What you say makes sense,
In any case, I am glad WhatsApp founder put some money into Signal, he's done an amazing job and deserves all the money.
I am from another side of messagers, as Viber concured Easter Europe - Telegram seemed like an obvious choice after VK got stolen from Durov. Signal was not that popular, that's why I did not start migration earlier
Here is what puzzles me every time about telegram (which is my primary messager so far)
I can get the reasons behind not doing e2e encryption by default to reach more audience (msgs history, lack of resources on start, special backups)
What I cannot get is why Durov is blaming FB/WhatsApp that much, it seems to be the main competitor. As for me the story with WhatsApp is clear, it's Facebook and if you like being Zucked - go with it. But why so much hate on it?
On the other hand, every time Signal pops up the only answer I see: 'because it does only e2e well which is only one feature of Telegram' - wrong, Signal does secure messaging and messager has to do its job well, that's it. You need a media platform - go for Telegram/WhatsApp/Facebook, you need a messager - use Signal/Wire/etc
Does anyone else feels this bias towards WhatsApp? I cannot blame WhatsApp for being WhatsApp, that's how FB makes money
A TG server was sending a "salt" to clients in order to randomize keys (telegram claim) when in fact the "salt" turned out useless in terms of encryption and the only reasonable explanation for the "nonce" was using it as a backdoor to perform MITM attack.
You decide whether it was done intenionally or because of lack of sleep/understanding
PS. an original author got 100k$ for finding/exposing a potential backdoor.
I really love what you are doing guys. Self-hosted option with SaaS model as an alternative - sweet, perfect pricing balance.
I don't know about others but I am really tired of settings up auth over and over again for over 8 years already. Don't give me firebase it sucks so hard I can't even open my eyes when auth needs more control or extension. Im going to give you a shot in my next project
Dell XPS is an outstanding laptop, I've not found yet better laptop if you don't like macs
However, Dell is not going to be my next machine because:
- dev edition is hard to get (at least for me) and regular version does not work well with Linux (finger scanner requires to install OS patches, WiFi is dropping ocasionally , I had some crappy WiFi adapter installed in 2017/18, scaling is a big issue etc)
- mine XPS had a weirdly placed camera (bottom left corner)
- again, mine model did not have 4k display (comparing to retina I had back then)
- 13" is too small and 15" is too heavy, I would like something in the middle which might seem weird for you
- there is no finger scanner for dev edition (Yubico is here to help)
As you see those are very minor and subjective issues. Dell is a favourite machine of a friend of mine for years already, however I find Apple winning premium laptops battle in my eyes.
I really like Yubico and fingerpring scanner is an awesome idea, would be really happy to bring my fingerprint instead of relying on laptops. On the other hand, a wearable would be a whole new level, like thinking 2 steps ahead
This is an awesome idea, I really love the writing and products presented (TLDR; SimpleAnalytics, BunnyCDN, Intergram). Good luck with LMA, this is an awesome product
IMO, the "cookies banner" does not help to make internet safer, only worsening UI, add a few more banners and there is no content left. How many people who don't know how internet works hit "Disagree" if we still refuse to pay for e-services
I've tried it in the NextCloud and it's pretty usable. Of course formatting can be off if you need some advanced staff, but for basic formatting it's a pretty good alternative for Google Docs. As a 2 years Linux user in a past it's much better than LibreOffice was 5 years ago, at least I can confirm it's usable.
Architecture switch is not a question whether Apple can do it, I am pretty sure they are capable of releasing it asap. Think about all software that have to migrated, it’s not just re-compile and release button click
it looks very interesting, I came around purism a couple of times but never got to hardware switchers section, very nice.
Is there anyone who has any experience with puri.sm?
arm released is not going to happen in the next 2 years, IMO mpro 16" is going to get better and it is good enough to switch to it permanently. I was testing a few mpros before purchasing one
I would put an asterisk near battery life as a downside, after switching to mpro 2020 13 realized that I overlooked batter life which is 7h at max, 5h if working aggressively (docker, builds), very disappointing. Macs always were laptops with great performance - battery life for me, so be careful with customizations and stick either to defaults or mpro 16 (which is like a plazma TV for me)
what about using words (like a password phrase) instead of a hash? You can schedule title of the upcoming tweet, so people can like it and "subscribe" to notifications
Perfect timing, was just about to start migration.
My plan so far:
- Gmail -> Fastmail + custom domain
- GDrive -> Nextcloud + openoffice (it's really nice, includes notes and libreoffice)
- Chrome -> Firefox (FF made a tremendous progress in last 5 years)
- Google -> DuckDuckGo
No disrespect to Google, the whole platform is very convenient, but it's going to be a fun experiment to use services that are dedicated to one goal (email-only, storage-only b2, search only etc)
The only one I look to stop spending time at is YouTube, hard to replace, however bloggers have to start protecting their value and own their things.
I can confirm, internet in Ukraine (top 5) is super cheap, most people don't even realize how inexpensive it is comparing to other countries. Mobile traffic is so cheap that it gets very inconvenient to keep your internet habits when you are in other countries.
Italy seems like a great country to spend more time in, thank you for report!
Yep, I saw that, the feature I was trying to describe is a popup on a username that gives you a list of all accounts tied to this domain, which is quite handy. In Bitwarden I have to either right click or copy/paste from the extension. A bit awkward IMO
I am from another side of messagers, as Viber concured Easter Europe - Telegram seemed like an obvious choice after VK got stolen from Durov. Signal was not that popular, that's why I did not start migration earlier