Sofi @jex@fosstodon.org

Also, how are people on direct chat groups and if you are in any. Do you feel like finding them, specifically in the open source and linux enthusiasm?

I personally find that there is no proper ecosystem that i can find online. XMPP does seem to have the tools available but its not a large userbase to push it forwards. Discord does have enough, but its not exactly privacy friendly.

XMPP does have its own great flaws. But i have not found anything better than it around.

Man, my love hate relationship with #GNOME is eternal. It looks so good but runs so slow. Its especially bad with NVIDIA plus running on a higher refresh-rate than 60hz.

I hope one day this would be addressed properly. But how GNOME is built i see that as unlikely unless Wayland is going to get better on NVIDIA.

*See you space cowboy...* 😭 👋

So my question is, Fediverse, why do you run linux and other free/open source software over things like Windows, Discord and Photoshop?

This does not mean i like Windows or the other closed source software. It just seems so wasteful to be constantly fighting this unseen evil. "FOSS" is said to be the solution but it really is not. Being able to read source code does not mean shit if nobody reads it, and even if they do. Bad business practices can still be used.

But i might just be me romanticizing Windows as i have had a long detox and only remember the better parts of it compared to windows. The very few options that i cant get on linux.

But linux just feels like a activism type of deal to me at this point. Just tapping out my life supply for little change.

Same goes with Windows. Avoiding it actively makes my life just harder. Video games are just click and play. It has things like Shadowplay to easily record footage without a performance hit, much better selection of editing software like Premiere Pro and Sony Vegas Pro. My exam was almost hurt by kdenlive not wanting to render a Video again. Luckily it was not the main task, but if it was I'd been fucked by my own selfmade isolation for "good".

Its like cutting off my own hands because they have done bad things. Sure Facebook, Discord and whatever else do and have done. I cant seem to find a good reason to why i care. It actively makes my life worse not using the software as i cant talk to most of my friends without it. There is no alternative that the youth uses. There just is no real solution and i feel like I'm just isolating myself without reason. Yet i keep doing it.

I don't know why i care. Its really starting to bother me, because fundamentally i shouldn't be bothered, but i am.

The #steam summer sale mini-game is such a horrible money-grab and an extremely bad one on that as well. Massively skewed teams, likely rigging from Steam to keep it "equal" looking even if Corgi has 70% of the total amount of registered "boosters" while the other teams all under 10% each.

They even made it so its extremely cheap to level up, something usually costing far more.

Overall a horrible experience. Most of the sales aren't that great either anymore.

People with knowlege and know the fears of #VPN what is the alternative? As not using one is a giant hit on privacy (unique IP address for just you, companies can see that it is me over longer period of time, no matter what device or what i do). Also the niceness of not having to fear that companies link everything back to one point.

But VPNs are just rebranded MITM that you pay for. Which is extremely trust based and i do not like it at all. Is there anything even that can be done?

@infosechandbook Hey what's up with your SSL certificate?

GDPR is big, extremely big.

https://infosec-handbook.eu/ is a website styled blog that everyone should read at least once if you are interested in anything which can relate to security. It is a place where you find security pros writing blog posts about anything security. This is the starting point for any hobbyist online who wants to actually stay secure online or secure their server.

They also have an account on here as well if you want to follow them here: @infosechandbook
#privacy #infosec

Anyone know anything about Netlify? https://www.netlify.com/

It seems like a free option to host a web server on, but i don't know if it is any good or not. I want to avoid any connections to big data companies like Google, Facebook etc. Hell, Netlify might even be one in it of itself. It seems too good to be true, which usually means its exactly that.