It’s kinda strange, the guy reached a conclusion that the service is legit hard to control and take down by any government, but was insisting on: BUT… BUT… BUT… trying to stress the negative points, which by the way, they’re way more apparent on other Big tech Platforms, specifically : Discord…
If you have a centralized server and that server straight out refuses to take measures against abuse ( I’m just gonna say abuse in general and that includes all things: Child abuse, Ra*e, addictive drugs…etc )
if you as a user notice these things and after you report them nothing happens… Then what ? Wait until a big news outlet notice, then they publish it on their website, and after a week or so, you’ll watch the CEO walk away from court like nothing happened…
On Matrix, as a user, I can spin up my own server, make my own rules, and make sure stuff like this ( abuse ) doesn’t happen, the point here is that you can’t blame Element Team or Matrix Team for what happens on this system, they just make the software and people deploy it
the only thing left to blame afterwards is human nature!
Which brings me to an important question, who is his source ? they must have great control over the network to realize that Matrix ( a huge decentralized network with many servers is a pit of abuse ) !!!
without a source ? without knowing how they knew what they claimed ? this video is just a conspiracy theory in my view… And having ties to the French government isn’t necessarily a bad thing… ( knowing that the French government spied on it’s citizens, yes )
I have been using Matrix for years, and never encountered a single instance of abuse… trolls yes… Hentai…yes … but no shady stuff… It’s mostly nerds talking about Computers, Linux and Anime
The UI is designed in such a way that it doesn’t expose the user to outside servers ( by default you’re on Matrix.org ) even when you press the discover button you’ll see rooms from the same server.
the only way for an average user to get exposed to such rooms is by being invited to them by strangers or Bots ( so maybe there should be a way to disable community invites, especially Bot invites )
Or maybe your client didn’t put much thought into the user journey and let you discover everything, even abstract/shady servers
Don’t take this the wrong way, but do you lurk on Matrix everyday ? I’m not on the right ( wrong ) rooms because I only take what I need from any service, the Internet can be depressing, so my advice is to be careful
i see, I think that’s a problem of who is recommending the servers to people, I always go with one of the servers that are on the matrix.org website ( these has strict moderators and are under active development ), I can certainly go with another list of abstract/shady unknown servers but that’s a recipe for disaster…
Btw, I’m not denying that there is terrible content on some of these servers/rooms, but I’m saying it’s a byproduct of the system architecture, Element/Matrix can implement more safety settings that’s for sure
that being said the worse footage I saw in my entire life was on Facebook, and it was completely allowed, which tells you something about the platform and how little to no control you have to change it’s direction.
I like that this exists but I don’t want to use it because i want to know the content creatos to avoid, thumbnails are part of the game, but putting your face on them feels like a cheap trick ( since it’s unecessary ), effective… yes… but cheap…
how so ? he isn’t saying anything really… because he rarely says an opinion of his own, and when he does he does so briefly… like he grabbed it from someone 👀… yeah… why I’m not surprised every video idea he has is LITERALLY stollen from a Reddit post or a comment ( source : him )…
plus anyone can go and read from a blog post or a github discussion and come out with same amount of information if not more…
lastly quantity over quality: this complements my last point, because the only way to make a quality video is by doing deep research، these YouTubers skip shit ton of critical information, and it makes people have a flawed perspective
less than 2 days to research, record, and edit and make a thumbnail ? Seriously ?! It should tell you something is off
From your experience is it really unstable ( annoyingly buggy ), or do they just call it that and it stable really ?
Sid exclusively gets security updates through its package maintainers. The Debian Security Team only maintains security updates for the current “stable” release.
Exactly I find it funny too, why doesn’t he at least mirror his posts to Mastodon or just post on there, it’s just a copy/paste…or is it difficult on Qubes ?
On the other hand, normies are still on Twitter so… I don’t blame him
keep in mind that companies can lie on how their stuff works, also I don’t think the nature of the store matters, as much as the fact that you’re only allowed to get the open source apps from there which will also run on top of a proprietary OS, with proprietary firmware
Gaslighting their customers": I’d like to see hard proof on that
Consider that I have a low standard on what a hard proof should be,… I consider telling people that : “Privacy, that’s iPhone”, while literally developing nothing in the open, which is the best and ONLY way to guarantee transparency, instead they went with the “trust me bruh” method, plus they display ads… like…they have… a… dedicated… ad … platform…
You don’t respect my Privacy while you target me with ads
I mean they understand their encryption algorithm, they made it after all, and with the advancements of Quantum computing it could be possible to decrypt someone’s data… So what good does providing quantum computing for Imessages do… If they : understand how the algorithm works + they have enough computing power to decrypt it + it’s proprietary.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was all a theater, and it’s the best backdoor implementation to exist
No, breaking an encryption is all about knowing how it works, many cryptographers make their algorithm proprietary in hopes that an attacker will have a hard time figuring how it works, however they turn out to be weak, other encryption algorithms are developed in the open so that many people look at it and see the flaws
The key word is : weak The idea is not making a backdoor directly, the idea is making it flawed, it’s like securing a bank with steel doors with the exception of one door, that door is made out of wood and only you know where it’s located.
