quaff
@quaff@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Can you share what lawsuit you’re referring to? 🙏
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
Telegram needs to enable e2ee by default, cause the way it is now, you may as well not have it.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
I mean that is a fair point. But open source client only matters if people were using Telegram’s secret chats consistently. The closed source server is what’s most important when almost all communication happens plain text.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
You can hide your phone number now with the release of usernames in Signal. Still need it for registration tho.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
I suspect that’s because Telegrams marketing and users consistently tries to place itself in the same categories as actually secure and encrypted messengers. Whereas I don’t see tech blogs claiming that FB messenger is secure.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
Good catch 🫡
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
Maybe it’s different on Android or Desktop/Web. On iOS it’s more than 2 clicks. And it’s tucked away.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
It’s 100% not just two clicks. You make it sound easier than it really is. But there’s no way for a new or infrequent user to know where it is unless they explore a bit or even knew to look for it. It’s hidden away behind a hamburger menu.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
I mean, I was merely referring to how FB Messenger and Telegram functions the same.
Speaking to the protocol used for encryption is a moot point… because even if MTProto 2 was better, it’s still not enabled by default.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
Right. But it’s also not exactly “easy” which is what you’re saying it is.
If easy was a sliding scale. Easy would be enabled by default. Hard would be making it obscure and hard to find. I would say it’s definitely closer to the harder to find side. But that’s just me. But 3 clicks, and having to switch chats and maybe delete the old one to avoid confusion, none of that is easy.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
Ah good point, gotta delete the old unencrypted chat too to avoid confusion. That’s definitely more than just 3 clicks.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
If you’re talking to 30 people, it’s 90 clicks. It might be 3 clicks if you know where to look, but end of the day, even if you know where to find it, that’s still that many clicks times how many people you chat with. It’s not ideal. I wouldn’t say it’s complicated sure, but it’s not easy.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
Yeah, the fact that FB messenger uses Signal protocol, means the encryption is better than the one used in Telegram. But the lack of on by default or the need to drill in a few options before enabling secret chats… I mean it’s even named the same thing as Telegram.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
It’s three clicks. And it opens a separate chat from the existing one. It’s obscure enough that you could say the UX deprioritizes (which at best is not an actively malicious design choice) usage of end-to-end encryption.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
If Telegram is considered an encrypted messenger, than FB messenger should be too. Works exactly the same. 🙄
- Comment on I'm at a loss on what server to buy 3 months ago:
You should try out pcpartpicker.com
Great tool to spec out a computer and give you an idea of how much it’ll cost you.
- Comment on Fedora Asahi Remix 40 available ! 6 months ago:
Are there any updates regarding microphone and Touch ID support in this release?
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
Love Steam for that. That reminds me… gotta get me a Steam Deck!
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
Honestly. I suspect in this scenario, the popular use case for enabling Resizable Bar is for gaming. I was hoping to improve my video transcoding experience. 🥸
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
For sure haha I meant I don’t have soldering skills. I know there’s a hardware BIOS programmer device I could get, but I feel like at that point, I may as well get a new motherboard 👀
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
Welp. My skills end at #1. So I guess I’m SOL 😂 Thanks for this though! I like knowing that it’s possible, even if it’s outside of my current ability :)
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
I’m running up against the wall of breaking the signature. I guess my motherboard protects itself from unsigned modifications and idiot tinkerers 😂
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
Whoa. I didn’t know this was a thing! Windows live CD! That’s awesome. Thank you for this! I managed to get MMtools working with
wine. But definitely gonna try a few things with this since I’m getting some security verification failures with the modified bios 👀 - Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
Managed to get it working with
wine. But now I am running up against issues with my motherboard and failing the security verification of the modified bios 😅Stay tuned… 🤓
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
I tried it out with my Linux box. There’s a step that requires MMtools that I can’t run with out windows unfortunately 🥲
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
If only I had access to a windows machine to patch my old ass motherboard 🥹🫡