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Quoting: williamjcmI've heard a few horror stories about Mattermost, especially from bot developers, and Element is just a client for Matrix, a chat protocol that's so focused on security that they forgot to implement safety features (like banning/muting accounts and servers).

Quoting: pbSure, but that's nothing something average people do which this will all affect. Although, as with a lot of these laws, they do end up pushing people to alternatives to find workarounds. It will be a never-ending battle.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP... but why?
Usually, malware has a specific purpose, monetary or data gathering or disrupting infrastructure.

This just messes with your mods and steam stats for a title.
Very annoying especially for modders, but beyond that I don't understand the motivation here.

Quoting: F.UltraWhich would be true even if the cut was 1%, so no it is not about the 30% itself. And as I have tried to explain before, the DMA is about lock-in and not some arbitrary cut. Which should be self explanatory since the EU have not went after Valve for their 30% cut on Steam, the DMA case against Valve is only about restricted cross-border sales with zero mentionings of the cut.

Quoting: mrdeathjrin other issues divinity 2 dont crash however cinematics work partially in my case with cinematics before main menu, using h264+mp3 magic (maybe more later try something, if remember good for other cinematics main problem stay related to audio, cinematics without audio track maybe work)

Quoting: JohnologueIs Matrix that bad? That's where I was hoping to direct some friends.

• You can't send media and text in a single message, so if you're in a decently-active channel, whatever image or video you're trying to post can easily end up separated from its context.


• Threads are a pain in the ass, especially if you're using an alternate client (for example, in NeoChat, threads are displayed alongside the channel's main messages as a series of replies). On top of that, you can't mark them as read individually (you have to mark the channel as unread then then mark it as read, which also comes with its fair share of bugs).


• Some of the markup is inconsistent, making it hard to use. Stuff like bold and italics and quotes is normal Markdown, but strikethrough text requires HTML-like tags for some goddamn reason.


• The search sucks a lot more than Discord's. It's much slower, and you can't use filters alongside keywords.


• The main channel I'm in has an official GitHub integration posting updates from GitHub repos, and the channel admin noted that setting the integration up required giving it *full* permissions, else it just wouldn't work. Also, for the record, pre-Matrix!Gitter had a dedicated sidebar for repo updates, instead of polluting the main chat like Matrix!Gitter's integration does.

Quoting: Shaddycat

Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

I disagree. Self-hosted platforms are basically impossible to control in this way. I would like to see the government come for MY Mumble server. Libera already issued a statement saying that the odds of them requiring age verification is incredibly slim. And even if it did, somebody can just spin up a new IRC network that hasn't had the restriction imposed on it yet.

It doesn't have to be this way. The mistake is using centralized non-user owned platforms.

The Discord team highlighted their privacy protections for all this as:
* On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.

Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

Quoting: KithopI also seem to remember something called dgVoodoo2

Quoting: Calinou

I guess the other option alluded to is to run something like nGlide to 'pre convert' that path to OpenGL? I also seem to remember something called dgVoodoo2 [External Link] but it looks like the maintainer there has recently stopped & archived it.

dgVoodoo2 still gets updates, but its author doesn't provide tech support since a few years (no issues or even PRs). It's also proprietary (no source code available). Therefore, the author unarchives the repository, tags a new release then archives the repository again to prevent any new community activity on GitHub, although old issues can still be searched.

dgVoodoo2 also no longer works in WINE since a few years ago, so you need to use an older version (2.81.3 IIRC).

Quoting: SeegrasAll age verification schemes are ultimately dangerous to the very people they claim to protect, because they are endangering their privacy. And everyone else's as well.

This is bad; but the culprits here are idiot (and/or malicious) politicians in the respective countries pushing for these privacy violations.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/10-not-so-hidden-dangers-of-age-verification/

Quoting: pb

Quoting: GoEsrI'm left wondering when governments will come for Steam accounts. My account is over 18 years old, so maybe they'll implement the same system Nexus Mods did.

I'm only 13yo in steam years. No sakura games for me. :-/

Quoting: pb

Quoting: Liam DaweEven if it isn't yet, there's not much to stop governments forcing ISPs to block IRC servers. We've barely begun to see the effects of all this yet, it's going to expand.

I'll just reconfigure my bouncer tyvm.

Quoting: Liam DaweEven if it isn't yet, there's not much to stop governments forcing ISPs to block IRC servers. We've barely begun to see the effects of all this yet, it's going to expand.

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: pb

Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

Is IRC blocked anywhere?

Even if it isn't yet, there's not much to stop governments forcing ISPs to block IRC servers. We've barely begun to see the effects of all this yet, it's going to expand.

I guess the other option alluded to is to run something like nGlide to 'pre convert' that path to OpenGL? I also seem to remember something called dgVoodoo2 [External Link] but it looks like the maintainer there has recently stopped & archived it.

Quoting: pb

Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

Is IRC blocked anywhere?

Quoting: WMan22This is gonna suck because there is no other platform that is as fully featured as discord is. Trust me, I really looked.

Quoting: sonic2kkWhat are the options for video calls and multi-participant screenshare (with audio) without usage limits and with support on Linux and Android? I checked out Element but the usage limit is a bit of a turn-off. TeamSpeak 6 looks interesting and seems to have the features mentioned, but wondering what others have to say :-)