Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face
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What's wrong with good old fashioned data base backed message forums? There are so many implementations available, I'm sure many are FOSS, and I'm sure there's managed solutions as well. It's a mature, tested, rock solid reliable technology that has existed pretty much since the inception of the internet, and can be easily incorporated into other tools and workflows - because there is 40+ years of development work with the concept.
Seriously, why?
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This is great news! Discord shooting itself in the foot is a net positive for the whole world.
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Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.
...damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can't have nice things.
Xfire was all we ever needed.
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Yeah, no. Companies don't get to scan my face or ID. You know they are selling your data.
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Big brother, is that you?
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I never had a need for discord and never will. Good riddance.
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For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”
Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID's like they had been claiming.
Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I'm sick of companies lying and saying "lol yea we defo delete the data after"
My friend is an exec there. After reading this thread bugged him to buy my software that would protect this vulnerability. They confirmed data/file never leaves the user's device. Sounds pretty safe.
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I won't even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.
I think I've never disposed of one for this reason haha
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I'm actually pretty happy that Discord is killing itself. Far too many people use it as an official platform for stuff like help forums.
Maybe lets go back to basic message boards that are actually searchable, etc.
I am of the opinion that any project that uses Discord for support, I just immediately ignore.
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I think bolt cutters are faster though
And significantly more power efficient
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They're recyclable snipped.
More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.
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this is making my ttrpg group actually consider letting me host stuff for them and I'm unironically thrilled... so like, matrix is the way, right? Or should I be looking at mumble or something?
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Wait really? Wtfff
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In us too? I'm not giving my license
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I won't even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.
This is not truly foolproof. Data can still be recovered from the spinning metal platter since it can theoretically be removed and put into a recovery device, even in a broken state.
Im addition to that, hard drives/ssd's sometimes have small flash memory chips, from which data can sometimes be recovered.
If you want it to actually be unrecoverable then you have to actually ensure all parts thay store data are truly deleted/wiped, which is more than just the core platter. Or just use encryption and throw away the key, since all data going through the tiny OS on these devices will be encrypted. Or just store them forever in a vault.
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Rest in peace then
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this is making my ttrpg group actually consider letting me host stuff for them and I'm unironically thrilled... so like, matrix is the way, right? Or should I be looking at mumble or something?
Good Ole team speak
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I am of the opinion that any project that uses Discord for support, I just immediately ignore.
I'm still salty about The Cutting Room Floor requiring you to log into their Discord to create an account for their website.
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I think bolt cutters are faster though
But more wasteful
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I guess I'm going to be a teenager again! If only it meant I could not go to work and spend 8 hours a day playing games.
