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- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 2 hours ago:
What is there to understand? It’s just a decentralized protocol - in fact, you don’t need to understand to use it. Just connect to chat server like you’d connect to one in discord.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 hours ago:
Not the same thing
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
US is full of companies that publicly claim to manipulate reddit threads as PR protection. They all do it exactly like you’d expect - people with dozens of phones going through threads writing shit. Even if users are banned and their phone fingerprinted they just dump the phones for new ones.
Reddit knows could actually sue them and very likely to win but that would be a lot of attention at them.
The best part of this is - if commercial PR companies can afford to run this then what China, Russia and such are doing must have absolutely bonkers. There’s very little internet actually left organic.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
Remember when people tried to frame her as a victim? What stank of a person.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
In the US CFAA is so draconian that in certain aspects it can be very illegal to reverse engineer code behind explicit ToS which whatsapp make you agree to click-wrap upon installing the app. So Meta could easily sue you with very good chance of winning. I work in security and reverse engineer a lot of stuff but just because my company has lawyers that will protect me (also I’m not an american) but generally americans are super fucked here.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 2 weeks ago:
Yes, my point stands.
- Comment on Too late 2 weeks ago:
Nothing beats rye multi grain. Put some butter and cheese on it and I can legit live straight on it for days Image
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 2 weeks ago:
This is not directly on Microsoft as you have to be either ignorant or special kind of stupid to upload your encryption keys to US cloud. The government can request access to any data and a company can’t do anything.
The only way to resist this is to not store anything unencrypted from your customers which is quite doable but clearly microsoft has no interest in this.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 4 weeks ago:
And then what? Live in a world where everybody hates you? Fucking stupid.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 5 weeks ago:
And this is how you create more antisemites. These have to be the dumbest organized people that can’t see past their noses. What a bunch of losers.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 5 weeks ago:
Fully agree. I’m generally an AI optimist but I don’t understand communicating through AI generated text in any meaningful context - that’s incredibly disrespectful. I don’t even use it at work to talk business with my somewhat large team and I just don’t understand how anyone would appreciate an AI written thank you letter. What a dumb idea.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 5 weeks ago:
100% and I’m an early adopter of all decentralized platforms but I still run IT of my all extended family and have a few connections through these platforms so even with my limited use I’m still exposed to so many scams. I can’t imagine what a daily normal user sees, it must be just scam after scam.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 5 weeks ago:
There are several domains specific search features like duckduckgo bangs that allow you to directly search popular websites with text like
interstellar !imdb- it’s super useful! I think firefox has something like this built in too. - Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 5 weeks ago:
They can’t ban all VPN IPs though
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 5 weeks ago:
Nice but all I want is actually liability. Meta should be hold liable for each and every single scam ad and here in south-east asia it’s just rampant.
I see nothing but blatant scams, especially on Meta platforms. I don’t mean simple e-commerce scams either where you buy some trash and it never gets sent to you - it’s full on phishing and finance scams.
I just dont understand how are we collectively ok with this - every platform should have the burden of full liability, period. If someone gets their money taken through scam ad not only Meta should pay them back but suffer a 100x fine as well. The unskippable ad is nothing compared to this.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 5 weeks ago:
I really want to like the game but haven’t got a single enjoyable match in like 20 I tried. The graphics and environmenta are stunning I just don’t get the gameplay. It’s like first 10 minutes of a battle royale over and over without the rest of it.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s fair to leave this thread at that then cause ya hopeless lmao
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
I think you don’t understand how world reserve currency works. It has to be at least influencable by other countries. Nothing can influence Yuan - it’ll never be a world reserve currency.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
Why use authoritarian currency?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
Lmao give China more power
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
Right now the POTUS can shut down the European economy with an EO ordering cloud providers to stop servicing European banks.
That would be a straight up declaration of war though and if that happens broken e-commerce would be the least of our worries.
The real reason to develop alternatives is to simply keep money and power away from US as that’s the only thing US really cares about.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
My take is that US is already on massive decline. I’m not an american but I am a big fan of US and I’ve never seen US this weak even if you ignore how ugly it is under current leadership. I honestly don’t know how US will ever recover from this trump presidency and it seems like nothing but down hill from here.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
China fundamentally can’t be the world leader as it’s incompatible with the rest of the world it would have to lead. Here we are talking about this on american led internet - not Chinese great firewall. The only thing people want from China is the stuff they make not the Chinese culture or leadership.
The reason why US is so successful at leading the world because it’s basically a giant haven for other world cultures which makes it easy to integrate anywhere.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 5 weeks ago:
Very much agree with this argument though it’s not new. IP law has always been a secret weapon against US which is mostly a service economy country.
EU just seems too weak to take advantage of this though
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 weeks ago:
Have you looked into streaming from a desktop? I’m using sunshine/moonlight to stream my video editor from gaming PC to Thinkpad and it works really well! The quality and responsiveness is really good these days to the point where it’s hard to even tell it’s a stream.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 weeks ago:
This is a common security fallacy as sure you might not drop your laptop like you’re not crashing your car but once you hit something it’s nice to have airbags right? People pay several thousand dollars to recover hard drives of dropped laptops and can you imagine being in such stressful position? So a bit of safety goes a long way.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 weeks ago:
Weight is definitely old of those things that you only notice when you notice but it’s still just a nice to have rather that critical feature. Like a more ergonomic keyboard etc. Many good parts make a good machine.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 weeks ago:
You need internals protected from basic shock. Macbooks are notoriously very poor regarding drops while you can play volleyball with a plastic thinkpad.
