Posts by alexl@pkm.social
(DIR) Post #AVkFjyXIHSNW6fXWLY by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T11:33:02Z
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@Riedler @gianmarcogg03 Telegram let me chat with a very large userbase with optional e2ee ("Secret Chats") and talk with (always-on) e2ee calls.Telegram also doesn't censor public channels and groups like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do.For these two reasons Telegram is a bless for me.I hope Digital Market Act will force Telegram and the other messaging apps to federate ideally using Matrix:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoKjXN3G8a8
(DIR) Post #AVkGKoU4cGune5bCQS by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T11:57:38Z
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@gianmarcogg03 > that's the issue: end-to-end encryption is optionalYou had the opposite position when I pointed out Linux users can easily run binaries found on the Internet 😆> but some decentralized federated servers are more resilient to censorship than a company's serversIn a dictatorship yes, in a totalitarism the censorship comes from other citizens and it is what happened with the Fediverse, here you are easily censored by other people, on Telegram not, it is a fact.
(DIR) Post #AVkHMMHuWIGUjKD7Tc by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T12:09:06Z
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@gianmarcogg03 > no I didn't? I said what's popular on one end (Linux) and what's popular on the other (Telegram).Then phrase better your thought because you didn't mention what's the popular way to use those, but just optional vs non-optional...Censorship is not only closing servers or accounts but discrimitate what is allowed to spread, for example Facebook, YouTube etc all have the concept of "shadow-banning".
(DIR) Post #AVkI3TfkwKaa5KvPFY by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T12:16:44Z
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@Riedler @gianmarcogg03 On Android you can use this app to open Twitter link in a Nitter instance of choice:https://f-droid.org/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme/This method is more resilient than sharing a Nitter link because that link will be tied to a particular Nitter instance that could disapper later
(DIR) Post #AVkIZ41PqNK9nW7Lqi by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T12:22:34Z
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@gianmarcogg03 > the popular way of installing software on Linux is through package managers with trusted reposAre you sure? Check this thread as an example:https://pkm.social/@alexl/110157523079313946> Show me an example of this kind of censorship on the Fediversehttps://t.me/ByobluOfficial/3104
(DIR) Post #AVkJcmvzPtHFujv3dw by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T12:24:48Z
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@Riedler @gianmarcogg03 In my experience every single time a controversy against Telegram arised it turned out it was wrong, just like this time. But people only read and remember clickbait titles.
(DIR) Post #AVkJdQFVFH3jqYLgyO by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T12:34:38Z
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@gianmarcogg03 Logseq is the first post on the thread, then I reported Obsidian and Zettlr but the list is long, I just lost interest. Almost every multi-platform app uses AppImage to target Linux.Byoublu was a popular YouTube channel censored in 2021 that consequently raised donations (~350 000€/month) to run its own national TV channel.Recently even Wikipedia deleted its Italian page about Byoblu with no stated motivations.As you can see only the bad evil Telegram is not censoring it.
(DIR) Post #AVkLP5MgINeEvgzvbE by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T12:54:25Z
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@gianmarcogg03 I know, I am just saying that if you are on a crusade to make e2ee always used to protect other people privacy, it makes sense to want to protect other people's machines security by promoting the block by distro/DEs from running binaries and AppImages.Also Telegram has good reasons to not using e2ee everywhere while distro/DE have no reason to allow such a dangerous practice with no security measures like some kind of sandboxing.
(DIR) Post #AVkMDdB0rGTyH3drWK by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T13:03:33Z
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@gianmarcogg03 Byoblu was attacked mainly by the instance you are on, it was defamed by multiple instances to the point of being blocked by everyone and the same people pressured masto.host to stop provide its service to Byoblu and it did so by changing its terms of service to specifically exclude Byoblu.1/2
(DIR) Post #AVkMEr4weimpgFO5c8 by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T13:03:47Z
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@gianmarcogg03 You are the one that claimed a decentralized network like the Fediverse is more resilient to censorship than a centralized one like Telegram and I provided you a counterexample.You would be right for censorship in a dictatorship but in a totalitarism decentralization makes censorship even more efficient if you convince most people that there are good reasons to censor and boycott other people's ideas.2/2
(DIR) Post #AVkMWsNgYKTkvpkKP2 by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T13:07:02Z
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@gianmarcogg03 > What is the good reason behind Telegram not enabling end-to-end encryption by default? Matrix does it by default unless you want it disabled or unless it's a public chat and Matrix works just fine.The efficiency of Telegram search can be reached only server-side and there are other Telegram features that wouldn't be available with e2ee.Matrix is doing great but making a Telegram equivalent decentralized and e2e encrypted is very hard and it will take many years.
