#Zoomers these days have it so easy.
- They'll never know what it feels like to "be on #EDGE"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOUiAr9-KSo
#EDGEland #Millenial #Humor #sarcasm #MillenialHumor #Internet #WiFi #JulianSmith #ClassicMemes
#EDGEland
@AmenZwa also I think a lot.of #WebDevs need to stop showing off and instead start building unique, sleek & privacy-respecting sites...
- #Autoplay|ing #videos in the #background and #Apple-esque #ScrollAnimations don't wow me - but a site that works on #EDGEland speeds or even #Iridium and over @torproject / #TorBrowser with disabled #JavaScript and #LynxBrowser and just feels good, that get a thumbs up...
@1000millimeter @fasnix @Aakerbeere hierzukande kannste nichtmals für €500k mehr was kaufen, geschweige denn baun.
- Außer mensch will kein Hanyempfang, brauchbares Internet und für jeden shice 15min mit nem Auto fahren bzw. mangels Räumung der Straßen im Winter nen Geländewagen brauchen...
@CppGuy yeah, @torproject really got better since I started using @guardianproject / #Orbot 15 years ago because in #EDGEland, #Tor is a #PerformanceProxy!
@jascha Ich bin der Ansicht dass die @BNetzA schon jetzt zu schlaff ist, und wir das mit #EDGEland teuer bezahlen.
- Und ja, alle #Infrastruktur mit natürlichem.Monopol (Frequenzen, Kabel, Leitungen) gehört als #AöR verstaatlicht und streng als.#Infrastruktur reguliert!
@JessTheUnstill @Mojeek and now you know why I have a 10+ year old stupid 1080p TV and will only replace it with a monitor if it ever dies...
- I want my shit stupid because I want my tools to obey me.
Same with my car: I'll never drive a car made after 2016 because of all the #eCall #tracking bs that doesn't even work reliably in #EDGEland when it comes to emergencies!
- Not to mention having driven a #Peugeot 2008 not so long ago (as rental) really fucking annoyed me as this thing just decided to randomly nag me for the gazillionth time to agree to shit terms I explicitly declined several times already whilst driving down the road, literally blocking the navigation display.
#Enshittification like that will sooner or later kill people!
- But hey, at least it refused to pair a passengers' phone via bluetooth if I didn't pull over and turned the engine off! That'll shurely not make other drivers just keep their hands on the handset against Traffic Code...
@snep espechally on mobile!
- In my 15+ years of experience, @torproject / #Tor works as a #PerformanceProxy on #throttled #mobile networks in #EDGEland since #MNO|s and #MVNO|s don't properly negotiate a "link width" but #throttle by #dropping packets, adding #TCP #SlowStart as #latency.
OFC it won't make shit go faster, but more reliable.
- #latency is shit on all mobile networks that ain't straight-up #IP-based like #WiFi, Tor doesn't add that much to it...
In fact, Tor makes #throttled connections bearable for me for >15 years, as even back in 2008 one couldn't just get "unlimited data", espechally not as an individual (school child) without income or wealth!
Issues aside it's now 15 years since I started using #Tor / @torproject & @guardianproject / #Orbot on #Android full-time.
- Not just for #privacy, but because it acts as a #PerformanceProxy on #throttled #German mobile networks!
Because in #EDGEland they yeet users to 64kBit/s if not even lower to 16kBit/s past paid bandwith and instead of properly renegotiating the bandwith, they trottle connections by reducing the packet rate / dropping packets, making it as #laggy as a #GSO-based #SATCOM connection!
@ajn142 @tinker @Em0nM4stodon +9001%
- Never stopped using @torproject / #Tor because @guardianproject #Orbot is a #PerformanceProxy on #EDGEland throttled networks!
@tauon Also what goid is an encryption like @signalapp is you don't have #SelfCustody of all the keys?
- Shure you could disable encryption but @monocles shows you when it's active and when not and comes with sensible defaults like having #OMEMO active per default...
I can setup over a dozen #TechIlliterates 1:1 with #XMPP accounts and #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim in the time it takes me to get a #nonKYC #eSIM from overseas with a phone number as mandated by @signalapp and maintaining that number for #Signal will easily cost like $2,50 p.m. at minimum.
- Whereas a Data-only eSIM is way faster and cheaper to get and maintain.
In fact even legitimately acquiring and registering a #Prepaid #SIM in-store in #Germany takes longer than setting up #Fdroid & monocles chat & a XMPP account whilst on throttled #EDGEland speeds...
- Plus unlike Signal, I can just push #XMPP through @torproject / #Tor and/or any #VPN & #Proxy...
Die Tatsache dass Tools wie #LooksScanned eine Daseinsberechtigung haben schockiert mich weiterhin...
#eingescannt #Scanner #Bürokratie #Paperwahn #Unterlagen #Digitalistan #EDGEland #Neuland #Schland #PapierZwang
Hat der #DATEV - #Saftladen wenigstens ne brauchbare #API über die Mensch einfach denen einfach nen #PGP-#Pubkey schicken kann mit der Anweisung:
- "Sendet mir mein Zeugs monatlich per #PDF als PGP/MIME-verschlüsselte eMail an meine Addresse zu!"
Weil das wäre recht wichtig, weil deren Müll funktioniert nicht #barrierefrei (unter #LynxBrowser auf #OpenBSD für alle #Klukshicer!) und deren #UI / #UX ist einfach nur #cringe...
