miss_brainfart @ miss_brainfart @lemmy.ml

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Yeah, that's a fair point. It would be more exciting if it wasn't procedurally generated, and that those mountaintops actually have something important to the gameplay or story explicitely placed there.

Then it would at least make a bit more sense to talk about how climbable those huge mountains are.

Ah, well in that case, even better

Every time I read about Everest, I can't not think about how the base camp is already higher than anything that exists in the alps

Crazy

Is that really a huge claim though? A big mountain you can climb over isn't particularly exciting in the current realm of technical possibilities.

He's just good at making it sound cool, I guess.

Need an app to configure good ol' eduroam wifi too, but that one's on F-Droid at least

The simplemobiletools apps are being forked by one of their bigger co-developers, so I'll just use that as soon as it's available.

Until then, as long as you got the build from F-Droid, there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

I hate this image so much, wow

You give me 5 mill, and I give you my old email that doesn't exist anymore.

That's about as fair as data collection is the other way around.

You'd expect nothing less from Signal, but there's still metadata left that can be quite useful.

They offer an alternative version for Android that uses a web socket, so not the best solution either, but oh well. I'd like to see them support UnifiedPush officially though. The Molly fork does, for instance.

A lot more elegant than a web socket, and if more apps supported it, you'd have less apps all running their own service in the background. Well, speaking for a degoogled system, where this would matter a lot more.

Which is why we need to spread awareness. People can't ask developers to consider it if they don't even know that it exists.

More people knowing about something is the first thing that needs to happen.

But bridges are still a thing? Okay, Apple. Sure.

Phone numbers harm anonymity, not privacy.

I mean, it was kinda expected and inevitable that one big service was going to reign supreme. Lots of things make push notification a real hassle, like you describe. Speaking for Android as I don't know much about iOS, Firebase works incredibly well, it's a super elegant solution, and if Google wasn't such a shitshow, I'd love it.

But it is a shitshow, in so many ways. So some services encrypt the contents, some don't send them over those servers in the first place, but the remaining metadata is still shockingly useful for surveillance purposes.

I don't really know where I'm going with this comment, but as an EU resident, I'd just like to see alternative systems getting more attention.

Idk, it's just that so many people hear news like this and go: „It is what it is, can't change it“

Well not with that attitude, that's for sure

Yeah, the size dictates what's possible and what isn't, and that's absolutely fair.

But hey, this is just a first trailer, so we shouldn't really make any assumptions, good or bad. Let's just wait and see.

I don't think I can really fault any Android developer for wanting to use Firebase and be done with it, because it's just so simple to implement, and generally easy to work with.

But some things should be more important than comfort, shouldn't they.

It's still procedurally generated, no? I'd have loved something handcrafted, but I also understand that they want to build on what they already have.

great things

By Google? With all the fuckery that comes along with it?

Nah, I'm happy that they don't provide more services than they already do.

Also remember that propaganda technically doesn't have to mean anything bad.

Though to be fair, the very concept of propaganda is still a questionable one.

CONSTANTLY drag stuff around, get lost and then claim she didn't go anything

Nothing is quite as relatable to me as this. Do they genuinely not realize? Are they too proud to admit they did something? I will never know

You tried to talk about cats in spanish, didn't you