It’s owned by Amazon. A no brainer to avoid, really

Son of a… Thank you! Time to reassess my server aha

As in, backup messages to import into new clients? Is that possible?

What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering

Not being prone to paranoia, as unhelpful as that is

I’m also a realist, which keeps my expectations in check.

Remember that you are one person. Nobody in government censorship or reconnaissance of the public cares about you enough to spy or hack you. You alone aren’t worth the effort or resources.

Remember to play. Go outside for a walk, meditate, consume entertaining non-toxic, non-fiction media, have sex or masturbate. All work and no play makes Ringpop a dull person.

Don’t forget that OMEMO on XMPP has no backward decryption - all messages are lost with every new client. Massive dealbreaker for me, as I value message history between those I love.

I’ve gone for Matrix. Signal doesn’t interest me until they get rid of the requirement for phone numbers.

Others have noted that XMPP servers hold user contacts (and maybe other parts) wholly unencrypted, and if the server isn’t yours, that’s a trust risk.

Do it. The Western countries alienated tobacco products massively using tactics like images of graphic organ destruction on packaging.

Alcohol is just as likely to be fatal if abused. the fact that many places outlaw marijuana but not alcohol is baffling hypocrisy

What country did you last have issues with? I’ll try it out. I use Nord for downloading videos, and it seems that YT have flagged every single Dutch and UK IP I try as a potential bot, restricting access completely without being logged in.

There also seems to be a huge issue where YouTube has recently delisted a significant amount of videos - and I don’t mean unlisted or private. I mean they just don’t exist through channels or yt-dlp any more. I think YT is killing creators

Clean version.

I’m with you. Censorship is killing my sanity. But here’s the issue.

We already have content restrictions in place to “protect” under 18s whether they’re mature enough or not to see porn or gore. Physical and digital media have PEGI, BBFC, etc. ISPs have parental control - the UK has Content Lock. We have parents with personal preferences for their offspring’s access.

National or global censorship is useless. In their insatiable quest for power and money the corporations and governments are trying to turn the internet into a child’s internet. If these are the lengths they’re willing to go to, if their intentions were honest, it would surely be easier to let the adults have the freedom of adults and build a second internet for children. Maybe age lock that. Instead of killing everything consenting adults made.

This is equivalent to taking a bar, stripping out the slot machine, alcoholic drinks and erotic dancers, adding a ballpit, replacing live sports with cartoons and still checking ID at the door. Except now they want to swap ID for fingerprints.

I haven’t seen the lights go red, only off, then orange, then green if they were already on.

Of my KP105 and KP115 plugs, only one has misbehaved, only once when their server was unreachable. The main culprit is the Kasa 303 I think it’s called? The 3-outlet adapter.

They are great devices! But I’m waiting for a Zigbee or Matter alternative with energy monitoring so these can be swapped out

Well, TP Link have never been trustworthy. Cheap and trustworthy rarely exist together.

I have the best smart plugs I could acquire - Kasa brand. They’re great adapters, but the moment their API call doesn’t get a response from their servers, they restart themselves every ten minutes. We all have to make some sacrifices in the journey to net security and independence, and keeping their API unblocked is one of mine.

If anyone wants smart plugs for monitoring purposes the Kasa brand is operable without the TP-Link app. Tapo is far worse. Never go full Tapo.

I agree, the one I have (with aforementioned triple connect thing) is from Ipega, a solidly built controller, designed to hold a mobile. Often easier to use compared to a console controller. Flydigi is premium AF! Dayum that looks nice

I’m segueing to an off-topic article on that page…

https://insider-gaming.com/rog-asus-xbox-raikiri-controller-price-revealed/

The controller, luckily, will have a lot of premium features available like tri-mode connectivity,

Listen here you little shits, the cheapest POS controllers from AliExpress have “tri-mode connectivity”

Welp, I’ve been anti-authoritarian ever since I learned what it was, but this is the moment I will actively reject the UK government. They’re finally coming to directly interfere with my life. I’ll never work at companies that conform to this as long as it’s in place, and I urge others to do the same.

Be sure to add ‘I still don’t care about cookies’ extension to your browsers. Edge - Chrome - Firefox

Windows is stupid as shit, trying to shift+right click > open Powershell in a path containing a space results in it throwing an error, and you have to paste the path in yourself anyway

I mean, if we’re being realistic, everything I use supports .webp now. Hell, every upload on my instance Blajåj becomes one (not Lemmy universal, as noted by SatyrSack)

Oh Canada, you were supposed to be the chosen one

Maybe but I always have to enter /24 after setting a VM’s manual IP for it to be valid

The theory is that it will scan on device before it’s encrypted. Would XMPP clients (as long as their developers don’t comply) be safe?