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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I wish I could quit Telegram myself, but with how much it is used for my university and recreation - it is next to impossible right now. So instead of that, I at least tried to minimize harm: treat it as a fully public space and behave as if every my conversation there is watched right now (so that the chance of saying anything remotely dangerous is minimized), use a FOSS client instead of the official one, and try to get as many individuals as possible to XMPP, Simplex or at least Signal.










  • Physical vs. DRMed digital is not a dichotomy. Personally for books, I do prefer paper ones - and mostly read in my language on paper. However, pretty much all non-fiction I read is in English, and getting it in paper would cost a fortune (English books are not sold here that much as we’re not an English-speaking country, and shipping would likely cost more than the book itself).

    As for movies and music - it’s all digital DRMless as well, unlike books, there isn’t even a functional difference between a file from a tracker vs. a file from a DVD, except that you wouldn’t have to throw out a perfectly good disk after ripping.







  • It is highly impractical and arbitrary to tie a digital download to a physical piece of media, especially if you have no plans to use it after ripping. Waiting until it arrives or going to a now-rare disk store, and then almost immediately either throwing into the trash or bothering to resell - neither feels good.



  • I wanted to participate in some Matrix groups, so hosted Conduit. Synapse was out of the question because it is too heavy for my cheap VPS. Some of the groups were encrypted, and my messages there were consistently rendered unreadable! Whether this was a Conduit vs. Synapse or matrix.org vs. everyone else I don’t know, but the result is thw group being rendered unusable.

    But my biggest problem is easily the storage, as Conduit offers no way to clean it up and my disk space is really small. The mandatory “everyone stores everything” model is so weird and seemingly unneeded for a chat… Why isn’t it optional at least??

    Seriously, why is Synapse - the only fully-functional implementation - so damn heavy? Even the developers admit it doesn’t scale, introducing a different commercial version for big deployments! (wonder if this was the plan all along lol)