vtez44

joined 1 year ago
[–] vtez44@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

They deleted my Reddit account for me long time ago, I'm ahead of all of you.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Wonder if they will make EU-only variant of hardware and software which will be like totally different phone. They already did sideloading, USB-C and now this. What next?

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I use them constantly on laptop with GNOME. It makes it easier to switch windows with touchpad. On desktop I don't use them so often, because I forget about them.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most sites still send domain name in clear text. You can see it in Wireshark or PCAPDroid. You need VPN if you don't want your ISP to see the sites you visit.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

It supported torrent for ages, but it has only one tracker that doesn't really have very much content. Now qBitTorrent or something else supports it out of the box.

I2P is very slow, slower than Tor. Maybe after more people join, it will be faster. Last time I tried it was painfully slow to even load most eepsites.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you don't buy no-name brand phones, you will get at least one major update. Even chinese brands such as xiaomi will provide updates. You can also install generic LineageOS image if your phone can be unlocked some way, official or not. It works on most devices.

But many smart TVs become useless very quick. When I was using 2015 phone in 2020, TV newer than that already loaded the lightweight Google version for unsupported browsers and vast majority sites/apps became unavailable. It used browser that was already 2 years old when it was released and never released an update to it. But when there was root vulnerability, they released a fix after long time of being basically unsupported.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was using Flatpak and Toolbx exclusively until I discovered Nix. It's much better than using those two.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing. Everything your instance has is your IP address (mostly useless) and password hash (also mostly useless). Everything you have here is public. Maybe except your settings, like light/dark mode.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I use Gitea as project hosting and personal wiki. I also host Nextcloud for files and news and Jellyfin for movies and music.

In this order.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

If there's no such thing as authentication when you view posts, you have no privacy anyway. Everything you post online can be seen by anyone and archived anytime. It's not like you have privacy when you post now.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Only real threats of Threads federation are EEE and server overload. Not the people from there or privacy. If someone wants to see some content you don't want to see, like some opinion you don't like, they should be able to see it. I don't understand why there would be such list, it would be pure censorship and waste of time. I have heard Threads has a pretty good moderation, so that solves this problem anyway.

I don't get what would defederating with Facebook-federated instances gives you, though.

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

But you know, it's literally #1 on the charts and it has AI. I must try it!

 

Kbin (and Lemmy) needs something to combine several magazines into one. Currently, there are many magazines spread over several instances. There's no way to just view or subscribe to them at once. You need to check them separately. If there were multi-magazines, new user could just search for someone's multi- and don't get confused by the ten other communities that often are empty.

Is there a chance that it will be ever implemented? It's one of kbin biggest blocks from getting popular.

 

I requested account deletion and it's on queue now. How do I cancel if, when it's still not processed? I didn't get any email about that, so I think it's not about mail confirmation.

Why isn't the deletion automatical process? Like on other websites, where you just click "Delete account" and it's done? From what I understand, on kbin it's manually reviewed.

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