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- Comment on The browser wars: A battle for internet dominance 6 hours ago:
The thumbnail reminds me of that Wheee! Internet Explorer vs Firefox video.
- Comment on Type-safe C-killer Delphi turns 30 2 days ago:
I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.
In case you want to look at a working Lazarus project, PeaZip uses it.
- Comment on Why Is a Government Contractor Trying to Buy iPhone Hacking Tech From Us? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 3 days ago:
It also seems that the headline currently on the article is different and switches out
Both are present in the article; they don’t switch out. One is the title (as you can see in the title bar of a desktop web browser) and the other is the top-level heading of the text.
Looks like Lemmy picked up the former, which makes sense considering the document structure. BBC probably should have used the same phrase in both places.
- Comment on Best Beige P/S2 keyboard and mouse for retro gaming build? 3 days ago:
Some of the best keyboards ever made, many of them beige, use an 5-pin AT/XT connector. These can be trivially converted to a PS/2 (not P/S2) port with a small adapter.
You might want to browse some mechanical or vintage keyboard forums to find specific models.
You can find native PS/2 mice (like the Logitech First Mouse) on auction sites, sometimes even in new condition. I have also seen adapters for plugging USB mice into PS/2 ports, although I don’t know if they work with every model.
- Comment on How technologists and chemists respond to fascism: C7H5N3O6 6 days ago:
How?
- Comment on Day 206 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
I must say I e never played Skyrim, and I didn’t know how beautiful it could be.
Modern texture packs, replacement models, and lighting mods make it even more so.
On top of that, Skyrim’s soundtrack is outstanding, and conspires with the scenery to make it a game world not easily forgotten. I’m sure I’ll be going back.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 1 week ago:
The point is that since Signal’s default, well-supported installations use Google services, those services are present on most of your contacts’ devices. You might have the knowledge, skill, and motivation to avoid those services on your own device, but since they’re still present at the other end of most chats, you haven’t escaped them.
It’s also worth noting that E2EE doesn’t protect the endpionts, and that Google Play Services run with system-level privileges.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 weeks ago:
It’s been recently added to FDroid.
No, it has not. A third-party published it in an f-droid compatible repository. That might be convenient for people who happen to trust that third party and manually add it to their F-Droid client, but it is not at all like it being added it to F-Droid.
You can use NTFY with Molly (which has been on FDroid for some time).
This does not refute what I wrote. Unless you only communicate with people who get their Signal app from some non-Google source and they all rig up alternative push notification channels, your conversations are still tied to Google. Perhaps you have so few contacts that you could achieve that, but approximately nobody else is in that position.
network-level metadata monitoring by anyone with sufficient access/influence at Signal or their data center provider (such as a government who doesn’t like encrypted messaging).This one is just a straight-up lie. Everything on the server is encrypted and no one has the keys except the participants.
Encryption doesn’t network traffic invisible. Signal’s centralised design means there is a single point where that traffic can be monitored and traced to reveal which endpoints are talking to each other, and where, and when.
What I write is not a lie, which you would know if you actually understood these issues.
Please stop making baseless accusations. You are being very rude.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully, it’s not that simple.
A centralised service is an easy target for a government. (This is where Signal stands.) A decentralised one is significantly harder, because the government would have to be constantly discovering and processing every node in the network as new ones appear. (This is where Matrix stands.) Fully peer-to-peer decentralisation makes it harder still, because there are as many nodes as there are users and their network addresses might change all the time. (Some of these exist today, but are mostly experimental with few users. Matrix has done some proof-of-concept work in this area as well.)
On top of decentralisation, tunnels like VPN and Tor can be helpful in avoiding ISP-imposed blocks.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 weeks ago:
There are a few messaging systems that don’t rely on internet service. That usually means a peer-to-peer design using some form of radio link, which can work well for local gatherings (like protests), but tend to be impractical for general use.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 weeks ago:
Note that I said the network can withstand such things, not that it guarantees your connectivity when using a hostile ISP. No internet messaging service can do that.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 weeks ago:
Signal is easier to use, more private, and faster.
