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R2Northstar / Northstar

Repo for packaged Northstar releases
https://northstar.tf/
MIT License
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Official IRC or Matrix #48

Closed alien2003 closed 2 years ago

alien2003 commented 2 years ago

I can see official Discord in description but not everyone agrees to trade their privacy for their favorite game so it would be great to also have official IRC or Matrix room, maybe bridged to Discord

Agrigohar commented 2 years ago

Well I think that is pretty ironic to say, because you are already trading your privacy with Microsoft because you use GitHub. And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

ghost commented 2 years ago

And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

VPN 🤦🏻

elterrasense commented 2 years ago

VPN 🤦🏻

Yeah because VPNs clearly work and they don't steal your data instead. I could rant for hours about it and how no matter what you do nowadays there's always something spying on you, but it would be going overboard for just a github issue lol. Anyways, having a bit of sense of privacy like this user is good, but it's no use being an schizo about it, at that point you might as well not use the internet at all.

ghost commented 2 years ago

There are fully open-source VPNs which can be bought with crypto and don't need email, etc. Also there's an option of self hosting. I prefer to trust my VPN provider and don't get my IP exposed to some random out there.

0x14307 commented 2 years ago

this ain't GTA but I see your point.

Plus most people who play games wouldn't use IRC or Matrix anyways

alien2003 commented 2 years ago

Well I think that is pretty ironic to say, because you are already trading your privacy with Microsoft because you use GitHub. And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

Discord is known for crawling files and scanning process list on your computer. Titanfall 2 was not catched doing stuff like that. Github also can't access data on your computer

0x14307 commented 2 years ago

Well I think that is pretty ironic to say, because you are already trading your privacy with Microsoft because you use GitHub. And if you see what security flaws the Titanfall Software has, you might also trade stuff like your IP with anyone who has a bit of IT knowledge.

Sources?

alien2003 commented 2 years ago

source?

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html

If you don't trust this source, you can do your own research by running gdb~W Process Monitor

0x14307 commented 2 years ago

neocities

GeckoEidechse commented 2 years ago

Fuck it, I just made one now on matrix.org :P https://matrix.to/#/#r2northstar:matrix.org

Doesn't have bridging or anything yet, if someone's dedicated enough feel free to get in touch with admins of the Discord server to set things up.

zImPatrick commented 2 years ago

Discord is known for crawling files and scanning process list on your computer. Titanfall 2 was not catched doing stuff like that. Github also can't access data on your computer

Couldn't you just use discord web?

alien2003 commented 2 years ago

Couldn't you just use discord web?

It still requires phone number to use, not good for FOSS projects