Germany, there’s a time and place for everything. This is like supporting a "sovereign citizen’s " right to freedom during a murderous rampage. It’s giving “blue lives matter” during George Floyd’s murder.

100% agree. Would be nice to be able to just “dock” into a USB-C cable and have a working “PC” at my disposal. Appreciate the response.

genuine question, what do you expect out of a mobile OS that you can’t do now?

For anyone considering Session messenger:

The Session developers dropped Perfect Forward Secrecy because it would be hard to work around it.

First things first, let’s talk about what we’re leaving behind: Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) and deniability.

Source: https://getsession.org/session-protocol-explained

In plain English, they dropped a security feature for their convenience to the detriment of their users’ security.

For anyone unsure what PFS provides:

The value of forward secrecy is that it protects past communication.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy

The Session devs also claim:

Session provides protections against these types of threats in other ways — through fully anonymous account creation, onion routing, and metadata minimisation, for example.

Reading between the lines, we can interpret that as introducing security through obscurity, which is generally considered bad practice - https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/656.html

What’s wrong with Briar? https://briarproject.org/

Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.

I think the reason these apps don’t take off is the compromises they make in order to work the way they do. When you do need them, you best hope you’re able to get them and get others to use them as well.

Correct me if I’m wrong but does FOSS not simply mean the following?

software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge

source: Wikipedia

From my understanding AOSP’s license grants all those rights. I think what you might be opposed to is that it isn’t developed out in the open, which is a fair criticism.

link for anyone wanting to avoid the dead bird site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240212054146/https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

This link goes straight to the video and skips the website for anyone wanting to avoid it.

https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/2463f6d3e06fa29710a337f5f5389fd8/iframe

Ooh silverbullet looks nice too, thanks. Link for the lazy: https://silverbullet.md/

If you’re on Firefox on desktop/laptop, check out Bypass Paywall [0]. It was removed from the firefox add-on store due to a DMCA claim [1], but can be manually installed (and auto updates) from gitlab. The dev even provides instructions on how to add custom filters to uBlock Origin [2], so you don’t have to add another extension but still get some benefit.

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

[1] https://winaero.com/mozilla-has-silently-removed-the-bypass-paywalls-clean-add-on-from-amo/

[2] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

ah, not super intuitive. I see it now, thanks!

Fixed! Thank you 🙏 The Voyager app doesn’t give you comment previews so I didn’t catch it was broken.

Because they get your profile picture, name, and email address when you click accept. I went through with it just to test, but definitely getting some data from its users.

Not necessarily.

Signal has people who are experts in their field. They engineer solutions that don’t exist anywhere else in the market to ensure they have as little information on you as possible while keeping you secure [0]. This in turn means high compensation + benefits. You don’t want to be paying your key developers peanuts as that makes them liable to taking bribes from adversaries to “oops” a security vulnerability in the service. In addition, the higher compensation is a great way to mitigate losing talent to private organizations who can afford it.

[0] Signal has engineered the following technologies that all work to ensure your privacy and security:

• Post-Quantum Computing Resistance
• Private Stories
• Group calling
• Private admin permissions
• Secure Value Recovery
• Private Stickers
• Sealed Sender
• Private GIF search
• Private Contact Discovery
• Encrypted Profiles
• Reproducible Builds

This is a nice surprise. Didn’t even know this was in development. Can’t wait to test it out!

I plan on making it available inside my own network, not public. This way if someone makes it past my security, I at least have something that might “catch” them in the act and disable my network so I can intervene. Just another security layer.

this might have something to do with it https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-saudi-arabia-fondomonte-butler-valley-water-residents-cut-off-2023-7?op=1

Ah okay. That’s what I used to do when I had a car with a manual transmission, didn’t know there was a name for it! Thanks!