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airikr

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  • Does anyone have experience with Mumble?

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  • You actually can drag-n-drop pictures to the chat. Just drag them (dropping multiple images is possible) to the message text field and the image will be uploaded and shown in the chat - scaled down if it is big.

  • A Very Dystopian Screenshot

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  • Truly disgusting and worrying.

    I use my own Piped instance and can watch every video that has no age-restriction. Feels awesome and can highly recommend it.

  • Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December

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  • Disgusting.

  • Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP?

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  • Yeah. Let say Signal goes down because of Big Tech and lets say that 50% of their users use Signal as their only messaging app. What will happen then? Hysteria!

    No, XMPP all the way for me until Signal becomes decentralized with zero external connections and when they also have removed the phone number requirement.

  • Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP?

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  • I totally agree with you. But!

    But Signal from what I've heard really wants us to use their server.

    Signal doesn't have their own servers. Instead, they rent servers from 4 companies, 3 of them is Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. So Signal is relying on Big Tech and if Big Tech decides that enough is enough, they can easily shut Signal down.

    THAT is what I find most terrifying. And why not use their own server? Not enough money, but they are working on it (good).

    And to make it a little bit worst: Signal depends on a third party company for sending out SMS. Your phone number is therefore handled by not Signal, but by yet another company, highly likey an American company. And they are against privacy invading companies at the same time they are one. Oh, the irony.

    You want sources? Sure.

    Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of Signal. But there is flaws that makes Signal more privacy invading than privacy friendly.

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Thank you! Finally someone that also sees Signal as privacy invasing!

  • XMPP servers / communities?

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  • Ok. Same here, as of now (small group of people). I haven't noticed any spam even if I have my XMPP address public. In pure text that is, but still.

  • XMPP servers / communities?

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  • If that is true, I haven't noticed anything yet.

  • XMPP servers / communities?

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  • No bots in XMPP, please.

  • Self hosted family archive

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  • Just wanted to thank you for the idea of having an wiki for every relative on my own genealogy website. Thank you! :) Added that feature right after I read your posts maybe 13 days ago.

  • Why?

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  • Privacy, no bloat (depending on distro), no Big Tech, freedom, no cost.

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    My stance on Chat control

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  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • I find the quality very good. And there's no problems with setup a "server" :)

    1. Go to the preferred Jitsi Meet server.
    2. Enter the meeting name (as it really called) or just press enter to get a random name.
    3. Enter your details and options (mainly mic on/off and webcam on/off).
    4. Enter the meeting. If you're the first one in it, you're the moderator.

    Once inside and as a moderator, you can create so called breakout rooms. These works just like subchannels in Discord. If you're many people in 1 call, you can create these to create a more calmer experience. I have personally not tried these out since I have only talked to 1-2 people.

    Mumble is a excellent VoIP software, but like you said, screen sharing is not possible since Mumble is just what VoIP means: voice over IP.

  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • I have the same issue, but got 2 Discord users to try Jitsi Meet with me (a friend of mine on my Snikket server invited her friend). After a while, her friend asked me why it looked so much alike Discord and my friend agreed. I gave them a big smile and said, "because this is awesome".

    Jitsi Meet + Snikket has been my saves since I deleted my Discord account during the pandemic.

  • Linux and Foss Signal Group Chat

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  • I live under a rock most of the time, so welcome to the club. What I know of, the leaks are screenshots from the devices. How a 1-on-1 chat on Signal got leaked other than by screenshots is beyond me, though. If there is a breach in Signal Protocol, there's a breach in OMEMO, too, since OMEMO uses Signal Protocol.

  • Linux and Foss Signal Group Chat

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  • Alright. Haha, I filter out Big Tech and far-right shit on Mastodon :P It's probably because of that. And if some far-right person starts to chat/talk to me, I often ignore him/her. Luckily, that haven't happen... yet.

    And to comment your first comment further. JD Vance uses Signal, or at least used. There was a massive Signal leak with him involved few months ago.

  • Linux and Foss Signal Group Chat

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  • I have been getting this error on Elk for Mastodon

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  • You're welcome :) I have had the same issue before and was like "WTF" until I logged out and then logged back in again.

  • I have been getting this error on Elk for Mastodon

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  • Try to logout and then log back in again.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    airikr @lemmy.ml

    What is the catch with Epic Games' free games?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    The sidepanel in Thunar v4.18.8 is complete rubbish!