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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
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@aby
ah. they are probably not adding alt text then
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@aby
Sometimes they might be adding alt text
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@ireneista @siderea
I also understand why there may be less demand by people for that, both because they may not know it's an option and because people who do invest time to build expertise in a software frequently get burned by an update that changes everything under their feet seemingly for the sake of change. But it is frustrating.
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
4mo
unsolicted distro recomendation (the worst kind of post) @fschaap @ludoloon
Elementary OS looks pretty decent. I used to install fedora for people to help set them up, but elementry's Pantheon desktop, app center, and values seem solid and is what I've got on a usb drive for next time.

Also, whatever distro or browser you help set up do her a favor and install adblock for her.
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@maxalmonte14
Almost blocked you for misreading cars as "cats"
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@eniko
Apparently they will email you if your notifications are off and you haven't opened it in a while
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@AnarchoNinaWrites
Trolling is actually correct there! Although it definitely looks weird to me cause I think annoying person or monster before searching. Trawling works too; both are also fishing.
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@anarceus
I hear yandex image search is decent, or at least was a few years ago.
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@lumi
I still think keeping backups forever is mutually exclusive to really using PFS even if you throw away the ephemeral keys and re-encrypt the messages like signal does. But even if you or your contacts have message backups enabled, signal doesn't include view once media or messages that disappear in less than (or equal to?) 24 hours, which I think makes sense and is a nice way to "opt out".

Yes, technically someone could save every message ever sent to them, but if you don't trust someone to play nice then don't message them something you don't want them to keep. No end to end encryption can protect you if the end is malicious.

What I really dislike about element's implementation isn't just that it keeps the ephemeral keys but that element almost feels dark patterny trying to get you to enable it.
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@niko
Did you happen to be looking at the logs and see this or did you set up an automatic alert if it notices that pattern?
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@lethalbit
neocat_pat_sad
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@bazkie @catsalad
Does Arabic count with the cursive-like connectedness?
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@xerz @Dio9sys
yeah I was thinking this sounds "straightforward", for want of a better word
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@ity @lumi
oh I don't care for his dramatic "analyses" on messengers but as far as I can tell his other work is good, and I like the idea of key transparency. I'm also sympathetic to his cause of getting furries to stop using telegram.

But here are some ietf drafts on key transparency
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-keytrans-architecture/ (includes a federated use case)
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-keytrans-protocol/ actual mathy stuff

I'm fairly sure this is what signal is basing their key transparency implementation on, but I can't find the comment that made me think that again
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@lumi
There are people/creatures/entities working on various parts of it. I think it'd be cool if they're able to pull off key transparency from the start rather than trying to bolt it on later

soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/
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@lethalbit
neocat_scream_scared
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@futurebird
I'm annoyed because I know I'm not immune to propaganda despite my best efforts.
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LLMs @lethalbit
Maybe I see it this way because I deeply struggle with executive function, and I myself can't just DO things even if I really want to,
I've seen people argue that these tools are great for helping manage executive dysfunction and have it write a calendar, todo list, break something it steps, or whatever, and it's frustrating to see them sold as an accessibility tool. I'm not sure what to think about people that say it does help them. If a todo list were enough then I'd have solved everything by now.
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@TakeV
Only tangentially related, the latest article by Doc Impossible touches briefly on her friendship with someone without empathy (most of it is not directly related though).

stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/compulsion
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@anarceus
I honestly do not care for soda pop. But I'm a sucker for Your Idol (best song in the movie IMO) so I'm not immune :p