sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

how the hell is phil potter not in super mega ultra jail

watching the fediverse and the matrix idiots bash signal today because they got 40M new users in a week (while those services have never gotten 1M users ever) is sad and frustrating.

especially considering signal is a) free and open source, b) vehemently against data collection, and c) beating them badly

sometimes i just want internet people to stfu

@CodingOtaku @dsv xmpp matrix and activitypub already exist. nobody is flocking to those. users chose signal, not those.

@josias@theres.life generic. her name is also ursula

@vantablack if someone is close enough for you to stun gun them they are close enough to stab you with something pointy. there are much better tools for self defense. you probably want a ranged weapon.

@ewm@floss.social there's nothing wrong with GA

@ashley overthrow of the state is the speech that most needs protecting

@hund signal is entirely free software, and the service doesn't charge any money. to call signal nonfree is 100% inaccurate, regardless of your feelings on centralization. do not spread lies.

@kmj @selea @arran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794880

matrix push (if using the official client) is necessarily centralized on ios.

@CodingOtaku @dsv they mean to prove him wrong by building a more popular decentralized messaging system. the current outage is due to 40M new installs in a week, when they
had only 10M total installs previously.

this is proof that he was right, and that centralization works better. outages are temporary.

is it just me or does the president of the european commission look like a supervillain?

if you're a brand and your videos on youtube are 1080 you're doing brand damage

i want to buy the iphone 8 plus in red new in box as a museum piece, because it's one of the most beautiful devices ever produced, but if apple ever stops activating them they're bricks

i can't get my slog grade (on a whole ass computer with internet) to look as good as my little embedded andycine 4k 6" monitor's built in slog-to-rec709 conversion which looks fucking fantastic

this is so frustrating

@surfingalot phones aren't good audio recorders because they have a whole-ass OS, but yes, that is an example of it being too expensive.

ios 14 turns automatic ios updates on, even if you had it off before in 13.x. it doesn't tell you it's doing this. apple has granted themselves RCE on your device.

how do i make matomo show me full referrer urls?