There isnt much to discuss

oh I think there is!

you know what is tiring for fucks sake? that you are parroting your opinion basically, without pointing to any evidence. I don’t know this service, but do you call them rapists because they are known for doing that, or because they didn’t block users that were accused of rape?

I don’t approve of rape and fascism either. but you know, private services don’t make a difference between anyone. why? because they can’t make sure the accusations are true. if they can by looking at your data, they are not a private service.
would you ban encryption because rapists use it too? encrypted services, like proton and matrix? signal? do you think they are guilty of allowing to conduct rape in secret?

even if it turns out the maintainers are rapist fascist fucks themselves, the previous paragraph stands, and I’m interested in your responses.

many, many do. what’s worse, to many of them that’s “the internet”, and when I offer them firefox, their complaint is that it does not show news articles…

all apps have their own processes, and the names of the processes were often the package name

how the fuck do they see that you have these apps?? Wasn’t it google’s justification for destroying /proc and all resource monitor apps with it that they have put querying of installed apps behind a permission?

since this is most likely not a very popular add-on, any browser with it would stand out considerably more relative to not having it.

websites cannot look at the list of your addons. they have to detect the presence of each, which is mostly possible when the addon makes changes to the page content, or replaces browser APIs in certain ways.

Typically its common for browsers that want to reduce fingerprinting (tor, mullvad etc) recommend not installing new addons as then you stand out from crowd.

because if an addon does something that a website can detect, that’ll make you stand out

I wanted to ask you how does such an extension make your browser more fingerprintable.

I’m still interested in an answer, but after looking at the code there’s a (actually not so) surprising turn: this thing sinply cannot live without remotely loaded google fonts (at addon startup) for some fucking reason.

that technically shouldn’t make you more fingerprintable, but the extension makes sure google is notified that you opened your browser.

I think I have found something interesting, check my reply to the other reply

it can be, if the client downloads everything. I’m not sure if most Matrix clients do that, I think instead they use the serverside search api: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#server-side-search

though, after looking at it, it seems it has more features than what the element clients expose to us.
also, it seems it’s not specified how the server should treat the search term. I think I remember something that with synapse, it is just passed to postgres as it is, but maybe a different homeserver can choose to implement it with wildcard or regex support

well search is not that good, it can only find exact word matches for any of the words, but otherwise yeah. though I think telegram isn’t much better at this either

and also, time of “saving” is always correctly preserved

yeah, they have other undiscovered vulnerabilities

no, I won’t pay for data mining services

google’s fuckery would burn me out too

Clarification: syncthing was not discontinued, only the (3rd party) most popular android app for it was.

Unlikely. The maintainer was pushing updates more frequently and sooner than the original app. it’ll be fine

Otherwise, look into cryptomator. A completely different approach, it makes use of your existing cloud storage accounts, but at least more private then using those directly. It probably requires internet access all the time a file is accessed, though, but check the docs to be sure.

Seems strange that the dev seems to be keeping quiet on this, no?

the issue was just posted 7 hours ago. maybe they just haven’t seen it yet.

someone in issue #573 asked if the dpapi file is really needed, and by looking at the manual installation instructions, yes, because that contains all the code.

the developer loads custom code into the spotify process by using such an “override” dll file. it works because spotify is voluntarily loading a dll with this name, and if there’s such a file in the directory besides the .exe file, it’ll take precedence over the original file installed in the system.
the trojan warning is probably triggered because this technique is often used by malware to change the behaviour of your programs, but as with most technologies, it has good uses too

did you want to link #573 ? you only linked the issues list

I guess giving you less control over your device is an improvement for them, otherwise their service wouldn’t be obliged to destroy self serviced phones

legal streams already do

Anyone who knows networking could detect new device connections on an open network they set up.

assuming that it will connect to your network. if it connects anywhere else, good luck to figure it out. at that point you can throw a laptop with capturing all nearby wifi traffic and hope you somehow recognize the TV if it appears among the possibly dozens of other devices