I tried Collabora on a Galaxy Droid and it was such a massively buggy disappointment: in a .ODS file, I couldn’t backspace more than once; I could only delete one character at a time. I had to enter another character or move the cursor or do something else before it would take another backspace. I don’t understand how this...
I believe yes, disabling network access will disable the trackers ability to report to their server, a Calyx developer told me this, but do your own research
I mean this subtitle right here gave me a pretty good idea what’s this initiative is all about already, but that’s just me I guess
Also, keep in mind that people from different countries work on KDE, and English is not their first language, I don’t know what are your expectations… on how the writing should be…
But here’s the thing, take a look at Google or MS posts about sustainably and being green, and you’ll realize, truly realize how one could say so much without saying anything… this wall of text that you’re talking about is full of insights
If only everyone stops believing in their bullshit humanized deities a looot of these conflicts would just vanish… But my Gods dick is bigger than your God’s dick…
what you believe is even more questionable than what they believe
this is not about me, and my beliefs are my own to judge
but something else substituted for the religion.
I agree, but when you live in country far away from that conflict zone, and you see this kind of hate towards people who have nothing to do with it… you know it’s about ideology saying it’s not about religion is the same thing as saying: it’s Ok to let a harmful teachings keep spreading… why not debunk the hell out of it ? and worry about the next issue later… you can’t deny Religion’s role … It’s one of the biggest factors … Explain to me why Abu Abaida starts his speeches by doing Basmala, or why this guy doing a protest is screaming Allahu Akbar…
Ideology is the core of tribalism, I didn’t say it’s the only factor
I mean both of their religions teach their followers to invade other regions, it’s easy to predict Jews and Muslims actions, just read their scriptures it’s their written agenda… Religion is cancer … Next question
… And damm it feels good! Before starting this step, I had to migrate to a better browser that respects privacy (Brave, because🖕Firefox, I mean Mozilla at this point doesn’t even want you to be safe on the web anymore!) And a better “Google-style” ecosystem (Proton is the best they have an email service, a calendar, a...
Congratulations on leaving Google, personally I still have an account but I never log in, it’s for those rare occasions when I need it… I would say though the tricky part isn’t leaving, it’s staying outside forever, I have convinced some people of leaving FB and even Instagram but they couldn’t resist the temptation and went back, they told me they felt bored because they had so much free time… 😐…
It gets worse when you watch his interview with Tucker Carlson … guy said if a government forces us to censor a group it’ll only censored from the app you get from big tech play stores… That’s horseshit… If you censor a group from your platform, it’ll be removed from all people’s feeds regardless of their clients or from where they got the app…
I’ve seen it firsthand how some channels are not available on telegram downloaded from app store vs direct apk download
the right word is “visible”… discoverability on Telegram has always being broken, as in you search for a channel, good luck finding it!.. like you said it’s because of your phone number region… Etc… that has been fixed when they introduced similar channels feature, since then I never used that broken search functionality… But once you find and join a channel, if Telegram mods decided to censor some posts or remove the entire channel, it’ll be removed from all clients… unless there is some client out there who saves snapshots of all channels or posts ( somehow )
A lot of the issues reported here, started showing up on my device after each OS update, but VLC didn’t push any updates for over a year now… VLC is king, but what went wrong?...
So have been testing over the past few weeks and made accounts on: a) Hubzilla b) Friendica c) Mastodon d) Kbin e) Lemmy f) Iceshrimp g) Bonfire h) Peertube i) Funkwhale j) Pixelfed
I’m only interested in moving my friends away from Facebook, and have the same fun we used to have as a group, for now nothing seem to match FB functionality unfortunately…
Have your own profile
Public and Private Groups
1 to 1 chats
And of course no one would consider joining a platform without a ( feature complete ) mobile app, Firefish is amazing but it has no mobile clients that look as a good as the website, and people say Friendica is the ethical Facebook, but it’s ugly…😅 i don’t know what to recommend ?
