gi1242 @ gi1242 @lemmy.world

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the geniuses who said "im not voting for Harris because of Palestine" must be feeling really smart right now

it also means don't risk everything you have for a somewhat opaque promise of something better

honestly the distro doesn't matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.

I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine...

hilarious. tx for sharing. updating to include the latest OS airlines tht constantly push ads or ai would be nice

I'm just happy more people are talking about it. but yes the article could certainly have been shorter

so I found it interesting and checked it out. the protocol is all well and good but the problem is social. I'm simply not going to send people my delta chat Id and ask them to message me there instead if they have delta chat installed. I had the same problem with session messenger.

when I meet someone irl I'm trading phone numbers. not asking if they have app X installed.

this might be useful for open source projects where you can use ur delta chat id instead of ur email. but it's not something I would use unless it's a requirement to join some community I wanted to.

the problem signal solves by tieing accounts to your phone number is contact discovery. thanks to user IDs you no longer have to share your phone number with people u want to chat with, and can only share your user id

plus signal guarantees the metadata is encrypted. is the same true for delta chat?

for WhatsApp the founders quit over privacy concerns, and made signal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

there's also a nice (long) article by propublica from a few years ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

there's also session

https://getsession.org/

unfortunately privacy and usability are inversely related. session is private. I loved it. but I had no one to chat with 😃

I had no idea if any of my contacts were on session or not.

you need a phone number to make an account. but you can chat with others without divulging your phone number

lol this is hilarious.

20y ago I attended a talk by him which I still remember. I completely stopped using windows after that.

he was on the GNU/Linux name rant back then as well. he also had a huge floppy disk he put on as a halo and paraded around as saint iGNUcious.

interesting talk and entertaining

out of the frying pan, into the fire

systemd-network is great on servers. I use it on every machine that isn't on wifi

lol no it's not. taxes went up for everyone making less than 300k. but fox news calls it tax cuts. low income maga voters buy it it hook, line and sinker. high income maga voters actually get the tax cut.

they saw 4 years of this clown and more felonies than fingers, and came out in droves to vote for him.

magas not cracking anytime soon.

I don't even know you have points on Lemmy. how do I check them

is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?

if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic

not mildly infuriating. it's very infuriating

lol. so I told my mom im deleting Whatsapp. if she wants to keep in touch with me she can install signal, or pay for international texts and calls.

she installed signal 😃

my first account was on lemmy.ml because it was one of the top options on one of the apps I used. it stopped working with jerboa which why I switched to lemmy.world...

musk reminds me of the rich James bond villains

wear yourself out during the day. easier to fall asleep if you're exhausted