What should anyone have done different? Not built for one of the largest platforms with the most users?

Yeah but it’s “we” as in everyone not “we” as in “Lemmy commenters”.

So the network effect will keep the average person on a locked-down phone that can’t run anything anti-regime

They’ve been. Demand your privacy back

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At that point I’d just spray paint them. Much safer, easy to buy in cash, and I assume it costs a lot to send someone to clean it up

hey idk if you heard but Organic forked, I’m on CoMaps now Have a good day!

If it’s at that point:

1. Set up a password manager on your desktop
2. Change your account passwords to something too long to remember, and keep them in the password manager

I have a Pixel phone with Graphene for offline maps, Wi-Fi, emergency calls, etc.

yeah golden ears are very rare. 320 kbps of any codec is fine for me.

Hm. I want a plan for when this reaches the US.

Think they’ll block P2P stuff?

Even the FOSS apps don’t all get along.

Conversations is great for XMPP, and it can act as a UnifiedPush pusher, but AFAICT it doesn’t support other protocols and it doesn’t act as a UnifiedPush subscriber.

So running 2 chat protocols, one being the well-support app Conversations on the well-supported protocol XMPP, means 2 push setups and 2 apps. Bleh.

I would like to see an architecture where the expensive app side of things is separated from the protocol. But that’s all speculative, I haven’t put work hours into it. Basically, if I have an idea for P2P chat, why do I need to re-invent emojis and channels and shit like that? I only want to iterate on transport. And if I have a better idea for channels, why would I have to re-invent the transport like XMPP and Matrix?

(The reason is that cutting those two apart is hard - But I will continue to wonder.)

And it would be easier with good bridges, but of course the big platforms like Twitter, Facebook, etc., refuse to bridge in or out with anything.

You can scrape public Facebook feeds, using paid services, but AFAICT you need a friend on the inside to publish your stuff into Facebook.

I guess that’s one reason I shouldn’t complain about Bluesky - They support Bridgy.

Neat!

But it’s 2024 🤔

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Maybe it’s uncommon to have a climate where you need both.

My furnace has a humidistat so in the winter we can adjust how much water gets sent into the hot air stream. But it’s always maxed out because it’s really dry every winter here.

In the summer, the AC takes care of dehumidifying. Running a dedicated dehumidifier would be a waste of electricity, at that point just turn on the AC and any extra cold is a buffer against running the AC later on.

I like Benn Jordan a lot but I really doubt a bird can sing 2 MB / s. I saw the spectrogram and it looked pretty fuzzy

Finally, I can just watch 50 hours of N64 emulation nerd shit to gain access to the softcore porn I also wanted to watch, after this next N64 video

Don’t forget to use diceware. The human mind is not random enough https://www.eff.org/dice

Never in my dang life have I seen a Philips actually cam out. Either the screw strips or the driver strips.

Usually both.

It’s a thing called data bestie