Programmer by day, burnt out by night.
Buying from, and supporting the artist directly, IMO.
Many European metal bands host their own webshop selling their merchandise, records, cassettes and CDs; many small and independent musicians sell their songs on Bandcamp (US based website that does take a cut from each payment, 15% I believe goes to Bandcamp, so that is something to keep in mind)
I snorted when this was the only comment. They know what they’re doing with that name.
Going by their phone number they’re Italian, although I can’t find the address they’re registered to, on their webpage.
What metadata does XMPP leak?
AFAIK only when a message was sent, roughly (in large increments) how large the message was, the server of the sender knows from who to which server, the server of the recipient knows from which server to who.
I find it strange that Signal somehow doesn’t know when a message was sent, and from who to who; how would they ever make this possible?
Also, you say you have yet to find any other free service that collects as little data… How about most e-mail providers? Not Google and Microsoft of course, but most e-mail providers only need a name which can be made up as well. You hm also host your own email server, then you are in control. All of this is true for XMPP and Matrix, as well.
I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete
Why does that surprise me, actually?
“You gotta recharge sometime”… You don’t think other brands do EVs?
If this is real, then that’s some North Korea shit right there.
Wait hold up, in Dutch we have glimwormen (“shimmer worms” ) but those don’t fly! They’re actual bioluminecent worms.
Aren’t German Glühwürmchen the same thing?
Natural area, large garden, nah I’ll never be able to afford that!
I thought money to Lemmy (not your instance but the founders) went to a US organisation?
It’s still federated so I guess it doesn’t really matter much, but still…
hot sauce Netherlands
I’m having a hard time believing they’ll be hot, speaking from experience with my fellow Dutch.
Someone is writing in English how the French are talking about the Scandinavians?
It can’t get much more European than this!
XMPP is more comparable to Signal, yes.
Signal does need (yes, need) a phone number, and most people only have one so that is identifiable info.
This puts it at mostly the same level as some competitors, including WhatsApp which is often advised against.
This? https://https/://simplex.chat/
FWIW Matrix and XMPP are also decentralised, much like e-mail is, which is why I recommended it. I’m immediately skeptic about SimpleX’s premise of having no user IDs; they’ll likely need some unique field for each user, this might as well be a UUID or something like that… So what’s the benefit?
Signal is American
Opt for a Matrix or XMPP provider in Europe (magicbroccoli.de is a genuinely great XMPP provider)
You really needed a URL shortener, didn’t you, you devil?
pay someone else to build their character, and then not know how to play it.
This 100% sounds like how he’s handling Xitter.
So their laptops were running Android?
Reading the article it was a closed source OS, with their own closed-source Linux-based kernel.