Unfortunately, it’s also effectively tied to Google services, and (as a centralised service) vulnerable to shutdown or network-level metadata monitoring by anyone with sufficient access, like a government who doesn’t like encrypted messaging.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 weeks ago:
Matrix is good for private general messaging. The fact that it’s decentralised means it can also withstand things like government-ordered shutdowns or back doors, since there is no central point that controls the whole network.
Two things to be aware of:
- Some non-message bits (e.g. reactions and room topic text) have not yet been moved to the encrypted channel, so those could be read by the administrator of a homeserver that participates in your chat room. Since most people care primarily about keeping the message content private, this is an acceptable trade-off to get all the things that Matrix offers.
- The upcoming Matrix 2.0 features and design choices will simplify the UI and fix some occasional errors. It might be worth waiting until this stuff officially lands in the client apps before bringing your contacts to Matrix, for a better experience all around.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
Facebook: I’ll just
torrent what I needburden your underfunded project and volunteers with over 81 TB of bandwidth costs without contributing anything in return, see yaaFTFY
- Comment on Rift of the NecroDancer Official Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, but having finished the game with Cadence, I think I understand the mechanics.
- Comment on Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t port Discord to anything, because it’s a mediocre chat service run by an invasive company that imposes itself as gatekeeper of other people’s discourse and content.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 2 weeks ago:
Most people don’t live in their state capitol, and have no hope of attending something they learned of at the last minute. They should have been informed of this days ago.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 2 weeks ago:
I suspect the vast majority of people turning to social media as a pressure release valve feel disempowered, and honestly don’t know what more they can reasonably do. How can a fly meaningfully change the orbit of a planet?
This article is insightful, but practically useless. I think it would be better if it also presented specific actions and achievable goals that would lead to shutting down encroaching fascism.
- Comment on Rift of the NecroDancer Official Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I still haven’t managed to beat Crypt as anyone other than Cadence. I wonder if this game will be even harder.
- Comment on EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone here tried these?
- Comment on Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails 2 weeks ago:
My client is rendering it correctly according to markdown and html specs. If your client is wrapping it, then that’s convenient for you in this case, but it’s violating the spec.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails 2 weeks ago:
OP, can you please remove the four spaces preceding each paragraph in your post? That syntax is for code formatting. It puts each paragraph into a single line, forcing readers into painstaking horizontal scrolling to be able to read each one. It’s like trying to read a book through a keyhole.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Civ V had mediocre-to-bad gameplay on release, but was transformed into something good by the Brave New World DLC. I have read that Civ VI was similarly improved (although perhaps with a bit less success) by way of DLC.
Judging by the initial reviews of this one, it looks like a pattern is developing. I guess I’ll once again wait a few years until the “fix” DLC has been out for a while, and buy the combo pack on sale.
Unless they use Denuvo or some other anti-customer nonsense that I won’t support.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
The question I’ve had since this sequel was announced: Does it use the same approach to combat skill progression as the original, where players are robbed of agency instead of encouraged to figure out effective use of tools?
Eike Cramer from IGN Deutschland seems to have my answer:
The game design is annoying with forced stealth on top of a frustrating save system. That’s especially true for some of the longer story missions. On top of this, the combat mechanics are extremely inaccessible and, with their mercilessness, put far too many obstacles in the way of the players, especially at the beginning. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is nevertheless an utterly unique, ambitious and, in large parts, very good adventure. But it’s also a video game that misses important points a little too often in the gameplay details and does not respect the player’s time in certain places.
Thank you Eike, and thank you OP for posting those quotes.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job 2 weeks ago:
I started playing this on PC, but at a certain point, it persistently crashed. A bunch of other folks reported the same problem. I guess non-Deck hardware wasn’t a priority for Valve this time.
- Comment on Thanks for the 0.19.8 upgrade if any of the admins reads this. 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t answer my question.
- Comment on Thanks for the 0.19.8 upgrade if any of the admins reads this. 2 weeks ago:
What changed since the version we had? The UI changelog doesn’t seem to be consistently maintained.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing your findings. Did you try these things more than once, on different days, to make sure the triggers you think you found weren’t merely coincidences?