“Hello, File Seller, I am going into uploading and need your strongest files”. “My files are too powerful for you, traveller”.
You cannot handle my files traveller!
Bro fuck discord
Honest question: how come?
Because is proprietary and they’ve been making bad decisions like removing discriminators. Try out https://revolt.chat or https://matrix.org instead.
Dont forget they also harvest quite literally every single piece of data they possibly can about you- and if you install their app they collect information on everything else happening on your pc as well.
Oh and the admins have been exposed as groomers and their platform is absolutely infested with pedophiles in general.
That’s like… any platform ever tho?
I was going to ask “every platform is run by groomers and is infested by pedos?” but then I realized how close to true it is…
No sense in fighting the ‘everyone collects and sells your data’ point however, considering yes- they all do, but some do far far more harvesting than others…
The thing that did it for me was the updated privacy policy scandal about how they could now store all the contents of voice recordings. Now they know exactly where I live, how much I make, everything. Never paying for Nitro again, and my activity there plummeted.
Why is everyone celebrating that companies are starting to keep voice recordings and chat records of users? It is mad.
P2P vs hosting…
Gotta use a zero-knowledge VPN for all P2P transfers.
Check out croc.
laughs in telegram
Right, so many sites try their hardest to have every thing hosted on their own platform, then they put stupid High restrictions on what you can actually do with the content because of the fact that they’re now having everything on their own host. Switching from peer to peer to Cloud hosted was in my opinion the beginning of the downfall for Skype. It removed a lot of its permissions that you could give on the platform, it broke compatibility of the Unix Community which took them two and a half years to finally fix, and it actually butchered their reliability
Fusion 360: we have unnecessarily decided to force you to use the cloud for this product
Also Fusion 360: *Noooo all you free users are using up too much of our server space, you will have to pay.
Here is an idea, let me run it on my PC and it won’t use any of your servers
Skype and aim could transfer even more than that, skype can still do way more than 2GB
Check out croc, a slick little tool to allow you to send files from one computer to another. No port forwarding, encryption built in.
That’s a really interesting project.
As I paged through the documents, I couldn’t find how long nor where files are stored during transfer. It kinda seems like they get stored (in encrypted form) in the guy’s closet server.
Don’t suppose you can speak to this?
Reading through the code, you can start your own relay server. The relay server code should be part of the repo then.
If the files are E2E encrypted, I assume they are useless to the person that is hosting the server.
(Disclaimer, I’ve not reviewed the code, don’t quote)
Files can be transferred via P2P connection without them being uploaded first to a third location. I assume though that some sort of server serves as a matchmaker allowing two computers find each other when the connection is established
That’s exactly what the relay server is, it just relays communication details. And you can run your own relay server if you don’t want to use his public relay server.
I hate discord now. It’s worse than reddit
It’s also not a forum
That’s an astute observation Watson. Hur dur
I only had to read two of your comments to know I never want to read another one again.
Time to look for that block user option.
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Two is all it takes for you, huh.
I look at it like this: I’ve seen, heard and read enough shit in my 48 years to know when I’m better off without certain types of people. So I block them. I’ll never have to read a comment and see that username again and go, “oh, this fucker again… ugh”
In no way do I suffer from this approach and lose out on some enlightenment or critical information.its a win, win.
Worst case scenario is I blocked a decent person, but I’ll never know and it still won’t make my life any less fulfilling.
And for the record, I dont spend my days blocking people. Maybe four to six people a month (on Reddit), probably far less here, because most users seem decently grounded in comparison, with far less emotional issues.
But fuck yeah, I do love the block function when someone gives me that bad energy moment. It’s liberating.
You speak true, I can agree to this outlook.
Honestly, not having ads and being very usable for free, Discord is still pretty good IMO
Discord app is same level of shit like reddit app and has no third party clients(they too fucks api)
Still there is a mod called aliucord
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Not having ads? Lmao what? It literally spams you to buy nitro every chance it gets & it’s not exactly free- they harvest quite literally every single drop of information they possibly can about you.
Huh, I haven’t heard about Discord harvesting data yet. Got something specific to read about that?
