you can also think of it as a series of pipes

imo the biggest appeal is decentralisation and non corporate ownership, ofc the matrix people are trying their best to do e2ee and whatnot but iirc media isn’t encrypted e2e and it’s inferior to signal or whatever

also for a large fraction of discord’s usage (large open access guilds) encryption doesn’t mean anything

matrix works pretty well as a discord replacement, it’s sometimes unreliable when you’re using a selfhosted instance but I’d wager it’d work smooth enough for a non techie if you turn off end to end encryption

security through obscurity!

go linux mobile or go home imo

they should post this on c/schizophrenia

tbf it’s probably both corruption and incompetence, not just one or the other

children figuring out VPNs in a week while these bumfucks (state that they) didn’t manage to understand it in the years they’ve been given just goes to show the many orders of magnitudes of difference in their intelligence

get a <$80 old laptop and put linux on it to tinker around, bonus points if it’s a librebootable thinkpad

transit routing still doesn’t work iirc, though gtfs stuff is in development

replacing bullshit with bullshit

either use vim or bust :)

ig it’s a counterpart to recaptcha which is in the left panel

math is always stronger than marketing

schizoposting 👍

you could also use some s3 object storage service, backblaze’s one is $6/TB/month

+ templeos (you have no internet)

ofc it would be horrendously inefficient, but can you use multiple iframes to do asynchronous forms?

uninstalling spyware from windows takes longer than installing linux at this point

friday night funkin is surprisingly apache

there should be a keepass+syncthing package available for normal people to use, i put keepass and syncthing on all my devices and that means I don’t have to host a server while always having my password vault synced

yeah because half of them are 1234

yeah no fucking way they’re respecting user privacy. data up to the server and down to the client is encrypted with https anyway so I really don’t see a point in the e2ee

that just depends on how comfortable the instance owner is, if i was hosting I’d ip block the UK

tbh if the government demanded fediverse servers do this then they’ll probably comply as well, I really don’t think this is apple’s fault as much as i hate them and every similar tech megacorps

1. I don’t use google
2. ddg couldn’t find any results
3. steam runs remote play, you can’t just run some binary somewhere if it’s even seperate from the main steam binary

foss spyware is still spyware

yeah that’s probably easily fingerprintable

‘optional’ just like the functions Intel ME provides?

i mean there’s a possibility of malware hiding in usb peripherals since they have flash, and for thinkpads I think the camera, touchpad, smartcard reader are usually usb. If they hypothetically acted as usb mice/keyboards/network adapters/display devices, they could possibly infect your system ig

malware living on the bios rom could possibly live through an internal bios flash (normal “update firmware” thing in the bios or things like ivyrain) if it somehow manages to manipulate that process.

however, it is always overwritten by an external bios flash (using a raspberry pi or something using flashrom), because then you’re directly communicating with the flash chip. (if you suspect that the flash chip has been replaced with a malicious one you’re probably a bit schizo)

one thing is though is that the flash on the embedded controller is left untouched in most operations like this, so it could possibly harbor malware, but the only thing that could possibly do is make your laptop unusable or die randomly. It can’t really affect the software running on it i’d think. What you’d want to do if you’re really schizo and suspect your EC is infected is to externally flash lenovo firmware and use something like this to update the EC before externally flashing Heads.

the chain of trust for your installer USB would be something you can’t really avoid though, just use the most trustworthy computer you have

with the induction coil thing, it NEEDS to boot into a Linux partition that boots into RAM just to play the ElectroBOOM fleming’s right hand rule song at full volume while the coil runs

unfortunately there’s no ElectroBOOM song about the right hand coil rule or electromagnetic induction

as for making adversaries make ridiculous mistakes, making the power button short out the battery permanently and wiring up another button for the power instead would be a hilarious security measure

chromium is still ‘libre’ though, so I don’t think that’s enough

“chrome was hogging up my ram” is the dumbest part of all of this lmao, this person’s decisionmaking is completely driven by placebo and it’s hilarious

does ddg not have its own search backend anymore?

you won’t need a dedicated monitor if you use Looking Glass

i mean it’s in the name:
FEDiverse

free and open not free open

people won’t follow you to the new platform if you seem dumb