Every year is the year

That’s their problem. If their messages aren’t encrypted, it isn’t like you won’t be aware of it. Request that they use a modern client and get with the times. None of this is an actual problem without easy solutions.

Your reasoning would hold up if 80% of xmpp wasn’t running on Conversations or forks of it, that all support OMEMO and OpenPGP.

Your criticisms are too broad with few serious negatives. What makes extensions powerful is that they can easily change the rules without breaking the underlying system. If your client sucks, get another?

You have choices, but if your problem is metadata, whoooo boy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32780665

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9133

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/q7qsty/is_matrix_still_a_metadata_disaster/

Xmpp is far lighter on resources and not ran by a company with funding issues.

I believe in it,… for now.

I moved my family group to xmpp to have more personal control over our chats. Signal seems benevolent, but I’ve seen this play out before. Will it stay that way? We treat online forums with the idea that federstion works to stop enshittificstion. I believe XMPP is a good model for federating secure chatrooms for the same reason: People should control the voices of the people, not companies.

They see no value in it. They don’t see that privacy is proactive measure that can protect you.

On Facebook, especially in my family, accounts get lost and hacked. One fine day, it might be someone with more influence in the family who’s attacker might make off with stolen bank information or passwords.

but “that’ll never happen”, right?

one racist statement to gaslight the forum

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“the troll left his calling card”

“it says pussy”

Dope. Gonna give it a spin on a vps tonight.

3 years ago

2 years ago

uh, nah

…that’s even worse somehow

checks Steam Deck

Weirdly fine, hm…

Per-FECT

Already got it running. Simple and clean, thanks!

Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I’d prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it’s been decades you shouldn’t need to do that

MO2 can do anything Vortex can, and in fact, Stalker and Stalker 2 modders prefer it. The files just need to be hosted elsewhere. A lot of modmakers advise against using Vortex to begin with.

Let’s break down who’s actually going to buy this piece of shit.

Anyone with any experience with buying a modern Android phone?.. Nope. Metro, Tello, US Cellular, etc are all cheaper than Trump Mobile by almost half the price and the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500, and Apple fans aren’t watching anyway.

So that just leaves extremely uninformed people who don’t know any better. You’ll be able to identify how little they know by the fact that they’ll pay double the going-rate of an MVNO for an overpriced, gold slab of feces.

A lot of Apple fans are tied into their ecosystem, either by profession or just history with the brand. Any Android phone means upending their lives if they depend on their phones for business or pleasure, and a lot of them are Apple fans because Tim Cook keeps Trump 39.5ft away, so they’re off the books.

TL/DR: Get ready to see a bunch of boomers walk out of church with gold phones.

I’d just hop a vps around to different countries.

…I’d never do it here, admins, honest lol

Right. At the end of the bullshit, the content still plays to completion if the user hits play. We can script and Ai and remove ads all day long after a program snags the feed.

Imagine adblock re-rencoding software that picks mp4s clean based on repeated content(ads). The user could select each ad as they happen, mark them as such and let it identify them from there. Imagine sharable or federated caches of these ad records between users.

Someone who can code, please, imagine it.

Virtual desktop program that watches videos and uses sponsorblock and adblock after the fact to pick it clean and re-encode it.

I’m that level of anal

I can’t tell an honest difference between 1080p and 720p from across a room. On a monitor, sure, but I grew up in the 90’s. Anything 480 and above is tolerable to me.

I’m pirating it, should I demand my money back for poor service? Lmao

Good luck with your new Plex subscription, ““self””-hoster. 😉