bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@lain but a plot twist for this meme ;)

@Liberonscien i think we often think more about the possibilities than dangers of new technologies. i'd have to note that i'd rather like see a slower society using technology where it's really useful, not wherever it may be possible. just think about how smartphones (and the dark ui patterns common nowaday) have fucked our brains into expecting constant micro-gratifications, while never being really satisfied by them.

@bauglir @Liberapay well, cloudflare decided that your IP is bad, for example because you use a vpn or a hurricane electric tunnel, or just dislike your ISP.

@Liberonscien brain-machine interfaces are a nightmare of mine. looking at the world, it is bound to end in a dystopic setting like in "strange days".

http://catandgirl.com/the-unearned-anhedonia-of-the-work-from-home-class/

uncanny valley, pampers edition 😬

@hansw that sounds awfully like a sisyphean task (cf. captchas). my point is that it creates a false feeling of privacy and security.

@hansw forgot this part: why should google use their "real" user agent while indexing? big tech is not exactly known for following laws to the letter.

@fedisearch this discussion is moot.

anyone could run an indexer without telling the public, and _nobody_ would notice (i bet google and other indexers internall don't give a flying fsck on robots.txt). so my 2 cent:

- opensource it, folks who want to ignore robots.txt etc. will do so anyway.

- if you don't like being indexed, don't put it in the internet, it doesn't forget.

@bonifartius and i usually laugh about conspiracy theories 😐

It's kind of crazy how different "ideas" currently are floating around in the public space: that covid is a hoax, gates wants to nanochip us, russia haxx0red the us because of the vaccination (which is supposedly just nanochips for a fake illness), etc. i have the feeling that if one conspiracy is really true, it's that the population is being trained in accepting doublethink. it feels like something out of a psyops manual.

@bonifartius wait, someone said you just joined and my client tells me 8/8/2018 ❓😬

@RayneSilver hi! 👋

@Sphinx if you don't want to set up your own server, just go to https://element.io/get-started (previously riot.im, but they've rebranded) and create an account with the matrix.org server

@roanoak yes, all the devices ring 🔔

@Sphinx yes, it has message-seen-status (can be disabled by the user)

@matrix i really like that you deliver the apps via f-droid too ❤ (even if there is some delay 😜) more companies should do that, or publish apks directly.

i kind of like how #signal is being finally criticized. i never liked the ego of moxie and his opinions that
- federation is dead
- disallowing 3rd party clients is good
- that the choice of telephone numbers as identifier is ok and doesn't make the whole security a LARPing exercise

so, it's a bit weird that the current panic is over a recovery feature which is secure if you use a good passphrase 🤷‍♀️

@bonifartius so it's like the star trek movie curse! 😀

i think that narrowband technologies are really underappreciated, but maybe that's a result of the current way software is developed. size & speed optimization don't matter most of the time as the hardware is fast and cheap enough.