surely gstreamer could’ve handled that easier?

https://github.com/jeremyckahn/chitchatter

https://github.com/localsend/localsend

https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet

https://github.com/subins2000/webdrop

I don’t consider those purely protest forks in the same sense as say, the GIMP fork called Glimpse.

Protest forks never survive though. They always start overly ambitious and then realize how much of a full-time job it really is, and eventually give up.

I don’t see it catching on at all… I think forcing people to record themselves is asking way too much, and not everyone uses the command-line or the same application/machine for everything. Plus they acknowledge that it can be faked and that LLMs can/will get better at faking it.

Proving a request came from a human is a many-billion dollar task right now, and nobody seems close at all to coming up with a workable solution. The only thing even remotely feasible (IMO) that I’ve seen so far (and which still doesn’t actually prove anything) is charging money for accounts. But tons of people still don’t want to do that, even though it would lessen the amount of bots and make it easier to ban bad behavior if everyone needed an account to access a site. I don’t like that option, but it is an option. Making payments on the web easier (and less tied to the whims of Visa et al) probably also needs to happen.

When I try to save files from the Media tab from this site, all of them fail

Doesn’t explain how to use it at all. Tried clicking on the extension in the toolbar, nothing happens.

I need something that works on lazy-loading carousels and automatically grabs all the images that are linked through another lazy-loaded lightbox you have to click on for each one.

I wouldn’t blanket call the removal of PFS a “failure” as they put it… it does make the protocol much simpler (and hence easier to understand/audit as well) and it’s not always a necessity for every single person’s threat model… which is an important phrase the article doesn’t even mention.

IMO arguing about security or privacy without both people first defining their threat models… is like claiming apples are objectively better than bananas in every way.