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- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 day ago:
Yeah. I’m the nerdiest person I know—I’m not gonna try to convince people to use something I struggle to understand myself. Signal is good because it does not feel like a compromise, and the advantages are easy to explain. Matrix I wouldn’t even know how to sign up for myself, as much as I would love to see the entire internet run on decentralized technology.
I am sure it’s not so difficult and that I could find a good instance and figure it out if I sank some time into it, but that’s really not the point here. The point is that me doing that would be worthless as I still couldn’t convince anyone else to join, and nobody I am interested in talking to is currently on there. (In other words: this post is not me asking for help to sign up for Matrix)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yup, Signal is down. The one centralized service I’m still rooting for I guess. Disappointed they’re running on AWS.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Seems like a fair bet that Amazon Web Services is having some problems?
I really love that the commercial internet runs on like three service providers. Would love to see it crash and burn.
- Comment on Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related? 2 weeks ago:
I write scientific articles with inline R code in Latex (using knitr), so I need syntax highlighting that jumps between two different languages within the document as well as spell checking and advanced (non AI) grammar tools for the text documents. Also I want something that looks kinda minimalistic and neat as a wiring interface - there is more writing than coding involved.
I’m sure there’s some wizard somewhere who can do everything I need in Emacs, but I’m not terribly sophisticated. I just want something that works. Sadly, as much as I try to avoid anything Microsoft, VS Codium is the only thing I’ve found that fits my needs in a good way.
- Comment on Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo 2 weeks ago:
First mover problem. You can be both places, whenever you promote your content you can link to both places. That way if Instagram ever breaks for good you are not left with nothing.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
MicroG makes most things work, so it’s not much compromise in my experience. :)
I use /e/OS which has access to apps from the Play Store, so that I still have my banking apps and stuff. I think streaming apps should work just fine.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
…offline support?
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
I realize I’m not entirely free yet, but I sleep better ever since I changed to a non-Google Android ROM. Also because the path to proper mobile Linux feels shorter now.
Anyone still on Google Android: Look into making the change. It’s worth it.
And if not, at least start getting your apps from F-droid whenever possible.
- Comment on Mastodon: Our ideas about Packs 3 weeks ago:
I guess in a way that’s what it offers, just that instead of an algorithm it’s human curated. Mastodon is a lot about boosts, so following someone doesn’t mean just following them, but also being subjected to whatever they boost (unless you silence their boosts of course). So if you’re interested in pottery and you follow a pottery starter pack, chances are that feed will end up a curated channel of pottery content.
The great thing is that it has quality control and cannot be abused the same way algorithmic feeds always end up being. The funky thing is, of course, that you also end up being exposed to everything else those people are interested in. But I think that’s part of what makes Mastodon feels so nice.
- Comment on Italy poll finds 15% see attacks on Jewish people as 'justifiable' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it’s about.
- Comment on Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think Israel can recover from this.
- Comment on Colombia Expels Remaining Israeli Diplomats Amid Gaza Aid Tensions 3 weeks ago:
Great. Make sure this becomes a diplomatic incident of major proportions. Gustavo Petro and Pedro Sánchez are the only world leaders I would somewhat trust to have a spine at this point, the rest need to have their arms twisted like the Italian unions are currently hard at work with.
- Comment on Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Currently, 11 ships are not yet registered as intercepted, not counting the legal support vessels. The ship Mikeno made it into Gaza territorial waters before contact was lost. In general updates are scarce, so it’s hard to know what is going on - Mikeno also went a long time without updates over night before it suddenly appeared less than 20 km from Gaza.
10 ships are assumed intercepted. 21 are confirmed intercepted.
Fuck Israel and their genocide.
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/ - Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 4 weeks ago:
… /etc/X11/xorg.conf…
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Touché. Gotta admit I didn't think it through properly, there's probably a bunch of other things as well. Point is I think I've provided the music industry with more money than it strictly deserves.
Especially with the price of concerts these days. Jesus.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Lol, I'm a vinyl nerd
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Easier to let users play music for free when you don't pay the artists I guess
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 month ago:
Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.
- Comment on Interesting Intel tech for rendering graphics 1 month ago:
"How do you do, fellow scholars"
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
But at least he's self aware! That places him in an intellectual capacity at least somewhere between a giant panda and a house mouse. Not bad for a troll.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
respect, kindness and have principles that I apply uniformly
Not actions that he applies uniformly. Obviously you meet people with different actions. But you can remain constant in principles.
Its possible to respect both your mother and your partner, yet only have sex with one of them. Weirdo.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
I would be very happy if anyone could explain to me in a simple and coherent way why I, as a normal user who am aware of what I am doing on my device and am not targeted by any group that's out to get me, would need a "hardened malloc", "secure app spawning", "vanadium browser and webview", or a "hardened PDF viewer". The last of these four is the only thing that means anything to me, and it sounds dumb. Yeah, I know PDFs can be dangerous if you open random shit, but come on.
If I run Waydroid it's only to get my banking app (trusted source) and Whatsapp (not a trusted source but not directly malware either) working. I hardly need their hardened PDF reader.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
I guess if Google closes down AOSP it would get forked, and the fork would probably be a separate thing from the current Android distributions. So that the landscape would continue to look a bit like today, except that AOSP would be an independent thing.
Then I guess it's possible that Google would seek to make android apps incompatible, gradually making the whole thing kinda pointless. I can't say I'm using Android for the great UX - I'm using it because it supports a few apps I continue to be forced to use. If I can't use them an Android any more I'm switching to Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS in a heartbeat.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
I guess the parts of the fediverse that allows adult content. There's a lot of people on the fediverse dedicated to supporting sex workers and stuff like that. None of these sites or users are in a position to sue the UK though.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
Now 4chan becomes the face of my resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can't speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
Everything takes a long time, but things are happening. If you search for the terms "fine apple EU" or "fine apple EU" in your search engine of choice you'll see there's quite a lot going on.
I have some personal friends who are working with this stuff for the European Commission. It basically takes a long time to build a case against tech giants, and then once the Commission fines them these fines will be appealed in the EU court system, which will take even more years to process.
It's annoying that there's not a magic switch to flick to make Google and Apple comply with EU law, but that's the world we live in. If the EU just banned Google and/or Apple it would probably backlash tremendously, so they have to move a bit slowly. :)
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
You can't make laws for every single possible future reality. We need courts that uphold laws even when billionaires try to dodge them using shady techniques. The problem is that big tech often gets away with murder because they can afford expensive lawyers. Especially in the US laws are essentially meaningless for the rich. This is not so much the case in Europe.
I have heard some positive signals from the European Court of Justice that they are taking the challenge from big tech seriously and that they are going the extra miles to understand these issues. If you're particularly interested, many judges talk about this in the Borderlines podcast series by Berkley law. But it gets really dry really fast haha.
I don't believe in signing authorities. It's not effective - Google can't even keep malware off the play store - and it's an authoritarian move. Hell, most apps in the play store spy on their users, profiling usage to sell to advertisers along with ID codes that makes it possible to combine data between apps and build detailed profiles of individuals. The problem is not apps that are not signed - the problem is the whole economy of apps that work as Google intend them to.
Also, it's a basic question of rights. It's my phone, I bought the hardware, I own it, I install whatever the fuck I want on it.