kostas

@kostas@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These three points you make here completely validate my decision to start to mainly use this instance.

  1. One thing which is probably important to note here is that I tend to view Lemmy instances as infrastructure, rather than as communities.

  2. I do not want to end up in a fragmented Lemmy network, where users are required to have accounts on 5 different instances in order to be able to access all their communities.

  3. Communities should always be free to set and enforce rules which foster healthy discussions. On top of that, instances should always be free to set and enforce rules for all of their users and communities.

  These adress the majority of issues I have had when trying to switch to using lemmy in the beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When this post is 3 hours old, lemm.ee will briefly go offline for database maintenance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the heads up, see you on the other side o7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We set the threshold of sensible protections provided by the app (signal) itself differently.

  On desktop having a gallery app, as you say, or running an application like windirstat for example I expect the user to understand that anything stored on device can be “seen” by the app and that, if they dont trust it, having sensitive files deleted or sandboxed might be prudent. Messages are stored at least somewhat encrypted (albeit with the key in a config file) so a random (non targeted/malicious) scan would gt blobs there.

  On mobile due to how opaque the os is I am thankful for the extra encyption and I would consider it a much more critical flaw. On desktop less so. Still I appreciate your point of view and a passkey to encrypt at least messages on the desktop app would be a welcome addition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, but wouldn’t such an application be malicious by default? Having protection against attackers on your device seems of out scope for a messaging application, at that point I would consider something like Tails. Though this may be a rare case when moving to an appimage could help matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixar CCO Says Live-Action Remakes Bother Him: “I Like Making Movies That Are Original”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t critisize them, only if you solely view films as products to be sold and judged on profitability. It is ironic though coming from someone who, 2 sentences later says:

  “Part of our strategy is to try to balance our output with more sequels. It’s hard. Everybody says, ‘Why don’t they do more original stuff?’ And then when we do, people don’t see it because they’re not familiar with it,” he said. “With sequels, people think, ‘Oh, I’ve seen that. I know that I like it.’ Sequels are very valuable that way.”

  as if regurgitation of ideas just for familiarity’s sake is any better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t having full disk encryption achieve most of the benefits of that? In case of someone having access to your unlocked machine what is stopping them from launching the app and looking though it?