fritigern

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by fritigern 4y ago
Please do ban, it tells more about you than me. I'll just open a new one.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Can you ELI5 why that is so? A quick search showed that it's mostly ex-Mozilla folks at Brave.
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by fritigern 4y ago
I don't know why, but I had a very negative impression of Brave for a long time. I still haven't tried their browser, but the search is suprisingly good! It also uses their own web index, which I find to be very impressive.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Strange. I'm on a HDPI screen (XFCE) and don't have any issues with Telegram.
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by fritigern 4y ago
> Here is what they can’t manufacture: electronics. Or planes, or tanks, or even ordinary cars. They'll just buy it from China. Like everyone else does.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Not having alternatives is really bad. Chromium-only web would suck.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Android never used the Linux userspace. Steam Deck is using KDE. I'm optimistic.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Gooooood
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by fritigern 4y ago
20+ years of hard work by the Wine team has paid off!
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by fritigern 4y ago
Russia just did.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Russia has around 140 million people, is a one of the major exporters of oil, natural gas, wheat and fertilizer. Thats why things like this are happening: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/russia-becomes-indias-s
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by fritigern 4y ago
Another reminder that centralized services like Cloudflare are a bad idea.
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by fritigern 4y ago
I love KDE connect and it uses sshfs in the background. I hope it gets a new owner soon. Hmmm, maybe I should volunteer...
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by fritigern 4y ago
We should stop using Instagram or any Facebook service.
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by fritigern 4y ago
I read it. It is nonsense.
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by fritigern 4y ago
> Apple has control over your phone, your passwords, your photos, your music, your emails, your credit cards/payment methods. And you can backup nothing of it in a usable way. Without a working Apple account any iPhone is as good as
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by fritigern 4y ago
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Facebook is right. Apple should be given a massive punitive fine for preventing app sideloading. This is disgusting anti-competitive behaviour.
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by fritigern 4y ago
I'm sure the traffic is encrypted. But it's trivially easy for Facebook to copy your private key to their servers.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Nonsense. The app is closed source. Facebook could be copying all your private keys to their servers and you would never know.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Flatpack and Snap versions both work ok. I'm using the distro (manjaro) build, which is also pretty good. No idea how good the AUR versions are.
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by fritigern 4y ago
https://telegram.org/
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by fritigern 4y ago
Of course it does. A country like America that has been murdering people in many wars around the world without hesitation is unlikely to take my privacy seriously. They don't respect my right to live, do you think they will respect my
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by fritigern 4y ago
Telegram's Linux client is simply Amazing.
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by fritigern 4y ago
The main thing keeping me from using Signal is that their Linux client is really really bad. In contrast Telegram has a great Linux client.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Tell that to the people that were killed by American military in Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and probably other places I am forgetting.
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by fritigern 4y ago
> The number of governments that have not had to deal with ethics concerns is exactly zero. Some are worse than others. America is one of the worst. War, invasions, mass surveillance, mass incarcaration...
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by fritigern 4y ago
Signal Foundation is based in the US. It takes only 1 national security letter to compromise them.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Neither is WhatsApp. It's a closed source app, no one outside of Meta knows if it is actually encrypted properly.
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by fritigern 4y ago
The Syrian War was broadcast on Twitter. The Ukrainian War is broadcast on Telegram.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Not to mention the Durov brothers are exiled from Russia after Russia took VKontakte from them.

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