There’s Matrix which is selfhostable but “good” is pushing it and the cryptography is a bit iffy (probably more incompetence than malice). Though selfhosting it means you don’t need the end to end encryption quite as much… until the court gets involved of course.

– Frost

wha-

wha.

– Frost

This implies the existence of golden transmitters.

– Frost

Honestly, might not be.

Turning your phone off, and having the friend turn their phone off, probably helps. Computers are easier to put free/open, trustable OSes on, and easier to put into real sleep, unless it’s one of those newfangled laptops that don’t have a real sleep mode. Even for phones a degoogled Android like say Lineage should help, IF you have one of the (many) devices it’s ported to (and then don’t install proprietary apps on the thing – even if the app itself isn’t sketchy, they could include an SDK that does sketchy stuff; you’re not just trusting the app, you’re trusting its dependencies too).

That’s a bit much just for silly banter though. But probably worth it for serious conversations.

Then again, if you take precautions even for silly banter times, then it’ll be harder to tell whether you’re talking about something that needs to be confidential or not (like how everyone using encryption for mundane stuff makes it safer to use encryption). So yeah I don’t know.

– Frost

Is this not just “have the image be blacked out with a ‘hidden’ overlay, then you can click it to unhide it (with a button to re-hide it again if needed)”? That’s how it works over on Masto, and it doesn’t change the format of anything at all.

I don’t know much about Lemmy development so have no idea what this new feature is like. If it’s more like “filters out posts with images so you don’t even see they exist in the first place”, I could see that being annoying.

– Frost

EXAMPLES sections should be way more common!

They do exist, a lot of man pages have them.

They’re at the BOTTOM though, for some reason (probably because they’re kinda an afterthought, which is itself weird). It’d be nice to have them at the top.

– Frost

Ah great, just what we need </s>, “AI” slop on the textures too.

– Frost

“Eh, tired.”, usually.

People tend to get it. They’re probably tired too.

– Frost

Yes.

– Frost

Over on Mastodon we block all images by default and it’s SUPER nice. We click the picture to see it, it’s no big deal.

– Frost

Same way it hits over 100% of sRGB, I figure. Being able to display colors that don’t fit in BT.2020.

– Frost

Oh heh, yeah, o’course! I wasn’t really meaning that seriously, more just riffing off the thread of silly $HOME expansions. :3

Probably good to mention that in case someone comes along and thinks /home/$(whoami) is actually a good idea though, hah.

(Mac has normal users’ homes in /Users!!)

Sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on and pop it in the toaster oven for a couple minutes and now you’ve got cinnamon toast!

… Feet cinnamon toast.

– Frost

'S’cause everything’s gone to shit, so dang fast.

Not just games, too. The consoles themselves. The PS3/Wii era of consoles just feel infinitely more respectful than the PS4 era. (No comment on Xbox, we’ve never had any Xboxen.) The PS5 is even worse.

(Computers, too. See Windows 7 vs. 10. And on the Apple side, the slow rise of Gatekeeper, but that was significantly more subtle.)

– Frost

I think they probably mean that voting for Trump precludes people from being good and kind?

– Frost

/home/$(whoami)

– Frost

Psst… KDE’s launcher search is the same search as KRunner, just in the launcher! So you don’t need to make any changes at all for a “hit command, start typing” workflow.

(yeah we call it the command key, we come from Mac, but I like ‘command’/｢⌘｣ and it doesn’t have to be apple-specific :3)

– Frost

Bit specific, but for opening an audio device other than default, you should use the API of a sound server. Pulseaudio’s for instance. The new hotness is Pipewire, and it has its own API, but it also supports the Pulseaudio API and AFAWK most clients (apps and things) are still using that.

The sound server sits on top of ALSA and handles all the routing and mixing and shit. ALSA is lower level than what you need as an app/user program dev.

(Pipewire also supports the JACK API. Music apps and such used to use JACK because it was lower latency than Pulseaudio. Which meant you had to stop Pulse and start JACK and lose all sound from your other apps and it was a right pain. Pipewire just does both.)

– Frost

Weapons? Money laundering? What I want untraceable transactions for is furry porn.

Like, there are other reasons to want privacy in what you’re paying for, too. Maybe Monero or something could come in handy for that.

How do they handle the traceability aspect? Like, if it’s a blockchain, that makes transactions public by definition right? I’m sure there’s ways to keep stuff private, I’m just curious how it works.

– Frost