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Yeah.

The video author can enable a setting to analyze the comments. YouTube itself flags comments that it deems inappropriate. The author only chooses which videos to include this tweak and the level of strictness.

It is enabled by default.

Comments that may be spam, self-promotion, gibberish, and otherwise potentially inappropriate will automatically be held for review in YouTube Studio and will only be published if you approve them. If you want a higher level of protection for your channel, increasing strictness will increase the number of comments held for review.

Let me tell you a secret: any linux distribution is a kernel + a set of pre-installed drivers and programs + their configs. Nothing more than that! Most distributions use the same kernel and roughly the same set of programs. The only differences are in the desktop environment and initial settings.

I would recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) as a start choice. Do not trust those who say that if you choose a “beginner’s distro” you won’t have to get into the console or text configs. Your choice of distro will determine how often you’ll do this.

As a regular user, I’ve used different distributions and always something didn’t work. Many issues couldn’t be solved via GUI, so I had to deep dive into both the console and all Linux services.

P.S. Arch Linux daily-driver.

Sounds reasonable! 👍

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It’s already been shared.

If a server is hosting our data, albeit in encrypted form, there is always the risk of the server being compromised. You know the history of PGP and why OpenPGP was created, don’t you?

One of the options, where every user device is a server, is a blockchain. But I think you’ll also agree that this scheme doesn’t give complete privacy.

The issue of privacy in this case is a convenience issue. To me, federated is not a checkbox type property: it’s either there or it’s not. To me, it’s a spectrum: some protocol is more federated, some less so. We could design a fully privacy-aware protocol and service that can only partially be considered as federated. You may disagree with me, but I haven’t seen a clear definition with a complete list of federated protocol properties 😉

Agreed, it’s a contradiction to be privacy and federated at the same time. The federated protocol helps the network to be fault-tolerant and cooperative. In other words, it’s easier for us to find each other, and afterward it’s harder to lose each other. It obviously doesn’t condone privacy 😄

Like Snikket

I think it’s unlikely this kind of service exists or is going to appear. There’s a blog post by developers of the present implementations of XMPP. It explains the difference between decentralized services and centralized ones, and why the Signal messenger is more popular than all other messengers. A must-read.

Here, the author refers to protocol as federated, not application. That is, he is comparing Matrix, IRC, SMTP, ActivityPub, etc. If a protocol can be used to develop an application that is decentralized and distributed, then such protocol can be called a federated protocol. I agree with you that labeling HTTP and FTP as federated is bizarre. But the author compares them because they are all from the same OSI model layer - application layer.

I’m not the author, just trying to give an explanation of how he was thinking (and I’m most likely wrong 😄).

The author’s explanation using HTTP as an example:

HTTP has somehow managed to live in a parallel universe, as it’s technically still completely federated: anyone can start a web server if they have a public IP address and anyone can connect to it. The catch, of course, is how you find the darn thing.

We recently discussed it in another thread. I recommend you read it, there are a lot of facts in the comments that will definitely help you make up your mind!

True. Popular books being read by millions of people have no reviews. That’s why I’m on the LibraryThing now.

I don’t use it as my default provider. Obviously, for some messaging, I use Proton. But if you need a FOSS provider, that will be used for registration in some services and password recovery, this is a very good option! They don’t use this information for commercial purposes, that’s already better than Gmail or Outlook.

Fantlab for the Russian-speaking community. Couldn’t find anything better on the Anglosphere internet.

LibraryThing for English-speaking people. I use it for the rest.

Well, you know, e-mail gives you complete privacy only in special cases. There is a reddit’s comments thread about this. Non-gmail e-mail is only needed to avoid monitoring by the mail service provider.

TL;DR If you need complete privacy of communication, use Matrix-based software with your own server located in a neutral country.

They don’t.

I’m surprised no one’s posted about Skiff.

100%!

Oh, it’ll be easy! Everything I’m about to explain is written by its authors in the Microsoft note.

• The first and most important thing is the character line thickness. It’s almost the same everywhere.
• The second is “crisp-looking shapes and wide characters”. The gap between the characters is wider than in Aptos.
• The third is sharper lettering and fewer curlicues.

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Look at the characters, for example, “a”, “e”, “g”. They have bulk shapes with a minimum of lines compared to Aptos. And now for my personal reasoning.

What is the most common case of reading the folk will have? It’s lack of light or twilight (subway, auto, office, home room, etc.). It’s a small screen size (smartphone or laptop). It’s a low PPI. This is the distance of 20-35 cm, or about a meter, to the screen. These are eyesight problems and astigmatism. These are the points (and more!) you must consider when creating a font.

Here’s my example. I have pretty good eyesight and a little astigmatism (only need to wear glasses when working long hours). I mostly surf the internet using a 17" laptop. I sit a meter away from the screen. That said, I have good illumination.

While using serif fonts, my eyes get tired after hours of reading. This is because astigmatism causes characters to have a subtle shadow at the edges of the lines (if there are pixel artifacts on display, it doubles the effect!). So fonts like the EB Garamond are generally unreadable for people like me.

Also, the brain needs a fraction of a second to figure out what the character is. E.g. the Tenorite’s “a” and the Aptos’ “a”. I don’t confuse it with anything else when looking at the Tenorite’s “a” and it goes much smoother while reading. The characters don’t blend into one mess for me.

As the authors said, they created a font “comfortable to read at small sizes onscreen”. If it’s comfortable on small screens, it will be the same on larger screens. On a 32" screen, almost all fonts will be OK. I could increase the font size on the small screen, but then it would be uncomfortable to read because of the smaller amount of content.

Based on studies, the better the font reads, the worse we are at memorizing information. But there’s not a lot of actually significant information on the Internet, and I do more writing than reading. So that’s not my point.

Thanks for a recommendation of Comic Neue from one old Reddit’s thread. It’s a wonderful font for reading in low reading environments. Seems Tenorite has replaced it for me, as it looks more common and has thicker outlines.

P.S. This is just my own geek standpoint, I didn’t/am not in the typography business.