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  • Thank you. not all *@lemmy.ml users are ignorant science deniers.

  • 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

  • There's a few clients for Signal, nobody is preventing developers from creating apps; there's Molly, gurk-rs, Axolotl, Flare, signal-cli, Pidgin (with the Signal plugin.

    The problem is 3rd party clients don't implement all features because it takes a lot of work and they're created/developed by volunteers - just take a look at Matrix and how many clients support all features or even just group end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Last I checked many third party Matrix clients didn't support encrypted group messages, primarily just Element, the reference client built by the matrix developers. So you have the same problem on Signal that you have on Matrix.

  • Signal > Matrix/Element > RCS > SMS.

    iMessage isn't in the equation because it only works on a single platform.

  • 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.

  • For women in Texas, a new study says you're getting the short end of the stick. WalletHub ranked Texas among the five worst states for women to live in, with its study released Monday, February 26.

    Source: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/worst-state-for-women-texas-18690990.php

    Texas is the worst state to live and work ... Factors like Texas having the highest number of uninsured residents in the nation, higher violent crime rates, a low number of primary care physicians per capita, a strict abortion ban and laws targeting LGBTQ+ people were what made Texas’ score so low

    Source: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-is-the-worst-state-to-live-and-work-according-to-cnbc-analysis/

  • 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.

  • because I'm not a piece of shit and want to see my fellow Americans do better. a rising tide lifts all boats.

  • Is it just Democrats or was it a bipartisan deal? do you have any links to support the claim?

  • we're exploited enough as is and corporate greed is only getting worse, there's absolutely zero need to put children in a position to be exploited.

  • your attitude/personality is ugly. do better.

  • kinda agree with you.

    Firefox is not doing well, and greedy CEO's are not helping the cause. I wish they'd take a playbook from Nintendo's leadership, show they really back the product, and take a pay cut to help the cause.

    I can't imaging the CEO being significantly impacted if they had to go from $6,700,000 per year to $3,350,000 and could single-handedly save at least 10 engineers at $300,000+ each to continue to work on core features and guarantee long-term success.


    Nintendo's Satoru Iwata on layoffs:

    If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease, and I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world

  • out of the loop since I've moved to debian and been using flatpak for the last few years, what software are you installing via PPA that isn't generally available via flatpak?