Used to recommend XMPP (lol) but even with whatever encryption the servers still know and control too much. Like who you are chatting with (entire contact book) and when, plus attachments most of the time. And there was also the jabber
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ru incident... Don't feel like pulling up the article rn but basically it got MITMed by one of the ISPs (counting the hosting provider as ISP), with a new valid TLS certificate and all.
Tox supermacy! What looser needs a backlog, pffff.
I'm more concerned with the contributions eventually resulting in corporate decisions creeping into copyleft software, as is tradition. The kernel drivers and stuff already are just corporate decisions, tho if they contribute to the user facing stuff...
Oh, I don't trust any AOSP fork btw. I like my computer. Just worried about friends.
iptables now defaults to the nft backend (affects pretty much nothing)
Repost.
Also, my Mint install broke, uh, shit I don't remember, 5 times? Arch broke zero times. Zero times not my own fault for forgetting I was installing something and shutting off the computer, of course. Except for the times I tried the fucking installer python script, but since I never even booted the install it doesn't count.
SHOCKING!!!!111 Worst person you know made a good point
The modern web fucking sucks. Imagine there's no gigabit in the country where most sites are [made|tested|dictated]. Lots of things can be made to make sites suck harder even then, it can't keep going forever this way. It will hit some sort of wall eventually.
(offtopic but I love how "politics at lemmy dot world" isn't world politics)
USB-IF thinks they don't, yes.