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  • What are some controversial privacy topics?

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  • Google‘s or Apple‘s push notification servers turns out that doesn’t matter so much from what I undertstood.

    Can you elaborate? It's my understanding that push notifications are only used to trigger Signal to check if there are messages - the message data and who/what triggered it is not being sent to Google/Apple. If you don't trust push notifications, you can always use a De-google'd phone and the Signal APK which will fallback to polling the server; this will obviously impact battery life as the app needs to constantly be checking for new messages.

  • Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon?

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  • You don’t have to make an informed decision.

    Correct, but you are still presented with a decision that adds friction to the onboarding experience. I was aware of how Mastodon works and that I could migrate and it took me a while to create an account because I didn't want to "waste my time". I can't imagine a regular user being prompted to "select an instance", decide to go with the first one they see, and registration is either closed or invite only. That's a huge barrier to entry compared to being forced into a single login that is always open.

    Meanwhile, if you’re worried about something you don’t align with, then you don’t even get that choice with a centralized platform like Bluesky. For example, I don’t align with any of this shit https://toad.social/@davetroy/113476788536250587

    100000% agree with you. I would never create a bluesky account because of that. Unfortunately people aren't as informed and most really just don't care.

  • Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon?

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  • Having to make an informed decision is a barrier to entry. it took me a while because I wanted to make sure I didn't join (and waste time/effort) something I didn't align with.

  • I should probably switch to edibles

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  • The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse

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  • You do realise they’re trying to become the crypto WeChat?

    Any evidence to support this claim?

    Because I'm aware Signal introduced a beta crypto wallet 7 years ago, which was originally only available in select countries, and has had minimal resources allocated to its continued development since. They make zero mention of crypto/payment on their website, and best of all, the crypto wallet isn't even enabled by default.

    Shit app with horrible management.

    And here you expose your personal emotional trauma by lashing at at the most inconsequential "nothing": the development of a privacy preserving crypto wallet, "feature complete" half a decade ago, and disabled by default in a privacy preserving messenger.

    Signal is the best free, open source, E2EE messenger that doesn't leak metadata and has decent UX. Best of all, its completely free to use. Simplex is a good contender, but the UX is still lacking.

  • The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse

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  • The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse

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  • Not the same scale but Signal has a rather new approach for a messaging client. Completely free and funded by user donations - at least that's the direction they're trying to head as their initial seed funding starts running low. I've doubled my donations for Signal because I'd like to help prove that its a working model and I encourage everyone who uses it to donate, even if it's just once. I'd love to see Firefox head in that direction where funding goes directly to the browser's development. If I donate to Firefox today it might go to one of their dozen or so other pet projects that are unrelated to the browser. I think their side projects are great and glad they were able to do them while they had the cash, but funding is clearly drying up and they need a whole restructure to keep the browser alive.

  • Polling the group: what do y'all know about the Orion browser from Kagi?

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  • 100% agree.

    If its not open source 1) you can't fully trust/audit. and 2) you'll be left in the dust should the company cease to exist as nobody can continue development.

    If Firefox is not private enough use Librewolf. If you're interested in something new and exciting give Zen Browser or Floorp (both based on Firefox) a spin.

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    Zen Browser: A New Privacy-Focused Browser(Firefox)

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  • First I've heard of browseraudit, thanks for sharing!

    EDIT: For comparison I got the same scores on Firefox (duh) and the following on Edge.

    Score :

    • Passed : 392
    • Warning : 39
    • Critical : 0
    • Skipped : 0

    Bonus! Browserbench.org speedometer 3.0 scores:

    • Firefox; version 132.0.1 (64-bit)): 13.9
    • Firefox nightly; version 134.0a1): 18.6
    • Zen; version 1.0.1-a.17 (Firefox 132.0)): 17.6
    • Edge; version 130.0.2849.68 (Official build) (64-bit): 19.8
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    It's not just a browser

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  • Not offending anyone, just unintentionally misrepresenting reality.

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    It's not just a browser

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  • oh okay it works for you, I guess the developer claiming it will not work as well on Chrome as on Firefox was complete BS 🤡

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    It's not just a browser

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  • I believe uBlock will continue to work, just not as well.

  • Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

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  • fair lmfao. i'm intentionally here in attempts to out-populate the crazy

  • Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

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  • not all of us are crazy 😭

  • Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?

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  • most logical take. people seem to forget that modern apps are tied into all kinds of features that regular users expect to just work. if you want a bare OS with minimalist apps, install lineage or Graphene and only use apps from F-Droid.

  • NewPipe is now available on Flathub

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  • It allows Linux developers to package their app once and it will install across more than 40+ Linux distros without any additional effort: https://flathub.org/setup

  • Jellyfin 10.10.0 media server released

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  • when did you last try it and what clients? I've got friends/family accessing my library and I see them playing back stuff constantly and never seen or heard of any issues. This is across web, AndroidTV, Chromecast, Roku and mobile devices.

  • Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients

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  • Check out Proton Pass. I migrated my Bitwarden to it and its not just fast compared to Bitwarden but the UX is really nice. That said, I'm still sticking with Bitwarden, but will happily move away and give my money to Proton if they ever actually stop making their client open source.

  • tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions

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  • Linus Torvalds has been sold out to big tech companies like Google and Microsoft. He himself is a billionaire and no longer writes any code.

    I can't take that seriously

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    Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever

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    KOTH sticker pack for Signal messenger users

    signalstickers.com /pack/0efdd54a13f9e538a3117ba8c0e13a8a
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    Was thinking of creating a honeypot

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Clima: A beautiful, minimal, and fast Android weather app

    codeberg.org /Lacerte/clima