jarfil @ jarfil @lemmy.world

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Businesses are not allowed to sell "dangerous by default" products to their customers without a clear warning and sometimes even a signed waiver.

Stuff like "don't put cat in microwave", and similar.

"Assume good faith unless proven otherwise"... should be a rule. Anyways, we good now?

Sort by "top", they'll be below... sigh there's always gotta be a reason to require the /s, ain't it?

If you want to defend Saint Teresa of Calcutta and how she funneled charity money to the Vatican while being unable to afford analgesics in her hospices, calling pain "Jesus's kisses", or defending child molesters and getting an exorcism to heal her heart attack while opposing both abortion and contraception, then you shouldn't encourage people to do better research... which they can start with at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

There are devices that allow moving and confiscating computers without powering them off.

The rest are true.

VPNs prevent your origin ISP from keeping logs; you may not want your office, school, coffee shop, city wifi, etc. to know which services you're accessing.

You can (should) still require identification on your home hosted services, you can log that.

Harrison Ford as Number One? That's nightmare fuel.

Instance admins can't "just let it be", they're responsible for whatever they let users publish on the instance.

Akismet is a centralized system with price tiers depending on API call volume... kind of unfit for a decentralized platform, and too similar to why people ran away from Reddit.

Ouch... that's an asshole move, they deserve the punitive damages.

Why are you "asking"...? (there, edited, hope that helps the tokenizer 🙄)

But, butt... if she spilled the coffee, then it's on her for being clumsy... right? /s

Why not? And how is it even "unfair"? They want to charge for every copy sold, that was made using, and is still using, their software.

People who compare this to Visual Studio vs. the MSVC DLLs, are forgetting all the privative libraries which charge for every copy they get released with.

Unity is pulling one of those; only because they didn't before, doesn't make it "unfair", just a dick move.

Unless you're one of the people getting richer, you're one of the people getting poorer.

Which one are yoy?... If you are of the ones getting richer, why do you protest others doing the same?

In this case there seem to be three activities: general chat, official announcements, and attack coordination.

The first makes sense to use the most popular option, the second benefits from source confirmed identities and decentralization, the third benefits from everyone's confirmed identitites and decentralized encrypted chats.

In either case, no technical aspect makes Discord "better" (who cares if the "spam memes and vocal channel" fails and burns), at most the ability to send invite links to private channels without having to set up a bot, makes Discord a "calculated risk".

Discord already "shares" data with third parties (has been doing it for years), has full control over your client, and doesn't need to "corrupt" anything to already have access to read, erase, and modify everything.

Matrix servers can't access encrypted content, no matter how "corrupted" they are. Data loss is on the user, you can keep a backup of anything... or not, your choice. System failure and lack of maintenance, are mitigated by identity servers being separate from the chat relay servers.

If you want to trade privacy, message integrity, and user non-supplantation, for some more system stability, then sure, go ahead and use Discord, WhatsApp, Messenger, or whatever (...actually, WhatsApp is slightly more secure than Discord).

They'll just increase all prices by $1, and call it a day.

Matrix has E2E encrypted chats with user controlled keys and open clients.

Discord doesn't, at all, any of that.

Why should a random admin who can't read your chats, be more trusted than a corporation which logs them all?... well, for starters they can't read, modify, datamine, profile, or leak, what they don't have 🤷

That is:

• Pretty clever.

Yeah, I thought the ToS hadn't changed yet, but it seems like the "no upgrade" clause already got removed in April. I guess their move is to try and force anyone with more than the max revenue/installs to upgrade to a higher subscription to get the lower royalty tier... and lock them in there, because what if you stop paying the subscription? Do you fall to the free version royalty tier? Quite a dick move.

That... only partially mitigates the identity issue, it doesn't address the others.