What’s next, Ventrilo?

Vi sitter här I venten och spelar lite DotA (I hear you, man)

Arcane/Delta are compatible/interoperable with each other, one of the DC devs (the aforementioned adb) is the dev of Arcane and it’s kind of his testing grounds, it has a few extra features like extra themes, markings on the official chats to help prevent scammers, and turning off accts at the profile select screen.

But tbh I went back to DC proper myself last week just because I didn’t get that much benefit (didn’t like the themes over the OG, only use one acct so far and it uses no battery so no need to switch it off, but I did like the badges on the saved/device chats and hope that makes it into the official). Plus the official has the experimental “channels” now that I wanted to play with, and you can enable “debug calls” now so I don’t need Arcane for that anymore. Still love adb and he’s still working on Delta too (and you can message him using either, his contact details are on arcanechat.me lol, and he’s heavy on the DC forum, which you can log into using DC)!

Basically “same thing, try both, you can ‘export backup’ from say Delta and ‘add as second device>import from backup’ in Arcane and be logged into both if you want.” I did that for a day or so while deliberating.

Bump for Delta Chat. Onboarding is easy as dick, just have them use the default server (nine.testrun.org iirc) unless you have a preference, and pick a uname, don’t even need a password. The “invite friends” tab in DC is handy as hell. Modernish feeling chat to boot, and experimental video calling (works pretty fucking well tbh, better for me than Element’s calling on Graphene without push notifs actually.)

I do like XMPP but it’s still too hard for the normals still unfortunately, no easy “invite friends” that sends them directly to their app store and points them at my acct for me to send, and generally harder onboarding for them. And when I do get someone they complain about the outdated apps. And OMEMO is good but most apps use an outdated implementation and updating it would break compatibility with whoever didn’t. I still use it as a fallback, but Delta has so far been what I’ve been needing.

As far as convincing normies I’ve had limited success (still working on it) getting them to use Delta Chat, just due to the easy onboarding, just pick a name and go, no password even. Got a few on it including my mom who cannot computer to save her life.

So far the holdouts are a few people of the “I don’t want to download a free app, you should spend a fucking grand on an iPhone so we can use iMessage” opinion (literally), and, idk I’m working on it but for people that out of touch and stupid there may be no hope except to be mercifully euthanized.

What’s more, even if you self host, unless you only allow chats within your instance, your server pisses metadata to any server it federates with, and as the “default” instance is matrix [.] org you basically have to federate with them.

Even if it isn’t backdoored through the app (which afaik has never been audited) or server (which afaik also hasn’t), or the protocol (which afaik has, but me no trust), if they’re spying on the metadata that alone is an issue, and they absolutely could do that.

It’s actually because that claim is flat out false. People sell drugs on Snapchat for starters, back in the day it started on IRC (afaik) if you knew the right spots, Silk Road is closed (and all those using the name since are scams) and I think WHM (last I knew) exit scammed, but someone took up the job (idk who, check Dread.)

There’s a reason some (not nearly all, not even most) illegal operations run on Telegram and not Signal, and it has absolutely dick to do with security.

There, fixed that for them lol.

Bruh people sell drugs on Snapchat. That doesn’t mean Snapchat’s “security” (they have none) is “good.”

Very stupid people sure, but they’re there, and the ones doing the same on Telegram are just as dumb. If you want to find the real ones you’ll need to learn about Tails, Dread, and XMR.

3 guys 1 hammer is a video of some kids killing a guy, but there’s no plot so I don’t think it counts as a “snuff film,” and by “homemade snuff films” do you mean they have a plot and some production value, lighting, scripting, and someone dies, or do you mean “murder that was filmed?” Because that’s kinda my point I don’t know if it counts without a plot.

gruesome one of a prison riot in south america,

See from this description I don’t count that as a “snuff film,” and I’m questioning if it counts, because of course “filmed death” isn’t a myth, there’s countless examples. A quick search defines “snuff films” as:

snuff film

noun

A movie in a purported genre of movies in which an actor is actually murdered or commits suicide

A film that shows, or purports to show, the actual deliberate killing of one of the performers.

So that seems to suggest that I’m right.

Wait I thought to be a true “snuff film” it had to be like an actual scripted narrative film with like “filmmakers” wherein someone is murdered on screen for real, not just home murder movies, am I wrong? If any recorded murder counts then of course there’s snuff films, 3 guys 1 hammer comes to mind, BTK, etc, but I thought it had to be like a proper movie.

If I’m right then this is more of a home movie/blackmail material situation, I don’t think they have like a secret Woody Allen film (though nothing is impossible, he’s in the files, they could.)

