Gemini protocol rocks.

XMPP as a protocol was great. But the problems the servers had, the mess is just a no go. SimpleX is far better in privacy and usability in my opinion. I doubt XMPP will recover anytime soon.

Discord has an alternative called Revolt that is open source. It has all the premium features in discord for free, but is still in early stages I’d say.

aftermath of the white empire’s grand war

I see.

Lemmy: forums

Misskey: microblogging

What happened in 1984

your girly emoji usage makes my throbbing cock double in length

I can’t believe that EU can become much worse at privacy than America.

It’s the voice recognition model probably. Plus there are machine learning models in it as well to predict text.

I first tried a linux distro in 2020. At that time, I honestly just wanted the customizations I’ve seen in unixporn and mindlessly tried arch because of the memes. I followed some youtube tutorial to manually install it and of course fucked up my boot partition that also had my windows boot stuff. After installing arch, I tried booting windows to move things to an external drive but windows would not boot up. I paniced and searched for hours on the web trying to fix it before giving up and just wiping the drive entirely. I was pretty much a noob and didn’t know anything at all about linux at that time. Then I tried installing arch again tomorrow, this time I got everything right and I didn’t need to deal with dual booting as windows was no more on my drive. The system was pretty stable for a few weeks before I guess I tried customizing KDE or something and completely broke my system. Of course the dumbass me again just wiped off the whole drive all my files gone. After that I installed windows again and no longer try to install any linux distro again until last year where I instead read the arch wiki and I had more knowledge in general about these things, so in 2023 I wanted to try installing a linux distro yet again. This time I went with ubuntu. It looked nice and stable but it honestly just sucked. Snaps indeed were problematic and I never got myself to like them, even today. So I tried pop. This one was nice and I actually used it for a few months. GNOME wasn’t the best DE for me but it just worked. I wanted to go a little deeper into linux at some point and I, you guessed it, tried installing arch. Everything went smoothly and I also installed it manually without any yt videos but just the arch wiki. I had some problems understanding some stuff in it but I eventually got it to work. And until today, everything still works fine for me in arch. I can fix some issues I encounter without the help of the internet. So I’ve been using arch for a year now. Windows is also no longer installed. I migrated everything to arch. I don’t really use any professional tools at least like adobe so I have no problem with using arch. All of the games I played on windows function either better or the same on linux thanks to proton. Some games also have native versions so yeah.

Apparently, it is.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microsoft-edge-stable-bin

I love using Microsoft Edge on my GNU/Linux machine. I actually tried switching to Google as the search engine, but Microsoft Edge said it would be sad if I switched, so for the sake of Microsoft, I decided that I’d stay with Bing forever. I love giving my personal information to Copilot so that it can generate an interview application for me in my local fast food shops such as Mcdonalds, KFC, Burger King, etc. God bless Microsoft, best company ever!!! /s

The things humans make fish do is truly ridiculous.

It’s called “Letterboxing”. It sets the resolution of a web page to a standardized resolution used on all other (afaik) Firefox based browsers.

Don’t share any personally identifiable information and use the TOR network when using it for additional privacy.

How does it work? I was planning on importing a recommendation algorithm I made in the past for MAL for an upcoming fediverse summer project I was thinking of making that was also pretty much privacy-friendly. I’d like to know how you do the on device recommendation though. Since it’s content based, do you download thousands of posts or something?

By default, I doubt that Firefox is better at privacy than Chrome. Actually even worse than Chrome I’d say. But you can customize Firefox to be much more privacy friendlier than Chrome. That is the functionality Chrome lacks. The last time I tried out Ungoogled chromium, it sucked ass. Websites actually loaded slower than on Firefox for me. And both had uBlock Origin installed. I tried those fancy GPU stuff as well, almost nothing changed.

Yeah. Technically that should be possible. But why would you do that is the real question. Afaik you won’t be able to use GNU Taler without an existing backend. Your backend would be a bank and why not just withdraw coins from there. I don’t know whether you can self host the backend. There would be no reason to be afraid of the bank knowing where you send the coins to as that is pretty much hidden from the bank. I explained GNU Taler to my best abilities in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/10414943

Yeah well, it functions kind of like a nornal cryptocurrency wallet. You send those GNU Taler coins to another GNU Taler wallet. These coins can be directly converted to normal currency via the bank.