- noman-landGo herd goats. You don't need to wait for AI to destroy your livelihood.
- This basically never happens.
- I don't have this problem.
- yt-dlp will allow you to download individual videos and even entire channels.
- In the attention economy you have to vote with your attention.
Block, ignore, disengage from, and scorn any software or service that behaves this way.
Make fun of your friends when they use these apps and use peer pressure to dissuade them from using them. These services need to be uncool.
Be the change you want to see. Research alternatives. Provide alternatives. Make alternatives easier, better, and cooler.
Choose principles over convenience and encourage your peers to do the same.
- Normies manage their house keys just fine. Obviously crypto keys come with different challenges but that's a UX problem. People losing their house keys is not generally an Earth shattering event. Losing a crypto key doesn't have to be either.
A wallet is easier to lose than a bank vault, but it also holds less money for the same reason. Crypto keys can be designed the same way, with high importance keys managed by safer means like m of n schemes mixed with traditional "hard" storage in geographically distributed safe deposit boxes or whatever, while less important keys can be treated in a more relaxed fashion.
- I asked this in another comment, but why aren't we using DHTs for peer discovery for social apps? The ratio mechanic provides incentives in the file sharing realm, but you need different incentives for the threaded chat realm.
- Why don't people use DHTs for peer discovery for social media?
- I still use last.fm. Been continously scrobbling since 2004. I also export my last.fm and Spotify listening history every now and again just in case. I plan to one day make a timeline of my listens overlayed on top of world and personal events.
I made friends I still have by browsing people who had a compatible music taste to me and then reaching out to chat.
- You can add a gpg key and subkeys to a yubikey and use gpg-agent instead of ssh-agent for ssh auth. When you commit or push, it asks you for a pin for the yubikey to unlock it.
- You don't need their permission to record the call if they are recording the call already.
- This is disgusting.
- Ask this person to give you all their stuff since they won't be needing it anymore.
- Wouldn't it be better to bundle a script that generates a cert instead of the cert itself?
- At the very least the VPN provider promises not to and their reputation depends on their not being caught doing this. Whereas your ISP and various sites you visit will already be collecting this data no matter what.
- I have encountered people who are scared to post in large public channels. Part of growing up in chatrooms was an implicit bravery of saying something out loud in a room full of thousands of people. There seems to have been a shift, somewhat, in the comfort level of different generations about saying things "out loud" in large public rooms.
Chatrooms have evolved in a really interesting way. I think the first generation to have them didn't fully understand how "public" they were. Maybe there are more people in the more recent generations that have a more visceral understanding of online "publicness" as they have grown up with (and perhaps have been burned by) those concepts from the very beginning. Maybe they have a better understanding of the permanence of online utterances and therefore have a more conservative approach to interacting on what feels like the permanent public ledger.
Maybe it's because the concept of pseudonyms has devolved since the early days. Corporate social media has an interest in doxing its users to advertise to and control them but pre-corporate social media was filled with anonymous usernames. Posting in a large group under your permanent forever name is much scarier than posting under an anonymous, temporary identity. One of the things I advocate people do is post online anonymously, instead of with their real name. It alleviates a lot of the fear of speaking your truth, which we need more of!
There is something there. The ability to try on identities in a safe environment before you discover which one you really identify with. It's much harder to do this with your real name. Your past comes with a lot of baggage and people who know you don't want you to change because it makes them feel uncomfortable.
- Why not both?
- This is a fine line. If you get a white screen of death you know something is wrong. If the first name is missing it may mean other things are missing and the app is in a bad state. That means the user could lose any work they try to do, which is a cardinal sin for an app to commit.
Context matters a lot. If it's Spotify and my music won't play is a lot different than I filled a form to send my rent check and it silently failed.
- I had to write myself a multi page document after forgetting the process for multiple years in a row. I've been dreaming about writing a user friendly wrapper for it for a long time.
- Simply your IP address can be used to track you so any app or website you visit knows roughly where you are with every http request unless you use an always on VPN. It can also fingerprint you in various ways without the need for any special permissions.