Even all the telemetry?

I really hate dealing with group policies (and I work in enterprise endpoint management, I prefer more modern management). AD/Group policies can only be updated on site or VPN, and they’re only really instructions for registry settings anyway.

But I’ll try that out. I don’t have a windows server though, nor do I want one. But I guess I could use gpedit.

I have LTSC 2021 officially (MSDN) and I have to say I’m not very impressed. You still can’t turn off the telemetry crap. There is still a windows store. There’s a bit less bundled scamware but beside that it’s a bit overrated IMO.

Yeah that slogan really captured very well the intentions at the world economic forum.

I know it’s not what they officially stated but it really captured (they since walked it back and said it only was meant to “describe emerging trends”) the intentions of what happens when they all come to Davos and divide the world between them.

But I don’t believe “as a service” models are more sustainable. They will just enable more rent-seeking behaviour meaning we will get even less for our money. The incentive to deliver will be even lower as they will get paid anyhow.

On telegram it’s one of the many things you get if you pay for premium.

I really like Telegram, they are really thinking about what the user wants. Live translations, icon packs, bots that can add amazing features to channels. I gladly pay for it because I use it so much, most of the communities here use Telegram.

Whereas the signal devs are just sitting on their high horse and doing nothing but stupid cryptoscams.

If you go into Proton Mail with the understanding that you’re doing it to stop Google from data mining your email

You’re not really stopping anything if most of the people you’re emailing are still using Google or Microsoft :) Because they’ll get a copy of your email then anyway. This is really the problem with email IMO. Well, one of the problems, a lack of sender authentication is another one.

Federation no longer works, no. They did have it at first but Moxie hated it because it was harder to push new features.

But you can use other clients. It’s not expressly allowed and LibreSignal stopped their development, but they’ve never actually banned anyone for doing it. I use the Matrix bridge to Signal and I’ve never seen issues with it.

Also, Moxie doesn’t work there anymore so their attitude might be changing. I hope so, as having an official option to use third-party clients and bots (for the latter see Telegram where they add a LOT of value to group chats like live transcription or translation) would really make the platform a lot more viable for me. As it is now I hardly use it and I never recommend it because I don’t see the point of replacing one walled garden with a slightly nicer looking one that is still nonetheless a walled garden.

I realy like Matrix but normies tend not to grok it because they need a username and password. Weird, because Discord and other services do too and they manage to use them fine. But whatever. I’ll just bridge all their shit.

Nothing really. They did once put a scan on someone’s IP after the authorities asked them to. But it was a court order. Makes sense.

I don’t use them because I think Email is beyond saving anyway. 90% of our mail goes to or from Amazon, Google or Microsoft anyway. OpenPGP is not used by anyone, even Phil Zimmermann famously refused to use it. There is so much spam and phishing that most institutions no longer send anything of value by email, it’s just a notification service for “please log in to our portal to view your message”. Email is just so broken and the workarounds so feeble that it’s beyond fixing.

Email as we knew it is just gone and done. I just use O365 because it’s cheaper and offers me a lot more (like 1TB cloud storage which I use with Cryptomator). Proton Drive is too expensive for me and I like doing the encryption on the user-end anyway because that offers real end to end security. I applaud what proton are trying to do but it’s too little too late and I don’t want to use a special email client. If they want to promote privacy they should do it with something where that’s still possible.

And for VPN I prefer mullvad anyway because I like the way they sell scratch cards on Amazon. And my password manager I self-host.

But really it’s not a bad service if you can afford it and don’t want to go for Microsoft and Google.

It’s not great. They finally added OpenGL acceleration but now the PoI icons are twice as big as normal so they are cluttering the map a lot.

And without that the app is pretty slow. I do love the way it is so configurable though. I have no issues with location.

I don’t really want to sign up to their T&C’s, but I did in the past. But their web client is really annoying, it’s constantly blocking me and kicking me out and giving captcha’s. Probably I have too many ad/tracking blockers :P

But again, with a real FOSS ecosystem you wouldn’t have to worry about such skullduggery because there is no tracking to block.

You choose to exclude yourself by placing such a high value on privacy. Privacy for what here?

It’s not the privacy of the content we’re discussing, it’s the horrible Discord client that keeps datamining your PC. It even inspects all the processes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_discord_recording_our_open_programs_and/

And they don’t allow third party clients. They say it can’t be turned off because of their push to talk features but I never use those anyway (and they are not needed for FOSS projects, they’re more gaming features).

Anyway I don’t trust them and don’t want to do “business” with them (and definitely not with Tencent). My point is that this mindset of “placing a high value on privacy” while admittedly quite niche, is definitely something many FOSS projects subscribe to. In particular Home Assistant which I mentioned, because a big reason for people using it is because they don’t want all their home data in a big data cloud (e.g. homekit, alexa, google home etc). The whole point of home assistant is so you can use your smart home equiment without having to subcribe to commercial companies. And then they do something like this.

What they could do is provide a secondary channel or a bridge to discord which they don’t bother with.

YESSS. I so wish this would be considered more.

There’s several FOSS projects that I engage with that use discord pretty much exclusively and as such I’m locked out of the community. Like Home Assistant.

I really don’t understand why they use it for FOSS projects that are all focused on privacy (home assistant for example focuses on using home automation without cloud so your data doesn’t end up everywhere). And then lock you in to such a privacy-hostile service to communicate with them, when actually great alternatives are available like Matrix/Element.