Shout out to Brokep, nice to see folks using Njalla.

Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

Strong-type for Karl!

Further, they’re hosted in Germany, so they must still follow German law and court requests.

SimpleX is taking a lot of venture capital money which makes it just slightly suspect, imho. Those guys usually want a return of some kind on their investment. I simply don’t trust the motives of technocrats like Jack Dorsey.

The Matrix Foundation, on the other hand, seems a lot more democratic in governance and stewardship of the protocol.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft saying you’ll be able to play Xbox games on the Switch 2, implying that Game Pass is coming to Switch 2, was the thing that finally kicked their asses and gear and made them realize they were being fucking stupid trying to have so much control while Microsoft is out here with even tighter controls and a cheaper model (in a lot of gamers’ eyes at least, those who don’t care about things like longevity of studios or actual ownership of a product as opposed to rental licensing).

Sorry for the run-on sentence I don’t feel like fixing it.

Let me be the first to say:

Thanks for nothing, you absolute fucking nincompoop!

You don’t lone wolf this kind of shit, dumbfuck! The only way any of us can stand up to this kind of Imperial control is having such a mass of people behind you that the police are afraid of you.

Trump wants to go down the emergency powers to institute Martial Law. Doing this lone wolf shit is going to give him every opportunity to get it started before a sufficient number of people are protesting in the streets.

Ryan English turned himself in to Capitol Police

Also… It’s just slightly convenient that somehow this guy just chose to turn himself in instead of, I don’t know, turn around and go home since no one knew about the crimes he did commit?

This screams crisis actor more than fucking kids getting shot at school do. And since everything everything everything is projection with the right, it means I have this nagging feeling that that’s what this guy might be.

Blahaj.zone runs on AWS not Cloudflare.

Blahaj.zone is a smaller instance with less than 3000 users.

There is no character limit that I see.

At least on lemmy.blahaj.zone Ada has blocked nsfw instances, I assume she did the same on blahaj.zone. EDIT: I just double checked and for sure a lot of NSFW instances are blocked by blahaj.zone.

Finally, as the instance for transfolk, it has never at any point federated with Threads

Fair enough, sorry to be confusing to you.

Privacy good, corporate privacy invasion bad. Corporate media underreporting of privacy violations bad.

We never had an argument other than you keep positing that people don’t agree with this while they’re busy explaining to you that yes, they actually do, and you keep choosing to ignore that. “Corporate media underreporting of privacy violations bad” is literally what I spent several paragraphs explaining that you took as “yelling” and “disagreement.”

…but keep on arguing with people who actually agree with you and telling yourself they don’t.

You’re literally talking to people in a privacy forum hosted outside of corporate social media… and you think people don’t agree with you. We wouldn’t fucking be here if we weren’t already on the same page about such issues.

That’s on you, dude.

I literally explained it pretty clearly.

At this point its clear you want to misunderstand.

Interesting that you took a few paragraphs with a handful of explitives thrown in as “yelling.”

Everyone does it, so it’s not a big deal after all

…and I think that’s you completely misreading what people are saying.

We’re saying that it’s bunk for the corporate media to portray it as this dangerous thing when they refuse to report similarly on US companies doing the same with the same ferocity.

I think most people agree with you, that our privacy protections are fucking abysmal and no company should be being allowed to do this stuff. Hell, that’s like the entire thrust of Ed Zitron’s entire fucking blog: that none of these companies should get away with this.

It’s like when Facebook got fined a paltry sum for being caught lying about their video metrics and literally putting businesses like CollegeHumor out of business because they “pivoted to facebook video” to grab those high metrics… which never materialized because Facebook was ratfucking lying to people. They should have been shut down and put out of business for that, not fined less than they made ripping off people.

People are sick of the companies here getting a pass, and the media gives them a pass. It’s more that you can’t make freaked out headlines like this about TikTok and DeepSeek and not understand that everyone is rolling their fucking eyes because we’re all like “it’s no worse than what US companies already do to us.” That doesn’t mean we like it or are okay with it. It means we’re rolling our eyes at a fucking insipid news media that’s obviously lying to us for the sake of private American companies profit, not because they care about rightfully informing American citizentry about what is happening.

All of us fucking hate it, but what the fuck do you expect us as individuals to do about it? Folks like me have been voting Blue for 25 fucking years with fuck-all to show for it on issues like these. So why’s it our job to explain that we don’t support it, we just think it’s dumb as fuck when a foreign company is doing the same thing and now suddenly that’s evil, but our guys doing it is somehow fine. What we have issue with is the hypocrisy.

On-prem vs. Cloud, basically. On-prem just magically got cheaper.

DeepSeek does the same things that OpenAI does, but it’s a foreign actor so OOooooOOWwwwooOOOO sCaRrRey!

I understand. In death, members of Lemmy do have a name. His name is Lemmy.

Thankfully someone invented xmpp omemo way back in the day.

Dude, Migicovsky fucked it up once and already wants back in? He sold the Pebble company and fucked almost all the workers on the way out. They were promised their jobs, that their jobs would be part of the deal. At the last minute they find out, nope, Migicovsky signed off on the deal that left them all without jobs. He walked away with a fat stack of cash.

Then the idiot spun up Beeper and hacked his way into the iMessage system with a workaround which Apple them promptly blocked within a few days. People were paying for this service. What was Migicovsky’s plan? None, he gave up after Apple blocked them once.

Further, Beeper is just a re-skinned Matrix client with the Beeper company hosting the open source bridges between services, which means they have always had some weirdly serious access to the chats they’re helping you compile all in one place. Initially you basically had to give them way too much control over your Apple account to use the iMessage stuff since they had to have a fleet of Macs for each iMessage user they were supporting.

I’m sorry. I don’t care how good it was. Don’t let Migicovsky take your money and mismanage it again.

Why do people keep giving this guy good graces when he fucked over his own devs on the way out and didn’t even have a plan on how to keep his iMessage system working for paying customers?

Please stop letting this guy fuck up and walk away with the money.

Not a historical country, per se, but I love traditional names for places.

Here’s a little song about such a thing.

Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?

Pepperidge Farm 'members.

Further, anyone else remember when the Bush admin pushed Total Information Awareness, a program that was collecting the kind of information on US citizens that those same citizens give away freely to Facebook without needing to be surveilled?

We 'member that, too.