i can understand being dubious of WhatsApp given it's closed source and owned by Facebook. but Telegram and WeChat? Both closed source and with very questionable encryption? Signal is the only clear answer.

also side-note, WhatsApp audits and analyses have all come back confirming it's at least deploying the same end-to-end encryption as Signal, though stores a bit more metadata. so Facebook knows when / who you're messaging. Telegram / WeChat are much worse in this regard. as an anti western imperialist i'd still choose WhatsApp over Telegram / WeChat for comms. though ideally none of the above for anything important

oh i had no idea about this, yikes. and you're absolutely right re: mastodon

china is at least giving me hope on the climate change front

of course, we must keep supplying the source of their misery, how else can we then help them out of their misery?

I'm hooked already

of course it has to be westernized ...

i distrohopped a lot until i landed on Void, then i just stayed because it does everything i need, it's fast, understandable, easily tweakable, and rock solid

Firefox actually has surpassed Chrome recently in benchmarks

I'd loved Anandtech in the past, for how they used to be. hadn't heard of those other numbers 2,3,4 before, thanks for posting them!

you should upload them to archive.org!

I'm sorry but what? Please extrapolate I need to understand more about these brain worms you have.

I know that feeling... for what it's worth from a stranger on the internet, happy birthday! 🎈