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Was there ever an "alternative to discord" that wasn't aids on during the whole ID debacle? Or are internet chats just plagued by the same ol bs no matter where you look?
I'm aware of at least one based community imposing a slowmode on Discord and urging people to move over to Matrix (typically Element as the app of choice)
Was there ever an "alternative to discord" that wasn't aids on during the whole ID debacle? Or are internet chats just plagued by the same ol bs no matter where you look?
I've been researching off and on. There are plenty, the issue is they basically exist on a spectrum from "like discord" on one end to "good" on the other.
If you're looking for a seamless transition to something with the same UI, your options are basically Stoat, Fluxer, Gamevox, Nerimity, or Spacebar. I have not tried any of these, but the apparent consensus is that Stoat and Fluxer are both vibecoded bloated trash from tranny faggots; Gamevox looks like the best option but it's closed-source so who knows what they're doing behind the scenes; Spacebar is unfinished; and I haven't heard a single person say a single thing about Nerimity.
On the other end of the spectrum there's stuff like SimpleX, Tox, XMPP, Wire and Delta Chat. I have only actually had time to try SimpleX and Tox so far but that's my shortlist of stuff that's neither pozzed nor glows that I don't have to host on my own hardware. There's also Columba which works over Reticulum and LoRa which sounds pretty fucking cool but I haven't had a chance to play with it. A lot of people seem to like Briar but from what I can tell it doesn't support group chats so it's not really a viable Discord alternative.
Signal is fully compromised, may have started legit but it's 100% a glow op at this point, I've elaborated on it elsewhere as have others. Probably Telegram too but I haven't looked very hard at it, that's just my gut feeling from how much heat there is on it and the types of people that gravitate towards it. Matrix is Israeli which makes it as good as Chinese, I would not use it unless there was a gun to my head. Session is fucking dead but probably wasn't that secure anyway.
I do not understand Fediverse stuff, I never looked into it because I keep hearing about pedophiles and zoophiles using it and I don't want to have to explain that to my friends. There might be viable options there that I'm unaware of.
Was there ever an "alternative to discord" that wasn't aids on during the whole ID debacle? Or are internet chats just plagued by the same ol bs no matter where you look?
Signal is fully compromised, may have started legit but it's 100% a glow op at this point, I've elaborated on it elsewhere as have others. Probably Telegram too but I haven't looked very hard at it, that's just my gut feeling from how much heat there is on it and the types of people that gravitate towards it. Matrix is Israeli which makes it as good as Chinese, I would not use it unless there was a gun to my head. Session is fucking dead but probably wasn't that secure anyway.
I mean someone is going to be able to read your messages unless you hand deliver them - the question is who. Signal is a glowie operation from the start if you look at mgmt - e.g. Katherine Maher went to school for children of glowies to learn arabic, and her bio is her climbing thru the deep state. But Signal exists as a tool for dissidents in other countries to communicate securely. That's why JD Vance was using Signal to talk about military ops. You won't get your Signal cracked unless you are doing espionage or sedition against the US gov't. And at that point they'll just rubber-hose decrypt whatever tool you're using if you show up on their radar anyway.
Telegram is Signal made by Russians. I don't care if the Russians read my messages either. I would assume that Telegram has been completely compromised by the NSA tho, so all the caveats to #1 applies.
In unrelated news, I have been endorsed by WinRAR after finally paying for it some 30 years later. it's more of a receipt but they were very grateful.
Hasn't Signal been audited through force of court order and all they're able to hand over is metadata? I guess that doesn't preclude glowie backdoors. Telegram is worse, as Pavel has been forced to give things up a few times.
Hasn't Signal been audited through force of court order and all they're able to hand over is metadata? I guess that doesn't preclude glowie backdoors. Telegram is worse, as Pavel has been forced to give things up a few times.
Law enforcement contacted Signal several times, but Signal could only provide them with the account's phone number and the timestamps of when it was created and when it was last logged in:
Law enforcement contacted Signal several times, but Signal could only provide them with the account's phone number and the timestamps of when it was created and when it was last logged in:
Yeah the politics of who owns Signal aside, we've seen in legal record what they've been forced to hand over which leads me to trust them more than I trust Telegram.
That's a very good reason to avoid using telecoms for sensitive info, not a good reason to volunteer your information to the US intelligence apparatus.
Signal is a glowie operation from the start if you look at mgmt - e.g. Katherine Maher went to school for children of glowies to learn arabic, and her bio is her climbing thru the deep state.
