Change has to start somewhere

I’m trying, but nobody has messaged me yet (see my profile, I’ve had it there for a while!) On the bright side, I guess I’ve enjoyed a lack of spam or other nonsense through sheer obscurity.

For someone just wanting a group chat with friends/family that they don’t want being used for AI training or sold to ad companies to build a profile on them? Deltachat is more than secure enough, and certainly better than the corporate owned options they likely already use.

Maybe, although I would argue that if the server is a concern already (E2EE makes it one!) then forward secrecy would be necessary to prevent a single key from leaking the group chat in question. And toward secrecy is no longer a new technology thanks to Signal.

I’m hanging onto DeltaChat with the hope they implement it as soon as PGP does.

I haven’t needed to authenticate anything manually in my experience in the XMPP apps I’ve used. I just enable OMEMO encryption…

I’m unfamiliar with the current state of the ecosystem, but… That’s kind of the problem with it too, right? There is no standard, and unlike even Lemmy, the mishmash leads to user-unfriendliness. Specifically I was thinking of this comment , which may not be relevant to your client:

Group chats do not have group key, but one encrypt messages for each group member (pairwise), which means that everybody has to do key exchange with everybody. This does not scale… which means that even if membership is stable, new keys may appear. Some clients (Conversations) do not allow to send message to a group when they do not know some keys of some group members/devices , which is fail situation that happen pretty often.

Regarding attracting users, somebody else noted

If you tell people “on Android you should use this app, on iOS use that app” - you lose regular people fast. If you have a feature that only exists in one app on one platform, you also really lose people.

I definitely don’t want XMPP to fail, but it seems that after years, it’s all too little too late. That one, I’m not holding my breath on. (DeltaChat, I am.)

I’ve looked at unsealed records provided by the Signal Foundation, and they definitely have the account creation and last accessed date… But besides that, is there really any information authorities can glean from this? Or is it simply the issue that this leaves users at square one, if they’re trying to avoid connecting an identity (be it phone, or Google, which generally requires a phone) to it?

For me, I see this as a potential boon for simply having a second account without having to go through the rigmarole of maintaining an extra SIM card.

Both of those probably also have a small fraction of the users of Signal, at least at this moment.

Privacy-wise: DeltaChat is cool but it lacks forward secrecy for now and the foreseeable future, and XMPP is a newbie-excluding mess (for example, encrypted group chats require every user to authenticate every other user)

Unfortunately, dishonest actors would take advantage of the fact that honest ones have provided the free infrastructure, and use it to spam. Signal can’t link previous donations on a different account with a new one - and for privacy reasons, that’s a good thing.

It sucks that this requires payment, but it’s quite understandable.

FWIW Nitter and XCancel are both run by right-wingers themselves, so I’m surprised they stuck around this long.

John Doyle is the founder and CEO of Cape, a privacy-first mobile carrier. Before founding Cape, Doyle ran the national security business at Palantir and served in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a Green Beret.

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Thanks, this is the information I was looking for.

May I have some context? Too far outside of Linux to recognize who these people are (and usually assume “libre” usually means “good”)

Funnily enough, Microsoft built WSL so developers could use Linux without leaving Windows. Instead, it turned a growing number of Windows PCs into functional Linux development machines, with Windows serving as little more than the launcher.

Does this suggest that more Ubuntu users are developers than typical non-technical people (or that they’re about to be)? We need to pump up those numbers on average peoples’ computers

Privacy.com’s cards offer that feature (the original selling point for me was that I could use them alongside any name/address). It’s helped me cut down on attempted fraud a couple times too.

I think it’s technically a payment processor, but functionally it’s more like a proxy between a bank and online shops/services

This is why I use masked cards to sign up for these services. I lock them in at a certain price per month, and if that price goes up on its own, then they’ll suddenly discover they don’t have my money.

Not that it should require a hack like that, mind you…

(The company is also teasing its next-generation Fairbuds 2 wireless earbuds, launching later this year, which it says set “a new bar for repairability and performance.”)

I wish they could figure out a type of earbuds that wouldn’t require batteries. Sadly, it seems that technology is either unachievable or lost to time.

oh COME ON. The last thing I needed in this jingoistic American economy was any reason to legitimize their crap

The CEO made an official statement and then the official Proton account doubled down. Praising Donald Trump and JD Vance and insisting, at the time, that the Republican party would be the better party unless Democrats did something about it.

I’m familiar with this link though. It’s the most suspicious, anonymous, intentionally incomplete, poorly written, AstroTurf-looking thing I’ve ever seen before. (How AstroTurfy? Proton officially uses it as a reference. So it gets extra scrutiny.)

If by “it’ll decay into a pathetic corpse of its former self after destroying things with actual value,” then sure.

But we both know that’s not what you were trying to imply lol

https://www.polygon.com/23882080/steam-deck-dvd-player-external-vlc/

There are several services that offer this to both free and paying users. As far as I know, though, none of them have a vulnerability as bad as this

At least the digital-only playstations will be really cheap… Right?

Make sense to me. All those charts you see about AI and political bias don’t take into account the fact that this bias would be influenced by the user, can eventually supersede the base instructions*. It’s only a matter of time before the chatbot says, “you’re right about vaccines and the JQ, would you like a bleach recipe?”

Chatbots might skew liberal in a laboratory setting, but they are built for sycophancy towards their userbase, not the labs.

* Insultingly, chatbot companies call this natural and unavoidable process “jailbreaking” as if it’s not inherent to their product.