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cyrus

@cyrus@wetdry.world

I'm an 18-year-old tech lover from Germany who values privacy and adores cats. Probably Has ADHD and is probably autistic.

#Trans :spinny_fox_trans:​ / #NonBinary :spinny_fox_nb:

Things I boost don't necessarily have to be things I agree with. They can just be things I want people to see.

Make sure you've got a bio or introductory post when you want to follow me.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

cyrus, to Matrix
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If this lands on your feed, tell me about different features that are just missing in Matrix.

It can be anything, but please don't include memes like "unable to decrypt message" or other things that are already in the works, or maybe has already been merged (e.g media captions)

Some examples include better forwarded messages, rich profiles, or a live location sharing, just to name a few.

(I am writing something about this, boosts appreciated!)

#matrix #tech

cyrus,
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@fell well a lot of reliability improvements came from Vodozemac (new crypto/encryption implementation) and performance is gonna get a lot better with SyncV3 (which is also very very soon)

weirdwriter, to tech

Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

cyrus,
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@weirdwriter

Before anyone dares:

  1. Tuta also has transparency reports: https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report
  2. E-Mail is inherently less private than most other options
  3. There's not much you can do as a company if you wanna keep existing in this situation
  4. No, using another provider isn't inherently more private, that in of itself is just shifting trust. Yes, even self-hosting.
alshafei, to privacy
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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

cyrus,
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@runoutgroover

(just to be clear, Tuta has to give way more under German law than Proton under Swiss law)

cyrus, to aiart
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reminder that "AI Art" is not art but just a statistical model regurgitating stolen content to you whilst drawing the approximate power and water of a small city

#AIArt #AI (so that all of YOU out there see this too. Yes I am mad.)

cyrus,
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@thepoliticalcat but no, how can you monetise that!? /j

Seriously, it's disgusting.

lea, to random

Last friday, I have received a takedown request from a company representing Apple, requesting I remove a parody account that is Apple on my instance.
They are claiming that it attempts to "mislead users into believing that the account is sponsored by or affiliated with Apple when that is not the case".

I am convinced that the account was legally in the right as it was very obvious that it is a parody account, but unfortunately I am powerless against a gigacorporation in court as they could just financially ruin me if they feel like it.

Therefore, I would like to warn everyone NOT to create Apple parody accounts using Apple's logo and word mark on your instances, as this would be violating Apple's intellectual property and would waste the time and money of the law firm that actively scours the internet for these types of accounts! ​:neocat_o_o:​

I have uploaded the full email I received: https://me.lea.pet/assets/legal/Takedown%20Notice%20from%20Apple%20Inc.html

​:boost_ok:​ ❤️

cyrus,
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@lea I was very sad when I found out that is a firm that indeed has Apple as one of it's clients :(

cyrus,
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@solrize

The fact that you're not even noticing the federation shows how effective it is ;)

You're probably browsing communities that aren't on Lemmy.world often without realising, I'm here replying to you from wetdry.world (a mastodon instance), and the OP also doesn't come from Lemmy.world

The cool thing about this is that no single server, company, or entity in general gets to decide over the wider fediverse, because everything is spread out and shared between thousands of independent servers. This is completely opposite to what traditional social media services have built.

cyrus,
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@solrize

There's no gatekeeper to satisfy because even when one server defederates from you, you are still able to curate and protect your own community.

Personally, who cares if there's some Nazis and trolls less in my feed? 🥴

cyrus,
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@solrize

Well, let me go by example: The strength of E-Mail lies in the fact that its a robust standard that, instead of siloing users into their platforms, brings people together into one single userbase.

Similarly with federation in social media, this makes userbases not compete but collaborate. If I created an ActivityPub-Powered project right now, I'd have to convince nobody to use it and still be part of a community.

One difference however is that social media is public. As the person that runs the server, you do have to put in some measures to make sure that your users are actually feeling safe. The most extreme of these measures is defederation, where you just completely cut off another server, but there's also other ways to limit other servers, like for example, hiding their accounts by default in say the "federated" feed in Mastodon and co.

cyrus,
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@boogetyboo there's still a good chance you're using your Internet Service Provider's DNS.