Katherine Maher wasn't appointed until 2022 at the earliest, she was appointed by Meredith Whitaker who took over in 2022. But it's a moot point, regardless of whether it started as a glow op, we can agree that it is now.
But Signal exists as a tool for dissidents in other countries to communicate securely. That's why JD Vance was using Signal to talk about military ops. You won't get your Signal cracked unless you are doing espionage or sedition against the US gov't. And at that point they'll just rubber-hose decrypt whatever tool you're using if you show up on their radar anyway.
A channel that is known to be compromised is not better than a channel that might be compromised. You might not be on the feds radar but you have no reason to believe your info isn't being automatically logged and made accessible to other agencies because that's trivially easy to automate now and they have no reason not to. US diplomats are comfortable using it because it's run by US intelligence, they don't give a shit if their own glowies read their coms.
Law enforcement contacted Signal several times, but Signal could only provide them with the account's phone number and the timestamps of when it was created and when it was last logged in:
I do not trust the United States Government to tell me whether the United States Government is spying on me, that's retarded.
I do not claim to have encyclopedic knowledge of any of this but of everything I listed Signal would not be my choice. It might be more trustworthy than Telegram and Discord but that's not a high bar and even then it's debatable.
Looks like Plex is going to triple its lifetime subscription from $250 to $750 in order to drive recurring income.
I can personally attest that Jellyfin worked fine in the past and I'm sure it's only gotten better. I've seen recommendations for Emby, but I've never personally tried it myself. Both are streaming solutions that do the job of Plex and from what I've found they're the closest substitute.
Looks like Plex is going to triple its lifetime subscription from $250 to $750 in order to drive recurring income.
I can personally attest that Jellyfin worked fine in the past and I'm sure it's only gotten better. I've seen recommendations for Emby, but I've never personally tried it myself. Both are streaming solutions that do the job of Plex and from what I've found they're the closest substitute.
For those of us who are stuck in 10th grade and haven't moved from Word:
Ohook on Massgrave enables Office permanently. I'm not even sure if it's piracy since it basically spoofs the program AFAIK. I'm not into tech so someone else can explain it lmao. Has worked for me so far over the last few months, and it MAY also register windows keys for you on the side.
Other things that got me through college: Zotero is a must have for journal article storage/sorting. It's been posted about before on here; it can kind of suck for non-journal/DOI citations but as a way to manage PDFs it's unbeatable. I use it as a PDF reader and annotator too Obsidian is a markdown notepad thing. I had and have 0 clue on anything with markdown editing, but the [[term linking]] makes referencing notes so much easier. Others have sang praise for it here as well
Other other things I feel like shouting out: Pear Desktop MAY OR MAY NOT be a Youtube Music client that MAY OR MAY NOT have ad removal, degoogling, and basically doing everything like a free Spotify that lets you stream with no catch. I genuinely don't know how long these things will last given how YouTube is, but YTM as it stands is a total backdoor for streaming in general. OuterTune does the same for Android, but isn't actively maintained. Has still worked for me for a while, and the dev was really active in workarounds for YouTube's fuckery so I have to salute it This script removes AI from Windows completely AFAIK. I've got 0% "NPU" usage since using it and have noticed significantly less CoPilot adware since getting it, so it's gotta do something Windhawktuah makes the windows taskbar/start usable. Also other neat plugins if you give a shit
For those of us who are stuck in 10th grade and haven't moved from Word:
Ohook on Massgrave enables Office permanently. I'm not even sure if it's piracy since it basically spoofs the program AFAIK. I'm not into tech so someone else can explain it lmao. Has worked for me so far over the last few months, and it MAY also register windows keys for you on the side.
A Windows and Office activator using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections. - GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Script...
This script removes AI from Windows completely AFAIK. I've got 0% "NPU" usage since using it and have noticed significantly less CoPilot adware since getting it, so it's gotta do something
Speaking of AI/Copilot, having recently installed Windows 11, I found that Rufus seems to do a good job with disabling Copilot related stuff if you tick the relevant option for it when flashing the iso to the install USB stick.
For everything else, I used Claude to make me some scripts to remove unwanted stuff. Funnily enough I'm more paranoid about github debloat scripts than I am about slop-coding it with my buddy Claude. Not necessarily that they might be malicious, but a lot of debloat scripts are overly zealous and might indirectly break something I might want to use in the future.
