Signal is developing a standalone desktop app without requiring a smartphone for setup or use, based on recent open-source code changes. 🖥️
The update adds more desktop controls while keeping end-to-end encryption, improving device independence with a privacy-first design. 🔐

@signalapp

🔗 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/

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Hi #fediverse I need your help!

I develop #PastPuzzle a daily ad-free #history game. I know it can be really successful, because already over 10,000 people play it each day and share moments of learning and fun.

With a limited budget, word of mouth is everything. If this sounds like something you or someone you know would enjoy, please share this post or the game.

Everybody can play it in the browser or download the app for iOS or Android. Link to the game is below.🔽

Thanks
- Tom

Ok! I’m running my own #Holos relay server and connecting to it from the iOS app. Seems to work!

@preedicio fa mesos que estic desconnectat de l'agenda del projecte Mastodon, no sé si ho tenen planificat. Abans era dins del seu Discord i m'enterava de tot però vaig eliminar el meu compte.

The agony of DEFEET. #UrbanTruth Via our own @tomflood.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

@evan I read that not as "should you share content from the fediverse" but as "how should you share content from the fediverse", especially since fediverse software generally has good to excellent embeds (a thing commercial platforms do not), and those are strictly better than screenshots in every way. So it`s a "no, (prefer embeds) but (if the target wont display them screenshots work)"

@TheBreadmonkey

Don't taunt the universe or volcanoes.....

Signal’s incremental backups are interesting. I had assumed that they would back up in fixed-sized chunks (with padding if necessary) connected by a hash chain so that you couldn’t tamper with the older ones, and you could replay them in reverse order to restore. It appears as if media are saved in individual files, individually encrypted, which looks as if it leaks the size of media (often, due to image compression, sufficient to uniquely identify a file) and the date at which it was added. That’s quite a big side channel for a secure messenger.

Did I misunderstand how it works? If not, people who care about privacy would need to be careful. If, say, law enforcement in an oppressive regime wants to ask ‘did you receive this file that was sent to a group chat for dissidents on this date?’ this would be trivial to answer for someone with access to the encrypted backups.

@jasmine science is amazing the more we know the more amazing it is anything exists at all

@cstross courage and good luck

what's even neater about this is that since gravity and time are the same phenomenon (thanks einstein), time flows slower in high gravity areas! just a fraction of a millisecond per century, but still

https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116489512859568959

@SimonCHulse @MichaelaKHulse that is most excellent! Congratulations! 😍 🚲

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