Not only does this mean its super trivial for them to block things they don't want you to access, but this also means they can see (and they probably log) everything you do; no good for privacy or freely accessible info

Try switching to something like quad9, and reboot your devices after to make sure they've cleared their DNS cache

PS:
You can just add dns.quad9.net to Settings > Network > Private DNS on Android if you don't want the app.

Newpipe is getting updates on fdroid again and seem like will be getting updates for the foreseeable future as the issue stopping it is solved. (f-droid.org)

Also on an unrelated note anyway to remove live from your subscribed channels update field ? Some channels are filling it with live so i have to really scroll down to see my video feeds and can’t find a setting to switch it off. Newpipe didn’t used to add live in your what’s new feed of subscribed channels, related pic .

cyrus,
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@sigmaklimgrindset well, for one, it is a completely separate app

No seriously, where ReVanced is a collection of patches for the official YouTube app(s) (and some others)

NewPipe is a built-from-the-ground, independent, no-Google-Code YouTube client that relies entirely on scraping the website using NewPipeExtractor

As such, the entire experience apart from the content itself differs.

cyrus,
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@unterzicht that IS it's use. It is primarily used in show-off posts where people present their systems so that people in the replies can get a quick glance on what they're running.

The reason this is big news is because neofetch was by far the biggest project of it's kind

stux, to random
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If buying games isn't owning them.. then pirating games isn't stealing them
:black_bloc_blob: :confused_dog:

https://github.com/hydralauncher/hydra

cyrus,
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@brawaru meanwhile movie-web which got DMCA'd despite not hosting content:

Alice, to random
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Welcome to 2006 Myspace, Bluesky!

cyrus,
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@Alice "we're also working on custom GIFs and video too"

my brother in christ other BlueSky clients already do this :neocat_sob:

AAKL, to privacy
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    cyrus,
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    @AAKL the fact that anybody thought using AI for therapy was a good idea still baffles me

    cyrus,
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    Custom ROMs win again!

    cyrus,
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    @big_slap

    Fun fact:
    The entirety of bluesky was supposed to be an activity pub extension at some point.

    https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2535398

    cyrus,
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    @Benjamin the wha-

    okay here's an unshortened one

    I usually share the shortened one because cryptpad links tend to be large

    https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/XEUnUWO3EjIPdsCJj3e+eEAgwIJ0tvA6tkzDGyA8AUo/embed/present/

    cyrus,
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    @Benjamin account removal can be done on https://my.telegram.org if I recall right.

    Also...someone OTHER THAN ME linked this? That's rare

    Matrix is currently in a bit of a weird place as funding is low. Its alright, but dont expect Telegram-level UX. Element is also re-making their mobile apps as part of Element X.

    cyrus,
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    @Benjamin they're all connected :)

    I'm writing to you from mastodon (hence all my replies start by pinging you)

    Lemmy does format some things in lemmy-specific ways, but other than that all our posts can be viewed anywhere, and I can slap any lemmy thread into my mastodon UI to reply to whoever I want

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    @Benjamin

    No I am not saying accounts are portable, but the content is. Your mastodon app has no idea how to handle Lemmy, and your Lemmy app has no idea how to handle Mastodon

    BUT the servers that you're signing up to? They know how to share the content between eachother. That is because they all use the ActivityPub standard to exchange posts and account data.

    cyrus,
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    @Benjamin its basically automatic e-mail in the sense that it doesn't matter what e-mail provider you're on but you can still contact each other across mail providers

    Here you can substitute mail providers with social media platforms, and it happens ✨automagically✨, without anyone doing anything

    To put this into perspective, I see hundreds of posts that aren't by people that signed up on wetdry.world on my home feed, and I can still interact with them, yet wetdry.world is my home.

    Maybe the little explanation video on https://fediverse.info helps

    cyrus,
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    @HurlingDurling

    Just go right to the source:
    https://lineageos.org/Changelog-28/

    cyrus,
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    @max641 a friend of mine (nift4) is working on something called Neo-Wellbeing, but I don't know how far it is at this moment in time; apart from "it isn't ready yet" at least

    For now, I'd go with Fisch's reply

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