cypherpunks OP , 4 months ago

Meh, how’s this different from RH?

It took Canonical about four times as long (twenty years vs five) to start doing this.

Dissatisfaction with RedHat's introduction of RHN (in 2000) was arguably a significant factor contributing to Ubuntu's rapid growth when it was first released (in 2004).

cypherpunks , 4 months ago

the option of a subscription is fine IMO

excerpt of "this is fine" comic

cypherpunks , 4 months ago

I am glad I live in a place where many grocery stores don't have this problem, because they don't have parking lots, because most of their customers don't even have a car much less would drive it to get groceries if they did. (Yes, I do realize how fortunate I am.)

cypherpunks Mod , 4 months ago

What is “the enshitification face”

maybe one of these?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e2c8fcb2-7ea2-4de7-88ff-c7fd975d2332.png https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8cb77de5-518d-4b6b-bdff-2ef8ef9acaf7.png https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ee7dac5b-a8cc-44d9-85d2-0f46078deb50.png

cypherpunks , 4 months ago

(The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)

Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

cypherpunks , 4 months ago

Sure, fuck WhatsApp, but Telegram isn't even end-to-end encrypted most of the time. Their group chats never are, and their "secret chat" encryption for non-group chats must be explicitly enabled and hardly ever is because it disables some features. And when it is encrypted, it's with some dubious nonstandard cryptography.

It's also pseudo open source; they do publish source code once in a while but it never corresponds to the binaries that nearly everyone actually uses.

And the audacity to talk about metadata when Telegram accounts still require a phone number today (as they did five years ago when this post was written) is just... 🤯

State-sponsored exploits against WhatsApp might be more common than against Telegram, or at least we hear about them more, but it's not because the app is more vulnerable: it's because governments don't need to compromise the endpoint to read your Telegram messages: they can just add a new device to your account with an SMS and see everything.

(╯° °）╯︵ ┻━┻

Anything claiming to prioritize privacy yet asking for your phone number (Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, ...) is a farce.

cypherpunks , 5 months ago

chat screenshot of 3 messages: "I ain't reading all that.", "I'm happy for u tho.", and "Or sorry that happened."

cypherpunks , 5 months ago

s/browser/spyware/

cypherpunks , 5 months ago

it isn't wrong tho