Nia [She/Her]

I have, I only use email for basic use and occasionally sending a file but it’s done great for me so far.

A lot of messages get stuck into spam on tuta but you can set spam filters to fix that

Hope it goes well!

Interesting to see the different approaches they both take, Google has way more trackers but they’re easier to block, Apple has less but they’re much harder to block.

I haven’t noticed the iPhone doing that thing where when trackers are blocked it keeps trying to ping them over and over draining the battery endlessly, iirc that happens on some manufacturers for Android, but I wonder if that’s just because it looks like it’s blocking but after a few tries circumvents the dns, which wouldn’t appear in the logs in the dns app? I’ll see 3 blocked pings and then it stops, so maybe it gives up, not fully sure. I should dig deeper into it before I trade the phone in and actually monitor my whole connection to see how often they slip through.

Oh, and a random tip since you said you’ve got an iPhone again now, in settings > privacy & security > tracking, if you disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”, it prevents non-Apple apps from tracking entirely cross-site/apps. While it sounds a bit like that just allows them to track without asking consent from you, it’s actually making them default to deny tracking instead of asking. They can still do analytics but they can’t track anything outside of their app sandbox.

As a current Apple user, using a DNS tracker blocker (on-device, Adguard’s app switching between their DNS and Mullvad’s DNS occasionally) blocks a lot of tracker and data collection pings to Apple. Even if you block it via regular dns, iOS can circumvent your VPN or DNS provider in times of “low connectivity”. Unsure if that means your actual connection is low, or if those analytics not connecting counts as them detecting “low connectivity”. Regardless, even with data collection blocking in place, iOS occasionally will just circumvent it and collect anyway under normal circumstances.

Haven’t tried a pi-hole or similar yet, that could probably fully prevent it but it’ll just happen when I’m on mobile data or someone elses WiFi then.

Edit: I’m switching back to Android soon but it was interesting to get first-hand experience at how trackers on Apple products work.

I remember when I used to use those apps that spoiler tags never worked properly

I don’t understand using Discord for documentation or official dev communications, it just doesn’t sound reliable even if you aren’t chancing running afoul of a billionaire corp or DMCA. Not to mention, there’s now an extra barrier to entry to your project.

User communities and just chatting is fine, but it just makes way more sense to have a forum or other location for documentation and collaboration to happen that can be archived, backed up, and uploaded on other services as well.

If all else fails, just make a .onion site or forum for it

I think if someone asks someone repeatedly to not message them, and they proceed to message them twice more, that it is harassment regardless of what the justification is. The CEO is displaying narcissistic, manipulative, and toxic behavior, and there is no defense for that.

There was no issue with the initial reach-out, that’s fair to reach out to criticism to discuss it, the issue was with the follow-ups after they were asked to not continue the conversation any further.

Let’s not victim blame please.

Really wish they wouldn’t have clickbaited the title

I used to use clamtk occasionally when I was first getting into linux, nice little gui that made clam way simpler to use for me at the time, when I misunderstood what clamav was meant for (email scanning on gateways, not traditional antivirus)

Track record is CEO is likely transphobic (alternative/private reddit frontend link), and Tumblr accounts are opted into LLM training

Propaganda of all kinds is bad. Blind opposition to everything China does is just as much propaganda as the CCP propaganda that is in favor of everything it does is

Just looking through your post history, literally almost everything you post is about china, if I press ctrl + f, check “highlight all” and type “china” and scroll your account history, it lights up more than a rave.

Every country spreads misinformation, we don’t improve the world by locking onto a boogieman and ignoring our own problems, we fix all of the problems from everyone. I’m all for debunking misinformation, from everyone, not just preferring one flavor of misinformation over another.

Anyway, this post isn’t intended for you as I can see you’re responding in an accusatory way to most people that are calling out the post and I’m not interested in an argument, this is intended for anyone else scrolling through the thread

(U.S perspective)

If we didn’t let oil companies basically control the US this wouldn’t be a problem.

I think we can barely blame another country for doing something better than us. I don’t have any strong opinions on China one way or another, but this whole thing with the US panicking because another country is pushing out something good for the environment more-so than them is just silly. Our government has sat here twiddling their thumbs about the environment for decades and when someone else beats us to doing something about it on a large scale it’s suddenly a huge issue?

Perhaps I’m missing some context, I’m open to it, but I really can’t see any case where this isn’t the government’s own fault for not prioritizing the environment.

Fair enough, I like to try to avoid the CEOs that strike home for me when possible, even if that’s a losing battle. Beeper honestly sounds really convenient, I hope the CEO lets the team stay mostly independent on their choices for it

Same, basically unusable without them for me.

I’ll keep using them until if i get banned one day, try to make another account, then just move if I can’t because without custom clients discord is just death by a thousand papercuts imo

Loads for me but only on http, not https

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Would like to point out that this was acquired by Automattic, who’s CEO is notably transphobic. They repeatedly ban transgender transition progress pics (fully clothed) for violating the “sexual content policy” of Tumblr.

Apparently this acquisition happened on the same day as this post (not accusing, just saying it’s completely reasonable if you did not know about it, I didn’t know either until earlier)

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I tried to give Windows 11 another go recently just to see how it is, I pulled all my files over including my gog games files which had wineprefixes in the folders, with /appdata folders for each prefix.

Windows decided “you know what, screw c:\users\appdata, lets use the appdata folder in this random gamefolder on a different drive instead” and proceeded to cannibalize itself just breaking the majority of apps. No idea how it can’t recognize that the random wine “windows” files that aren’t in the correct locations aren’t the actual location for them. Couldn’t fix it because it thought the “c:” folder in the wine directory was my actual c: drive and refused to delete it

Sure it was an extremely niche issue a Windows user would never realistically run into, but it reminded me just how fragile it is for uncommon usecases

Here’s some archived versions that’ll let you read it: GhostArchive, Archive.ph (ghost has just the text, .ph has the full page)

tl;dr: It does breach Discord TOS. It’s rarely enforced, but still use at your own risk.

It connects via the bot api with permission “send and receive messages on your behalf” on your user account which itself doesn’t break TOS, but it toes the line of what discord considers “self botting”, and you’re technically logging messages which is against their TOS

So yes it definitely breaks TOS, Discord rarely enforces it against it, but it’s still a use at your own risk thing. Many will say it’s perfectly safe to use but there’s still a risk to be considered for how much you value your account. It’s in the same risk area as third party clients even though it isn’t one.

I don’t value my account so I use things like this and third party/modified clients and haven’t been banned for years, but any day now I and anyone else using these could be banned.

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