WilfordGrimley

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Donald Trump tells Canada to become a state to avoid his tariffs in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
Why haven’t we seen a peer-to-peer (P2P) social media platform yet? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 8 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Check out aether.

I really wanted this to be as popular as Lemmy, but it never caught on in a big way.

No End-to-End Encrypted Fediverse? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

XMPP is a tried and tested e2ee standard.

There is mention of e2ee voice and video chat on the site.

Are there any anonymous coins that have better security than Monero? in c/monero@monero.town
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Monero is king.

Monero bridged to Ergo and mixed with the ergo mixer could be great one day. As it would give Monero access to DeFi if enough people use the mixer this way.

https://docs.ergoplatform.com/eco/ergomixer/

Mark Carney did "The Daily Show" last night in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If the Fed Libs want my vote back, they'll have to make good on their promise of electoral reform with the help of the NDP or Bloc before a confidence vote.

Beijing says it’s willing to deepen economic ties with Canada as Trump brings trade chaos in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
Fedora Kinoite and ProtonVPN in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 6 points 3 weeks ago

Only way to install it with support for port forwarding on Fedora Atomic spins.

Fedora Kinoite and ProtonVPN in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Add the rpm from protons website then rpm-ostree install package name.

This is one of the situations where layering packages is appropriate.

Which fast food restaurant (in your opinion) has the best burger? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal Private Messenger is free open source, works on everything. Your grandma could use this.

I have slowly migrated all of my friends and family to this over the last few years.

All of the big 'encrypted' messengers like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger use the Signal Protocol under the hood but insert their own shady business and tracking defeating a lot of the purpose.

There are other perhaps more anonymous options like SimpleX or XMRchat but they are not practical nor needed for most threat models.

Matrix is not quite mature enough but is a better option than discord for gaming communities.

Signal everyday. I would not recommend Telegram. DYOR.

New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with.

I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me.

If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved.

UN committee: Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’ in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 3 points 2 months ago

The western world starts treating the US the way we treated Germany during WWII. Only problem is the unelected neolib puppets in charge of most of our country that used to exhibit leadership on the global stage.

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Is Lemmy Federation with Aether possible? (linux.community)
 

Aether is a reddit alternative not dissimilar to Lemmy in that it is distributed and open source.

Some advantages to Aether over Lemmy are:

It is entirely decentralized rather than federated giving it superior censorship resistance and smooth horizontal scalability. Each user on the Aether network acts as a node operator allowing other users to connect and view the communities that they subscribe to.

Moderators within each community are elected by, are impeachable by, and their decisions can be individually ignored by the users of each community. All mod actions are public information and, as mentioned, each mod action or moderator can be ignored by each user. This maximizes the accountability of the network and greatly reduces the chances of censorship.

The biggest flaw with Aether is that it is not currently maintained (to my knowledge). With such a massive migration of users to Lemmy and the Fediverse as large, I would love to see an increased interest in decentralized solutions like Aether.

Would it be technically feasible for Aether to join the fediverse through modified Lemmy instances? If so it could act as a silver bullet to enable horizontal scalability of the network at large.

I welcome any discussion on the topic.

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Can the Number of Federated Instances be Increased for Linux.community please? (linux.community)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by WilfordGrimley@linux.community to c/linux@linux.community
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At the moment there is slim pickings for other communities to join if this instance is chosen by a user to be their home server.

Presumably other instances have to approve linux.community federating with them before their subs can show up? Is it that this instance is new, or is there some other reason. u/nkukard can you chime in?

EDIT: A-ha! I was searching poorly! Once a member of a instance subscribes, it pulls it into that instance for easier discovery. Neat!

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