Ghoelian
@Ghoelian@piefed.social
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 5 days ago:
Yes I know how mail encryption works. The point is that mails get encrypted as soon as they enter mailbox’ servers, so mailbox can never know any contents, so they have nothing to hand over to authorities if they come asking. They do have to know the private key used for this though, that is a risk to consider. Of course, if you want fully secure mail, you need both parties agreeing on encrypting/decrypting the mail. Or just don’t use email, use a secure protocol instead.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 5 days ago:
No, that’s not how it works. If you set up mailbox encryption (mailbox guard), you set up (or let mailbox.org generate) a pgp keypair. Any time you want to read an email, you have to unlock the key first. This way you can use regular imap, the body of emails will just arrive encrypted (and optionally the subjects as well I believe), you only need a pgp decryption tool to read the mails (which Thunderbird/K9 supports out of the box (with OpenKeychain on Android)).
- Comment on Test your might 1 week ago:
I don’t care. I didn’t buy a dishwasher because i still wanted to had wash some. If it doesn’t survive the dishwasher i don’t want it.
- Comment on Test your might 1 week ago:
My knife handles are fine after years of dishwasher, what kind of dishwasher are you using??
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
It is openpgp, but I’m not aware of another mail provider that allows you to encrypt every mail when it arrives. Mailbox.org does have to manage this key though of course, but it can be a separate one from what you use to sign / encrypt sent emails.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
I won’t comment on the Proton thing as the other replies already explained it well.
IMAP is weak security since it uses basic authentication, so I’m not sure why you think integrated support for IMAP makes a service better or more secure.
IMAP does not make it more secure, it makes it so that you can use any email client and aren’t tied in to their proprietary apps, like you are with Proton. You either need their desktop app or their bridge.
IMAP having weak security is not an issue (also I’m not aware that it has, you can use imap with plenty of authentication options), because all of your emails are encrypted if you set it up correctly. Someone could steal my every single transaction with mailbox.org and not be able to do anything with the data.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
I’ve been happy with mailbox.org so far. They offer full mailbox encryption, but unlike proton still support regular imap and smtp. You just need a mail client that supports pgp en/decryption (thunderbird does, both desktop and android).
- Comment on Stop Killing Games join lawsuit against the PlayStation Store's "Sony Tax," in latest venture beyond game preservation 3 weeks ago:
that Sony wields monopoly power by only making digital PlayStation games available through its own store
Isn’t this also the case with Xbox and Nintendo? AFAIK on those platforms you can also only buy games on their stores. Not saying that makes it okay, just wondering why they’re not being sued as well.
- Comment on What are these brownish speckles on my polyester shirt? How to get it off? 4 weeks ago:
Care to explain pretty much anything from your comment? Why is the regular program not good? Why does it matter if you’re using it in the US? And which setting should I use instead? Should it be warmer, colder, less/more centrifuge?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get it. There aren’t waprincesses because waluigi and wario are in a relationship? What?
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
I’m not defending anything lol, I’m just saying this surveillance doesn’t add a whole lot to the existing surveillance as far as I can tell, which is already pretty bad.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
The only part of that not really possible with ceiling cameras is eye tracking, you don’t need eye-level cameras for the other two.
- Comment on Fun Minecraft-esque chemistry game 5 weeks ago:
regardless of what the actual definition is.
Lmao so you know you’re wrong
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 5 weeks ago:
That’s what I was thinking. If I saw a sign like this, with some mysterious text with no translation, I would definitely want to know what it says.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
Or just pirate them, ezpz, especially if you already don’t morally agree with the publisher.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent 1 month ago:
Huh, I always thought windows just had some dumb mechanism that let random USB devices show a popup or something, but this is even more stupid.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 1 month ago:
Okay but why am I watching 2 cats watch a movie?
spoiler
(you used POV incorrectly)
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 1 month ago:
They publish their own games, so in that sense it’s true. I don’t think they’ve ever published a 3rd party game though.
Also, aren’t publishers mainly for marketing and that? Usually people are happiest when the publisher doesn’t involve itself in the development. That’s what the developers are for, after all.
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 1 month ago:
Little weird to see astro bot in that list, isn’t that just one game that came out like 2 years ago? I don’t anyone is buying a PlayStation for the next astro bot.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Very occasionally transparent but yeah 99% of disposable cups you get here are white (and too small imo)
- Comment on This week on Windows... 2 months ago:
I’ve worked at a company that used windows server and IIS for their internal hosting. Holy hell am I glad I haven’t had to touch that piece of garbage since I left. How can anyone take that mess seriously as a webserver?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
i mean if microsoft changed its api linux gaming would halt
so would gaming on windows, as all games (and programs in general) have been built against the same APIs as wine/proton is.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 2 months ago:
I wonder if you could make a case for false advertising here.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
But also not everyone with a .de domain lives in Germany. You can’t really accurately filter for this in a newsletter unless you know everyone’s location. So they just used the language, thinking that would catch most German citizens.
- Comment on How my dog feels when he doesn't get the attention of everyone. Also sometimes how I feel when my BC gets too much attention lol much love 5 months ago:
What’s a BC?
- Comment on I want to be... 5 months ago:
Is it actually? (I’ve never seen JoJo do I don’t have an opinion of it either way)
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 5 months ago:
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 7 months ago:
Wait, didn’t someone already make exactly this but only for Minecraft?
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 7 months ago:
I don’t think it was a user-agent thing. The nav menu would just functionally not work on other browsers. Iirc it just showed every menu in the expanded state. They probably used some IE exclusive JavaScript methods without any polyfills.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 7 months ago:
At one of my previous employers, there was an intranet website where the nav menu would only work correctly in edge in IE compatibility mode. I’m not sure how they even managed this. I only used edge for that one website though, Firefox for everything else.