I live in Russia and with all this “VPN is restricted” fuss I’ve yet to meet someone without VPN on their phone. Most people use free VPN services, some are paying for it, me and my friends use VPN we set up on VPS.
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization....
They need a new enemy every now and then. If the current enemy happens to be exterminated, they’ll need one sooner, but they’ll need a new one anyways.
Thankfully I don’t have people I need on WhatsApp, but it took some convincing.
Nowadays I only have dentist and barbershop on WhatsApp, all my folks are on Telegram, including all work communications.
WhatsApp was always lacking features; WhatsApp web can’t replace a full featured desktop client which is a must have for me; and its mobile client is inconvenient in every possible way.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze for about 30 seconds on Wednesday while speaking with reporters after a speech in Covington, Kentucky....
I was using Gentoo for some years, and I have to say I do not regret switching to Arch.
That said, power to those chosen or damned to wield Gentoo in the eternal war of kernels. They are the fabric of reality, interstellar light and darkness, they are the reason we, common folks, can live peacefully with precompiled packages, not knowing the pains of building everything from sources.
This episode made me watch all of Black Mirror, and let me tell you it didn’t stand up to this one. Watch White Christmas episode and you’re good. Maybe add San Junipero, this one is really good too and it’s more optimistic.
Yeah, but I’m using Sync exactly because I’m using Linux lol. Much more convenient and polished, and there’s no such thing as intuitive UI, there’s only UI you got used to.
Never seen an intuitive UI. Been on Linux since 2004, was working on company-provided Macbook and struggled with UI, was very happy to abandon it. I have Windows as a gaming OS, dual boot configuration with my Arch Linux, and let me tell you I game on Windows like twice a month, absurdity of this OS makes me not want to game.
For me the most intuitive UI is the one I built on Linux, with I3wm and a lot of custom scripts. This surely will not be intuitive for you.
Universally intuitive UI is a myth.
edit: UI designers, using right tools, definitely can and do make better UI, UI better suited for target audience, better working right out of the box. Keyword is “target audience”. One can’t say Windows UI is more intuitive, it’s UI a lot of people got used to. “Intuitive” has very different meaning AFAIK.
So Sync’s UI is good for you, you have used applications that make you kinda got used to Sync. It’s called anecdotal evidence I think, when you make conclusions based in single test case. I’m happy for you. I like Sync UI best of all too, I tried multiple Reddit clients and Sync was most convenient for me.
WhatsApp by default backs up to Google drive, which is laughably insecure.
I don’t know how good is WhatsApp’s e2e implementation, I’ve heard good things about protocol though. But I do know Telegram protocol documentation contains all information needed to implement e2e capable Telegram client, and their e2e is really good, I’ve seen it done by my friend and as I’m a programmer and am interested in cryptography, I followed his work very closely.
I still do not trust e2e group chats, it’s a shaky point in security protocols. There was some kerfuffle about WhatsApp being able to silently add invisible listeners to group chats, wasn’t there?
Telegram very explicitly chooses the right amount of security and makes user aware of inconveniences this level of security brings along. WhatsApp lies in user’s face, making you think it’s secure and convenient.
edit: btw I’m Telegram premium subscriber and love it. I subscribed for the ability to convert voice messages into text. I am aware of privacy concerns, voice messages get sent to some 3rd party for this to work. Pretty often this speech-to-text works not very good, I expect it’s much better for English language though. I still love my Telegram premium, for being able to support developer and to lower the chance of being the product. Cost is negligible, benefits are tangible.
Every service has a product they sell, if a service is free — you are the product.
Need I remind you WhatsApp is owned by Meta? Free service from creators of Facebook and our mutual respect to their privacy practices, all in the same sentence, yeah.
Good privacy brings inconvenience, don’t even think this compromise could ever be avoided. Convenient WhatsApp has nothing to do with privacy, whatever their PR department might want you to think.
This compromise is unavoidable, and every user should be forced to make the choice. Every kind of defaults is bad. Can you imagine that a messenger app that forces you to choose your place on the scale of security-convenience during onboarding process gets wide adoption? Me neither…
Telegram defaults are very sane for common users, and they have very easy and convinient way to start a secure chat. Best available messenger app so far.
So here’s the thing, every time I try to move away from Facebook messenger I run into the same problem, nobody else in my friends or family actually want to use a secure, private messenger app like signal or telegram, my wife, my parents, my in-laws, my friends they’re ALL on Facebook and they will never take signal...
I am. My good friend created telegram client using only their protocol documentation and I’ve been following his with very closely, and I have to say their E2E encryption is very very good. Only thing I noticed is they are using some non-standard mode of symmetric block cipher to make it stream cipher, after keys have already been exchanged, but I failed to find weakness in it, and all encryption specialists I know of failed too. It’s just consecutive application of two different modes, both of which are established to be good.
Currently my job involves working with tdlib, Telegram protocol client library written by Telegram themselves; though this job doesn’t really focus on security.
