VeganCheesecake @ VeganCheesecake @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I am very much pro space exploration, but the current plans many companies present for Mars colonies just seem like they would add very little value, while bringing tremendous danger and strife for the inhabitants, should anything ever be built.

I think we need to separate legitimate interest in space and related technology from bullshit marketing with scifi flavour.

I mean, if I felt morally obliged to disclose illegal or immoral practices to the public, I'd be sure to run so somewhere they can't get me. If there aren't proper whistleblower protections, you gotta make your own.

one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned

Yeah, let's keep it to one kind of gambling. I like and use opensuse tumbleweed. Rolling release, never had stability problems.

If they don't have much data on those people's opinions, how would they check whether the output has anything to do with reality?

Seriously. I really liked Origins and had fun with 2 and Inquisition. If this is great, I'll happily play it. If I don't like it, I won't - I have more backlog than time for games anyway. I don't get what people get so angry about.

I have never worked on a properly hardened desktop app, so I don't have much of a perspective on that, and can definitely see that it might not be worthwhile for the signal team.

I would appreciate some level of encryption, thinking that it might help with less targeted attacks. I'd also appreciate a Web client, like Threema's with none permanent sessions. But all that's, as you'd say in German, "Meckern auf hohem Niveau", especially since I'm not currently contributing to Signal.

Yes and no. I personally would like to be asked permission for such behaviour, but a gallery application, for example, could have legitimate reasons to index all photos on your system. I personally prefer to manually set the folders it is supposed to index, but that doesn't seem to be a generally accepted paradigm.

In general, I see why you need to trust that a system your app runs on is uncompromised to a a certain degree, but measures to potentially limit harm in case it is still seem sensible, especially for an app with a focus on privacy and security.

Yes, full disk encryption helps against intruders with device access, but not against the files being indexed by other application. My phone is encrypted, but I still use a signal client that is encrypted again.

Yeah, fuck the KMT. But as you have recognised, they aren't a dictatorship anymore.

And the status quo is that they are de facto a small independent island nation, that is de jure claiming mainland China.

It was more supposed to be a joke about the second reason being much more significant.

Edit: I think this was the first time I missed a black on white sarcasm flag. Oh well, it's early in the morning, and there's a first for everything.

For the most part, I don't care about App Size. Storage is cheap. What I miss with the Signal Desktop App is the option to save everything in an encrypted container.

Well, I don't go there for two reasons -

• Their vegan options don't seem that interesting.
• They don't seem to have a presence in the continent I'm on.

You have an island governed by a democratically elected government, with a population that from what I remember mostly doesn't want to be assimilated into the PRC. The PRC taking it by force would, in my eyes, be rather imperialistic.

How many anti-masturbation feminists do you know personally?

Well, shit, there goes my vote.

Neat, thanks.

The same attitude, not the same words. Both "I use Linux, that makes me better", and "I use Windows because I actually need to get work done" seem rather smug to me.

It could of course be "I use Windows for my needs, but recognise that other might be happier with a different experience", but to me it feels like "I am a serious adult, and they are not."

I do believe it'd result in a better company. I'm not convinced it'd result in a higher stock price.

They're still worth a lot more than almost any other car manufacturer. Without Musk and his pie in the sky promises, what else is left to justify that?