That’s one of the reasons I don’t like buying games with Denuvo. Waiting a few years before buying games is something I usually do anyway, so at that point Denuvo DRM would’ve already been removed.

Good idea to write a function, I’ll do that right now. Over the last few weeks I’ve been regularly doing the Ctrl+Z, bg, disown, which does get old pretty quickly. At least I now remember the terms and don’t have to search for them each time I need it :D

I’m honestly fine with DRM, as long as it’s removed within my definition of reasonable time. I’d say a year vor two.

Once the DRM is removed it allows for archiving and preserving the piece of media — as well as pirating copies.

Many games are fun, especially with friends, even if they are crappy on a deeper look (micro transactions etc.). Most mobile games are fun at first–the trick is stopping when they aren’t anymore.

With games blocking Linux users, we can’t even enjoy the beginning. And many more won’t even try to use it.

Yeah it’s sad to see more games fixing their bad net code with client side anti cheat. Remember, GTA Online is a game where a lobby is transparently hosted on someones PC, which allows them to cheat however they want.

If Rockstar used proper dedicated servers, this wouldn’t be an issue. Just like with Fall Guys and many other games.

A few weeks ago I thought about getting back into GTA Online, now I can’t.

No, this runtime only works if the developer enables it on their side.

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org

So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?

A matrix room can have multiple identities/adresses set by the room admin. E.g. the admin of !anime:matrix.org could add another adress for the same room on !anime:myanime.instance. Because the room is replicated on all other participating servers, this would let the room continue to exist on the network (besides all matrix.org users not being able to access it).

Matrix does have a single “room id” per room, which looks like it gives the original creating home server more rights, which it does not. E.g. !ehXvUhWNASUkSLvAGP:matrix.org

Any server admin does not have any more rights over a room than another server admin. They can ban the room for their local users, but this does not stop federation as a whole.

[1] https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/419
[2] https://app.element.io/#/room/#synapse:matrix.org/$htJmba92wLTP9AoFg4eEWi9IXpgwvXr6G9Sa-kBsNNs
[3] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/rooms.html#delete-room-api

It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked […]

Matrix allows for media to be hotlinked, but it can also be replicated across servers.

I.e. if I send an image in a room and look at the source (available on many web clients), the image url looks like the following "url": "mxc://matrix.org/qGgUKuZuHcRsWAhSfqKnmtiX". The actual image (and preview) then gets fetched by your server from my server [4], and then gets send to your client.

It’s important to note that a server isn’t required to download all media. If a user does not read a room, it might not download the media from another server, until the user actually wants to view it (or rather that part of the room history). Or a server admin might clean up the media store to free up space.

[4] https://matrix.org/docs/spec-guides/authed-media-servers/

@JackbyDev@programming.dev

They do basic checking for known malware.

You’re right. I’ve read somewhere that Apple plans to work with GSMA to add encryption to the official RCS standard, so this major issue hopefully gets fixed at some point.

Yeah, I’m not sure whether Bitwarden always had support for exporting the vault on mobile, but it’s an awesome feature.

This DRM is built in to Play Integrity, and GrapheneOS only passes the basic check, so apps using this DRM won’t work.

Stronger levels of Play Integrity don’t work on GOS anyway, so hopefully devs won’t use this feature either.

Spoofing Play Integrity works with rooted phones, although it breaks from time to time.

RCS isn’t E2E, and it doesn’t minimize metadata.

Moxie Marlinspike has been strongly against federation in Signal because of how it makes avoiding metadata almost impossible.

I’d say there’s basically zero chances Signal will add RCS.

I’d argue XMPP is less ideal than Matrix because groups are located on a single server, which makes them easier to take down than Matrix’ replicated state.

Running any P2P/decentralized protocol over I2P seems to be the best for privacy and censorship-resistance. I2P already works great for torrents, except for it’s speed and lack of users/seeders.

@zabadho@ani.social

The problem always comes down to usability and barrier to entry. Telegram is popular because it’s great to use, and doesn’t moderate much. More private services rarely (never?) reach the level of usability most people expect, often simply because of it’s architecture.

They are evaluating different ways to continue to support ad blocking. E.g. “unbraving” Brave Browser, or just implementing their adblock-rust.

They most likely won’t support MV2, since it would get increasingly difficult with each update to Chromium.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/662

Creating a wayland compositor based in wlroots is much more work than an X11 window manager. And then there’s quite a bit of work to keep up with new Wayland protocols.

But I personally don’t think there’s a need for more compositors, since the existing compositors do support all kinds of tiling.

E.g. river has custom layout providers, which allows for creating completely custom tiling behaviour. There’s even a hyprland plugin which implements river-layout-v3.

Since most of the fediverse is run by volunteers, blocking ads isn’t much of a concern.

Though I do agree with the sentiment and I love Firefox + uBlock Origin on my phone.

Oh thanks, I didn’t know it’s an abbreviation.

IIRC Apple only is 1st in sales revenue and sold devices of a single sku. All Android phones combined have a far bigger share by volume.

Which makes sense, since iPhones are on average incredibly expensive, especially for many countries where they have to be imported.

I’ve never seen any reason to believe Google has any say in the direction of Firefox. Google pays to be the default search engine, not more, not less.

This same argument could be brought up about Safari. All other browsers are based on Chromium anyway, so they are directly developed by Google themselves.

I got the first part about Chrome as a joke, but after I read the edit I wasn’t sure anymore.

But seriously, Firefox kind of sucks.

Why do you think that? I’m happy with Firefox. It let’s me customize the tabs bar through userConfig.css to exclusively use tree style tabs and supports uBlock. That’s all I really need from a browser, but, sadly, all other browser only support basic vertical tabs.