I just saw this phrase written in serious tone:
"I care for my information security and for this reason I deleted my Signal account, I don't want to share my data with some shady company. "
The person was saying it in an unencrypted Telegram chat, akin to ones they use to discuss all their business and private matters. I think, another piece of trust in humanity has just chipped from me. Idiocracy seems to be taking over.
#signal, #privacy
WhatsApp rolt Meta AI uit in Nederland, en je kunt het niet uitschakelen ❌
Zit je niet op een chatbot te wachten tussen je persoonlijke gesprekken en hou je van privacy?
Probeer Signal 💙 https://signal.org/install
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« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »
🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/
Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)
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✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀
« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »
🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/
Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)
#selfhosting#GoToSocial#Mastodon#NextCloud#Pixelfed#PeerTube#Signal#YunoHost#DeGoogle#LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy
WhatsApp rolt Meta AI uit in Nederland, en je kunt het niet uitschakelen ❌
Zit je niet op een chatbot te wachten tussen je persoonlijke gesprekken en hou je van privacy?
Probeer Signal 💙 https://signal.org/install
Tonight, I uninstalled Discord from my system. In its place, I am going to try Revolt. I already use Signal for a small number of contacts but don't expect everyone to move to it.
My reasoning is because I have been concerned for a long time about Discord's business practices. They are trying to jam in ads and monetization wherever they can. Not only is the software proprietary, it is essentially spyware.
#Discord#Revolt#Signal#FOSS #freesoftware #tomsguide #spyware
Sandra and I have been using XMPP - using @snikket_im - for nearly all our messages and calls for two years now.
Doesn't time fly when you are having fun.
It has been as stable as anything, and we use it across iOS, Android, and Linux.
I switched it to a tiny VM recently, and it is still fine.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-month-using-xmpp-using-snikket-for-every-call-and-chat/
Does anyone have or know of a simple graphic that I could share with older family members that shows “WhatsApp vs Signal” in a way that’ll help when I say “we should move to signal”.
Context: some family members are getting annoyed with issues on WhatsApp and I want to take the opportunity to get them to move.
Does anyone have or know of a simple graphic that I could share with older family members that shows “WhatsApp vs Signal” in a way that’ll help when I say “we should move to signal”.
Context: some family members are getting annoyed with issues on WhatsApp and I want to take the opportunity to get them to move.
I like the framing of "cozy apps" - & long time fan of #CalmTech - & do think that is a space between mass scale social and IM's. #Signal
for me is a "Cozy app" via it's group features.
"One possibility is something called cosy media, which refers to apps or other content designed to help you connect with small groups of friends, often in a friendly, calming environment." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26735530-100-social-media-is-dead-heres-what-comes-next/#Echobox=1753469388
Many people on the #IETF wifi networks in Madrid are running into problems using @signalapp. My hypothesis is that the large number of users in a small number of IPv6 /64s is triggering some rate-limiting. Does #Signal have the ability to apply reputation and rate-limits on a /128 basis for specific /64s? (Clearly future IETFs should use /64-per-host as @abhayakara pointed out on the mailing list.)
Many people on the #IETF wifi networks in Madrid are running into problems using @signalapp. My hypothesis is that the large number of users in a small number of IPv6 /64s is triggering some rate-limiting. Does #Signal have the ability to apply reputation and rate-limits on a /128 basis for specific /64s? (Clearly future IETFs should use /64-per-host as @abhayakara pointed out on the mailing list.)
There were issues with our Signal proxies due to a change Signal made to shut down some of their backend services which the proxies connect to. These old hosts were working for some time, but recently stopped working. We've updated our proxies with the latest configurations, and the proxies should be working once again.
Change that Signal made: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/commit/732f0f09fe2103f9f47c609bc84f7edb85d6b5c8
A voluntary "FOSS subscription"
...for open tools and services that are useful to me.
I'm doing this since summer 2024.
Each project gets paid at least 5€ per month.
Let's take the monthly recurring revenue model of MS365 as an example but fund projects, that won't sell your data 😊
I believe in monthly payments so the projects have a stable budget to operate with.
The list includes now:
- 
KDE (desktop on two devices, 10€)
- ✉️ Thunderbird
- 🛜 Signal
Joined today by:
- 
social.tchncs.de
So if you can, consider paying for the foss services you use 🙂
Thanks for hosting this platform @milan
#opensource#supportYourInstance#supportYourAdmin #donate#fundFoss #foss #kde #signal #thunderbird #bigtech #privacy
A voluntary "FOSS subscription"
...for open tools and services that are useful to me.
I'm doing this since summer 2024.
Each project gets paid at least 5€ per month.
Let's take the monthly recurring revenue model of MS365 as an example but fund projects, that won't sell your data 😊
I believe in monthly payments so the projects have a stable budget to operate with.
The list includes now:
- KDE (desktop on two devices, 10€)
- ✉️ Thunderbird
- 🛜 Signal
Joined today by:
- social.tchncs.de
So if you can, consider paying for the foss services you use 🙂
Thanks for hosting this platform @milan
#opensource#supportYourInstance#supportYourAdmin #donate#fundFoss #foss #kde #signal #thunderbird #bigtech #privacy
This is also the first UK case I've seen mentioning the #Signal messenger being used for #drug dealing. although any evidence gained by the Police appears to be from seized devices rather than any breach of the secure messaging and would only be secondary evidence anyway - the main evidence would be due to the offenders being caught red-handed with the hard drugs and all that is only achieved by old fashioned Police work...
Aside from this, the one feature I want on Signal that we don't have and that everything else has is POLLS.
Here's the feature request for polls on Signal: https://community.signalusers.org/t/group-chat-polls/3474
First requested in 2018 on this forum, and 2015 on Github - 10 years, blimey!!
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Aside from this, the one feature I want on Signal that we don't have and that everything else has is POLLS.
Here's the feature request for polls on Signal: https://community.signalusers.org/t/group-chat-polls/3474
First requested in 2018 on this forum, and 2015 on Github - 10 years, blimey!!
Add your fav/heart if you want that too.
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