#AppZwang #DigitalZwang #Bürokratie #Steuer #Lohnabrechnung #Paperkrieg #Enshittification #Digitalistan #EDGEland #Schland #Neuland
@lucasmz @Avitus @david_chisnall the benefit of #XMPP+#OMEMO is that there are several providers, including free options...
All #PII incl. #PhoneNumbers can and will be abused by existing governments and if users don't pay, then they are the product and their data is the one to be sold.
- #KYC IS THE #IllicitActivity WHEN IT COMES TO #ComSec!
After all, you have the same cost problem with phone numbers. Even if one doesn't pay per line/number and never pay for calls and texts, they still have to top it up to extent validity.
- And again: It's way easier for a government to demand an ID for a #SIM that works in networks around their country (i.e. #Turkey demands registration on a per-#IMEI - basis *with #ID) than to tunnel XMPP+OMEMO through @torproject over #EDGEland-speed #2G networks.
Plus you relying an unfixably insecure #Telephony makes a system inherently unsafer than it needs to be...
- This is how people get caught!
Also #Signal is able and willing to use said PII to restrict and ban users and if I were some dissident in Cuba or North Korea or even just Eritrea or Yemen I'd not rely on non-enforcement of #OFAC / #USML / #ITAR since Signal can obviously distinguish & identify accounts by virgue if their #PhoneNumber!
- Always think "How can this be weaponized against someone?" when it comes to #privacy!
@levampyre @thunfisch Das Problem mit #WohnenAufDemLand ist dass es dort nicht nur weder #ÖPNV noch #Versorgung gibt.
- Und selbst wenn mensch sagt: "Shice Gesellschaft!"* und nur noch alles online bestellt und online ist: #EDGEland ist ne Zumutung und #Starlink-Satelliten ersetzen kein #FTTB / #FTTH aka. echte #Glasfaser!
@Ultralativ hat recht:
Die #Enshittification des #Internet|s ist immer extremer werdend.
- Quasi nur noch #SEO-totoptimierter #KI - #Bullshit der mit soviel #Autplay-Videomüll vollgekotzt wird dass es quasi schon #DigitaleNotwehr ist, mit #Dillo oder gar #Lynx zu browsen selbst wenn Mensch nicht in #EDGEland hängt oder gar per #Iridium unterwegs ist.
Ich für meinen Teil nutze deshalb @torproject / #TorBrowser weil der schon das meiste rausfiltert und ich eh keine Seiten besuchen will, die gegen #Tor-Nutzer direkt oder indirekt via #ClownFlare diskriminieren...
- Irgendwo muss ich auch meine Zeit und geistige Gesundheit schonen...
A modern competitor to #OperaMini with:
- (optional) better #compression,
- (optional) #TUI / #TextBrowsing mode
- choice between different #proxies
- native #Tor, #IPFS & #Proxy Support
- Supporting #Android & #Linux
- Excellent #privacy features (only #allowlisted #Cookies and #JavaScript are being accepted!)
- Native #DarkReader-style integration to darkify or otherwise customize the output of the screen (i.e. print Amber / Green on black or Black on White for #eInk displays
- Can be used not just with a #touchscreen but also #Keypad and arrow keys.
Why?
- Because there needs to be more #competition that isn't yet another #Chromium-#Fork
- that is a good middle-ground between #Lynx and @torproject / #TorBrowser,
- Because @mozillaofficial / #Mozilla is fucking up #Firefox big time by wasting #money on anything but it as their core product...
OFC since #Opera #Mini needs a trustworthy proxy backend any "#clone" would need an #OpenSource'd & #SelfHosting-capable #backend (similar to @ActionRetro 's #FrogFind .com as it breaks #E2EE.
- Otherwise making the Browser just lie by not loading any #Multimedia contents like #images unless clicked may be another option chosen if one doesn't have a #Server to act as said #CompressionProxy / #PerformanceProxy in return...
Needless to say it would be a godsent for anyone stuck on #EDGEland and slower speeds (i.e. #SATCOM like #Iridium)...
@cr0n0s granted I'm quite happy with @monocles as #ItJustWorks with @guardianproject / #Orbot to connect any #OnionService / @torproject / #Tor-hosted #Server and beyond...
- Espechally since Tor works as a #PerformanceProxy on #EDGEland networks...
@diekehrseite natürlich, denn es dient einzig und allein dazu, #KündIgungen von #Angestellten zu provozieren und sich als #Arbeitgeber*in #Aufhebungsvertag samt #Abfindung zu sparen...
- Gibt zwar sicherlich mehr als genug Jobs die #Onsite gemacht werden müssen weil das im Naturell der Tätigkeit liegt, sei es #Handwerk, #Notdienste und/oder #CareWork, aber alles was keienn "Kundenkontakt" oder Werkzeug und/oder Platz und/oder Örtlichkeit bedarf solle #RemoteFirst angeboten werden, damit teure #Gewerbefläche und #Büros von jenen genutzt werden, die nicht von zuhause Arbeiten können (bspw. weil #EDGEland-#Internet, #Lärm, kleine #Kinder, #Prokrastination, etc. )...
Denn noch besser als der umweltfreindlichste Pendelweg ist wenn Mensch nicht pendeln muss!
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