it’s fast

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it’s free

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You mean XMPP, right?

Swapping out colours/fonts at the rendering layer is essentially what I was thinking but I go a step further by completely separating the rendering/interaction from the actual web sandbox running any code.

Do you have a proof-of-concept? What does this run on?

and this injected CSS is used for fingerprinting.

Which, if I’m understanding correctly, would be exactly the same as if the viewer had set their browser theme to dark, so it’s not like the extension is more a loss of privacy than enabling the setting in the browser?

In the end, what we really need is a browsing mode that allows(maybe?) javascript, but doesn’t allow it to read properties of the renderer (viewport size, resolution, colors, fonts, etc). Since having that info stopped being necessary for customizing pages back in, like, CSS 2.1.

Thanks for reminding me! I installed an arch chroot so I can learn and play with Arch btw.

Why wait? Debian is out there.

Signal is OK as a beginner privacy tool. Like with all gateway drugs or gateway animes or gateway videogames, you gotta start somewhere.

But it does is certainly a platform at-risk. Storage is US-centered, connectivity can be cut at any moment, and it’s quite centralized to the point of forbidding 3p clients from interacting with the main Signal “network”.

I come from the 90s. XMPP / Jabber is so much better.

Not a bad idea. I’ll try to crosspost that news a few times later during the weekend to help build the bad behaviour portfolio.

Well, you’ll need dopamine and serotonin for all the new product spam mails you can get!

We can be shitty together! :p

I mean, you gotta start by seeing the positives.

but isn’t one of the job of the police supposed to actually check people’s ID?

Define “people’s”, because not doing so is how we get into a police state and that was some Germany shit. Everyone? A subset at random? A subset at convenience? A subset based on how brown they look?

It seems they don’t care.

Then get that in writing.

You don’t need years for a terminal, at least not for the stuff a normal user would have to expect to do with it (so eg.: not browsing files, that has good UIs already). But you should expect to have to learn something. We require people to learn and even certify their learning when they are to drive a car for example, and for computers we are not even askng 1/6th of that, even tho the last few decades show we maybe should.

You don’t need to do everything on the terminal – even today, you don’t have to. But you should not fear the terminal, the same way you should not fear a piano because you play a violin. Windows also has a terminal, there’s stuff that tells you to go there to enable some Powershel things, and no one complains.

Or with cooperatives. Cooperatives are a good alternative to corporations.

The entire point of the fediverse is to federate. Not federating by default kills discoverability and the potential for discoverability among other things

Matrix

I hope you mean XMPP / Jabber? Matrix is as open and chatty as Trump is when servicing Musk.

They didn’t drop them because of money costs, where did you get such a statement?

In any event they didn’t really have much of a choice, even if they dropped the ball by not simply resurfacing the old SMS product they did and do have. Having SMS and have people assume it was private because it was on Signal had already caused various issues, of the kind that causes bad mouth-to-mouth for your service. Signal’s response, while adequate, was also lazy.

Since you mention stuff like “the video isn’t important”, “other services” (plural), I’d consider not just one alternative but several. The big problem with big name social media is that they provide a all-in-one experience that is designed for profit, and as such looks and acts worse than any of its independent parts (not to mention, the sum is artificially made more addictive to users).

• For publishing campaign materials itself, all you need is a filehost or filebin - something like pastebin.com but that allows you to upload and organize any kind of files. Any of the offerings in the FOSS market will do, but if you are going to focus on posting quickie (rich¡) text documents that are easy to build and parse I’d suggest a Markdown-based document bin like Hedgedoc.
• If your campaign is gonna run like a chat, XMPP / Jabber. There’s servers like Prosody or ejabberd that are easy to set up.
• If your campaign is gonna run in web “play by post” mode, any modern web forum system will do, for example Discourse. Heck, even oldie-style web forums might do, like phpBB.
• Voice: Jabber has access to audio IIRC. I’ve also heard very good things about Mumble.

If anything they have human rights. There’s also the minimum set of implicit rights that are prerequisite for the concept of eg.: allowing foreigners to request asylum. Now if your country didn’t sign in those conventions, that’s a whole ¿nother horde of issues.