Alas Poor Erinaceus

(Not as scary as I look, I promise, just old and lonely)

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Cake day: December 18th, 2024

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  • Could you explain/elaborate to a know-nothing (me) on the following from your link?:

    Caveats of federation: Metadata leaking

    When using federation, Matrix’s room states (containing a lot of Metadata) get replicated and stored indefinitely on every homeserver any user connects with or connects to. While this is a feature for enabling distributed chat rooms, it comes at a serious privacy cost.

    To avoid this, you can either disable federation, or make sure that your users signed up with no linkable identifiers other than their user names.





















  • Possibly a dumb question, but what exactly constitutes a “US-based digital service?” For example, does that mean everything on github is off limits? I wouldn’t think so (and actually I’m kind of surprised that so many projects stayed on github after it was bought by Microsoft). Me being me, I’ve started going through my various account entries on KeePass, and changing the favicon of the site/service with the flag of the country it’s based in (to the best of my knowledge). Many of them will be US-based, and this is probably unavoidable, but the more I can reasonably minimize the number of 🇺🇸s, the better.