The software called Everything. This is a program that searches your entire computer for files, because of course Microsoft long broke their search functionality so someone had to step in and do the job they couldn't. This program doesn't fuck around, helps find whatever you're looking for while Microsoft's dumb idea of search thinks you'll find your files online.
AIMP, this to me is the only media player you'll ever need for playing music with on your desktop. The things that wowed me about it, was that, a Windows Update could interrupt everything because of course it would and you're playing a song on this program. You restart and everything loads back up, but this program is courteous by pausing the song when you open it back up so you can resume. How kind of it. Much better than Winamp when you open it, just stopped the song entirely so you got to play it from the beginning. Plus, Winamp is an unstable piece of shit that should stay in the past.
I just switched to Everything completely and disabled Win 10 search indexing. This is the way it was always supposed to be: just a single tray icon, lots of customisation options, so fast it IMMEDIATELY adds new files to the list of results. It's freeware, it's essential.
If Win 11 still has the same kind of search engine as Win 10, then it is truly baffling how Microsoft hasn't improved it in over a decade. What the hell is wrong with them?
nomic-embed-text-v2 for generating semantic embeddings on multilingual text data. Runs on literally anything including a shared CPU VPS. If you want an even faster version but with lower accuracy and no multilingual support you can use nomic-embed-text-v1.
Command utilities / RAG / Coding autcomplete (maybe) https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (Ollama: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.5:9b) Qwen3.5-9B a 256,000 supported context window. The unquantitized weights of it can run directly on a card with ~24 GB of VRAM and support up to 85k token context length before it runs out of memory.
For reference 100k tokens is approximately Matthew through Acts of the KJV New Testament Bible.
The model runs smoothly at 35 tokens a second.
You can also fit this easily with quantized GGUF weights on a lower VRAM card + CPU and likely get the full 256k context window https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF at the cost of some performance. Also supports vision and has fairly decent OCR, (although it does tend to sometimes make shit up. Using Tesseract or a other traditional OCR as validation might be needed.
I'm using it with Oobabooga Textgen https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen and Humanity's Last Command https://github.com/markqvist/lc
You can do something like lc "In the current directory convert all mp4s to webms using FFMPEG" or `lc "tag all my files using the tags from list.txt"` when combined with Qwen3.5-9B. Just requires Python and no need for Docker or anything crazy. Somewhat niggerlicious and will probably atrophy my brain over time, but it can be really handy for doing bulk processes and works decently well. Don't use it for any destructive actions without gating and backing up your stuff first.
Probably would also be very beneficial for any type of local RAG based application.
Tesslate/OmniCoder-9B-GGUF is another model with similar performance and supported context window, although subjectively I found the results to be mostly similar.
65536 context length and 18 tokens/second on my machine withQ4_K_M quant weights. There is probably a better abilterated + quantitized version out there but Gemma-4-31b just in general probably the best local model you can run on mid-end hardware
Does anyone have any recommendations for a maps/gps/nav app that will never ever ever ever ever decide mid trip to discard
the route that I chose for a fucking reason and automatically change to a "faster route" without my consent, requiring me to take my eyes off the road and my hands off the wheel to tab out of whatever the fuck I was listening to and press a fucking prompt on the fucking touch screen just to stay on the route I fucking selected in the first place?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a maps/gps/nav app that will never ever ever ever ever decide mid trip to discard
the route that I chose for a fucking reason and automatically change to a "faster route" without my consent, requiring me to take my eyes off the road and my hands off the wheel to tab out of whatever the fuck I was listening to and press a fucking prompt on the fucking touch screen just to stay on the route I fucking selected in the first place?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a maps/gps/nav app that will never ever ever ever ever decide mid trip to discard
the route that I chose for a fucking reason and automatically change to a "faster route" without my consent, requiring me to take my eyes off the road and my hands off the wheel to tab out of whatever the fuck I was listening to and press a fucking prompt on the fucking touch screen just to stay on the route I fucking selected in the first place?
Cool Reader is a fantastic freeware and ad-free ebook reading app for Android. I've been using it for years and I have no complaints. It's very fast, never crashes, and has tons of options.
Cool Reader is a fantastic freeware and ad-free ebook reading app for Android. I've been using it for years and I have no complaints. It's very fast, never crashes, and has tons of options.
Totally agree with this. It's the best feature-filled bullshit ad-free ebook reader on the Android platform that i've found. Been using it for at least 5 years now with no regrets.
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