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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by jacquesm on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:10AM (#25276447)
And has a huge advantage: it runs local.
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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by simongray on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:36AM (#25276667)
Amnesia doesn't...? Then what's the download link and github page for?
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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by braincoke on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:46AM (#25276752)
The Readme is not user friendly and doesn't explain how to use or install the software. In the Github issue the developer points to an installation documentation that throws a 404 error.

In my opinion, this source code was put out to appear "open" to the H2020 Programme, but they have no intention in actually helping users run the code locally.

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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by freshhawk on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:55PM (#25282194)
Yeah, wow. This is one of the more aggressive examples of "open"-but-unrunnable I've ever seen. I think your opinion is dead on.

And if this isn't intentional, then the level of effort is so low how could you trust the software with such a complex and subtle problem? It is clearly intentional, but they didn't even give themselves a plausibly deniable story.

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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by m0nster on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:46AM (#25276756)
True, Amnesia can also be run locally!
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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by jacquesm on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:49AM (#25276793)
That's not at all obvious from the marketing pages, possibly a point of improvement? It would be my #1 concern.
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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by stef25 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:56AM (#25276854)
Download link at the top https://amnesia.openaire.eu/download.html

Less prominent than the "online version" button though.

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