I’ve never used beeper, but I’ve been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:

• WhatsApp
• Hangouts
• Discord
• Element (Matrix)
• Nextcloud Chat
• Lemmy

You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

This was a local instance.

I asked it about Tiananmen Square, it told me it can’t answer that because it can only respond with “harmless” responses.

If you get 100 spam emails a day, then without those protections that have been put into place that number would be in the 100s of thousands at best.

That’s not entirely true. The push for KYC came because spam started going crazy. You have no clue how bad spam is right now. And believe me, you don’t know. Take the worst case scenario you can think of, and multiply that by 100, and that starts to describe the state of spam emails for the past decade.

Right. Because healthcare in other countries like Canada, the UK, and European countries are so terribly run compared to US healthcare.

being xenophobic weirdos

Found the wumao.

The CCP and Chinese people are different things. No one is criticizing Chinese people.

Bad argument.

It would hold water if their solution was proprietary and closed source. But it isn’t, and anyone else, literally anyone, can take Proton and use it in their project for profit.

Even if they closed shop tomorrow, or even just gave up work on Proton itself, we’d all still reap the benefits at no cost to us.

That is the point of E2EE. If anyone but the sender and receiver can see the messages then it’s not E2EE. This is the part that politicians and governments don’t understand (or just ignore). The idea that some designated authority can look at the messages when needed is entirely at odds with E2EE. It’s as valid as true = false or 2 + 2 = cat.

Epic has exclusivity on release

Wait, really? It’s officially off my list now. Screw those guys.

Find me another company that supports open source and Linux the way Valve does… I’ll wait

No digital game store is worth your loyalty.

When that store is run by a company that contributes massively to open source and works harder and puts more money into enabling alternate platforms for gaming than all other companies combined; ya, they have my loyalty.

I would love to see reasonable competition to steam which would give consumers and developers better options

No one’s going to compete with and outdo Steam with Linux support.

How do you moderate something you can’t know about?

I have it on good authority that pedos and criminals drive cars and eat food too! We should do something to those facilitating that.

only take halfhearted measures

Like what exactly?

For now

This is what’s known as a dark pattern and is the exact thing the US government is suing Adobe over.

Making service cancellation or opt-out deliberately difficult is exploitative and something that should be illegal. Any company that does it doesn’t deserve a cent from you.

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