Notices by tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)

@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social #Gmail is already mostly a spam service. The majority of email my servers get from #Google servers is bog-standard phishing attempts or other forms of scam mail. Its absurd that Google rejects email from legitimate self-hosters because they're supposedly a source of spam mail, but lets their own service spam up the Internet with no restrictions.

Self-host your email, don't give mega-corporations any more power to abuse!

@nela@outerheaven.club Must be a skill issue, I love email

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I don't know where @arh@blackstar.cafe lives, so I'm assuming where he lives its just very difficult to get anything better. Not everyone has access to an ISP offering affordable gigabit networking sadly.

@wdormann@infosec.exchange Good thing everyone that cares about this kind of stuff ditched Windows years ago

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online constant relentless overly aggressive scraping, ignoring robots directivesThis only really affects those who self-host, most people who support "open source" use #Github, as they don't care much for freedom at all.lack of attribution, disrespecting licensesThat's the intent of open source licensing. Open source communities promote those actions as being good things, because otherwise you'd be "restricting the freedom of people who want to abuse you". This is the big difference between simply "open source" and actual "free software".

I do agree that LLMs are a cancer on the Internet, and we should do more to stop it. But I find that free software communities are actually getting hurt. Open source communities didn't care about these things all that much, and its oftentimes their contributions that make the problems in IT worse.

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @TauAs@river.group.lt Drew used to allow other forms of payment in case you did not want to interact with Stripe, but it seems those options have been removed.

Is the Stripe code part of Source Hut, the software project, too, or is it only part of Source Hut, the hosted version at sr.ht? If I remember correctly, Drew could not find any free as in freedom payment operators to integrate with, would you know of any that you could recommend to him?

@dosnostalgic@mastodon.social Imagine not using free software

@dwarf@borg.social Any "cloud" business is expensive. You can, however, just get yourself a rack and some hardware and build one for yourself at home!

@sandboxgeneral@fosstodon.org @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org Is this the Roon you're referring to? I never heard about it before.

@sandboxgeneral@fosstodon.org Sad to hear then, it looks remarkably proprietary.

@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social the only gen to really learn computersI sure hope you're not implying that millenials as a whole group know computers, because the vast majority is just as clueless as my grandmother...

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Let's try it out, then.When there's the option of choosing from replacements, there's a choice to choose from several acceptable options (which implies that Discord is acceptable, when it is not)
When you install an alternative, you are permanently replacing proprietary malware.Sure works like a synonym, and several dictionaries seem to agree it is, in fact, a synonym. I understand it is difficult for you to accept, but you could try. It leaves you with more time and energy to focus on actually getting people to use free software.

The nit-picky start of your previous post would've turned most people off from even considering the software option you referred to, which is harming your cause of getting people to use free software. I intentionally talked about it anyway, but now you're not even mentioning the software part that the thread was supposed to be about anymore. You're actively distracting people from the use of free software right now. You're undermining yourself with this kind of post.

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @robin@social.riley.pub
Alternative and replacement are synonyms of each other. They can be used to have the exact same meaning.

Galène looks interesting, I never heard of it. Upon first inspection, however, I don't think many people would consider this a Discord alternative.

@robin@social.riley.pub Are there any viable free software alternatives to Discord? As far as I'm aware, there is currently nothing that is actually usable that does text and voice well in a browser setting. Matrix is so slow its laughable, Revolt doesn't have working voice, Spacebar doesn't have working anything. If you just want voice, there's obviously Mumble, which works great, but mumble-web seems unmaintained so getting that as a clean web client for The Uneducated seems like an uphill struggle too.

I've been looking for an actually usable free software alternative to host for me and my friends for a while, since I refuse to use Discord but don't want to give them a noticably worse experience. Sadly, I have not been able to find anything so far.

@philipp@social.anoxinon.de Im literally telling you I don't understand how find it hard to avoid JavaScript, which you post publicly about, and all you do is avoid telling me how you find it hard to avoid it. Trying to have an "epic comeback" by throwing some overused nothingness at me isn't as helpful as you think it is.

If you don't want help from someone with experience, that's fine. If you don't want people to try and understand you, feel free to stop posting about your self-inflicted issues publicly.

@philipp@social.anoxinon.de @sophie@social.lol
I haven't built a website in WordPress for a long time, since its massively bloated, but how can it be "challenging to avoid JavaScript"? Just... don't use it, that's how I've been getting around it on my blog since forever.

@philipp@social.anoxinon.de @sophie@social.lol I genuinely don't understand how it can be hard to avoid something that you decide to put in in the first place.

It's like saying you find it hard to avoid adding chocolate chips to a cake you're baking, even though you set out to make a cake without chocolate chips. You're the one in control to add it or not.

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I'm sure 3M is very happy proprietary companies are rarely held liable for knowingly lying to everyone

@sun@shitposter.world Give her a ring

@mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world Always has been