• diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Wow. Amazing! I use it in a browser when I need it then close the tab when I don’t, you know, like a reasonable person? I am not installing more Chromium to not only spy on me but literally also tell everyone what I am doing unless I go out of my way to opt out (the toggle will just turn back on whenever it feels like it).

    I bet they did some dumb shit like subscribe every single QWERTY 101 key.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 days ago

    When I need to check something on Discord I do it with a browser anyway, I tried installing it on linux but every time I would run it I would get a demand to manually install a new binary because there was an update, and I don’t want it having that level of access to my computer anyway.

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Discord is rolling out global…

    Goddamnit, what bullshit are they doing now?!?!

    shortcut support (e.g. Push to Talk) on Wayland for Linux users

    Oh… Well we got good news for once

  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Meh, I already have a global mute shortcut. I have a keyboard shortcut for this script I found somewhere that toggles mic audio capture in ALSA.

    #!/bin/bash

    mic_on=$(amixer get Capture | grep '\[on\]')

    if [ "$mic_on" = "" ] ; then

    amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-added.oga

    else

    amixer set Capture toggle && paplay /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-removed.oga

    fi

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      22 days ago

      This will mute all applications. While a workaround for your setup, on other use cases it wouldn’t work if the user wants to mute a specific application only.

  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’m so confused. I am on KDE Wayland and have been using push to talk for like a year now. What even is this?

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      22 days ago

      To be fair, it wasn’t the fault of Discord this time. The Wayland developers took their time, because they couldn’t agree (until now).

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          22 days ago

          It wasn’t finished and final about one or two months before. They were discussing the global shortcuts portal for about 10 years, with different portals and revisions, and they just couldn’t agree on. Now its official and final recommendation. Some desktop environments used some draft versions, and everyone did it in a slightly different way, so that it wasn’t a real standard yet. And many other window managers or desktop environments didn’t even attempt it. Therefore many tools didn’t use the half baked portal and chaos everywhere.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      23 days ago

      What has this anything to do with leaking personal data? This is about the global shortcuts, that can be used while your operating system focus is on another application. This is a long standing issue on Wayland and just recently got solved I think. And Discord being one of the first to make use of this new Wayland “feature” is absurd (in a good way). So I don’t understand where you coming from with this statement.

          • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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            23 days ago

            “What exactly do you want tell me with that? I should” click on those links?

            I’m guessing their point was to do with the 1st word in the title of the thread.

            • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              23 days ago

              But your link does not address my issue, you are talking about data leaks. But the global shortcuts on Wayland has nothing to do with Discord dataleaks that happened in the past. You are conflicting two different topics here. Click the link I provided (its not a search link, its an actual result) and read through to understand what global shortcuts are.

                • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  23 days ago

                  This has nothing to do with data leaks. Global shortcuts just mean that if you focus on a different application, then you can still control the application in background with shortcuts like Ctrl+1. That’s all. This changes nothing about data collection or data leaking.

  • determinist@kbin.earth
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    23 days ago

    I haven’t used discord for a couple of years. got an email yesterday informing me that unless I log in soon, my account will be deleted.

    …oh no

    I’m going to let them delete it, saves me having to

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        22 days ago

        There’s no way these companies actually delete anything, ever. You can probably still get myspace pictures, and that company was before Facebook.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Deleted my reddit account only to find my comments were still there. So I’m guessing Discord messages will still be there - I wonder what happens to servers with no admin.

      • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        21 days ago

        They just stay up, but nobody has access to the controls anymore, the admin account shows as “Deleted User”. I know this, because the server my late friend hosted, is still up, even though their account got nuked couple years back.

        • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          21 days ago

          I don’t want to leave “my” server in an unalterable state but at the same time I don’t want to encourage Discord use though my action (assuming I ever log in again, need to say how to contact me or say bye).

    • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      22 days ago

      It’s how I stay in touch with friends. I use Vesktop. Flatpak. Removes the tracking

      Edit: appreciate the concern, but we talk about games and stuff. I’m not doing banking or personal shit on discord. If China records whatever is said, not too worried about PII

    • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I found out the other week that its the only social media I have left. Except LinkedIn but in this economy…?

      Anyway, its my most reliable way to talk to all of my friends and half my family, and I hate it. But hey, at least its not Facebook.

      I run fedora for my main pc, cachyos on my laptop and ubuntu server for the home server PC - for the Linux street cred.

        • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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          22 days ago

          The likes are for my fabulous Linux distro choices. At least that’s what I’m deciding they’re for.

          And yeah probably meant corpo owned socials

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          23 days ago

          I just reorganized some bookmarks and thought about how can I unite Lemmy and Imgur in one group; Social. I have no idea how this could be categorized other than being social media. Any ideas welcome.

    • dragon-donkey3374@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Sometimes there isn’t a choice because others you’re in contact with prefer discord.

      Not sure how you weren’t able to think this for yourself?

      • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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        23 days ago

        If you don’t support their choice to use discord, perhaps they will leave discord and go to something better. The same applies to twitter, instagram, facebook etc

        “Not sure how you weren’t able to think this for yourself?”

        Be the change