netchami
@netchami@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
P2P is the answer, Matrix has been doing this for a few years
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
TIL that XMPP is defined in an RFC. You’re correct, I wasn’t aware of that. I really don’t understand why the IETF take such a decision though. I don’t know why these guys are defining high-level protocols for things like messaging at all.
But back to your earlier points:
For example you can’t have end-to-end encryption if you use a non-standard protocol
This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Matrix has E2EE while using a “non-standard” protocol. So does Signal, in fact, it created the strongest E2EE protocol out there.
VC startups like Matrix only increase fragmentation of the ecosystem
Every new project that is created increases fragmentation. So does Revolt, Discord, Skype, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. These all use “non-standard” protocols.
Also, the author of RFC 6120 is a Cisco employee, how is a multinational corporation better than a VC-funded startup? XMPP is an open standard, just like the Matrix protocol. It doesn’t matter who created it.
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
That doesn’t make any sense
- Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks 11 months ago:
Nah, they have a clause in their EULA which allows this, it’s ridiculous. Piracy is the only solution.
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
Who defines standard internet protocols and how is XMPP one of them??? “Standard internet protocols” are DNS, HTTP, TLS, etc.
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
VCs suck, but Matrix is open source, everyone can self-host their own server, write their own client or even fork the entire protocol.
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
It isn’t proprietary either
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
What part of Matrix is proprietary? It’s not an app, instead, it’s an open protocol that can be used by anyone to build a messaging app or host a server.
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 11 months ago:
Louis Rossmann made some amazing videos about this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACX_VfsjkZA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_XiaMzzZUo
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
I agree
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 11 months ago:
Discord is an absolute piece of garbage, it’s not a good messaging app, definitely not a good place to host a community (seriously, I don’t understand why some communities saw Discord as an alternative after the Reddit API changes), and most importantly, it’s spyware. The company doesn’t have a business model and it was founded by a guy who is notorious for creating random shit that’s not economically sustainable at all. I don’t understand why anyone would use this shit. This video outlines everything that’s wrong with Discord: youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU
- Comment on What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps with Less Than 1 Million Downloads and 4+ Star Ratings? 11 months ago:
Trying to make Lemmy a better place
- Comment on Microchips 11 months ago:
Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. **All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left. ** ― Peter Buffett, the son of Warren Buffett
- Comment on Microchips 11 months ago:
The only thing Gates does is use his foundation to avoid taxes. He’s not any better than other billionaires. The entirety of billionaire philanthropy is a massive lie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto
- Comment on Microchips 11 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged 11 months ago:
If you actually started selling these, they would probably shut that down pretty quickly and maybe even sue you
- Comment on Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies 11 months ago:
Almost every attacker in history has claimed that they have God on their side™
- Comment on Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged 11 months ago:
I stopped doing this a few years ago but the system was flawed from the ground up. The fact that they did nothing to this kind of abuse it mind-boggling. No one actually used this the way it was intended to be used.
- Comment on Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy 11 months ago:
You can use fingerprint or U2F to unlock your password manager and copy the password. That way you don’t have to type it in.
- Comment on Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy 11 months ago:
Some laptops like the Framework laptop have fingerprint sensors
Physical Security keys like NitroKeys or YubiKeys are another option
- Comment on Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged 11 months ago:
I remember using this (cheating a little bit with VPNs and proxies so I could claim the rewards like 20 times every day, because they are separate in every country) to get some Xbox giftcards
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
Nothing. It’s free for 3 users with a limit of 100 devices. The traffic isn’t relayed through Tailscale servers, instead, Tailscale just orchestrates the peer-to-peer connections.
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 11 months ago:
That sounds truly awesome /s
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 11 months ago:
It’s literally corporate spyware made by Microsoft, one of the shittiest companies in history. It also uses the Chromium rendering engine under the hood, meaning you also support Google’s monopoly. It’s the worst browser choice you can make. (besides maybe Opera or shit like that)
Firefox and LibreWolf are the only good browsers that don’t support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines and give you the freedom to block ads
- Comment on Access home server from anywhere 11 months ago:
Some Tailscale clients are open-source and you can self-host a Headscale server
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
Kodi in a mini-pc
That’s the way to go. You can even use something like a Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC, a very lightweight Linux distro which does nothing more than run Kodi.
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 11 months ago:
Use Firefox or LibreWolf
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 11 months ago:
Edge is the worst recommendation I’ve ever seen in my life
- Comment on Ethical cloud provider recommendation 11 months ago: