matejcik @matejcik@octodon.social

I mean. Can we implement a thing that looks like FB and has all the right features? Sure! Everyone currently on Mastodon will love it and flock to it.
And everyone else, that is most of the real-life people out there, will stay on FB. And we'll stay too because otherwise we won't see their photos and won't get invited to their events. Because everyone else is there, and because you don't know That Guy From Work's handle so you can't actually send him the invite on not!FB.

thoughts about Facebook and @Mainebot 's article https://medium.com/tootsuite/replacing-the-pillars-of-the-internet-235836580a0e

I don't think Facebook is like the others. And the reason, stupidly and maddeningly, are Real Names.
Before FB, if my aunt wanted to message your uncle, she'd have to get his handle (number, e-mail...) somehow.
Now she types in a name and gets the right person, just like that.
Facebook solves discoverability, at least for existing IRL social networks. I'm not sure a distributed thing can do that.

@cwd ...In the meantime I figured out *why* I dislike pass: it's not doing what I want a password manager to do. I want:
- browser integration (plugin)
- cross device sync (DIY)
- solid security (maybe there?)
For these things, pass is not better and possibly worse than keepass, which is my baseline.

Not saying that pass is bad! To each their own, of course. It's just that I don't see the point of it.

@cwd true, but, like, i shouldn't have to? It's a password manager. There should be something about security right on the homepage, showing that someone thought about it. "Encrypted with gpg" is no more informative than "protected by a master password" in this sense.

many coin, such crypto
https://octodon.social/media/xhxZiJUoAdXO6jY1KiI

I liked LastPass, but maybe I shouldn't have looked at their source code.

So I opened the LastPass extension and looked for the clipboard code. Far as I can tell, the problem is that Firefox disallows clipboard modification from the background.

So instead of pulling the string to the foreground and copying from there, the extension instead disallows copying.

Because of course it does.
I mean. Of course.

got a cold sore. this is not new.
overnight it swelled to the size of a marble. that *is* new. I'm a little scared that it will pop and leave a hole.

@cwd well, the whole of gpg is abysmal from the inside out ;)
basically I don't trust that gpg just happens to do the right thing re saving passwords in a bunch of separate files, a task it's not designed for. is the encryption deterministic? are there nonces somewhere in the mix? is it right to use asymmetric encryption for this? who even knows.

@CobaltVelvet lol what

I mean
I'm all for robots that solve my decision problems and play a "yes but" game over it. "find me a phone, robot! I dislike this, demand that, my budget is so and so but I can be swayed."

but somehow I don't see that happening anytime soon :)

@cwd ehhh I have kind of a distaste for pass? it's encrypting with gpg and storing things in git, which has an immutable history forever, that just doesn't smell right to me.
(also windows. I need this to work basically on all platforms)

so, something like hijack lastpass-cli to real time sync with keepass and then use keepasshttp extension instead, maybe?

LastPass for Firefox in Linux can't copy things to clipboard.
Which is sort of important in a password manager.
Nobody knows why and when this will be fixed. It started with the move to webextensions, but chrome has this and Firefox on windows and Mac also has this. It's been like this for months. Support just says this is not supported.
I'd say fuck them, but they're still best in terms of Linux support, so?

...that was actually a tangent from my current thought, that it would be nice to have a "quote a toot" functionality, like birdsite does.
(heh heh. 🐦🏡)

also, are there clients for desktop (Linux, browser extension, separate website) worth mentioning?
the default mastodon web thing seems impractical to me. they could at least make the columns wider than a 2011 smartphone? sometimes I end up widening them manually in the webdeveloper console...

so fediverse, what's your favorite Android mastodon client?
I'm using Tusky. I actually like it, but maybe there's something I would like more? Also I suspect Tusky won't be so great once I start following more people.