Willoughby

one dude holding an XMPP sign in the back

“we see you, buddy!”

Moved my Desktop to Devuan yesterday, seems fine, doing the rest of my systems next week. Fuck em.

XMPP devs: “we’re right here, guys”

Yep, even if this one doesn’t pass, give it five years. I have no hope left, humanity can’t stand up or fight against anything. I’d download Devuan or Artix and get familiar and settle in, better prepped than sorry.

5 years later

“What music? It was all a bluff.”

…So the expectation is that a criminal organization would obviously print and build a gun, but they wouldn’t sidestep a law to illegally build a 3D printer from scratch to do it?

This would either be opt-in or up to your device. I’d suspect any Pixel, Samsung or iPhone with Ai assisted accessibility features enabled to be likely targets.

My statement, in truth was more of a “water is wet”, broad stroke. If some feature of your phone involves an Ai agent reading your screen, then I hate to say this, but I’m afraid an Ai agent may be reading your screen.

When it does, whether it does becomes irrelevant if it can, and I don’t trust ifs. I directly tell my iPhone and average Android users on XMPP that they should know not to discuss much more than they would in a crowded mall, if that. You’re at the mercy of your manufacturer for any illusion of privacy you believe you may have. In more truth, we all are, me on a Oneplus 11 on Lineage, just maybe slightly less so. No Ai, at least.

What if I told you on some phones, an Ai agent is watching your every keystroke, making e2e entirely moot?

What if I told you that if anyone in the chatrooms you visit has one, then the entire chatroom is compromised, you included?

Food for thought.

…or did I? 🤔

hi, Vsauce, Michael, here

On one hand, investors want us to put money into this insane Ai parlor trick shit that no one uses.

On the other hand, there’s no middle class and no one to sell anything we make to even if we weren’t just ticking off investor wish-lists

and on our third hand, we stopped making things!

…unironically

davx5

nextcloud

a few xmpp clients

Closed to my wallet lmao. If Android becomes nothing more than a walled garden then there’s no reasonable difference between ios and android.

Its objective superiority puts others off.

arch

bow and arrow

is this from another dimension?

Is .gif different there?

Meta to stop pretending your messages were ever encrypted-

Too bad he’ll never see any consequences and his kids will all die of old age.

I’ve gotten used to Unexpected Keyboard for use with Termux, but I do agree the average folk need a keyboard for the people.

Unlikely with as small of a community as we have, but plausible.

I’d be more careful to separate the you from you while you’re on the decentralized web. It pays in safety and peace of mind. Who’s anybody?

With as many as they release, that’s what like, one every three years or so? I’ll live.

TOR but with the idea you’d never leave the Onion.

Why port back out to clearnet? We can build our own shangrila inside. This is the concept behind i2p and yggrasil.