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  • Yes and no.

    let's say I have a website that hosts user generated content like a forum or something. Some other person just hosts a mirror of my website that is not under my control. If some user requests me to delete his data, I can do that. i cannot delete the data from the mirror site.

    Nothing else is happening in the fediverse. The only difference is, that in the fediverse the license and technology is set up to encourage mirroring content.

  • Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch
  • free software doesn't necessarily mean federating with other services.

    They have stated their reasons why they don't wanna do it. You might disagree with them or not. But the technology they built is still open. Anybody could take what they created and use it as a foundation that does federate.

  • Signal Usernames are live on stable

    It's live on Android, iOS and Desktop. Version 7 is live.

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    Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
  • Ieft leaning? These orgs sound more like the typical liberal right centrist orgs from america lol

  • Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
  • I‘ve had this issue on several distros and multiple friends have the same issue. Video hardware acceleration in a browser is a mess. This is definitely not only affecting me as there is a significant amount of complaints on forums and reddit.

    And there is no way that the average computer user will use arch. And as long as you gotta fiddle around with your system to get even the most basic shit running smoothly like watching a high resolution youtube video and moving around windows on your other screen at the same time linux will stay irrelevant as a desktop os. It‘s still a system for nerds and I kinda feel like that this is okay.

  • What's your favorite old school forum?
  • I loved the gulli.com forum back in the day lol.

  • Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
  • Your first point is web browsing. Even that doesn‘t work properly on a linux desktop lol. Browser performance is abysmal because the browsers lack out of the box support for hardware acceleration. Even if you get it to work it might not work reliably and an update might break it again.

    Try using a discord call and open a youtube video in 4k at the same time on a a freshly installed linux desktop. The audio will be choppy and the video will drop frames like crazy. Just moving around windows on your desktop is not nearly as smooth as it is on windows.

  • New vulnerability in SMS messaging could expose smartphone users' location to hackers, researcher says
  • You just measure the time until the delivery recipe arrives. You can approximate how far away the recipient is. Now you keep doing that while changing your own location (use vpns etc.) and you can slowly get a more accurate location of the target. Now you automate that stuff and also utilize machine learning to interpret the data.

  • New vulnerability in SMS messaging could expose smartphone users' location to hackers, researcher says
  • This type of attack theoretically also works with signal or telegram or whatever message service that works entirely without a phone number.

  • How to create an Element Room with configurations suited for my less techy family?
  • Would highly suggest you to stay away from Matrix and Element for now when it comes to using it with non techies. It‘s simply not there yet. It‘s slow, tedious to use, buggy and the ux is just bad. It‘s also not necessarily more private than the popular choices if used improperly which is imo very likely it you have your aunt use it lol.

    Is there any feature of element that you need or why did you pick it? You could ideally just use Signal for group chat and group (video-) calls. Or even whatsapp.

  • Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?
  • I‘m not really a loner but I‘m also not willing to do much to be included socially if it requires me to do things that I don‘t believe in.

    If your fancy night club requires me to be dressed in a certain way i have no interest of getting in. If your barbecue invitation requires me to install an app that I don‘t feel comfortable with I‘m eating potato salad at home.

  • The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
  • No. It‘s the opposite of a new world order.

    It‘s the old order doing everything to preserve its power.

  • Android to iPhone, whats it like? (Update)
  • Why would you use first party messaging apps? Who the hell still sends sms? Just use signal. Easy fix.

  • What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies?
  • High quality plastic bodies are so good. Hard to break and easy to repair. I hate glass bodies.

  • The Matrix protocol and its implementations do not provide the privacy you expect from them (matrix notes by Anarcat)
  • What do you mean by built in?

    Built in to the protocol? Built in to the application?

    There is a couple of XMPP clients that implement omemo and/or otr encryption.

    Matrix supports encryption on a protocol level. But it‘s relatively flawed.

  • What can we do to make Lemmy more resilient
  • Me and a handful of friends started a formally registered non profit in germany. Not internet related but art related stuff and it was surprisingly easy, fast and even more surprising the regulations and requirements actually make sense. That is the way to go to secure that no admin ever goes nuts and takes an entire instance with them lmao.

    I‘m fairly certain that similar organizations exist in most countries snd the process should be relatively similar.

  • Begun, the format war has
  • You cannot really un-opensource software very well.

  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium
  • No brave users don‘t care. Brave proved how untrustworthy they are and in any case their business model is unethical yet they still have a cult like following plus a group of crypto bros that are obsessed with getting digital pennies.

  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium
  • I‘m old so i actually remember this but I‘m old so my memory might be shit but wasn‘t the lawsuit about the fact that microsoft shipped IE wirth windows as a default browser and not about it being too dominant?

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  • The game is mediocre and wants 15 usd for horse armor in a 70 dollar game. The game deserves to be ignored i‘m sorry

  • What distro(s) do you use?
  • I'm currently running Mint on my Computer and Ubuntu on servers.

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