ErilElidor

@ErilElidor@feddit.de
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Just give me a Linux client for proton drive please. I'm tired of manually uploading/downloading files 😐

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I would argue this wasn't planned. If you want to cause damage, why do it in the middle of the night? Not sure how full this bridge is during rush hour, but I would imagine quite a lot more than it was when it collapsed now.

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I never understood how a chatroom took off as a tool to document stuff. Who seriously thinks this is a good idea? 😡

They might be academics, but definitely not scientists

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My takeaway is more like: This one almost made it through and was caught by accident. How much more backdoors actually were not caught and made it through? I would bet some money on it being more than 0 :(

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I'll develop my own browser before using an ad-infested internet. Luckily I don't have to do that, because there are alternatives and also because it would be a damn time consuming project to put it mildly πŸ˜…

Revanced isn't in an app store (at least not a legit version), you have to build it yourself. Otherwise it would probably end like Vanced. Take care of scam websites, this is the real one: https://revanced.app/

Or check this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/ (yes, it's Reddit, but the guide was really useful to me πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ)

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This is the way. Just remember what happened to /r/worldpolitics, the mods basically didn't want to moderate anymore and it became a shit show of spammers.

The scary thing is, I could imagine someone writing this text, but unironic...

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"Schrank" is not really a drawer. Translating it as "cupboard" would be more appropriate, I think.

Politicians working for their own profit instead for the well-being of the people who elected them? Color me shocked!

This is the correct link: https://revanced.app/ or even Github directly: https://github.com/revanced

I think revanced . net should not be trusted

Mostly the same. I tried ChatGPT a few times to get it to generate some code, but mostly it produced code that didn't even compile and when I asked it to fix it, it created code that didn't compile in a different way. I enjoy writing code on my own a lot more than having to review some pre-generated code.

Though I use it as a glorified Google sometimes and that is not even so bad.

Well, it means you are incentivized to scroll through the app more, meaning you see more ads as well. 110% sure it pays off for them

Yesterday I noticed something. I was searching for a few different things, but only got completely random garbage. That was the only time so far I noticed that. Before yesterday the search was fine. I hoped that was just a hiccup, but we will see...

Honestly I would probably just stop using YouTube altogether if I was forced to use it unmodified.

I like living in the EU πŸ˜„

And last time I checked they wanted to change the law so the overachievement over other sectors can excuse the failure in others. So no need to do something in the traffic sector, if other areas performed better. Not sure what the current state of this plan is, but I would assume they didn't take it back, which would seem the only reasonable thing to doπŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Just relax and make some tea at 4:18 :) No coffee though!

I guess it is impossible to say what would have happened if Google never used XMPP. To me it mostly looks like google joined XMPP and made it way bigger than it was before and eventually left it again, making it small again. But is it worse than before Google even joined?

Maybe, but can we say for sure?

Maybe the lesson is not "don't let the big corporate players in", but rather "make sure the development of the underlying protocol itself is done in an open way". If Google/Meta adds proprietary extensions, just don't add them to the main protocol. If they leave the protocol again or changed their implementation in a way that is largely incompatible with the open version, nothing is lost than what they brought in initially. Doesn't that make sense?

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I'm actually curious about "Embrace Extend Extinguish": What can they do? They "extend" the ActivityPub protocol in a proprietary way, ok. Doesn't mean any other instance has to use that, no? Ok, that would mean if an instance doesn't follow that extension, it can't interact optimally with Threads, but how does it matter? To me it seems all that can be lost by that is the content/user base that Threads brings into the Fediverse and then we are at the same point as we would be if we defederated immediately. Maybe I'm missing something here?

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I watched some video some time ago where they put that in perspective: If I stopped causing any climate negative emissions now and for the rest of my life, it would amount to like 1 second emitted by the top 100 companies (not 100% sure about the numbers exactly, but it's basically the same order of magnitude).

I'm not saying that we should stop caring about it at all, but it's much much more important to try and steer politics into the right direction, than it is to change personally. Still, do all you can personally, but imo it's fine to "cheat" here and there.

I guess the idea is (make of that what you want):

  • Usenet is not illegal by itself (but well, same goes for torrenting)
  • As long as law enforcement doesn't get its hands on the server it can't tell what you download, as long as you use TLS (no VPN required, but doesn't hurt either)
  • But even if: Usenet providers (hopefully) don't keep logs of what you downloaded, so for all we know you just paid the provider to download actual news/Linux ISOs?
  • But even if they do: You are not uploading anything -> you are probably less interesting to law enforcement and they might just ignore you (especially if you use some payment method that might require going through some extra steps to link it to you as a person)

It's hard to give tips without knowing your situation better, but here are a few general ones that probably already set you apart from the vast majority of other small companies:

  • Keep your stuff updated, especially when there are security fixes available
  • don't take convenience shortcuts that compromise on security (e.g. relying on "security through obscurity")
  • block incoming traffic by default (you only need some people from your country to access the network? Maybe even block ip ranges from the other side of the world)
  • log access to your network and also analyse the logs often (probably with the help of some software)

I'm just some Software Engineer with a few years of experience, not some security expert thoughπŸ˜…

Even if they would get all of Ukraine, I would expect quite a bit of underground resistance that would make holding on to Ukraine expensive.

I had a printer from HP but rarely had to print anything. It happened way too often, that I had to buy a new cartridge, because the old one dried up. Soo annoying... Now I have a laser printer from brother and it's much better! No more drying up! I guess this is more about technology than it is brand, but it somehow was fitting hereπŸ˜„

I really hope with this move the crazies from die Linke are all gone, so it's finally possible to vote for them. Let's keep an eye on them 😊

Don't forget https://revanced.app/ for Android!

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But it couldn't be easier to just set up a second remote, that isn't GitHub with just vanilla Git, if you don't trust Microsoft (Or even fully switching to a different remote). Why is there a need for something else in addition?

Smh my head