Posts by cherti@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #ATnRWnPczCOitaZeTI by cherti@chaos.social
2023-03-11T23:31:57Z
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Does someone know what's the current state of the #PineNote? it seems continuously unavailable for quite a while already, but it's still listed in the Pine shop.#eInk
(DIR) Post #ATnRv7VnuLMiBR3sSe by cherti@chaos.social
2023-03-07T17:38:59Z
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Excellent piece on the hows and whys of features for a global messaging solution:https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/
(DIR) Post #ATnulPLncuklHf6S2K by cherti@chaos.social
2023-03-20T10:30:33Z
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@publiclewdness that is of course totally fair and at the same time fully missing the core point of that blogpost. :)If you haven't done so yet, I recommend to read it, it's very good!
(DIR) Post #ATxNCR8WVOgYtWf6VE by cherti@chaos.social
2023-03-24T14:46:51Z
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Hey Fedi,I'm looking for something rather specific: a USB-C power supply that * USB-C plug delivers 65W* uses on a 2-pin power cable to the wall* has (an) additional USB port(s) to charge a phone* max thickness 2cm (2.1cm might also be ok? but less is better)Any ideas?:BoostOK:
(DIR) Post #AURbotms47AZB2vm2C by cherti@chaos.social
2023-04-08T13:47:23Z
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@sindastra possibly for individual components (Seafile comes to mind for example), but otherwise NC/OC is the pain-free solution, particularly if non-tech people are supposed to use it.
(DIR) Post #AUmQuUdMbwryg2auK8 by cherti@chaos.social
2023-04-18T15:11:52Z
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Is nuclear power climate friendly? :BoostOK:
(DIR) Post #AViDJQz7fbAYyXjfNY by cherti@chaos.social
2023-05-16T12:05:45Z
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Out of curiosity, if you are running a #Linux distro on your personal machine, which one is it?:BoostOK:
(DIR) Post #AXC4JPTfIQZE6DE8gK by cherti@chaos.social
2023-06-29T19:46:56Z
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@eighthave At least on Android Signal does allow you to mark a thread as unread. I do use that quite a bit if I want to follow up on things, especially combined with the "only show unread" filter.
(DIR) Post #AXC4LXykevrj2qmpSi by cherti@chaos.social
2023-06-29T19:47:20Z
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@eighthave At least on Android Signal does allow you to mark a thread as unread. I do use that quite a bit if I want to follow up on things, especially combined with the "only show unread" filter. I find it pretty useful 😄
(DIR) Post #AXC4YloUXAt7iUIDJY by cherti@chaos.social
2023-06-29T19:49:42Z
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@eighthave At least on Android Signal does allow you to mark a thread as unread. I do use that quite a bit if I want to follow up on things, especially combined with the "only show unread" filter. I find it pretty useful 😄@vitriolix
(DIR) Post #AXpHiI15hbwaMpZhjM by cherti@chaos.social
2023-07-18T17:50:36Z
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@gnulinux Signal
(DIR) Post #AaePM4GqVWZx3txPCy by cherti@chaos.social
2023-10-11T05:30:47Z
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@dnkl PragmataPro (Mono).I was a continuously dissatisfied fonthopper until I got my hands on PragmataPro. 10/10, would buy again, worth every cent.
(DIR) Post #AcnuhoMFiZDai1wSDg by cherti@chaos.social
2023-12-14T15:18:49Z
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@daniel @noodlejetski So the solution to not get a response is to become rude? Sounds like a recipe to have your point ignored entirely... And understandably so.
(DIR) Post #Aco7HW2CWJ9JksM2W8 by cherti@chaos.social
2023-12-14T17:39:42Z
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@Bernard not really, because ultimately, the price is the same, but decentralization has proven to not work effectively in this space (plenty of decentralized solutions were there before Signal and none of them range close to what Signal pulls nowadays). Signal is the way it is because they acknowledged that decentralized solutions were not actually successful in the long-term.Signal's founder, Moxie Marlinspike, has operated decentralized solutions before and has stated that he would love to…
(DIR) Post #AcoD2YjUnybZVMrBFQ by cherti@chaos.social
2023-12-14T17:41:32Z
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@Bernard … be proven wrong in his assessment that decentralized solutions will not cut it, but he has come to the realization that this is the case.And so far, it seems he still remains correct in his assessment.Also, decentralized solutions spill a lot more metadata. The matrix people have a slide deck in which they explicitly acknowledge that Matrix leaks metadata (specifically due to the decentral.), for example, while Signal is carefully designed not to do that/to minimize metadata leakage
(DIR) Post #AcoEXRE4rgN19dRuKG by cherti@chaos.social
2023-12-14T19:01:02Z
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@Bernard But that's what Signal's design is for, just don't have any avoidable metadata on the server in the first place, so there is nothing to get there.Session in particular is a good example, because they actually dropped perfect forward secrecy, allowing an intermediary to collect encrypted messages and just obtain the decryption key after the fact, something that is not possible in Signal.Session's architecture choices apparently forced them to actually reduce cryptographic protections.
(DIR) Post #AcoGgjYMIIuwVeUnGi by cherti@chaos.social
2023-12-14T19:19:28Z
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@Bernard so there is absolutely a tradeoff, but generally, Signal's design is a result of having a lot of prior experience with these tradeoffs and things like Session having to weaken their security protocols in many ways seems to indicate that Signal is not entirely off in their design, on the contrary actually.
(DIR) Post #AcoHLV6QvQfnZ6sBiS by cherti@chaos.social
2023-12-14T19:32:29Z
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@Bernard That is of course always true. Funnily enough, Signal being phone-number based includes a fallback contact method automatically, by basing your social graph in your phone contacts instead of using a service-specific identifier as many other services do.Signal will also get service-specific identifiers soon given popular demand, because of course giving out your phone number is nothing you wanna do in every circumstance, but this is definitely an advantage of phone numbers.
(DIR) Post #Ar9fnuXx0auqLUWZTk by cherti@chaos.social
2025-02-15T21:24:32Z
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@wjmaggos I think if you frame it as ursurption, you make it sound like Bluesky and Signal came in and took what was the Fediverse's to have.However, that's not quite what happened: what really happened is that users choose Signal and Bluesky over federated alternatives.Framing this as ursurption will only achieve one thing: that when the next time it happens, the federated alternative will loose again, because it was not acknowledged that there was a reason users chose differently.
(DIR) Post #Ar9gpzqmMPfDKOtCuu by cherti@chaos.social
2025-02-15T21:25:36Z
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@wjmaggos (and consequentially, without acknowledging that reason, it will not get fixed and the federated solution will have the same deficiencies again next time, leading to the exact same result.)