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chasteinsect

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  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune

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  • I switched to Matrix (Element client). Works fine but I have my eyes also on Movim (XMPP) https://movim.eu/

  • Movim - A GPL, federated E2EE Text Chat & Video Call platform (w/ screenshare!) using XMPP just launched a new funding campaign to accelerate development of Discord-like features!

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  • I see. But if it's a PWA you won't be getting any notifications?

  • Movim - A GPL, federated E2EE Text Chat & Video Call platform (w/ screenshare!) using XMPP just launched a new funding campaign to accelerate development of Discord-like features!

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  • I tried it out today, I was impressed. However, what about the mobile experience?

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

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  • https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona Here's a more in-depth article of what was found and the process involved.

    I have to say this is one of the coolest sites I've visited

  • Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

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  • Valve is a shitty company.

    Does valve make some good things? Yes. Do they make shitty things? Yes. Not hard.

    You just stated the exact nuanced position I was defending from the very beginning, while simultaneously insulting me for holding it 😂

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

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  • Well, now I see why there was an avoid OpenAI movement. They actually allowed Persona to create an internal database of their users and may be a potential AI provider for gov surveillance.

    Since when did OpenAI started using Persona, and is it widely known that they use it ? Does anybody know? I used their service way back at gpt 3.5 days, back then you didn't need any verification.

  • Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

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  • It's not.

    Look, you are not necessarily wrong in holding the opinion that Valve's monetization practices are so horrible, that they ruin the company's entire reputation. It's a valid moral boundary. But at the end of the day, it's just an opinion, not some objective law of the universe and other people can weigh the scales differently without being an evil person. Yet you portray it as the TRUTH. And it's a bit ironic, that when people disagreed you started talking about echo chambers and attacking the community. This is why you got downvoted.

  • Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

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  • I feel like you're straw-manning here.

    I never said it's okay. All I'm saying is that a mega-corporation can simultaneously exploit psychological loopholes for profit (loot boxes) while actively pushing open-source ecosystems (Linux), providing great value to consumers and fighting other pc gaming monopolies (Microsoft). Look at the whole picture.

  • Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

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  • Maybe just maybe it's because it's not as black or white as you make it seem? Especially talking about a company that did so much for Linux and looking at what their competition is doing....

  • If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.

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  • Last week, we published our team's findings about an exposed Elasticsearch cluster that contained over 160 indices and held 8.7 billion primarily Chinese records, ranging from national citizen ID numbers to various business records.

    Last December, the team uncovered an unprotected database containing 4.3 billion records, some of which included LinkedIn-derived personal information. The 16TB-strong instance contained emails, photos, employment histories, and other personal data. A single collection alone contained 732 million records, including photographs.

    In July, Cybernews covered one of the largest data leaks in history, after researchers discovered several collections of login credentials, containing 16 billion records. The team found 30 exposed datasets, each containing tens of millions to more than 3.5 billion records.

    The leaked data included login info for just about every online service, including Apple, Facebook, Google, GitHub, Telegram, and even government platforms.

    Damn....

  • NixOS Review: The Most Powerful Linux Distro in 2026?

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  • That was a great xkcd

  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

  • discord rule

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  • My biggest gripe with it that makes it unusable as a serious replacement is that it purposely only stores conversation history for two weeks.

    Huh that actually makes it more appealing to me from a privacy perspective.

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • I switched from Obsidian to Neovim mainly because of Vim-motions and keybindings. Obsidian has Vim-motion support but it's pretty basic and some stuff doesn't work... it's just not the same.

    I have a pretty minimal Neovim setup and don't use any special plugins for markdown. I just use Treesitter to create some custom highlight groups to highlight links, codeblocks, headlines and similar stuff. I don't do images or complex tables or all of that other jazz and I know markdown by heart for the most part so I don't really need any markdown preview plugins. But there are plugins that render markdown in the Neovim buffer itself, instead of having you go to your browser to see your changes.

    It's way simpler. I use gO to see the outline of my file, also mini.pick which is just a grep and fuzzy finder to find specific lines, words, files and navigate between them. I have been using Neovim for over a year so and use it basically everywhere so the benefits keep compounding as I learn how to navigate where I want faster. It's a powerful tool. One thing I will say is because you use Neovim you don't need to really organize your notes as you just use your picker to find stuff for you and it's sooooo much faster and better than whatever Obsidian had. You never have to go to your file tree or whatever and search for that file.

    This wasn't a switch that I did fanatically. I went back to Obsidian a few times for a couple of days / weeks and just used that. It's fine ... It works... But afterwards every time I just went back to Neovim, did some modifications to my config, and started using it more and more until it just became way better.

    All of that being said ... would I recommend someone start Neovim just to write markdown? No. As you said it has a pretty steep learning curve and you will never get back the time you spent on it, it's also a bit overkill to use it just for markdown, you will need to make some modifications as well... But I find it more fun and enjoyable to work with.

  • The reality of Discord and its alternatives

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  • If you don't need voice channels and all of that jazz, Matrix is a decent alternative. Someone mentioned that using a separate service for voice communication like Mumble works great.

    Honestly with the comments on this site I had worse expectations, but if you stick with Element it's a pretty good experience. I didn't self-host (yet), wanted to first try it out with my small group of friends so there may or may not be more problems there. But I do think I could easily switch to it and never look back. If my group doesn't end up switching it will probably be only because of the lack of gif / custom emoji support. We tried Cinny and some other clients, but they all had some problems, Element seems to be a bit more polished.

    I can't stop thinking all of these other alternatives while may work for a specific group, will not lead to any widespread adoption.

  • The reality of Discord and its alternatives

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  • GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple

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  • I wonder is this something to actually worry about outside of the US?

  • GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple

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  • SOON

  • Discorch - Browse your Discord history and request message deletions

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  • I used Discrub to delete all of my messages from certain groups and 1:1 DM's before leaving them. Worked great, not the fastest thing but it works. Also has Firefox extension.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple

    blog.tomaszdunia.pl /grapheneos-eng/
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    noclip.website - A digital museum of video game levels

    noclip.website

  • US plans to review up to five years of the social media history of foreign travelers

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  • So what happens if you say you don't have any social media? Do they just accept it ?

    In addition, travelers could be asked to submit any phone numbers used in the last five years, email addresses from the last 10 years, and more detailed information about their family members, including names, dates of birth, addresses, and contact details.

    The fuck

  • AI - Artificial intelligence @programming.dev
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    Claude Code Agents Are Completely Useless

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    How many Neovim plugins is too many

    echasnovski.com /blog/2026-01-27-how-many-neovim-plugins-is-too-many.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Amsterdam, 1st capital to legally ban fossil ads and meat ads

    www.worldwithoutfossilads.org /listing/amsterdam-first-city-in-the-world-to-ban-fossil-ads/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair)

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees

    www.scannedinavian.com /tools-built-on-tree-sitters-concrete-syntax-trees.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Apparently, Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and even received an award from the Third Reich!

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Why I use minimal syntax highlighting (2019)

    ctrl-c.us /posts/highlight
  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Persistent Arglist with Native Neovim Sessions: Replacing Harpoon in 60 Lines

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Supercharge the Neovim Quickfix List (quicker.nvim)

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    I stopped using LSPs | Neovim, fzf, ripgrep

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Echasnovski (pt 1): mini.nvim, MiniMax & Neovim Contributions

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Neovim 0.12 Native Autocomplete and Why It Falls Short (2025)

  • AI - Artificial intelligence @programming.dev
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    AI is hallucinating its way into research, and that’s not even where the problem starts

    thelibre.news /why-is-science-full-of-ai/
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    How do you do purchases online / offline?