I do know how to avoid detection of my communication with someone via MITM, and when appropriate we go use secret chats, which are E2E encrypted, and clean them up after a day.
Normal chats and groups are as secure as Telegram as a service is. This is true for every other messenger, without exceptions. You need security, you use E2E. And even then you are as secure as your phone, which is not much for all mobile operating systems.
FYI you don’t need static IP for telegram bots if you use polling instead of webhook. So if your house connection is stable enough, you can make do with Raspberry Pi.
I’m hosting my stuff on cheapest DigitalOcean droplet (but still use polling for telegram bots). Any stable VPS provider would do just fine and you’ll have system resources left for other stuff, telegram bots are very light.
Hi anyone, I have been reading about the Reddit saga today and I am wondering how is the game changed compared to when it is released? I remember a lot of complains about the game is broke and lots of bugs back then, and I didn’t get the game back then.
It was very much playable and enjoyable on PC at release, the whole whining was mostly from console players and gullible folks from PC camp.
If you are on PC, just play it. You might want to wait for the Phantom Liberty to come out (September, IIRC); they are changing some core game mechanics there. I’m definitely going to play it then.
Currently I’m on my 3rd playthrough, on my 2nd one (last summer) it was a somewhat buggy patch, current state of the game feels amazing.
The whining made me kinda angry and made me realize average reddit gamer is a pathetic excuse for human being. Devs, writers, designers and all the rest had done exceptional job, marketing people fucked them and then this class action suit appeared.
Since then I don’t care for what circlejerking gamers on the internet say. It’s their parents’ problem, not mine.
Yup, this is next-gen game they tried to fit into obsolete hardware due to marketing stuff. I do not understand why one would buy it for weak hardware and then whine, guess advertisement was too good.
I am programmer by trade, been doing it for last like 20 years and I’ve worked with exactly 1 project manager that helped and 1 more that didn’t really matter. Every other project manager I worked with was bad for the managed project.
I think that’s the case with CDPR: Cyberpunk 2077 was managed poorly. I’d they just didn’t release it on consoles, made it PC exclusive for a couple of years, the game would probably fare better.
That said I as a PC person used to check game requirements and even if it looks ok I still do some research. Console players should do it too, it’s not a hard skill and doesn’t take much time, and if your are in a hype train this research would be enjoyable for you.
Pixel 7Pixel 7, built-in camera app, motion mode long exposure. Taken on the forest psytrance festival “Слияние” on July 13th, techno stage with a smoke machine, backlit by couple of LED thingies and one laser thingie.
First of all, thank you @ljdawson for pursuing Sync for Lemmy. It’s honestly given me so much hope for Fediverse adoption to actually happen. I do have one thought to share with you to help with success:...
Having limited resources one has to choose the best way to apply them. Sync for Reddit has huge loyal userbase at Android camp, why would one abandon them? Any valid reason at all?
iPhone app might be a priority for apollo and what else do they have there, for the same reasons.
rule of vpn customers but it's not misinformation this time (lemmy.cafe)
source (im aware it’s weird and corporate but it’s at least actual market research and better than random made up data)...
Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’ (apnews.com)
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization....
Whatsapp is going to run terribly... (www.androidcentral.com)
All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.
McConnell appears to freeze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky (www.cnn.com)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze for about 30 seconds on Wednesday while speaking with reporters after a speech in Covington, Kentucky....
It was nice while it lasted (lemmy.world)
@carterr
Just in good fun. (sh.itjust.works)
Google when they release the free tier rooms for their low level employees. (sh.itjust.works)
Photo: Black mirror ep 2 15 million merits
I've used Lemmy more in the past 12 hours than I have in the past month since signing up. All because of Sync.
Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson
Umm I think I'll just delete you instead (lemmy.world)
what messaging app do you use?
So here’s the thing, every time I try to move away from Facebook messenger I run into the same problem, nobody else in my friends or family actually want to use a secure, private messenger app like signal or telegram, my wife, my parents, my in-laws, my friends they’re ALL on Facebook and they will never take signal...
Hosting provider advice for a Telegram bot?
Hi everyone, me and my friends are thinking of making a Telegram bot to use GPT-4 as one of us has access to the API....
Been out of the loop for a while, how is the game today compared with when it was released?
Hi anyone, I have been reading about the Reddit saga today and I am wondering how is the game changed compared to when it is released? I remember a lot of complains about the game is broke and lots of bugs back then, and I didn’t get the game back then.
Show us your Pixel photos! 🖼️
We’ll keep it in a single sticky thread for now and see how it goes. Please don’t forget to indicate which model you used to take the photo! 😁...
Using Sync for Reddit as a marketing tool come July 1st is more urgent than building the MVP
First of all, thank you @ljdawson for pursuing Sync for Lemmy. It’s honestly given me so much hope for Fediverse adoption to actually happen. I do have one thought to share with you to help with success:...