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unknowing8343 @ unknowing8343 @discuss.tchncs.de
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Any good Skype alternatives for family?

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  • Signal should work, at least through my experience. It would also serve as a chat and stories alternative.

    • Google is working on a big UI overhaul for Android: Here's an early look

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  • So the strategy is that. Just rotate designs and features. Take them off and put them back so people get excited again for something of the past.

    Fucking Google. You ad bastards.

    • Who is running the yewtube YT alternative?

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  • Just a note, but there are many many more invidious instances.

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  • Is TeleGuard libre software? If it's not, which seems to be the case... Then NOBODY knows what TeleGuard does (aside from certain company members of course).

    I would run in the other direction.

    • Here's your first look at Quick Share's upcoming major UI redesign (APK teardown)

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  • Has Quick Share worked for you ever?

    Every single time I tried it, it never worked. Neither phone could find the other.

    I come back and try to use it every year, realise it doesn't work and go back to LocalSend or whatever.

    • EU on alert to track any wave of diverted Chinese imports amid growing fears that high US tariffs will force a redirection of trans-Pacific trade flows, flooding Europe with Chinese goods

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  • We are already flooded with Chinese goods and nobody has cared about it for many years.

    • ‘Do you want to show strength here?’: Russia’s ads on Chinese social media recruiting Chinese mercenaries for fighting in Ukraine

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  • Absolutely disgusting.

    I really enjoyed my teenage years with Call Of Duty, but I will never carry a gun. Let's keep these in videogames, please.

    • Is this a good deal for the Legend tier?

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  • I wouldn't honestly pay for an email service that does not allow for PGP encryption. Go for mailbox.org or posteo for true standard-respecting emails.

    • Training AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue

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  • So piracy is legal now. We can use piracy data to train our brain models. No one can say it's not innovative nor transformative.

    It's way better at driving cars.

    We are advancing humanity!

    • Ventoy my beloved.

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  • Was the Ventoy binary blob issue resolved and it's cool again?

    • Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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  • What I dislike about XMPP is that the client ecosystem is definitely weaker than DeltaChat. DeltaChat "just works", and it works incredibly similar and efficient across devices.

    But yes, I wouldn't mind if the world used XMPP instead, honestly.

    • Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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  • EVERYONE SHOULD DOWNLOAD SIGNAL for PHONE-NUMBER-based communication, tho. Proper RCS is not here yet (and won't be in a long while), so let's try to mobilize people to Signal.

    DeltaChat is cooler for non-phone based communications, IMO, and decentralization makes it way sexier and worth this tradeoff.

    • What happens if you have more than 1 free accounts on privacy-respecting email providers such as Protonmail or Tutanota?

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  • Because if you pay, you can have as many Proton accounts as you please.

    • How do I force the ZouTube app to have a play/pause button in PiP mode instead of a skip button?

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  • F-droid --> izzyOnDroid --> PipePipe

    • Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts

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  • I actually enjoy listening to podcasts on PipePipe (YouTube client) so ads get autoskipped with SponsorBlock.

    • Some things never change

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  • That one is infuriating. Having a good client is so key to adoption... And Element is still really, really bad. Yes, it has almost all the features, but refusing multi-account is so so so annoying, and being Electron garbage is horrible. They have so much funding it's ridiculous.

    XMPP is another case where adoption has mostly failed exactly because there are no "flagship" clients that do it all.

    That's why DeltaChat looks so good. The official clients work great everywhere, and they can do it all!

    • Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history

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  • If you are not using SearXNG you are missing out!

    • Thoughts on deleting my Microsoft account, including my Minecraft license?

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  • Check out Luanti. It used to be called Minetest. It's a libre version of the same thing.

    • Thoughts on a Stock UI Facelift?

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  • Last versions have added many possibilities that you are talking about.

    Keep in mind that the UI needs to adapt to a dynamically resizable window, and it's very tricky if you just "freely" put thing wherever you want.

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  • Tutanota is also german, if I am not mistaken.