refalo

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yes, they're called healthy

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yea that's not true technically. the only reason usenet hasn't been dismantled by infinite court cases is its obscurity.

Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )

When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...

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harmful network effect

that's a funny way to say marketing.

I think most FOSS zealots simply despise capitalism in general, they want everyone else to be poor like them. Kinda like socialism.

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Not only that but I think there's not enough middle road. The very tech-savvy people either seem to not care about privacy at all, or they think glowies are out to get them. Of course, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you. But most people are not as interesting as they think they are, and their threat models do not match their reality.

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But if they didn't post here, how will you make fun of them?

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Indeed, his views are not quite as extreme as RMS for example, Linus specifically did not want to require GPLv3 which is probably sacrilege to Stallman.

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yea that's the majority reason why people do it /s

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then what's the point of pirating if you want the company to fail?

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https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2019/11/ask-expert-separation-church-state-mean-americas-public-schools-report/

Laws are only useful if successfully upheld in court. For some reason these never get challenged enough. Strange.

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is the average TikTok user really installing VPN software on it’s phone

Depends on the country. If you're in India or China, absolutely. And those countries have the largest populations on Earth by more than 4x the #3 spot.

Some are even getting randomly arrested right off the street for using them: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/man-booked-for-using-vpn-in-j-ks-rajouri-3rd-such-case-in-2-days-5612508

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based in the UK tho

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Just wait until th

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privlets don't stand a chance

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what about computers and the internet? those were created and used for bad too. also gps and weather satellites.

fun fact: the first digital computer was invented for the explicit purpose of calculating artillery firing tables for the army during the war. what it actually ended up getting used for on its first program, was studying global thermonuclear war.

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There’s very few products which everyone can objectively say are designed for killing.

What do you think the first digital computer was invented for? Hint: it wasn't world peace

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It's not enforceable in any way, it's just virtue signaling. Lemmy itself is a privacy dumpsterfire. GDPR compliance is literally impossible.

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Finally a comment with some sense. 100% agree

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I tried to use it for a long time but the amount of bugs and unreliability really forced me to stop using it.

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I tried this once and it deleted 3 hours worth of comments on a Word doc. Never again

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Do people even still target ancient versions?

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I still use Office 97 and 2000. Works fine for what I need

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don't worry, it's balanced out by the every other day threads of firefox shills screeching about how much more private it is and how it uses so much less ram.

people never want to admit that things aren't black and white.

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    refalo ,

    Love this response, I'm saving it for later.

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    The problem here is that lesser known services and/or software they use could have just as many if not more problems, yet be completely unknown to everyone because it's simply not as popular, so people aren't looking at it to find issues.

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    should have asked Dolezal for advice

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    Only took 18 years since it was first reported.

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    because it didn't happen to be a problem at the time

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    And the largest homeserver, matrix.org, is MITM'd by Crimeflare.

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    Who have they convinced that it is private? I think it has more to do with the overall purpose of the platform. Signal is not made for large group chatting with strangers like Matrix.

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    Please give several reasons why

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    Signal clients are clunky

    Obviously you have never used Element for matrix. Signal is like a Ferrari in comparison.

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    sketchy companies

    I would argue that the standard federation fragmentation issues still apply. Many instances end up defederating from each other and you have no idea which wind you're pissing into.

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    And one can always self-host or use a different server.

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    Also Tox, Briar, Session etc.

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    It has had some suspicious funding sources

    Wait until you find out where computers, the Internet, GPS, weather satellites and Tor came from.

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    it's a futurama joke

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    Please stop spreading FUD.

    1. The encryption used by Signal would not be used if it could be easily broken. It's fully open source and is regularly audited. People would not recommend it if it were so broken like you say; this is just fearmongering.

    2. lol, lmao even

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    Any homeserver that federates (even indirectly) with matrix.org will still have practically all the same data shared with it, just not your password.

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    The password used to login to the homeserver

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    Because a huge portion of the people willing to do this are already on Wayland, but I believe there exists an even larger percentage on X that are not submitting any data.

    And another commenter said:

    We’re just left to do armchair psychology about the type of people who would submit data to this site. So the numbers are effectively useless.

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    Well do you want useful stats or not /s

    But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.

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    I would guess not very representative at all. I don't believe wayland usage is higher, like at all. Maybe in a limited setting like NEW installs of the most popular distros, just because they default to it. But the existing install base? No way.

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    That's great for you. But it also has tons of problems with a lot of other users. Including issues with proprietary drivers, XWayland compat for many apps/games, screen tearing, multi-monitor setups (esp. with different aspect ratios and/or dpi scaling factors), VRR, HDR, rotation, color management, many accessibility features etc.

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    nvidia works better for me on Linux than both nvidia/amd on windows. I know not everyone's experience is the same, but it's at least not universally bad in case you were trying to say that.

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    Anonymous polls are indeed useless for several reasons.

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    random searx instance rotator would probably be more private than just giving ddg all your searches

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    I would not consider whatsapp any better, maybe even worse than normal calls/sms, because it has been shown that it is compromised.

    https://securityaffairs.com/125176/security/encrypted-messaging-apps-data-access.html

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    you assume the application itself isn't compromised.

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