your attitude/personality is ugly. do better.

Ooh silverbullet looks nice too, thanks. Link for the lazy: https://silverbullet.md/

If you’re on Firefox on desktop/laptop, check out Bypass Paywall [0]. It was removed from the firefox add-on store due to a DMCA claim [1], but can be manually installed (and auto updates) from gitlab. The dev even provides instructions on how to add custom filters to uBlock Origin [2], so you don’t have to add another extension but still get some benefit.

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

[1] https://winaero.com/mozilla-has-silently-removed-the-bypass-paywalls-clean-add-on-from-amo/

[2] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

does HGL require the other game launchers to be installed or is it standalone? I’d rather not install epic launcher.

ah, not super intuitive. I see it now, thanks!

Fixed! Thank you 🙏 The Voyager app doesn’t give you comment previews so I didn’t catch it was broken.

Because they get your profile picture, name, and email address when you click accept. I went through with it just to test, but definitely getting some data from its users.

You’re right, but security and privacy is about layers, not always 100% effective mitigations, especially not when the mitigation is a function (contact discovery) that requires a private list (your contacts) be compared against another one. For anyone where this is an actual security risk, they don’t have to to share their contacts. They will not know which of their friends/family are on Signal, but they can still use the service.

This feature does protect users in that any legal court order for Signal to present who is friends with who (as almost every other messaging provider has actual access to your list of contacts) is not possible. They’ve been subpoenaed multiple times[0] and all they can show is when an account was created and the last day (not time) a client pinged their servers.

Lastly, I’m not sure if this is even a feature or not but it wouldn’t be too difficult to introduce rate-limiting to mitigate this issue even more. As an example, its very unlikely that most people have thousands (or even tens of thousands) of people in their contacts. Assuming we go just a step beyond the 99th percentile, you can effectively block anyone as soon as they start trying to crawl the entire phone number address space, preventing the issue you’re describing.

[0] https://signal.org/bigbrother/

Not necessarily.

Signal has people who are experts in their field. They engineer solutions that don’t exist anywhere else in the market to ensure they have as little information on you as possible while keeping you secure [0]. This in turn means high compensation + benefits. You don’t want to be paying your key developers peanuts as that makes them liable to taking bribes from adversaries to “oops” a security vulnerability in the service. In addition, the higher compensation is a great way to mitigate losing talent to private organizations who can afford it.

[0] Signal has engineered the following technologies that all work to ensure your privacy and security:

• Post-Quantum Computing Resistance
• Private Stories
• Group calling
• Private admin permissions
• Secure Value Recovery
• Private Stickers
• Sealed Sender
• Private GIF search
• Private Contact Discovery
• Encrypted Profiles
• Reproducible Builds

wasn’t loading for me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231017081344/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-hamas-war-live-iran-warns-resistance-front-may-attack

X? The only “X” i recognize is DMX, R.I.P.

This is a nice surprise. Didn’t even know this was in development. Can’t wait to test it out!

I plan on making it available inside my own network, not public. This way if someone makes it past my security, I at least have something that might “catch” them in the act and disable my network so I can intervene. Just another security layer.

People need to (re)discover adblockers and alternative apps.

• Firefox+uBlock Origin takes care of nearly all ads on the web.
• NewPipe Lets you watch YouTube without ads (and lets you download videos).
• Pixelfed is like insta without the ads (or people, lets be honest, but you gotta be the change you want to see)
• Mastodon is twitter without ads
• Lemmy reddit without ads

We have the tools and technology, its just a matter of people making the move, but that’s hard because of the network effect.

for anyone wanting to avoid giving “X”, formerly known as Twitter, any traffic, here it is.

Fair point, but do note that https://wormhole.app is just a web-client for the wormhole protocol. There’s a reference implementation and there’s - personally - a much better go-based implementation (wormhole-william) that also has a few clients built using its API:

• rymdport: A cross-platform Magic Wormhole graphical user interface
• riftshare: Desktop filesharing app
• tmux-wormhole: tmux wormhole integration
• wormhole-william-mobile: Android wormhole-william app

may not meet your requirements but have you taken a look at https://wormhole.app ?

X? Can we collectively decide to forever call it “X, formerly known as Twitter” just to piss him off?

but what if that was the intent behind the artwork? if I want a series of random photos and say it’s an art piece from the pov of Spider-Man swinging around but the setup is just hanging a camera and letting it take pictures on its own as it swings, is that still copyrightable art? If so, is art all about the intent behind the process and the process itself doesn’t matter?