[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 21 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry but that is really the dumbest argument that I've ever heard. How in the world does that affect the user when it's compiled anyways? If you want to modify the app then just do it in kotlin. They are interoperable

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's the same as any other code you'll run on your machine. Privacy has nothing to do with DLC and especially not with JIT

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 24 points 1 month ago

Clearly the only right answer is Internet. Who cares about camera, mic or location when the app cannot send the data anywhere anyways?

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 5 points 1 month ago

Bitte biete einen Verweis an

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by mintdaniel42@futurology.today to c/politics@lemmy.world

EU Petition for taxing the rich and using the money for fighting climate change

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 7 points 2 months ago

We must push this petition under all circumstances

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by mintdaniel42@futurology.today to c/climate@slrpnk.net

EU Petition for taxing the rich and using the money for fighting climate change

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or maybe just a german history book

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 4 points 10 months ago

No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm gonna be honest. I chose a random article by JWZ and read it. The only thing they are talking about is the contact discovery system. If they don't want contacts to be uploaded (encrypted) then simply don't give signal the permission. And that the author moves to facebook messenger because there

at least the privacy failings are obvious

just shows how the author isn't even interested in secure and private messaging but only in defamig signal

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 4 points 10 months ago

Okay so I've been using Signal for over two years now and would like to address your critical points:

  • I switched from my old phone to my current phone without losing even one message. Not even safety numbers changed
  • Yes you have to give them a phone number. And yes atm everyone is able to see them. This will change this year as usernames are coming. The phone number will from then on only be used for verification and stored encrypted
  • I have three devices: Phone (Android), Tablet (Android) and PC (Linux). All of the messages get synchronized properly and almost instantly
  • I don't know what you mean by this exactly but I think you mean that the official Signal server doesn't support forked clients which is false if you take a look at Molly (which I'm using on my Tablet due to several reasons)

In terms of reliability in general I never experienced any issues with Signal. It works great even in bad internet connection scenarios.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by mintdaniel42@futurology.today to c/signal@lemmy.ml

We are getting Cloud Backups in the future! Currently, there are two tiers planned:

The free tier offers:

  • 30 days of media backup
  • ??? GB of storage

The paid ($3 / mo) tier offers:

  • media & text backup forever
  • 1TB of storage Both tiers' features and the pricing of the paid plan are still subject to change

What do you think about this?

Sources: SignalUpdateInfo

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by mintdaniel42@futurology.today to c/signal@lemmy.ml

Many of us (or at least me) would probably like to see Signal getting decentralized. Here are a few thoughts I had about this recently.

First let me define three persons:

  • Peter (using the official signal.org instance)
  • Ted (using the example.com instance)
  • Andrew (using his own instance under andrew.chat)

Couldn't we use the upcoming username feature to build a decentralized signal network? For example with a modified client or maybe just a modified libsignal library we could parse the instance from the username which would look like an email address (ted.42@example.com or andrew.62@andrew.chat). If the username doesn't have a domain part it just uses the default instance (so Peter just has the username peter.94).

Maybe we have some people here who are already familiar with the Signal codebase and willing to assist?

EDIT: Yes I know Session and Matrix exist but Session is to extreme and technical and Matrix is more focused on communities and groups which aren't even encrypted. Besides that both of them have a much smaller userbase compared to Signal.

[-] mintdaniel42@futurology.today 6 points 10 months ago

Then they should aswell

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