Signal fills an incredibly important spot in a spectrum of privacy and usability where it’s extremely usable without sacrificing very much privacy. Sure, to the most concerned privacy enthusits it’s not the best, but it’s a hell of a lot easier to convince friends and family to use Signal than something like Matrix.

What are you on about right now? I don’t mean that sarcastically, I really am wondering what your concern is. Are you concerned that because your phone number is associated with Signal that police will know you use Signal?

Libre is just a god awful word to say out loud. For a philosophy it’s fine, but for branding it’s terrible.

Can you give some examples of your point?

I think the disconnect here is that you’re using the term producer differently from the way most people do. You’re viewing a “producer” as a normal worker (like you and me). Back to the gaming comparison, the “developer” and “producer” of a game refer to companies. Go to a game’s Steam page. There is a section for each of those. The term is the same for the individuals working there, so it can be confusing. When people say “game developers push for DRM” they don’t mean the individual developers working there, they mean the company, and of course the owners (investors) control the company.

No need to be condescending and say things like “sorry, I just assumed you know this.”

You made a comparison to gaming and said the devs don’t make the money. Who do you think makes the money in gaming? The producers. Why do you think the profits of film making go to law makers instead of the production company bank rolling the movie?

You absolute goober, you said the law makers get the money and now have the audacity to say “You know what error you made. Stop slinking around so we can correct the facts”? I can’t with this. Thanks for entertaining me this morning.

The film industry benefits from HDCP and all DRM, they aren’t being fucked. I’ve looked back over the conversation, I think you have it flipped in your head.

No idea how you say all that but can’t put together which industry specifically benefits from HDCP.

My god it’s all true 🤯

Yeah, shit like HDCP is pushed by the film and TV industry.

I need to check my girl’s laptop.

Is this person lying/incorrect? https://lemmy.world/comment/16865866

Regarding your last sentence, something similar happened to me with OneDrive. I mocked people thinking surely they enabled something by mistake. Nope. The defaults and general behavior are just that wacky. Glad I’m off Microsoft now.

On Chrome it becomes a smiley face. I use Firefox and my wife still uses Chrome.

ffs, no need for the tone. I’m not trying to defend them. Just trying to understand what exactly the problem is and isn’t.

Surely it can be reverse engineered by the API that snap uses?

Can you elaborate a little? I imagined this meant something like Visual Studio Code’ Marketplace (which doesn’t allow non Microsoft products to connect), but I don’t see anything about that on Snap’s TOS.

To be clear, I’m not saying you’re wrong or anything, I’m just trying to understand.

Apt looks a little prettier I think. But I may be wrong.

I mean, maybe. Imagine averaging the usage over a single instruction cycle. Whatever ran that instruction is using 100% of the processor for that time period.