• Mealie
• Immich
• Authentic
• Wanderer
• Homarr
• pihole
• portainer

Within a year I grew out of my pi setup and bought a second hand mini Lenovo that now runs Proxmox. Minor investment, huge upgrade. Moved away from dockers also.

The pi is a fun gateway drug.

Yes, by name. And that name has to be verified. They know everything else by default.

Ask them to hand over their unlocked phone so you can read their messaged.

Every EU phone number has to be connected to an identifiable person or company.

We have these groups of volunteers gathering trash along the roadside. The more they collect the more they can earn for their good cause or their organisation.

They’re being cheap cleanup for the companies that sell trash and by collecting trash they keep the stats down.

It’s not the ID. It’s the implementation. I do like the Belgian implementation… It’s been nearly 10 years now and it seems to be pretty secure and trustworthy.

You can, manually. Sounds worse than it is.

Dude…

‘‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time!’’

No, the data can’t be used for other means than authentication.

Ah, you can see clearly who gets which data with every authentication. It’s logged and I can look it up on my portal.

Actually’', apart from ItsMe, I can see every time someone did any lookup on my online data with the federal government for the last 10 years. I even get to see their names.

There’s no third party watching with ItsMe because the traffic is encrypted. The data is owned by the Federal government and the party that requests authentication gets to see what the are legally allowed to see and what you clear. With every authentication you get to see what info they request.

Not really. I signed several contracts using ItsMe. That only works if my identity can be proven. No regular 2FA will be able to do that.

I don’t think it is because there’s only one authority, one identity provider, and that’s the federal government. All authentications pass through them. Enthe Auth or any other application will never be able to prove your identity without making an online call to the federal servers.

I can’t find the blog post that I was referring to but this might help:

From their own site: https://www.itsme-id.com/en-NL/why-itsme/security

ISO cert: https://www.itsme-id.com/en-BE/business/blog/iso27001

It’s good to point out that the system was developed by a consortium of banks to simplify identity verification en prevent fraud. Banks are held to ‘‘Know Your Customer’’. KYC entails that they need to check your identity every now and then and up until ItsMe that meant that you had to verify with your eID and a card reader. Those card readers have issues. Outdated firmware and whatnot make the proces a terible experience. I have several government websites that I use from day to day and the all need my eID for authentication.

Some figures. Nearly 1.700.000 authentications every day for 11.700.000 Belgians. 80% Of the Belgians use the app.

It’s used for official authentication. The certificates are handled by the federal government. That’s only possible with a call to the federal governments servers.

Any eID or other card wil have outdated data on it at some point. Like, when you move or, when you die.

That’s exactly how it works with the Belgian system.

Same for reductionis at the local swimming pool. They can only check if I’m a local but don’t get to see my adress.