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Did they even present any proof that she was recording? To me it sounds like they just made up some bullshit and for some reason the cops just decided to believe it.
I hope the union rep properly encrypted their laptop to prevent them from searching it, but i doubt they are that well prepared.
Yeah i really dont get why people need a fucking game API integration in their messenger application. Hello? I want privacy please.
Just turn off NSFW posts. If you do that and have a working ad blocker installed for the rest of the internet, then you should basically never see unsolicited gooner content. Im online a lot and all the NSFW content i see is due to my own decisions. Games, movies, manga, etc all come with ratings and tags to avoid horny shit.
How is the screensharing with Signal? I never tried it back when i was using it.
Bruh that headline is straight up misinformation then
Soooo all the victims of this state sponsored terrorism now get a few million pounds each for their wrongful imprisonment?
Maybe leather? Could be literally anything but with paint on it…
But its definitely a model of a womans upper body.
They already have been doing it. This is just an upgrade to what they were already doing. Ring cameras were already being used by the police for years.
Yes of course they cant just yoink people, but then whats the point of more surveillance? If they cant legally prevent it anyways, then its pointless.
Also age verification stuff is the fault of governments at the core. Governments force companies to do age verification but dont specify how or that it should be secure and private.
Well to me it just sounds like they were doing target practice on random stuff lol
Ok so terminology wise:
If you just want to create something resembling a discord server, you first create a Space.
You can decide if it should be public or private (public = anyone with the address can join / private = invite only)
Then you add rooms to it, normal rooms for text channels and video rooms for voice/video channels. During the creation of each of these rooms (or after) you decide if they should be visible to all space members, or be invite only (think mod channels).
Afterwards just invite people to the Space and they will be able to join the rooms you set up.
There are 3 predefined permission levels: Default, Moderator, Admin but you can also define numeric power levels for more fine grained control over what people can do. You can set permissions for users on the Space level and on the room level separately. So you can give someone mod powers for the entire Space or only for a single room. You can also set the default power level very low (think Guest/Applicant) so that people can only join the space itself and nothing else (or only a guest room) until an admin or mod changes their power level to something higher (think member) that allows them to join other rooms.
All of the different types of rooms can exist completely separate from Servers/Spaces or be part of them. The only purpose of Spaces is to create a sort of umbrella that these can all be grouped under. New people can then join the Space and automatically get access to all the rooms that the Space/Server admin wants them to have access to.
So in practice you will have a bunch of personal DMs or group chats that exist on their own, basically like any other instant messenger like Signal or WhatsApp. And then if you have a larger community that requires some more structure you can create a Space, to which you then add whatever rooms you need.
There is a lot of flexibility to this however. Unlike with discord, all rooms exist completely on their own, they arent actually fundamentally tied to a space. So you can detach a room from a space and attach it to another. You can also add preexisting rooms to a new Space. So if you have a group chat with your gaming buddies, but at some point decide you want to expand your group and want to create a Space with multiple rooms, you can just add your original group chat to the newly created space.
So in a way you should think of Spaces not in the same way as Discord servers, but just as an arbitrary grouping of chats and voice channels that also allows you to set access restrictions for all of those chats in a single place.
Sometimes things get confusing. This is the permissions settings page of Space i just created. So why does it say
Give one or multiple users in this room more privileges
Thats because Spaces are actually rooms too, just fancy ones that can have sub rooms. This is bad UI design and should say “space” instead of “room” but thats just where matrix is at right now. Clients like commet will be what solves this for people by giving them a UI with a more familiar terminology.
I love this genre of youtube videos.
Similar to the vibe of https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwkDQ8tE_3UhB8LcnvUv0Fw
To me a major issue (besides the client feature parity) right now is history sharing in encrypted rooms being non functional. At the moment when you invite someone new to an encrypted room, they wont be able to read the historic messages in it, even if you specifically toggled that on, because the toggle currently doesnt do anything after the old insecure implementation was removed. They are working on it and its probably not super far away, but currently you basically have to use unencrypted rooms if you want new people to be able to see old messages.
To save you a click (because its a waste of an article):
TeamSpeak, GameVox, Signal
Except for maybe GameVox, these are not really discord alternatives at all. But thats closed source and this is their pricing page 🤮
32kbps audio? 2h a month screenshare? 20 “AI banners” a month??? lmao. Get the fuck outta here.
Ooh nice to see, thanks for the link. Once all the major matrix clients support livekit, matrix will be much more recommendable imo. Element works okay on a modern computer, but it really is insanely bloated when you look at what other clients achieve with less than 1/10th of the application size.
FluffyChat from my testing just now only supports the legacy 1:1 p2p calls not the new element-call system (here called MatrixRTC + LiveKit) that supports large group calls and performs much better. I dont think cinny supports it either if i look at their changelogs from the last year.
MatrixRTC + LiveKit
Grrreeeat. CBP casually out here committing terrorism. Imagine if they accidentally shot at a commercial aircraft o.o
Better to just ditch discord anyways ;)
The joke is that this is what AI is actually being used for.