Tbf, if someone started shouting “la migra” at me with a camera in my face, I might cover mine too despite not even working for the government at all. As much as everyone seems to want to become a meme these days I’d prefer not to, personally, and going viral over (what would in my personal case be) a false accusation while attempting to grocery shop isn’t on my to do list today either.

I mean I’m not in a charger and I don’t really look the part so in my case such an accusation is unlikely, and for sure 50/50 chance here just based on the charger lol, but the other 50% of that is still just “some dude who thinks chargers are cool,” and that’s just poor taste in cars. Though yeah not being worried about that assault charge is also a point towards “probably” in this one.

Just my use cases:

• Piracy
• I don’t need my ISP knowing everything I do regardless of legality.
• I don’t need dickhead network admins knowing everything I do on their network, regardless of legality.
• I don’t need every website knowing my identity regardless of legality.
• newpipe always takin’ 'bout some goddamn “sign in to confirm u no bot” and hell no I’m just gonna reroll my location and oh look that worked.

Well kinda sorta but not really. Our great guru “Bob” is dead (some say otherwise, but,) his successor Rev. Ivan Stang is the current Sacred Scribe (#273). He is getting older, but when he boards the Saucers early (unless X-Day comes firs, finally) he is handing The Church to Rev. Onan Canobite who has been with the church since like 1984 (he also runs our mastodon instance, dobbs.town).

They don’t! You just find out about Xenu and the shit we already know.

The UFO cult with an exit plan is actually The Church of the SubGenius, on X-Day (July 5th, 1998 which hasn’t happened yet clearly, we only think it has because The Conspiracy has fudged the calendars in a futile attempt to thwart us), the X-ists (the good aliens) will come Rupture the faithful dues paying SubGenii unto the PleasureSaucers while they harvest the rest of the planet for parts. Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE your money back! Write to “Bob” at P.O Box 807 Glen Rose, TX 76043, send $3 and ask for the pamphlet to learn more!

Afaik OTVIII is still the highest, no 9 yet (though there “are” 15, only 7 were released before ol’ Lafayette Hubbard died.)

Of course, it only comes with the power of being further scammed by the “church.”

I prefer to be scammed by a better church, one that admits to scamming! At least “Bob” is honest! Plus they condone my degeneracy and preach radical insanity, win win. To find out more about The Church of the SubGenius write to “Bob” at P.O. Box 807 Glen Rose, TX 76043. Send $3 and ask for the pamphlet. You’ll pay to know what you really think!

Hey, that’s my line!

Look, this doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, thanks anyway but have a nice one.

You ok? Do you know where you are right now?

You’ve inserted yourself in a thread defending one particular side (in this case, your adopted position is “No but you seem to be if you have to pull out a gun instead of fighting me with your bare hands.”)

The argument against is “actually being 79 and crippled, the court may consider that in a self defense case and as long as the septuagenarian in a chair follows all the other laws involved with self defense (not that he did in this case), that ain’t the dunk you think it is.”

Now that you’re caught up, why should almost 80yr old people in electric scooters fist fight younger stronger more able bodied and unknown sill level guys instead of taking their age and situation into account? What benefit do they get? “Sure he got beat to death because his loose ass old guy skin rips open if he steps wrong but at least nobody called him a pussy?” Great lol, sure convinced me, but the court still actually cares about the totality of circumstances, so, congrats I guess.

OOP: “Are you scared now?”

What I replied to: “No but you seem to be if you have to pull out a gun instead of fighting me with your bare hands.”

I’m not saying what OOP did was legal, I’m saying “you r pussy because you no fight likely younger stronger man” doesn’t consider the totality of the circumstances the way the law does, and therefore isn’t really that strong of a point itself. Especially over other points like “he escalated/started it” and whatnot that y’know are more to the point.

Feel free to continue whiteknighting their point, but at least get mine correct please.

Tbf, at 79 with mobility issues, if you’re an able bodied adult male let’s say 18-35ish and you actually started and escalated the altercation, and local laws regarding attempt to retreat (or lack thereof) are followed, he might could actually win the court case for self defense due to the totality of circumstances if his lawyer can convince the jury that he didn’t start/escalate and he prevented death or great bodily injury to himself. Just a fun fact, you don’t necessarily need to be armed.

But car brains only get mad at cyclists for it.

I’m going to assume that you’re so blinded by your prejudice against “carbrains” that you haven’t seen all the posts bemoaning speeding, passing in the wrong lane, riding people’s bumpers, “when a car swerves around you at mach 3 just to get stuck at the same light” to paraphrase a meme I saw on lemmy like last week, etc, and it’s everywhere not just lemmy.

You are probably just such a bikebrained chaincel that you haven’t noticed it, but it’s there.

Eh we survived the last one in '54, we’ll survive this one. We even made a Doc about it called “Them!”