Thanks! Will try them out sometime :) Last time I tried download missions (which was maybe 2 months ago), I got 404. Hopefully that issue will be fixed now.

Edit: the error was not 404, but “Cannot connect to server”. I had to execute a command to make it work. Will give one of these missions a shot now.

The Dark Mod ❤️

It is so awful that it’s funny!

I am so happy that I deleted my account on Fecesbook back in 2019. Plus, I am blocking Meta through RethinkDNS. Can’t be more happy!

Standard resolution for me is FHD. Heavy duty games O.o If it is true, that is. Any source? DOOM: The Dark Ages requires 16 GB in GPU on recommended and ILL’s system requirements are TBA.

When I read your comment, I could not stop thinking about those exclusive games that Epic Games have every now and then. I highly dislike that!

Any other VPN than Mullvad VPN is scam /s

Still below 600 (if the numbers are dead-exact) which makes me glad. GOG should be the only place for DRM free games. But that’s my opinion. What I know of, GOG is today the only place for downloadable installation files of games.

When it comes to non-FOSS, yes, I agree.

it’s not “forever”.

So true. Today it is known that you only buy a license of the games from Steam. And since Epic Games works in the same way as Steam, this also applies to them. They can delete any games from your library whenever they want - just like that *click*. I stopped buying games on Steam when that came out publicly and moved to GOG instead.

XMPP is the universal standard when it comes to chat servers. WhatsApp is using it, just to name 1 example.

Conversations is a client for XMPP servers.

Prosody is a XMPP server just like what Snikket is.

And there we have the catch! If not one of them. Many thanks :)

They wouldn’t be making them free without making a deal with the developer first. There was a leak that showed the actual amount a while back.

That is what I was after! Not the leak, but the catch. Do you have the link to the source for the leak?

If you login to your account on your Snikket server on all the devices you have at home, and you remain logged in for all the time you use your Snikket server, everything will be synced over all these devices.

Let me explain it further. You login to your Snikket server on 3 devices (desktop, laptop, and smartphone) and you use only these 3 with no re-installing the operating system and not factory resetting the smartphone, you will keep getting the history on these 3 devices - synced.

But you decide to try out a new XMPP client, let say monocles chat. Since that client is new for your account, that client will get its own encryption key. Because of this, monocles chat can not read anything you and the contacts you have communicated with. This also applies when you re-installing the OS or do a factory reset.

End-to-end encryption 101.

Let say this would not be the case and monocles chat do see the history of all of your chats, that data must remain on the server and can be decrypted by the new client with maybe a master encryption key of some sort. This is not end-to-end encryption 101. That would be a security breach.

However, letting you export the chat history from the other clients and importing the chat history to monocles chat, that would be much better. Because then it is you who decides if you want to keep the chat history or not. You will be in control over your own data. This is a feature I miss in XMPP clients.

The chat history is there until you change client/device and got a new set of keys. New encryption keys can’t decrypt messages and files sent with a previous keys.

Snikket is FOSS, so yes, it’s free when self-hosting :)

• Requires a phone number
• Depends on Big Tech’s servers
• Got founded by the US government
• Seems to absolutely love Big Tech because they hide the APK download page quite well[1]
• It’s centralized

I use my own Snikket server to communicate with people using OMEMO (Signal Protocol). No phone number requirements, no centralized server, no Big Tech, just you and the people you write with, with your privacy fully intact. Just like in the good old days (as it should be to this days, greedy f*****s).

[1]: signal.org/download > Android redirects you to Google Play Store. signal.org/download/android > Download for Android redirects you to Google Play Store. signal.org/install redirects you to Google Play Store. You’ll search “forever” to find the “download APK file” link until you give up and using a search engine: “signal apk”.

Not until then you’ll find signal.org/android/apk. And when you visit that page, a link to Google Play Store is listed on top, and below it, in the “danger zone”, you’ll find the APK download button. Yes, exactly, the Signal team wants you to be on the “safe zone” by downloading the app through Google Play Store.

“focus on privacy” my ass. Close to forcing someone to use Big Tech shitty stuff is NOT focus on privacy.

Sorry, rant is over. Now breakfast time.

You were not rude to me. You asked a simple question, that’s it :) I’m autistic too.

Only me not getting any list? Using Vanadium. First time this happens.

Firstly. People don’t like Piped or Invidious because they often gets broken due to Google’s work to try shut them down completely.

Invidious is basically all broken already because of this. And it can be hard to find a good Piped instance that works.

I have Piped installed on my server and it happens that I get “login to prove you’re not a bot” or what the error message is.

And secondly. People tend to be very mean online and I don’t trust any people until they have proven they are indeed nice and not mean in any way (like judging or trolling).

Lastly. I am in a very bad mood which boosting the second reason.

Use a front-end like Piped or Invidious and be happy.

Negative comments and dislikes incoming in 3, 2, 1…

I’ve been using self-hosted Jitsi Meet for a few weeks now. Works perfectly. Haven’t tried the calendar feature, though.