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DavidGarcia ,

devil's advocate: this will save the vast majority of user (which are completely tech illiterate) from loosing their most important data

lets be real, none of them will use a private or foss backup solution any time soon.

I'd rather not they loose their important family photos for that oh so horrible crime of offending my privacy nerd sensibilities

DavidGarcia ,

why would we be able to? are the any plans to open them up?

DavidGarcia ,

interesting thanks, that's cool to hear. Sad that there's no effort to move to a standard protocol, but understandable.

DavidGarcia ,

http://github.com/matrix-org/dma-demo-app-bridge-whatsapp

This is one thing I've found on their github so far, but it seems inactive.

There is a fork that element seem to have forked back:

http://github.com/element-hq/mautrix-whatsapp

from

http://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

DavidGarcia ,

Lemmy is absolute garbage on privacy. I would love a private Lemmy with fine grained privacy controls.

DavidGarcia ,

It doesn't have to be.

You could keep the general structure and functioning while improving privacy.

For example, by obfuscating post history, anonymous posting or assigning a user pseudonym per instance/community, auto-deleting old posts/comments. All optional features of course. Let instances/communites decide which of these features they want.

Keep the structure of Lemmy with it's Reddit-like-ness and instances, but give users, instances and communities more control over data privacy.

Sure it's harder to implement, you need some minimal-knowledge reputation system, but there is nothing fundamental preventing that from being possible.

The nice thing about federation is that one instance/community can stay the same data-leaking privacy mess, if they so prefer. While others could operate analogous to 4-chan (or anything in between).

DavidGarcia ,

That's the point of the repuation system.

It's a very hard problem, I'll give you that.

What you need is, each instance and community collects reputation in the federation. then users posting on those instances can collect reputation on those. basically by not being banned or massively downvoted. Your reputation is weighted by the reputation of each you collected it from instance.

Each users identity is tied to some key that collects reputation, that you generate new identities from from for each instance/community/post. Like how some credit card services give you a new credit card number for each new website.

Admins don't know who you are, but they can see and verify your reputation.

Then instance/community admins can decide if they want a different weighting. For example, to completely disregard the reputation by some instance or make one you like 10x more important.

You could get an ordered list of posts or pseudonymous users based on the reputation. Untrustworthy users will glow like a christmas tree.

That would be one way to do it. It's hard to make it water tight, but any improvements would be better than the current fediworse.

DavidGarcia ,

what do you use for illegal documents?

DavidGarcia ,

this is wrong, because today you won't find the thing you're looking for at all. Just 100 results where one word of your 5 word query vaguely matches.

DavidGarcia ,

the sacred chants!

DavidGarcia ,

what is a prophesh yonnels

DavidGarcia ,

you mean baby's first distro?

DavidGarcia ,

Emma Goldman radicalized me

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Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?

Looks like ICQ is finally shutting down, just as interest in retro internet tools is growing.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

@fediverse

DavidGarcia ,

Uh Oh!

DavidGarcia ,

is this real? windows 10 literally came out yesterday

DavidGarcia ,

who is Bill Yonere?

New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) (codeberg.org)

This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.

DavidGarcia ,

No thanks, I don't like Piefken

DavidGarcia ,

I think we need community forks. anyone who is willing to host it can copy the entire instance and all of the content and become the new mod.

but it would make more sense if lemmy was based on some decentralized data layer (like IPFS). Then you only need to copy the references, that makes it way cheaper to fork.

that would solve that issue.

DavidGarcia ,

oof owie mein witz

DavidGarcia ,

the only solution is that we blow up the moon

DavidGarcia ,

what is a "girl"?

DavidGarcia ,

FreeBSD jails were way ahead of their time

DavidGarcia ,

check out NextChat and LibreChat

DavidGarcia ,

what an absolute garbage site it has turned into

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    DavidGarcia ,

    I tried it at work, it is completely useless and getting worse every day

    DavidGarcia ,

    there will be a time when LLMs are small enough to be distributed as viruses and then you have some semi conscious entity in your computer messing with you

    DavidGarcia ,

    very large sad

    DavidGarcia ,

    kind of dumb they could get huge market share

    DavidGarcia ,

    at least it's not fractal farming

    DavidGarcia ,

    great. what is the FTCs justification for this? did they ban them doing it outright, or is it just that they didn't make it clear enough? will this apply to other companies? so many questions.

    DavidGarcia ,

    don't frogette about the new windows terminal

    DavidGarcia ,

    nothing puts the fear of god into me like reinstalling nvidia drivers

    DavidGarcia ,

    anyone wanna give me access to their compute cluster.. for science?

    DavidGarcia ,

    Yes, for the record: I am solely interested in the lewd stuff, nothing else.

    DavidGarcia ,

    Doctors don't take 3 years of gaslighting classes for nothing. It's a skill they lernd through hard work, so they have a god given right to use it.

    DavidGarcia ,

    Practically speaking, not investing your wealth means giving money to the state (who currently will just give it to the richest and most powerful) and the richest and most powerful.

    The entire monetary system is set up to take from the bottom 80-90% through inflation and give that money to anyone who invests and profits off of debt.

    I know it sounds stupid, but that's the way it is.

    The only other option is immediately putting your savings into gold, practical investments (like a solar setup) or commodities.

    As long as you hold any significant amounts of savings, it slowly (and recently more rapily) goes to the state and the rich. Nevermind your wages are constantly decreasing too. You could make up for that by investing. You could see it as just getting back what's rightfully yours anyway.

    Reality is silly like that in an inflationary monetary system.

    DavidGarcia ,

    I gotta be honest, Microsoft did a great job with the UX of their 365 ecosystem. It's great as a user, but as an administrator or small business it is a nightmare.

    But in a large corpo setting, it works really well.

    The wider Linux community could learn a lot from it.

    DavidGarcia ,

    I don't know, I think UX has vastly improved since I started using it in 2008 and is still improving every year. It's just all these cloud and communication features we're behind on.

    It would be cool to have something P2P, like Syncthing and Tox, integrated into all mainstream distros for sync and communacation Then you have some sort of a single sign-on that connects you to all your devices and people you want to communicate with. Instead of Microsoft login you have a built in pw manager that automatically creates and stores (and syncs) accounts for you and so on.

    DavidGarcia ,

    Where do you get the Final Fantasy source code. Asking for a friend (I'm not a cop btw, I swear)

    DavidGarcia ,

    It would be unfair for my landlord not to get 90% of my paycheck. He deserves it, because reasons.

    DavidGarcia ,

    I got lucky that my MicroG phone works with my bank. But I had to call them to tell them about it, then they flipped some flag on their end and it has worked ever since. So idk, call your bank.

    DavidGarcia ,

    well, good luck

    DavidGarcia ,

    people get way too riled up over this

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