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by ejj28 5y ago
This is not a case of the OS subverting it's user, the user is installing Riot's anticheat of their own will. If you'd like Windows Defender to stop that, then you should be fine with the warnings it gives with those other ap
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by ejj28 5y ago
There are definitely SIP trunks that allow 911 calling. Mine does, and they also allow you to pay for E911.
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by ejj28 5y ago
I believe the author was referring to The Emperor's New Clothes, which he also mentioned in the article
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by ejj28 5y ago
Yes, because port forwarding is a feature of NAT, which isn't needed for IPv6.
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by ejj28 5y ago
The difference though is that verification through phone numbers relies on money that you've already spent, which is a lot more reasonable for the majority of users. People would still be unhappy if they had to pay 5 bucks if they didn
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by ejj28 5y ago
If they want to boycott them, they can go ahead, but I consider Discord to be the best place to build a community right now and I don't think that free software purists have any right to demand that devs build their platforms on someth
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by ejj28 5y ago
Yeah, they definitely need to do better, but forums can have the same phone verification requirements, it's not really a negative of Discord compared to forums in my opinion
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by ejj28 5y ago
Any alternative would have to be inconvenient by design in order to work though, that's why phone numbers are used in the first place. An effective verification system usually involves money at the root; verification in the style of ph
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by ejj28 5y ago
I have seen Discord servers that use 3rd party verification systems, but very rarely. An alternative to phone numbers would be ideal, but there will always be flaws similar to the flaws of phone verification in my opinion.
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by ejj28 5y ago
Definitely, I agree that phone numbers are a flawed verification method. Something better needs to be created, but I can't think of anything that wouldn't have the same or different flaws.
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by ejj28 5y ago
Phone verification can certainly be annoying, but anyone who's been part of large Discord communities will know that spambots that DM users with all kinds of scams are a huge issue. Phone verification stops someone from raiding a serve
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by ejj28 5y ago
I find googling for existing answers on forums, StackOverflow and Reddit to be great resources when I need to solve a problem, but I really dislike asking questions myself on those kind of platforms. I hate having to write a formal post and
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by ejj28 5y ago
Which is why I use a custom domain with a paid Google Workspace subscription, if Google ever decides to lock my account, I can just change my DNS and go back to Fastmail.
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by ejj28 5y ago
Fair enough. A big part I didn't mention was the desire to deprecate my old @gmail.com addresses while still having access to Google services, and as much as some of the redesigns have bothered me, I still prefer Gmail's Web UI ov
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by ejj28 5y ago
At this point I've sort of just accepted that in this day and age, surveillance is inevitable and past a certain point, trying to maintain my privacy comes at a huge cost in terms of convenience that I'm not willing to pay. I cert
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by ejj28 5y ago
I've always used Gmail for my main email accounts and can't recall ever experiencing an outage, although it's possible I just never noticed.
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by ejj28 5y ago
They're a much larger company with massive infrastructure that dwarfs Fastmail's? The traffic Fastmail is accustomed to dealing with is likely nowhere near the amount of the traffic that Google deals with.
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by ejj28 5y ago
Fastmail was pretty good while I was a customer, but this sort of thing is partially why I switched to Google Workspace. Google might be terrible for privacy but at least I can trust them to not get hacked or knocked offline. If they ever d
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Tesla Model S locks up in the middle of a highway(twitter.com)
88 points by ejj28 5y ago|90 comments
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by ejj28 5y ago
I welcome apps using Electron, most Electron apps I use work great and have nice UIs that are consistent across platforms
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by ejj28 5y ago
I really don't understand people who are 'disappointed' with anything that uses Electron. Sure, it's not as performant as a native app, but writing and maintaining a different native app for every platform you wish to ta
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by ejj28 5y ago
I'm with Start.ca, they're similar to Teksavvy in that they lease Rogers' cable lines. They're not doing CGNAT and I believe the CEO, who's very active on DSLReports, has confirmed they have no plans to start doing
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by ejj28 5y ago
> advertisements for Nitro when someone was trying to upload a photo The gifting button is only beside the upload button on mobile, and personally I've never hit it accidentally. To me it just seems like they've made it more pr
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by ejj28 5y ago
For the average person who isn't as concerned about privacy, Discord is absolutely light years ahead. Personally, I don't mind that Discord doesn't have E2EE or self hosted servers, I think having those would severely degrade
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by ejj28 5y ago
I don't think tricking is the word for this. You're not going to click something by accident and be immediately billed for something. Yes, they've made monetisation more prominent, but I think that's fair for a platform
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by ejj28 5y ago
A lot of the ease of using Discord comes from the fact that every server just works, and you can join using a link. If people could host their own servers I'd imagine you'd end up with poorly-hosted servers that would degrade the
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by ejj28 5y ago
Every single Discord-related post here I see comments about the "bad ux". I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX, I find it pretty intuitive to be honest. I'm also constantly seeing people in shock
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by ejj28 5y ago
Great insight, makes what they're doing seem even crazier as I'm guessing very few of the remaining user base are going to be happy about the nicknames and channels they're familiar with being up for grabs by anyone. Purely s
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by ejj28 5y ago
So if I'm understanding this correctly as an outsider - Freenode is basically starting from scratch? Equivalent to a social network like Facebook being deleted with no warning, then having the brand used for a completely new network? I
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by ejj28 6y ago
I'm very skeptical about this, as it seems like Google's just trying to pull another AMP and take control of how advertisers are able to advertise, and since they're a major player in the ad business that should be a big no n

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