Bro… look in the settings, they literally give you a button to request your collected data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHTR0-_eHto , here’s a video about it if you really need it.
So, basically, payment information and analytics, the latter of which you can disable. Everything else is the data that Discord is meant to store (as in messages, settings, all the other stuff I expect it to display back to me in the app). I mean, it could store less, but overall it doesn’t seem that bad?
If you boil down every single aspect of information they possibly can gather on you to “analytics”- sure, however Discord got rid of the functionality to disable analytic data collection years ago iirc, and the button to ‘delete my information’ was removed around the same time- and replaced with the ‘request my data’ button.
But you should also know if you install it, it’s been claimed (I’m too lazy to look it up, I just know that I’ve read/watched a video about it years ago) that it collects data on what you do across your entire pc, to at least the same extent that microsoft’s default telemetry does. This is due to them monitoring your pc at all times so it can integrate with whatever game you are playing- of course.
They also went to the deep end trying to make profits. Discord has a bloated interface and tries to shove their subscription up your face every chance they can.
Try my ad block list: https://github.com/synthead/discord-adfree
Couldn’t agree more 👍
For what it’s worth at least they raised the limit to 25 megs. Still sucks though.
25Mega Bites now
😬🦷🪥
This is limitations of scylladb and their api service requirements.
They haves something called a service agreement. That means the API is required to respond in 99% 99.999% etc. and by limiting to 8mb for files, charging for a bit more etc. they can both monetize and enforce guaranteed api requirements internally.
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They shut down discord?
Skype was shutdown forever ago
Edit: Skype for Business was shutdown but not regular ol skype!
What I’m I using then to “Skype” my family?
Thanks for checking me, it turns out only Skype for business was shutdown but regular ol skype is still in use!
Oh yeah, that did happen (it was a completely separate protocol iirc, they just used the same name). Even with a local app it just redirects to Teams (I’m too lazy to uninstall it at the office so like twice a year or starts with Windows logon). It’s funny how MS keeps buying competitors from the same market & they end up with line 5 business social media apps, several chat services, etc.
I really think these companies just get so big they don’t know what to fucking do with themselves anymore so board members just push psychotic movement towards anything remotely shiny.
Such a strange existence this life
I considered Skype shut down as soon as Microsoft bought it and broke it. I didnt wait around to see what turd they finally reshaped it into.
I used it for a while after they acquired it and it got sooooo bad sooooo fast. You made the right decision
Lync -> MS Teams
Idk it’s like any other relaunch for software, sometime a good sometime a shit
Isn’t the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.
so true
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Just use mega instead???
Back in 2010 my best friend at the time sent me an entire pirated copy of need for speed most wanted in a zip file through Skype. It took the entire day for it to send and then it took my weak ass computer until I woke up the next morning to unzip the folder the game was on. I remember waking up and being overjoyed that it was at 97% completion. I only had to wait another few minutes for it to finish.
I still have that exe to this day. It’s basically impossible to play the game otherwise. I actually store the exe on my phone since it has so much storage and it’s easy to move it over thanks to USB 3.0 and higher. I do that with a lot of games actually.
It’s basically impossible to play the game otherwise.
I remember having to install Need for Speed Carbon on a dual-boot of Windows 7 in order to play it on Windows 10 iirc because 10 made a change that broke a certain DRM and I couldn’t install from disc. I assume it’s similar for Most Wanted?
The last time I tried to use a disk to install a nfs game was on a windows 8 laptop and it didn’t want to launch unless I did compatibility for XP and it didn’t end up installing the game anyways.
I mean it’s basically impossible to play the game otherwise because EA refuses to sell the black box need for speed games, and the only other way to legally obtain them is to buy a 20 year old dvd which didn’t sell very well to begin with. Even if I did that, I wouldn’t be able to install it because I haven’t had a PC or laptop with a disk drive in almost 8 years.
Since EA doesn’t want my money, I won’t feel bad about not giving it to them. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground, Underground 2, Most Wanted, Carbon, are all abandonware. Too much copyrighted music and car licences for EA to even consider touching it so feel free to pirate the games.
