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Is buying a smartphone with a properietary OS from an EU company really a smart decision after chat control?

I think I'm going to be sticking with Graphene

It would be impossible to analyse the images if it wasn’t decrypted, so it seems a little silly.

What's silly, that Kohler is deliberately misusing a popular term for advertising purposes, or that a security research called them out for false advertising?

E2EE is a term used in the context of a messaging app to indicate that the messaging app provider cannot read your messages, only the intended recipient. It makes zero sense to use that term in this case because the messaging app provider is also the recipient.

Yet the marketing people at Kohler saw that this technical terminology is something people associate with "secure" or "private", and just rolled with it. This harms consumers who are inevitably mislead into making a purchase decision, and it harms the broader tech industry as consumers lose the ability to understand complex privacy technologies through simple terminology like "E2EE"

I second the dark reader recommendation, it'll save your eyeballs and works on (almost) every site. You can even install it on Firefox mobile and its various forks

Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

This type of thing needs to be investigated in the real world. A picture and a reddit post won't crack the case lol

I think people are too polite to call shitty programmers out on being shitty. It's probably not a fair assumption, but whenever I see someone admit they use some AI coding tool, I immediately assume they're either a junior, or one of those people who just were never intelligent enough to be a good developer, and ended up getting filtered into some low skill web dev job. Those are the kinds of people who probably feel threatened by AI, and I feel are more likely to use it.

We need to make elitism and public shaming cool again.

Godot? Wtf?

Also,

I’ve looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

Idk Handbrake specifically, but generally when that kind of thing happens it's for a good reason. There are a lot of options when converting a video file, and you can't support them all without exposing that complexity in some form. If you don't think so, then you haven't done enough research into the problem space.

With that said, a "dumbed down" version of Handbrake that is optimized for a single common use case could be useful. For example, re-encoding iPhone videos to minimize compression artifacts when sharing over Whatsapp could be useful to people. However, I don't think a desktop app is the most accessible implementation for that.

EDIT: also, even if a desktop app was a good choice, it might be more practical to implement it as like a preset for Handbrake rather than a whole separate app. My mom isn't very tech literate, but I could probably teach her how to activate a preset (idk if Handbrake supports presets, but it probably does lol)

Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

I just remembered that I'm the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

Guess it's time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

You can, but you can only take one byte

I settled on DeltaChat too. XMPP is great in theory, but the apps aren't great on iOS. That basically killed it for me in terms of getting people to switch to it, which sucked since I went through the effort of setting up my own server.

So far, Delta chat has been working for everyone with zero issues. Maybe the only complaint is that the gray logo isn't as exciting as the bright green whatsapp one lol

Who's the guy in the bottom left?

Off topic, but is there a name for that grin/facial expression? It's like technically a grin, yet devoid of any real emotion. Feels like it's trying to not commit too much into an emotion, maybe even for calculated social engineering reasons. I see it in the Godot logo as well.

In my head, I've taken to calling it "the autistic stare" due to the confused/vague communication of an emotion, but idk if that's offensive.