I didn’t poke around in the code, nor am I qualified to comprehend it. It’s just at this point it’s the first thing I look at when I open a github page.

But that is an increasingly common feature in messengers these days. Hopefully it is an optional feature.

That’s because it’s not on their page, but it is the first 2 files in their repo.

No, Briar makes it possible to connect over the web as well.

If an app only connects over BT + WiFi, how often is someone really going to use that? I mean you have to be within shouting distance. In the case of Briar, it just uses whatever is the most secure method available at that time, and one of the methods is more or less always available.

Also this is vibecoded, which is undesireable in general, but especially so in any kind of secure setting.

Would you like to explain what this links to?

it sends your IP address and search query to google/bing/etc

Seems like this completely negates the purpose…? There’s not really any way to have a strictly “private” search engine because you’d have to either run your own index, which is extremely resource-intensive and now you’re pinging every site on the web with your personal IP, or trust a third party to do it for you. The latter makes a lot more sense. Use Kagi, NeoSearch, DDG, Brave, etc.

Not at all. They’ve gotten some flack for turning over some data to authorities after they were legally compelled, which is something any company will either do or cease to exist. They also got some flack for some dumb statements by the CEO but those don’t affect your privacy.

Proton is nice but still lacking many features. Nextcloud is probably the next closest thing. If you don’t want to self-host, you can just look for managed hosting.

You can rent a managed Nextcloud instance from Hetzner for a very reasonable price.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Ente does photos if that’s all you need, or PixelUnion offers a managed Immich instance https://pixelunion.eu/#pricing

ok?

WTF is surveillance coins

Ok now make it a car and you’ll have my attrntion

Yeah this is happening on every major platform now, and only getting worse. As usual, the YT review process is useless and the humans are nowhere to be found.

tldr?

Ah yeah, they really seem to enjoy confusing the absolute shit out of their customers for some reason.

Nice! Honestly I’ve yet to find a good RSS reader. Newsflash is the closest thing but I would prefer a server-side implementation.

Would be really cool to have it baked in along with my PF communities. Bonus if it scrapes content and it can easily cross-post!

It was ibbit.at, I believe, but it 404s now ☹️

it’s also exclusionary

Yeah that was on purpose.

Is there some other term for the subset of the Fediverse that represents the user-centric microblogging format?

Not that I’m aware of, I just made it up 🤷

Ohhhh I was hoping you were adding RSS articles to the PieFed feeds LOL

Uhhhh no authorities investigated it for years and he got cocky and fucked up, and even then they had to ambush him in a public library before he could re-lock his laptop. It had literally nothing to do with BTC.

How do you figure that? You realize the Silk Road ran on BTC?

Looks like currently they only accept BTC, ETH and USDC.