rush

funnily enough whenever I point out that Privacy ≠ Secrecy in conversations like this I always get the surprised pikachu face and they (indirectly) immediately admit defeat

Widevine DRM works in both Chrome/Chromium and Firefox. HDR Support is nearly done. Yes, we can have different DPI/Scaling per monitor thanks to Wayland.

Go get some up-to-date information.

They didn’t imply that little people were using Nvidia GPUs, he is referring to the fact that you do like…2 extra clicks or so to install Nvidia’s drivers? You don’t even need to open a web browser!

press two buttons after install

Their “privacy checkup” is pretty much equal to “can you give us your phone number so we can more closely link it to your identity please? 👉👈”

Meaningful interactions, connections and privacy shall be prioritized.

Not because it’s good, but because it’s Google marketing it as a privacy “enhancement”

It is not, it is simply another way to frame privacy violation from Google as some sort of good thing, and I believe as more techy people it is somewhat our duty to inform others about this.

Independent communities shall thrive.

Twitter 2

So they only ended up implementing encryption-related parts of the protocol+server combo, like e.g Double-Ratchet or X3DH?

Privacy ≠ secrecy.

I like to quote this from privacyguides.org: "Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman’s suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, our right to privacy hasn’t always been upheld. In several dictatorships, it still isn’t. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right, inherent to all of us, that we are entitled to (without discrimination).

You shouldn’t confuse privacy with secrecy. We know what happens in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy. Everyone has something to protect. Privacy is something that makes us human."

In that case whatever you’re using isn’t SMS.

SMS has never supported group chats, and as such you should double-check what you’re actually using to text with one another.

I find End-To-End-Encryption especially important, as it protects the things you say between you and others, so I advise you to double-check that

As a matter of fact, WhatsApp has been using the signal protocol since 2016.

well texting people is honestly worse, there is no encryption at all and features are stuck in the stone-ages

For exorbitant fees.

That messaging is one of two things:

1. Outdated (SMS)
2. A walled garden (iMessage)

You either have SMS, which hasn’t benefitted from any of the advancements of the last decade, or you have iMessage which forces you and friends to spend WAY more money than needed because you essentially NEED an iPhone to use it with your phone number.

Please, use Signal

My Bad, must’ve misremembered.

And even then I still have a worse experience than with yt-dlp and piped

You’d hope they could come up with something better

It’s just sad.

Maybe we wouldn’t be so mad if their paid offerings weren’t worse than using an adblock or third-party download tools.

For context, if you download a video you have to have been online on YouTube in a timespan of 3 days with YouTube Premium to actually watch it offline.

Bandwidth is easily dealt with for PeerTube as it’s peer-to-peer.