TiffyBelle
@TiffyBelle@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anyone else moved from kbin to lemmy? 1 year ago:
Awesome. Thanks so much for the tips! ❤️
- Comment on Anyone else moved from kbin to lemmy? 1 year ago:
That’s a really nice alternative interface for desktop! I wonder if other instances implement it other than lemmy.world? It’s cool that that that instance admin has, though. It looks superb.
- Comment on Anyone else moved from kbin to lemmy? 1 year ago:
I moved to KBin for a time when Lemmy had various issues such as auto-updating timelines that were hard to deal with and hugely broken algorithms for “Hot” posts, etc.
Somewhere around release 0.18.3 a lot of these issues were fixed and I ditched KBin. I figured in the long term, it was likely that Lemmy would have more development attention. It also used more straightforward terms like “communities” instead what KBin terms them (“magazines”), which just seemed to be unnecessary and confusing terminology for the sake of being different rather than because it made sense.
- Comment on My new favourite password manager 1 year ago:
This thread is about KeePass and my comments relate to that. If you pull KeePass2 from the repos in Debian, for example, it’s going to pull the Mono runtime to execute it as well because it’s been built, like most C# apps, for JIT compilation. I doubt it’s even possible to compile KeePass2 using AOT compilation.
This is what the C# KeePass application looks like using the Mono runtime in Debian:
This is KeePassXC:
You can see which has better native integration into the desktop out of the box.
- Comment on My new favourite password manager 1 year ago:
I prefer the KeePassXC fork as it’s written in C++ and not C# so it has better native integration with OSes like Linux, but yeah these are really good solutions with no subscription requirements or necessity to upload to any cloud service.
- Comment on Mastodon 4.2 - Mastodon Blog 1 year ago:
The lack of proper search has been a defining barrier between Mastodon and similar services. I’m glad it has finally been added. A great improvement alone.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 1 year ago:
Coincidentally, the last time I opened WordPad was probably 28 years ago.
- Comment on What ISP see when I use custom DNS? 1 year ago:
Yes. In fact, using DNS-based blocking solutions is pretty much the only way to protect against first party trackers that use CNAME cloaking tactics if you’re not using a Firefox browser with UBo, since Chromium browsers have no ability to defend against this type of attack (with the exception of Brave as they implemented their own method of protecting against this with their Shields system.)
- Comment on What ISP see when I use custom DNS? 1 year ago:
Encrypted DNS doesn’t really do much for privacy. It does, however, accomplish two main things:
- Ensures the authenticity of the DNS server you’re receiving a response from due to the certificate exchange.
- Preserves the integrity of the response as it would be difficult for it to be tampered with in-transit.
The domain names you visit are leaked in plain text regardless of your DNS provider and how you connect to them via the “client hello” process of TLS, specifically the Server Name Indication (SNI) portion. ISPs could, in theory, use this to see which domains you’re visiting, but not the specific pages within the domain.
Note that there are mechanisms like ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) and ESNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication) that attempt to solve the domain name leakage issue, but each require domains that wish to support these technologies to include an entry specific to those in their DNS records to facilitate key exchange for the encryption to be viable. Very few domains presently do this.
