Ghoelian

@Ghoelian@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A French small business owner has his video game store looted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s a franchise, making this guy technically a small business owner? Not familiar with zing btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tip or skip? How US-style tipping culture is creeping into Australia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When i was in sweden they said apparently a lot of pin terminals come with the tip screen as default, but everyone just expects you to press skip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting into limiting free speech area there, im sure a lot of people would be very against something like that, however good the intentions may be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a guy with long hair i can tell you i would be pissed if they shaved my head while an alternative was available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I'm in public and remember my past disgrace that I can't ever mutter to another soul⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dude i hated this mechanic so much, i don’t think i ever finished that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  regardless of what the actual definition is.

  Lmao so you know you’re wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a BC?