but I always installed them on my other drive where it did not need such privileges. it works on linux because here everything runs as admin (in the wine world, it’s not admin in the linux world)

denuvo won’t run on operating systems that don’t try to fuck you over, and makes the game slower on windows

why does it require admin rights to run, then? right at startup, and if you try to run it with a tool that fakes admin rights, it will crash (unlike other installers it can successfully make run)

simplex messages stay on your phone

I think that’s what I said with signal too. the exception is you can have your messages follow you, if you still have the old phone, because the app supports transferring the data.

I meant us handing over our encryption keys. ofc MITM does not work here

for signal, that is still required. if you look, they used linked devices to get the messages

the only time they mention signal is when they explain they used linked devices to obtain signal messages. not SMS! if you lose your phone or whatever, and log in on a new device, your messages won’t magically reappear, they are lost, and all your contacts get a warning that your safety numbers have changed.

such is life without friends. in the (slightly) better case.

I understand that, but what tools would you use if all open source devs stopped their contributions? there wouldn’t be anything left. we could go back to windows 11, googlified android with all the scam ads of the world, etc. I feel this mindset hurts the open source community more than the ubercapitalist pigs

the whois info for the IP might have an abuse email address, try that

I did not completely agree at first, but now I remembered google using similar language to justify taking away crucial addon APIs

“what the x is y, not z”

they will just install the fake app as well, right from the play store.

oh god no, we are better off while that technology does not exist. device attestation might add some security, but do you know what else it does? takes away device ownership, entirely, by deciding for you what specific tracking ridden operating system you must use.

that is not a pihole device. or do you see that written anywhere?

this is a raspberry pi 5

there is no pihole device, it is just a software you run on linux. you can run it on any kind of computer, desktop, laptop, raspberry or a cheaper SBC, even on old smartphones (but, due to it needing to bind to a port lower than 1000 the phone needs to be rooted first), even on your home rputer if it can run openwrt. but you likely want to have it on something that does not consume much power, because this will be running 24/7

you did not correctly remove it, you have just hidden it with markdown. probably your client handles it like that when you paste over a link

I was using it for years with family. we did not pay anything for it

now it has just become easier

If you can come up with a catchier alternative then go for it. Link-aggregator-verse doesn’t really roll off the tongue.

its also reductionist. its not like we are just hoarding links here for hoarding’s sake. discussions. and many non-link posts too.