Inui [comrade/them]

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  • I’mI will always suggest Delta Chat because you don’t have to give any sort of phone number or email and can just send someone an invitation QR to join your contacts.

    It’s all encrypted by default. It’s more like WhatsApp than Matrix though and in group chats, everyone has equal privileges. So if you need to maintain strict access controls and can’t risk everyone getting kicked out of the chat but a rogue member, then it probably won’t work. But it’s really good for 1:1 communication or small groups of trusted people.

    As far as I know the main creator isn’t into anyyhing terrible, whereas Matrix has Israeli ties and the SimpleX guy used to post transphobic stuff on Mastodon. His only sin is being born German.



  • I guess I should differentiate that my immediate neighbors/friends are very anti-war, though a lot of people are also at the level of “the Iran govt was bad toward gay people so had to go” while US/Israeli bombs rain on the heads of those same people. So it’s not so much my immediate circle, but everywhere online, even in spaces for my local communities.

    That’s the part that gets me is that while a large percentage of them are certainly bots, there is a still significant portion of people nearby who think this is somehow all fine. Or who have completely warped priorities where they’re talking about the 6 or 7 US soldiers who were killed over anything else.

    It was the same with Maduro, where protests happened to demand his release, but many people who saw them decried the protestors as lunatics for very much the same reason. Government bad, regime change, etc.

    I probably should focus more on the real life interactions I experience but it’s hard to combat the infinite flood of online information that our brains were never equipped to handle.




  • I finished Resident Evil Village and the DLC last night. It took me a few months because 2/3rd through the game, I was running into a consistent crash in a single room that I was required to go through. Then I saw REFramework posted somewhere and it fixed it when nothing else did. Now I’m finished with every new gen main RE game (2 REmake, 3REmake, 4 and 4 REMake, 5, 6, 7, 8/Village). I liked it more than 7 but it’s a little weird going from the 30~ hour length of RE4/the remake to the 10 hrs it took to finish Village. I typically like short games but I think the design of these could justify a longer length and keep things interesting since they have already done it with 4 and 5.

    I want to move onto Requiem but I aint buying it or using a hypervisor from a rando that is likely to blow up my PC. So maybe when it gets a real crack in a year or two.












  • 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.