m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
> Yeah because obviously continuing using proprietary software to not look paranoid worked so well on the population
Guess what? Not using it didn't work either! You know what actually made a difference? Making better alternatives available and informing people. "Not using" doesn't change anything at all, it only excludes you and diverts your attention from bigger picture to micromanaging your life without these things.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Look, I'm not replying, but posting myself. And I'm posting cats!
Like a normal normie on a normal road! Hope this helps restore my image 🤪

https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/108696250305099715

I saved this for a special occasion that is today!
My cats were play fighting and one of them scratched the other on the back of the head, so he had to wear this Elizabethan collar for the wound to heal.
When my mom saw this photo, she told me he looks like a spaceman and I immediately realized what "spaceman" we are talking here…
#caturday #cats #starcraft

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki Fedi is a bunch of weirdos! 🤣
Not that it's bad…
>being such a reply guy - who barely posts himself
That's not weird, that is idiosyncratic!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki
> Besides, just saying no makes a difference.
No, it doesn't. There is an extremely slim chance that you'll kill an elephant throwing corn seeds at it, but that is not what you usually do if you want to succeed. Issue can't be fixed on personal level, you have to do more than that. Make your own company that respects privacy and make your products successful, become an activist and get privacy law passed. Excluding yourself by not playing games won't do shit.

@9S @volpeon Those are Telegram's contacts, not your phone directory. You can deny the app access to your phone's contacts, never sync them and only add the ones you actually want. I did this and my Telegram has like four contacts or something like that.
Telegram shouldn't be trusted still, but at least this is avoidable.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki
"preventing spying requires some effort so it's better to give up"
Wrong!
You not playing this game won't fix corporate surveillance, the only thing you'll likely achieve — you'll miss good old fun, that's it. Your friend will think you're a weirdo and eventually you'll become a full-time weirdo. If you don't want to play — don't, corporate surveillance shouldn't affect your decision. You just don't fight it with something like this.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network I see.
That's a bit different IMO. Data mining on a global scale is a major issue, but there is no way to fix it on a personal scale. And it is wrong to even try. Because even if you do you best to prevent collection of your data, they do it indirectly. The only way to fix it completely is to avoid contacting other people, that's paranoid.
Such activities should be hindered by law, what Facebook and Google do shouldn't be a viable bussiness model.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
I mean if you are wanted in seven states it's probably rational not to install a game with DRM, otherwise it's pretty rational to assume no one gives a flying fsck about you and go with it.
That is what I was talking about: taking into consideration — 👍🏿, dwelling on it and taking whatever it takes to avoid it — 👎🏿.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
Taking the fact that you might be watched into consideration is not irrational, living your life like you are always watched is.
> Where's the irrational fear or irrational distrust ?
There is nothing wrong with avoiding privacy intrusive things and choosing privacy respecting alternatives. Not doing something you want to do, in this case playing a game with a friend, only because you don't like DRM and there is no easy way to avoid it is somewhat over the top.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
Being cautious ≠ being paranoid. Dwelling on it is. Doing it on a scale that seriously degrades your quality of life is being paranoid — it's a mental disorder.
Picking the best tool you can for the job is the right thing, picking what to do to match the tool that you think is best is weird. It makes you the tool. It's wrong. If you don't trust technology at all, just destroy your computer — that's it, done. Get a cabin in the woods.

@alinanorakari The two wolves inside me… Well, they've… transformed a little bit 😅

@Suiseiseki
3. The game just stops if the connection is interrupted even for a split-second. This renders the game effectively unplayable. Gamers will hate it too, maybe less than the second approach, but they will.

@Suiseiseki Can you give us a name?
So what happens if the connection to server is interrupted, I only see three approaches:
1. You trust the client. When the connection is restored server replays what happened on the client and accepts that. Anyone can botch the client and pass anything they want to the server — cheater's paradise.
2. If server deems what was passed from the client as questionable, it just drops it. Gamers will hate it as they lose progress.

@reddit-users-with-questionable-sanity And this guy is canonized universally?
Wow! Nice world actually!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @Suiseiseki @splitshockvirus No one implements anti-cheat as a serverside-only measure because what are you gonna go if some weird shit happens due to lags or packet loss and you don't trust the client? Just drop everything and pretend nothing happened? No one will play such a game except for free software zealots. But they won't but stupid hats that exist only as in-game items anyway. So no one cares about them. It is THAT easy 🤣

@octobanon
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In my photo rainbow is not that prominent, but it has twice as many #cats 😺

@calcifer That is precisely why Matrix, with all its shortcomings is viable in non-free countries like China and Russia, but Signal, however secure it might be, is just a shiny useless app.
If you can't trust your cell provider, using your phone number as your primary ID means it can always be traced back to real you. Of course you can use phone number registered to some other person and a burner phone, but it also has its cons and it's not for everyone.
@katka @volpeon

@volpeon I think they've added this during the Hong Kong protests not that long ago. To prevent the police from using phones of arrested protesters to track others they've had contact with.
@katka @KayFaraday

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Too bad for you 😢
The worst I ever got from games is the feeling that everything kept scrolling downwards that lasted for half an hour after playing Tyrian for about 6 hours.
Oh, that and I tried to avoid playing Dead Space having high blood pressure 😅