Blisterexe

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  all you have to do is

  1. host your own PDS, where your account lives, this is easy, I do it myself already.

  2. host you own appview: the only actually good appview is bsky’s, luckily it’s open source, unfortunately I do not believe they made it easy to self-host.

  3. Host a relay, this isn’t all that hard, it just needs a real big server (AFAIK it needs a shitton of io throughput), so unless you’re very rich it’s not too realistic to host this.

  So yeah, a PDS is easy to host but the other two parts are a pain, and since the protocol has only been open for a few months, people haven’t really done too much.

  Frontpage exists, but they haven’t made it be able to interact with bsky.Social, although the accounts are shared. I have been told by people involved with that that that’s an issue with frontpage’s implementation, and not the AT protocol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU's largest retailer and Google serve "sovereign" Workspace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, g©ogle drive and GiDL are collaborating?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  do you have a good guide on how it works/ho to set it up? I tried a little while ago but couldnt figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They shouldve given that 200 billion to me instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the thumbnail is a hexagon bear because it’s the logo for easyanticheat, the most recogniseable anticheat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like their permissions system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ? Thunderbolt is just a fancier usb-c, you can use a usb-c cable with a thunderbolt port and vice-versa.

  Also apple used lightning before, not thunderbolt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will, no need to install anything new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically bluesky works with pds’s, that host account data, (i actually host my own), appviews, which manage the post sorting/algorithm and ui, and relays, that sit between the two and make it easier (theyre not strictly necessary, but make At-proto services much faster and more reliable).

  Relays are expensive, and so bluesky’s relay is the only real one currently, not because theyre shutting other people out, because a relay is expensive. So currently you kind of have to use bluesky’s servers to use the AT protocol, but thatll change whenever someone has the resources to setup a good relay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the federation is open since febuary 22nd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s up to clients to implement, not part of the protocol.

  But yeah its kinda dumb its not a thing in element

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not own the games you buy on gog either, they just let you download it drm-free, which lets you keep it even if they revoke your liscence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Third-party tool "Rebound 11" aims to improve the Windows 11 UI, while keeping system files intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah this one in particular looks awully impractical, it looks like its designed for cars (bad) but everyone is walking (???)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Achieve Success By Marketing Your Own Business On Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bot.

  Also fb treats their advertisers like total crap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is testing verified checkmarks in search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent example choice lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most new tv’s are smart tv’s by default, yo uave to pay extra for dumbness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, since you copy-pasted, i will likewise share my favorite take on thr situation.

  After reading about the actual feature (more), this seems like an absolutely gigantic non-issue. Like most anti-Mozilla stories end up being.

  The whole thing is an experimental feature intended to replace the current privacy nightmare that is cross-site tracking cookies.

  As-implemented it’s a way for advertisers to figure out things like “How many people who went to our site and purchased this product saw this ad we placed on another site?”, but done in such a way that neither the website with the ad, nor the website with the product, nor Mozilla itself knows what any one specific user was doing.

  The only thing I looked for but could not find an answer on one way or the other is if Mozilla is making any sort of profit from this system. I would guess no but actually have no idea.

  There are definitely things that can be said about this feature, like “Fuck ad companies, it should be off by default” (my personal take), or “It’s a pointless feature that’s doomed to failure because it’ll never provide ad companies with information as valuable as tracking cookies, so it’ll never succeed in its goal to replace tracking cookies” (also my take). But the feature itself has virtually no privacy consequences whatsoever for anybody.

  I’m absolutely convinced there’s a coordinated anti-Firefox astroturfing campaign going on lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely cannot understand why people hate mozilla so much, it boggles the mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does not affect you if you use an adblocker, this feature is meant to allow websites to have ad analytics without tracking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update on Native Matrix interoperability with WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course whatsapp would make it difficult

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory 1.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to game on your mac your best bet is dualbooting with linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that playtron will integrate a crypto wallet and a way to pay for games with crypto

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As part of the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins, i have to say that while i dont love thumbnails like that, i still click on the video because i know it’ll be quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of messaging apps do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like beeper, but im probably gonna selfhost all the bridges once i have the hw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why wait?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any artists out there?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mastodon android app

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the main thing is that its arch-based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its whole deal is that they try and squeeze every ounce of performance out for gaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, i just meant that all the changes cachy does (on top of being arch based) means it just isnt as stable as some other options