Chewy7324

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A default group name, which can be changed individually would be great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yes, but that argument can be made against TOTP too.

SMS 2FA is less secure than TOTP, but still better than no second factor, since most criminals with access to a password database aren't able to take over your phone number (on a large scale).

With most services allowing some kind of password reset over SMS, I also prefer no 2FA over SMS 2FA. I already lost an account because I changed my number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, there's many ways to make programs unable to use other network interfaces. E.g. I'm creating a network namespace with a single wg0 interface, which I make services use through systemd NetworkNamespacePath.

That said, I'd argue gluetun is pretty much foolproof, especially with most people using docker which messes with iptables (edit: although I don't know if this'd be an issue for this use case).

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's more so that you are allowed to try to block ads. If YouTube adds DRM or otherwise manages to stop usage of ad blocking, they are completely in their right to do so.

IIRC if something runs on your system, you have the right to mess with it, however you want — e.g. block specific parts of the site, or use reader mode etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They already have your birthday (and maiden name) through your friends' contacts.

Being able to add birtdays manually is definitely useful, altough I believe it's better and more organized to add them through contacts. (Not that I actually use Google contacts/calendar.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has [email protected] 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/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They do basic checking for known malware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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.

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