(DIR) Post #AVkNdsjDl9cNzSivuC by alexl@pkm.social
2023-05-17T13:18:57Z
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@gianmarcogg03 Telegram doesn't sound misleading to me.> I'd rather prioritize privacy and security over nice to have features, that's my mentality and that's the mentality of the Matrix devsI agree but I am still grateful to Telegram for providing me e2ee chats and calls with a very large userbase and for not censoring news and unpopular opinions.Matrix doesn't cover at all the second part because it is not a social network like Telegram and there aren't enough users for the first part.
(DIR) Post #AWsogIwM05sIN9gJv6 by alexl@pkm.social
2023-06-20T12:52:06Z
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@nextcloud Personally, I really like the improvements to automation / Flow and I hope this aspect is further developed in the future
(DIR) Post #AXBONRZ3HbqTefzIBc by alexl@pkm.social
2023-06-29T11:57:01Z
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@boilingsteam @thelinuxEXP Also, do they actually modify the source code or do they just build it and package it as RPMs? Because I don't think building and packaging count as modifications of the source code.And in my opinion if people want more protection they need to invent better licenses, not protesting when some convenience they were used to is revoked.And what would be the next request for the sake of collaboration? Requiring build tools, CI/CD, bug tracking to be FOSS? Good luck...
(DIR) Post #AXiFeWOijRRTnQz2Aq by alexl@pkm.social
2023-07-15T08:24:41Z
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@anders May I suggest Cubbit for geo-distributed backups?https://www.cubbit.io/And SnapRAID + MergerFS is great for home storage (for people comfortable with command line tools):https://www.snapraid.it/https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs
(DIR) Post #AXjFeWbc9Y5DbDyZUW by alexl@pkm.social
2023-07-15T19:59:26Z
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@anders The idea is that data is distributed encrypted to the machines of different users in different regions, with some redundancy, to prevent losing data when one or more servers go offline for whatever reason (fires or natural disasters happen and data centers have been affected in the past).I know it is used by companies, institutions, universities etc.
(DIR) Post #AXkASdqb67ILyHSTq4 by alexl@pkm.social
2023-07-16T06:35:58Z
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@anders You only pay for storage and bandwidth you actually use, usually a few €/$ per TB per month
(DIR) Post #AXrPQ1DLYT3h5kewvA by alexl@pkm.social
2023-07-19T18:26:30Z
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@anders @ednico @nhan I think what could solve everything once and for all is:1. A (graph?) database that runs locally (or remotely but with API to access it)2. Local or remote apps to manipulate that data (including a Tana-like UI)3. A *local* service that mount a virtual file system with notes (in MD or whatever) in folders. The folder structure is derived by traversing the graph of notes using some directives given by the user. For example "new hierarchy starting with <years>, then..."
(DIR) Post #AXrhPoIxLnUsEEKkcK by alexl@pkm.social
2023-07-19T21:48:08Z
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@anders Do you mean if the "virtual" notes should be Markdown files?I think the DB should have a rich schema with things like headers, tables, lists, tasks etc¹ and how they translate to file formats could be a user configuration: maybe Markdown, Djot, Asciidoc or HTML files. These files would contain only what is supported by that format, the rest (generally metadata) would remain in the DB.1: the GUI used to take notes could be WYSIWYG, Markdown, spreadsheets or whatever input method
(DIR) Post #AXtiA1gKKuB7LyDqkK by alexl@pkm.social
2023-07-20T12:39:28Z
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Does someone know a @pixelfed instance for creative digital content like Dribbble and Behance?#PixelFed