Inui [comrade/them]

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Cake day: August 1st, 2024

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  • I’m not an engineer or programmer so I’m ignorant, but I use Delta Chat as a Whatsapp replacement and its 500x less friction than Matrix when it comes to usability but also security. Everything is encrypted by default and it leaks much less metadata. I don’t know what it is about their encryption implementation, but everything works in Delta, so I’m left to wonder what is their problem that they can’t get a handle on this and also implement basic features people have asked for for years? When they do put them in, they make boneheaded decisions like defaulting to your camera on for Video Calls and no option to change defaults for on/off. Zoom has been sitting right there to copy these things from. If Signal is encrypted in any meaningful capacity and not backdoored, it also doesn’t have any of the encryption issues Matrix users seem to run into.



  • I’ve been torrenting for about 20 years while living in the US and have never used a VPN while downloading. Not saying it’s necessarily a good idea, but unless you’re a major distributor yourself, I only ever got an ISP letter very early on for downloading obviously hot topics like Harry Potter (for the GBA lol) and Game of Thrones.

    Without a setting in the app itself, I think you’d have to hook up the Docker container to something like Gluetun so that all traffic from that container is directed through the VPN. That’s how people usually set it up with torrents, but I’m not super familiar.


  • This is also my setup. I also have ShelfMark which provides a nice interface for people to download from Anna’s Archive and my private torrent trackers without actually logging into them or anything.

    Without this, it’s easy enough to just plug the Kobo on and dropping books into the Kobo folder too. That’s how you have to do it with PDFs, since Kobo sync doesn’t support them.