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@sga013@lemmy.world

(Earlier also had @sga@lemmy.world for a year before I switched to @sga@lemmings.world, now trying piefed)

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  • reason for them not appearing is that xmpp is a largely relaxed platform, that is, all implementations are not equally strict. some may implement certain extensions, others may implement other. encryption (omemo) is a common one that most implement, but then client (the user apps like gajim) may or may not implement them correctly, or they may have a fallback (first communication between 2 clients maybe is not encrypted), and other different problems with encryption being flaky (firstly, it is not perfect forward secrecy, it is a bit prone to failure (messages unable to decrypt), etc.), hence it is not recommended much.







  • I am the person who violates most rules (the machine manual suggests we wait 1 min to increase 1 step, i guess the engineer included a safety factor of 2 so i can safely do 40sec on busy day(i have to do this a lot so 20 sec saving once is like 20 mins a hour), you need to wear proper ppe, but i am in hurry, and have to remove it before doing other work, might as well wear half of it, and insure i do not use other half(this one is not that bad cause i am not handling something toxic, it’s just that i may contaminate some stuff, and this thing does not really require full clean room treatment)







  • sga@piefed.socialtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksSelf Identified
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    4 months ago

    (my comment was mostly joke-y bit)

    it’s very easy to have some ingrained racist views

    I think part of the reason is that it is at least one part natural pattern recognition. I am from a “diverse” country and more than races, I mostly have region specific biases, of which, we have about 30 to pick from. So yeah, It is big pool to choose from. Naturally living in a diverse nation meant I never looked at people from races being inferior or superior. But at the same time, since I am from a particular region, and since your nature heavily depends on your surrounding, i have region specific things, and I am “region-ist”. Like I do go “people from this religion are very loud” or “timid” or “stupid”. But at the same time, my natural speech is not that harsh, and so even if i have regional preconcieved notions, I am not often hurtful to others.



  • they are federated just as piefed is, but the difference is that in lemmy/piefed, you do not want to follow particular users, you follow communities. on peertube, you follow users. so when you watch a video on one instance, you can watch a video from different instance too, its just that peertube does not have a great recommendation algorithm. in lemmy/piefed, when you go to home page, and just search something, content from all comunities is shown. in earlier versions of peertube, you could not search across instances. now you can. if you want a better search, try - https://sepiasearch.org/




  • there used to be more, but now news is the main thing.

    in olden times (of 2021), distro reviews/why linux is better/software showcase were the main things.

    there were folks like luke smith (not going to his political shit) would do demos for things like groff/troff (imagine a latex alternative, now it is pretty much only used for man pages). but you get the idea - they would demo software, use it, compare it.

    there is tle, who did lots of lists (like x amount of tools from elementary os which are great), linux cast would do file manager reviews, brodie would cover commandline stuff.

    now pretty much all 3 of them do news. I still watch brodie because his news at times is niche and kinda fun, but i really do not want to hear lkml drama (which is non existent).

    one of the youtubers which got me into linux was mental outlaw. he made tonnes of privacy/security/anonymity related videos back then, and occasional covered hacking news. i started trying to make windows more private (it truly started from try to make wwindows leaner), and then he, and tle got me into linux.

    now i do not watch almost any of them. (except brodie, and occasional tle and tlc)

    why all went to news - it is easier to make.


  • sga@piefed.socialtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlHelium Browser
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    5 months ago

    Most of the comment section is hating on it being a chrome based browser, and not really answering the question, so let me try.

    (partially unrelevant bit, you can skip it if you want to) I have been using it for about a week. before this, i was using qutebrowser (qt-webengine, which is essentially older lts chromium) for nearly a year and discussing with someone how i definitely should not be using such a old browser. So I am trying out “mainstream browsers” again. I went with helium, because the “someone” also recommended it. I was using librewolf for more than a year before qute, and did not like the performance (especially in my case, ha ving keyboard navigation, with something like vimium or tridactyl). Another reason is that i wanted to try something chromium (proper) after a long time.

    What it is - if you have heard of ungoogled chromium project, this project builds from that, and they add some ui/ux features. for example, in ungoogled chromium, you can not download extensions from chromestore, you have to use a separate extension, and you essentially “sideload” them. They (helium) have made a middle man service (open, you can host your own instance), which you can use to get a nearly chrome like experience. They also ship with ublock origin (the proper manifest v2 version which is now deprecated in other chromium browsers). Other than that, it is almost stock chromium.

    trustworthiness?? - can not really comment on that. I know the devs behind this browser have also made “cobalt.tools” website (imagine yt-dlp, but written from scratch and based in web tech (js)). So they have some cred from that. other than that, team is likely very small, and your proper trustworthiness essentially boils down to - do you trust their work? you can check their patches on github. if you want to, you can try to build from source and patches (building chrome is nightmarishly long). if you use their binary packages (which i am currently doing) then you are putting trust on them (remember xz situation?). in case they are using stuff like github action to generate their builds, then you can check the build files and artifacts as well.


  • sga@piefed.socialtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlHelium Browser
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    5 months ago

    unbiased ad-blocking

    in this case, this just means they are using ublock origin with default filter lists. my guess for their wording is that they are not doing something like brave (you partially see ads) or like edge and other chromes which use some very light form of adblocking, which ofcourse does not work on their websites.

    I’d prefer it be an extension

    it is. they are shipping the manifest v2 (the full version) of ublock oob.

    Isn’t BSD a sharealike license? So they can’t not

    no. bsd (i think chrome is 3 clause, but not sure) is a just as open license like mit or gpl (minus the copyleft in gpl). and the core(ish) bits of chrome are lgpl (not sure. i am taliking about blink).