Asudox

@Asudox@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when gf is a mechanic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the gf needs to be changed at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using ASCII in URLs is simple and is less error prone than “supporting” unicode via percent encoding. It is also just a convention to use ASCII for usernames in many platforms. ASCII is also supported out of the box in major OSes while some unicode characters might not. What about impersonation? And what about people trying to type in the username of someone that uses unicode? It is not logical to use unicode in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because URLs need to be in ASCII. That is a standard. Check RFC 3986. Now, you can use percent encoding, but why use that. It just complicates things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a complete list of search engines and web browsers online?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah who cares. They got caught tracking and that is still a fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is iceraven a good fork of firefox?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was good while firefox didn’t allow extensions from the extension store to be downloaded on it natively, now it does so I guess it does not really have any use cases anymore. I primarily use Mull on android because it is a hardened version of Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a complete list of search engines and web browsers online?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not so sure about that. DDG has been caught tracking before. I wouldn’t trust them. They are also getting into AI bs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a complete list of search engines and web browsers online?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wonder why anyone would use Edge on Linux. I even wonder why anyone would even use Edge. Btw DDG uses Bing so you use the sane search engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mull browser about?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox’s sandboxing sucks ass (especially on Linux). Mozilla has still not implemented a better sandbox, despite the open discussion since years. GrapheneOS (a security and privacy focused aosp rom) uses Chromium for it’s browser Vanadium because it ultimately is undoubtedly more secure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that were to happen, the receiving end wouldn’t know who sent which vote, thus making spamming extremely easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mull browser about?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mull is a hardened fork of Firefox. I use it but some rare websites’ functionality does not work with it. Chromium is undoubtedly more secure but not privacy-friendly. I also don’t want to support the chromium monopoly, so I don’t use them. Brave as a browser also sucks. Shields suck. Nothing to this day has been better than uBlock Origin yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Email is not ideal for such things but it exists and is needed because everyone refuses to make a switch. If XMPP were to replace emails, that would’ve been great.

  Anyway, I still don’t trust Proton. Have a great day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Encrypted or not, the fact that someone else has it stored somewhere in their computers is dangerous. The fact that it can be accessed online is dangerous. The only recommended way to store private keys are offline and encrypted. Why are you so ignorant of this fact, I wonder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Team Fortress 2. It still is not dead and has a very active community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will watch your career with great interest.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know some people still know katawa shoujo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the biggest risks is when someone knows your password. Your PGP encrypted emails that you want noone to see will be available to the attacker. Whereas if no such thing happened, the attacker wouldn’t be able to decrypt the PGP encrypted emails even if the attacker gained access to your account. Manually encrypting your stuff is better than having some random do it for you. It’s really just a tradeoff. Convenience or security? It’s not even hard to manually encrypt emails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That simplicity introduces lots of security and privacy issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. There’s no justification for them storing the private key online for “convenience”. And key generation happens in the browser with JS. Which means it is possible to send backdoored JS to easily copy the private key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah mb. Mixed private keys with public keys. Edited original comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You upload your private key to the cloud. Encrypted or not, this is a bad idea. No thanks. They can do the signing with my public key and then I’ll do the decryption with my own private key locally without them storing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is old news. Why are you posting this just now? I mean I don’t really care much. I transitioned to Posteo as soon as I learned that they stored the private key. They don’t even let you use your own GPG key, useless honeypot. Their recent bitcoin wallet supports this. If they cared about privacy, they wouldn’t go with Bitcoin. They have been ignoring requests for monero since years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wdym not discoverable. Lemmy instances are indexed and are still being indexed since years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming most people use Google, when searching for “lemmy”, it is the third search before some guy named lemmy and when searching for “join lemmy” (logically) it’s the first. So we can conclude that people don’t use it because the people link to instances and not to join-lemmy.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s extra work to be done when we already have a join-lemmy.org website by the official devs that does what you want. People changing the link in their comments from lemmy.world to join-lemmy.org is not hard, is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason is simply because this is not the kind of social media people have been using for years. Just like how they “learned” how the centralized web works, they also should learn how the decentralized web works. I’m all for the fediverse to grow but I also don’t want ignorant people that don’t want to learn anything about the tech they’ll be using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? That’s really ineffective and just looks bad imo. That’s just a solution to people linking instances to join instead of leading people to join-lemmy.org.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A default option is bad imo. We want a decentralized platform. Distribution will keep the fediverse alive and well. Maybe a dynamic “default” option would be one solution. One that just changes the default option to a different somewhat known instance once the current default option reaches a certain user count. For this to work, you’d need to lead people to join-lemmy.org.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally what join-lemmy.org does. It asks 2 questions:

  • What theme they are interested in
  • What language they mainly use
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said “people who don’t understand”, I said “people who don’t want to understand”. I am satisfied as long as a newbie knows what the fediverse is, why it is here and what instances are. They are the basics, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also no fix to the “onboarding problem”. That “problem” is the design of federation.