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  • Why don't you just implement federation normally instead of taking this roundabout way of doing things? As long as your site contributes content back, and makes it clear where content is from, other projects like piefed and lemmy would be happy to have your project join the network.

    Continuing like this will likely get you IP blocked from wherever you're mirroring content from.

    Also these platforms are open source. You are allowed to copy and modify things for your own projects, as long as you follow the basic rules in the license.

  • Similar to what other comments have said, we created this page to go over the basic analogy to email and phone numbers:

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

    For the people who are really unfamiliar with tech, I research an instance for them and make a recommendation. All they need to do is make an account as they usually do.

  • What happens in family game night stays in family game night

  • I haven't seen that yet

  • Sliding is also acceptable

    But combining it with a charged shot is more important

  • What kind of hardware are you using on the desktop?

  • Why do the same thing every morning when I could spend that time on something else?

    I don't think this is the same thing as a loss of attention span

  • There is a popup explaining how it works when you install it. I asked something similar and the dev replied saying that they are looking into alternatives that don't upload the image anywhere: https://lemmy.ca/comment/22876710

    Tldr from the pop-up:

    • it uses litterbox by default for the auto delete, and catbox when that fails
    • it needed to add uploads since apps aren't allowed to programmatically upload to search engines
    • it recommends against scanning anything sensitive since Google/Bing are keeping it too

    I don't have the latest version since I got the fdroid release, but the GitHub release mentions a number of things that are now processed locally (ex. Text, QR, phone numbers)

  • Selling Clifford's droppings as fertilizer, or to research labs

  • This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension

    I didn't suggest otherwise. This was about whether they can correlate that to additional information. I am already assuming that the US government might try to maliciously compromise the servers, without needing the pretense of national security laws.

    I'm not an expert in cryptography or Signals codebase, but my understanding is that the client app uses separate connections to verify the session (something that can be tied to your phone number on a compromised server) and to send a message out. The initial contact discovery process can leak info if you are searching for specific phone numbers, and this could be mitigated by using the QR code or usernames to get an ID directly. The actual pre key fetch is sent as a separate request not tied to your session verification. So outside of timing attacks, it shouldn't let Signal know who I am talking to day to day even if they know that I have connected to the person at one point.

    I think it's cool that Simplex and Matrix allow selhosting, and especially Simplex's 2 hop technique. That should make it much more difficult for someone trying to map things out. However if the average person is going to be using the default servers, I don't see how a compromised server is any less of a problem than with Signal's ones.

    I recommend Signal to non-technical users trying to get away from Facebook/Instagram/whatsapp. I might start recommending Simplex too if it gets popular enough and goes through a similar level of scrutiny that Signal had. I'm already comfortable using a variety of chat platforms / self hosting for myself.

    The lack of a phone number requirement does limit the extent of social graph mapping. I hope signal will do away with that requirement as they've promised to for some time. The risk though is spam, which is already a problem now that signal is getting popular.

    Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.

    I did look over it again, and I still find the CIA section to be silly. I'll refer back to these old comments from myself and someone else:

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/5401873

    https://lemmy.ca/post/16397504/7661724

    The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.

    Again, I would say this is a big leap. The CEO agreeing to an interview with a think tank that has ties to the defense industry is not the same thing as Signal having ties to the defense industry. She has done many interviews talking about Signal, with a variety of orgs of different ownership and politics

  • You can also set it to hide the sender, but that's overkill for my use case

  • They do

    You can set it to show name + message, name only, or nothing. The last one means that you'd need to open the app to see what you were notified about.

  • Did you mean to link a different article, that one doesn't say anything about defense industry ties (from my quick skim). It does talk about how phone numbers are no longer required when connecting to someone else.

    Signal DOES have my phone number, but they can't tell my government anything other than

    • yes I use Signal
    • yes I connected to it today

    This becomes even less important as the platform gets popular. I know some friends who work in healthcare that report that they're switching to Signal (and WhatsApp unfortunately) as an alternative to texting/phone calls for staff/department group chats and non-patient related communications.

  • This might actually work? I imagine getting up to altitude is the most difficult and energy intensive step since the engines are operating at a higher power and the air is thicker.

    Even if that's only 10% or 15% of the overall energy usage, being able to drop the battery and have it return to the airport on its own for reuse could be a cool concept. You could also optimize that particular battery for take off & climbing, and have the main battery for cruising.

    It just needs to be able to pilot itself back to a landing / catching structure 😄

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