Sorry, should have expressed myself better, sometimes you’re not exactly speaking what you thinking … I was referring to the mobile apps, Friendica main app looks horrible last time I checked
It stops working after a while ( days or weeks ), your receipents will stop receiving your messages, and you’ll not receive theirs, or you’ll receive them with a big delay, it happens more frequently with iOS users
most people have to go out of their way to start a secret chat, the user journey to activate it is too long, it’s safe to consider it hidden…
Hi, I used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately but it doesn’t seem to be updated anymore, is there an alternative that you recommend that has similar features? Like “ghost mode” when watching stories
used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately
That’s far from true, if you installed it on your phone, it’ll collect all the data that the official Instagram app collects… Does it give you the option to use an anonymous account ?
there’s another project called Honista, but I quited Instagram years ago… So idk about it’s features…
I’m kinda embrassed to say that I used to think “based” meant : “a person who’s is a purist in terms of their tech tools choices… Like they use Debian or Arch, and GNU/Linux Mobile… Or ReplicantOS… like Only FSF approved software… A person who hates mass surveillance and wants to go off the grid…”
when I understood what it meant, I was disappointed 🙄
Just leave your phone at home, and bring a Digital camera, and few SD Cards … Oh, wait… < insert company name here > makes Cameras that spy on you… nevermind…
maybe we should hire a fast sketching artist to draw police brutality … What.!.. your pencil can track you now… come…ooooonnn
Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...
I’m probably going to downvoted to hell with this… But didn’t people say Proton might be a government Op, even Tuta was mentioned as a honeypot in a recent Court case, so they released a blog post titled: Tuta is not a honeypot…
Idk… my guts tell me, if something is too good to be true, then it’s not true… Proton offerings are amazing for a free plan… And their clients looks good and they sponsor YT channels… I used to be happy to see an Open source project succeed as a business, but the concept of honeypots, made me rethink my view
first of it’s a comment not a response… secondly, you quoted everything in wrong order to make it appealing to further ridicule, which brings me to my last but not least point, is that what you do? you find something ridiculous and get your dopamine kick by saying how ridiculous it is!
I quoted the bits that answer your question and which completely undermine the bits I didn’t quote
Not what I asked, I don’t see ridiculousness in my comment, so if you care to reply with feedback, please do, otherwise stop bothering me
You thinking it’s a honeypot is a win for the government. All they need to do is spread some propaganda
Good point, but I didn’t think of it that way just because, I saw things and read stuff that made me suspect it…
to run a service that is hard to keep alive. And if they were to run a honeypot
But they did, and it worked for them before, and it’ll always work unless no one start using that service, so there’s no point in keeping servers operational… time for a rebrand. plus they’re getting paid.
having it outside 14 eyes countries would be the most stupid decision the government could make.
having it outside the US ( if we’re talking about the US ) maybe, but the 14 eyes… It’s just s story at this point, even countries outside the 14 eyes spy on their citizens and make secret deals… So…
Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties (youtu.be)
Vivalidi 6.8 released (vivaldi.com)
Nvidia Looks Towards Linux Kernel Upstream (www.youtube.com)
what linux OS should I install on a backup notebook if my main one is debian?
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Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products" (twitter.com)
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Why don’t you like Apple?
Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).
Louis Rossmann ripped a new one on Adobe (odysee.com)
I just love this guy when he’s riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣
Best Android spreadsheet editor?
I tried Collabora on a Galaxy Droid and it was such a massively buggy disappointment: in a .ODS file, I couldn’t backspace more than once; I could only delete one character at a time. I had to enter another character or move the cursor or do something else before it would take another backspace. I don’t understand how this...
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Saw this funny clip making fun of all the youtubers that make clickbaity "DON'T USE A VPN" video, only to say they still use a VPN (odysee.com)
I deleted my Google account…
… And damm it feels good! Before starting this step, I had to migrate to a better browser that respects privacy (Brave, because🖕Firefox, I mean Mozilla at this point doesn’t even want you to be safe on the web anymore!) And a better “Google-style” ecosystem (Proton is the best they have an email service, a calendar, a...
[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage? (slrpnk.net)
screenshot of searching “test” in start page that doesn’t return any results...
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[Feature Request] Vote for a Proton VPN App for Ubuntu Touch on ProtonMail’s UserVoice Forum
…uservoice.com/…/47523629-ubuntu-touch-app
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I made an app to install websites as desktop applications on Linux (flathub.org)
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13793778...
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881
what happened to VLC for Android ?
A lot of the issues reported here, started showing up on my device after each OS update, but VLC didn’t push any updates for over a year now… VLC is king, but what went wrong?...
*Best* video for explaining the Fediverse to a total noob?
Suggestions?
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
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Is Instander dead?
Hi, I used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately but it doesn’t seem to be updated anymore, is there an alternative that you recommend that has similar features? Like “ghost mode” when watching stories
Basedflare - Open source alternative to Cloudflare (basedflare.com)
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (themarkup.org)
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
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