DahGangalang
@DahGangalang@infosec.pub
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC 2 weeks ago:
Oh.
Welp, my opinion still stands, even if this isn’t the right context for it.
Hmmm, that does seem weird that they wouldnt be putting in DRM. I guess I’m on board with it. They do make super solid games. I hope this showcases what can be achieved by games that do t include DRM at their core.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC 2 weeks ago:
Anti-cheat in single player games never made sense to me. Maybe if it includes microtransactions, then i guess i could see a use case, but like, if I want to cheat at your single player game, what use would there be in stopping me?
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 1 month ago:
Like, I don’t want to sound like a corporate shill, but Valve has been the most consumer friendly corporation I’ve ever seen. Even if they do meet the criteria for a monopoly, they are the model of what a company that finds itself as The Monopoly should be, in my opinion.
I have no intent to sign up for this “lawsuit”, even though I stand to gain some $500 from it. I hope Steam lives long and prospers.
- Comment on Over 90 malicious Android apps with 5.5M installs found on Google Play 5 months ago:
…so are they going to tell us what the 90+ apps are?
- Comment on To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol 8 months ago:
This is a beautiful block of information and I super appreciate you for having drafted it.
- Comment on To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol 8 months ago:
Yeah, that’d be the principle.
I’m really not sure how this is all gonna pan out, but I know you’re gonna need to offer me something really good to abandon “real” Signal. Not sure if that’s how the rest of the community feels, but I know that’s NOT the way “normal people” feel. If my sentiment is widely shared, maybe it does have hope in the end.
- Comment on To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol 8 months ago:
I’m forgetting the term everyone was throwing around when (Facebook’s) Threads was supposedly going to federate. But the gist of it was that this is an old Big Tech move: small community is created and thrives, big company integrates into the ecosystem, then a couple of years later the big tech company controls that that whole ecosystem.
If Facebook were to completely integrate, I worry they would begin to bring in additional features (maybe like blue chat bubbles for FB users, or bringing back SMS in the app; some feature that you’d only be getting on the FB version of the ecosystem) and use that to begin to strong arm the ecosystem under their control.
There’s probably a Slippery Slope Fallacy in there, but my good will towards Big Tech is minimal after the last decade or so.
- Comment on To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol 8 months ago:
I suppose the part I seem to be missing: what’s to stop Facebook from setting up a “Signal Server” that then hosts those users on Whatsapp/Messenger?
From there, what happens if Facebook then attempt to integrate those servers into the existing Signal network?
I’m really not sure how information is shared between servers on Signal and am curious if there’s not something at a purely technical level to stop that from happening. I’d imagine there’s some keys that need to be passed around for handling en/decryption which I think is what you’re alluding to, but I want to be clear that that’s what you mean.
- Comment on To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol 8 months ago:
Right, but with Signal being an open source project, it seems that anyone could (pending license-ability) build an app to interact with the main Signal network. It’s my understanding there’s a few apps on F-Droid that let you do that already.
Thus, Facebook should be able to (at least in theory) build compatibility for the Signal network into their existing messengers.
Is there any part of that I’m missing?
- Comment on To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol 8 months ago:
Sounds like ~facebook~ Meta isn’t seriously considering interoperation with the existing Signal network, which is a weight off my chest.
- Comment on We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle 11 months ago:
Let’s not lose sight of the important part:
That they’re plotting it together