priapus

@priapus@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Channels that function similar to discords? You can start a voice call in a room or create voice calls, but those function very differently from Discord voice channels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Matrix but it really isnt a good discord replacement. It doesnt even have voice channels. I hope we do get a proper decentralized discord alternative at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Voyager on mobile most of the time, but still do a little browsing on my desktop using Photon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the links are to another post, you’ll stay logged in so you can interact. Without this it opens on the other instance so you cant interact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive seen a staggering amount of students who relied entirely on AI fail out of the masters program I’m in. Cheating only gets you so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve met many neurodivergent trans puppygirls in the FOSS world, but the job history is definitely weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - outerbase/studio: A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  there is no server component running

  What the hell are you talking about? Just look at the Dockerfile.

  CMD [“node”, “server.js”]

  You think that line isn’t running a server? Running a server does not make something not web based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ublock Origin also has a section called annoyances, some of those lists probably block them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, didnt make a single sensible point. Just anecdotes and irrelevant examples. I’m bad at ignoring an argument so I went and blocked lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what a false equivalency is, but ok.

  FOSS has this reputation among most people.

  Most people don’t have any clue what FOSS is. They just want software, and if its free and works, they’ll like it.

  I am genuinely curious why you think people pay money for worse software though…

  I provided two reasons in my post. Superior marketing and professional support.

  That was my entire point. The person I was originally replying to seemed to suggest exactly that.

  Ok, but thats not what you went on to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that false equivalency? Comparing fdroid to the play store is about as close as you can get.

  Like I said, there is bad FOSS software, but that doesnt make it generally false. People pay for software that doesnt have a good free alternative, they pay for support, and often they will pay to use software that has good marketing because they are simply unaware of the alternatives.

  I’m not saying all FOSS software is great, but lots of software does have great FOSS options, for example, Firefox, Blender, and Bevy.

  You’re not backing your points up with any actual reasoning or examples while also being condescending about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also go on the play store and find a huge list of proprietary apps that haven’t been updated.

  You need some actual stats to back up this point. Plenty of proprietary software is unsuccessful because it fails to profit, so its shut down. At least FOSS software will continue as long as someone finds it useful enough to keep it going. Plus the obvious, that if you like a piece of software you can maintain it yourself.

  Also saying that FOSS software is “notoriously low quality” is silly. There’s tons of great FOSS software and plenty of shit FOSS software, just like proprietary software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying Librewolf is insecure, I’m saying its less secure. They generally do a good job keeping up to date, but there can be delays if an update conflicts with their changes.

  Librewolf is not just a Firefox config. You can look at the repo and see a number of patches. Without a paid security team to review these patches with every update, it is less secure.

  I’m not saying not to use Librewolf, the likelihood of a zero day specifically targeting it and effecting a significant number of users is very unlikely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does, but less than Firefox does. Their lack of manpower means delayed updates to fix zero days compared to Firefox. It also means less eyes on any patches introduced, so I’d be more concerned about malicious code being introduced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It just lacks manpower unfortunately. Going with a browser that has the funding for a security team is the safer option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, Mullvad is the only fork that I have confidence in the security of (ignoring Tor ofc since it’s not really for general use).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also want to add that this was caused by a configuration issue. If you want security, don’t use Firefox (or its forks) default configs, look into Betterfox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? The dev did acknowledge it and linked to a relevant discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because its a stupid issue. The complaint is that a Firefox fork acts like Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you linked to this irrelevant 3 week old issue while referring to something that was fixed a year ago. Referring to it as a backdoor also implies that I was malicious, when it was simply incompetence. Have there been any security issues since? (Not trying to imply that not having any would make it safe, just wondering).

  Zen is an amateur hobbyist project, expecting it to be something else is silly. It isn’t backed by a company. You take on these risks when you use a project like this. Its open source, do your research before using it for anything important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Floorp is even less trustworthy after incident with part of the browser being closed source. Even if they undid it, the fact that they would try that is unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tidal won’t play lossless in a browser, Qobuz does it with no issue and I am enjoying the new Zen widget with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just anecdotal, but I transferred my fairly small library of about 500 songs from Tidal to Qobuz and nothing was missing. I even added back some songs I lost going from Spotify to Tidal. Nothing super niche though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how it used to be, but I’ve just switched to it from Tidal and am generally enjoying the UI much. Plus it has functioning search, unlike Tidal. My only issue is the lack of a shuffle button on my favorited tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is getting mobile ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do agree that Matrix isn’t a good replacement for Discord, but Revolt is largely centralized, so I have my doubt’s that its a good option either. If users started to switch to it, how would the primary instance handle that level of traffic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is getting mobile ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame its not federated. Makes the self hosting aspect kinda unappealing if I’d need to access a different instance for different servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone else who decides to give Qobuz a try, I wouldn’t recommend using TuneYourMusic to transfer playlists and favorites. A ton of songs were transfered but just say unavailable in Qobuz.

  Qobuz has a partnership that let’s you transfer for free using Soundiiz, so I’d try that instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what it is. A gross example of company trying to get their name out their by sensationalizing their findings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not a backdoor, your most likely fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a backdoor. Just a company trying to make name for themselves by sensationalizing a much smaller discovery.