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derkades commented on Discord Alternatives, Ranked   taggart-tech.com/discord-... · Posted by u/pseudalopex
aaravchen · 19 hours ago
Ironically, Signal actually ranks a -1 for privacy in this use. Presumably you're already using Signal and getting mainstream contacts to start using it too. You probably have a basic profile that at least includes your real name, and might also have your picture. Maybe you're even one of the 7 people in the world that use the Stories feature in it. Well good news, now all of that is also unconditionally available to anyone in any group you ever join, including any future changes you ever make to that info, unrevocably forever into the future.

Signal has a fun dark pattern where it unrevocably grants permissions for anyone you allow to contact you to see everything in your profile for the rest of time. It has only a single trust level with contacts effectively: full trust. This is unacceptable in any tool you use for online community, unless you exclusively use it for online community and can decline to provide any info in this full-trust level. Unfortunately Signal also makes very sure you can't have a second account, by tying your account to a phone number, and only allowing one Signal instance per mobile device.

Is Signal good? Yes, but only exclusively for communication with people you already trust.

EDIT: typos

derkades · 16 hours ago
The part about stories is not true. When sending a story you can choose who to send it to. To make it easier you can even put people in groups
derkades commented on Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks   nltimes.nl/2026/01/15/dut... · Posted by u/CalRobert
throw310822 · a month ago
It's completely unacceptable and unconscionable for European countries to transfer any part of their critical infrastructure to the US after the US have already weaponised existing dependencies- for example putting the ICC under sanctions and blocking their access to Microsoft services. The cowardice of EU countries is really disgusting.
derkades · a month ago
The US company only does software development, hosting is still done by Logius in NL.
derkades commented on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?   akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-... · Posted by u/thefilmore
Kwpolska · a month ago
The Gmail app takes 175 MB on my Android phone. That’s better than iOS, but still a lot for an e-mail app.
derkades · a month ago
K-9 mail (aka Thunderbird) is a nice 12MB, 70MB installed.
derkades commented on VSCodium – open-source Binaries of VSCode   vscodium.com/#why... · Posted by u/janandonly
derkades · a month ago
This has been my editor for a long while. I can highly recommend it; it is VSCode but without the bullshit.

It should be noted that VSCodium uses a different marketplace for extensions. This third party marketplace does not have (obviously) proprietary Microsoft extensions. Some extensions can still be installed by downloading the .vsix from the official marketplace, but other extensions actively block being installed on "non-official" VSCode.

For Python I recommend basedpyright as an alternative to Pyright/Pylance.

derkades commented on Linux kernel security work   kroah.com/log/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/chmaynard
badgersnake · a month ago
And then all our customers will demand fixes for them in our docker images, because they’re that smart.

There must be a way to ship a docker image without a kernel, since it doesn’t get used for anything anyway.

derkades · a month ago
Huh, how do you unintentionally ship a Linux kernel in a container image? The common base images definitely don't contain the kernel.
derkades commented on OpenSCAD is kinda neat   nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/... · Posted by u/c0nsumer
dheera · 2 months ago
OpenSCAD is the only CAD tool I use. I can'd figure out how to operate a graphical 3D software with a 2D GUI so it's just easier to describe things mathematically.

I just wish it had operations for subtractively chamfering, rounding, etc. as doing minkowski() with cones and spheres to achieve that result can be unwieldy.

derkades · 2 months ago
Do you know about BOSL2? It can do rounding or chamfering very easily.

cuboid([20, 20, 30], chamfer=5);

derkades commented on Backing up Spotify   annas-archive.li/blog/bac... · Posted by u/vitplister
WD-42 · 2 months ago
Incredible.

> A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale.

They wont and shouldn’t divulge the details, but I imagine that would be a fun read!

derkades · 2 months ago
It is not hard. But please don't misuse it and ruin the fun for everyone. It is nice to be able to use the music relatively easily for hobby projects. My music server has functionality to play tracks from Spotify this way:

https://codeberg.org/raphson/music-server/src/branch/main/sp...

derkades commented on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)   creolened.com/windows-gui... · Posted by u/phendrenad2
tracker1 · 3 months ago
Most Linux DE's it's even the same use of the Super/Win hotkey by itself. I do wish Linux distros would add an emoji picker with the Suler+. hotkey (matching Windows')... When it's there, I always forget the hotkey, same on mac for that matter.
derkades · 3 months ago
KDE has Super+.
derkades commented on Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data   xda-developers.com/your-u... · Posted by u/amichail
brian-armstrong · 3 months ago
Powering the SSD on isn't enough. You need to read every bit occasionally in order to recharge the cell. If you have them in a NAS, then using a monthly full volume check is probably sufficient.
derkades · 3 months ago
Isn't that the SSD controller's job?
derkades commented on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move   makeuseof.com/androids-si... · Posted by u/josephcsible
edg5000 · 4 months ago
The biggest bank in the Netherlands at least requires the app to confirm payments. Although they do still have these paper slips (maybe) for transfers but that cannot be used for ecommerce
derkades · 4 months ago
ING? You can choose to receive a hardware device instead of using the app.

u/derkades

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