Vanilla_PuddinFudge
@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 days ago:
Too heavy and bloated, and too centralized in its design philosophy, not to mention big capital flowing through Matrix from Israel and the issues with metadata making it a privacy disaster.
Here’s a blog that agrees with me so I don’t seem lazy: lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/
I get your blogger’s concern over OMEMO versions being out of whack and their encryption choices being all over the place, but other than it being somewhat of a mess, I don’t see how it devalues the service as much as he thinks. (a bit melodramatic imo)
- Comment on How are you really doing? 3 days ago:
Half of a foot in nostalgia, another foot in insane possibilities, hobbies and tech, a hand on my family and their goings on and another hand on paying my car off and planning for my aging mother’s death and handling the eventual fallout that will ensue.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 4 days ago:
Mexico actually sounds kinda brilliant, but who seems important. OVH has servers in Mexico, but I can imagine some hosters would get the Feds on the line and go “sure, here’s his data”.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 4 days ago:
I’d almost say lol, get a VPS in China.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and they have zero say over what I do, only what they do. China could demand and scream and bitch all they want over an encrypted set of programs and you’d never have to care, move to another domain and provider and copy-paste. Lock it down, only use it with encryption and let the wolves huff and puff until they’re blue in the face.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 4 days ago:
…run a country by myself? I suppose its possible.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 4 days ago:
So, need a non-homocidal, non-EU country to run an XMPP server then…
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 5 days ago:
Good, make it as terrible as possible.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 5 days ago:
Does it matter? Yes! Goddamnit! I’ll buy a Toyota next time! FUCKING HELL!
Oh, this is actually based, they were right all along, holy fuck!
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 6 days ago:
Meredith Whittaker, the president of the foundation for widely-used global Signal encrypted messaging app, has said it will shut down the system in Australia if forced to hand over its users’ encrypted data to the country’s political surveillance agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
…raises hand
“You have stored data on your users?”
- Comment on Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system 6 days ago:
Some alternatives:
- XMPP
- Briar
- SimpleX
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 6 days ago:
man with gaping wound in his skull pissed that people keep suggesting he go to a hospital.
“Just like I told you, insufferable hospital maxxis, I swear!”
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 1 week ago:
Stevia is not
(unless my headcanon is outdated. I’ll delete this after I check wikipedia)
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 1 week ago:
Stevia: “I don’t know those guys”
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a “it’s totally not a security, we swear, even though we’re only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer” …LTC did. Monero has and is. BTC’s fall was a massive pullback on an extremely new and volatile idea that not even half the buyers entirely understood. BTC now is held up by ETF funds, private equity and everyone that cares putting a few chips in. Is it a scam now? Is everyone scamming everyone?
…there’d be a lot fewer people calling it a scam. For sixteen years, crypto’s only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud. Some would call that decentralization and freedom. Spin it however you like.
Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about. They deserve every negative degree.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
Not every country has a corrupt securities administration. Don’t push your third-world Americanism on others like its their problem.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
I got robbed!
blames the currency
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
If only there was a method of paying people in a private and decentralized way, possibly maybe even… cryp"SCAM!"
“SCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM”
sits back down
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
I only use it for deemix for easy piracy. I often use SoulSeek too. I was using Qobuz but most of these “we give more to the artist” services have their flaws, disorganized or missing bands.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 week ago:
Guess they need to work on their authoritarian hellhole of a country.
~American
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 week ago:
record scratch
I was under the impression linkwarden just saved… links.
Entire webpages? Do tell!
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
Careful! Some of us are capable of flipping the package over and reading.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
Just buy store brands and you’re 80% of the way there.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
Not many people today remember when Google was actually useful. Once upon a time.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
They’re a godsend for camping, and would be legendary in a disaster event.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
There’s a yo mama joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
Let me know when I can selfhost LibreFi Security on my router and use it for myself. Sounds great for private home use.
- Comment on crypto investment 1 week ago:
lemmy openly talking about cryoto
bearish as fuck
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
I just think the idea of your alternative being partially coded by the company you’re attempting to avoid is a little stupid. I don’t give a shit who he is. I barely give a shit who runs Mozilla.
Brave and every other Chromium fork are at the mercy of Google to exist as an alternative to Google.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
I’ve been dosing too much tux, doc. My mind’s all FOSSY.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games” 2 weeks ago:
award winning
ok ok, enough comedy…