i don’t agree with everything in that essay but the OTF-CIA connection gives me good reason not to read anything they say. not that everything they fund is bad but everything they say is untrustworthy.
maybe more importantly though, is briar android-only? no desktop app?
i don’t want to make you do my googling for me but if you have anything else just on-hand i’d love to read it. i can’t trust the open tech fund because of its ties to the cia (see this paragraph by dessalines) but i’ll definitely look into briar
do you know of any good in-depth analyses of its security? every time i decide on a new chat app someone has to point out something that totally ruins it lol
unfortunately not. matrix is probably a no because of this thread. i hear a lot of people saying briar is good but idk anything about it
crazy that no one’s posted the dessalines article yet https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md
EDIT: just to have it here in case anyone even cares, i put my thoughts on the essay later on in the thread
well there’s about a thousand reasons not to use synapse anyway
what’s wrong with matrix
and yet they all have the same donors and the same lobbyists
europe, despite its efforts to keep up appearances, has been lieutenants of the american empire since bretton woods. they reap the benefits of american empire and in return they never question or undermine it
the people get a choice between a few candidates, all of whom are preapproved in the major parties by the donors, who aren’t really of “the people” in any meaningful sense of the word
this is very true but i gotta defend my object-oriented languages here (real object-oriented, not c+±style object-oriented). there’s a lot of way cooler stuff you can do with ruby or groovy or smalltalk that you just can’t do with rust, for example. objects aren’t special cases, the entire system is supposed to be implementable in itself. obviously the machine code itself can’t be objects but the good languages do their best to mask that.
was that comment written in 1996
however, a post about the inner workings of figma, a technology company, is tech.
do you think that the political decisions of tech companies aren’t intimately tied to the tech itself? you are lucky to have a corner of the globe where you are able to ignore politics. unless you’re on your deathbed right now, that won’t last.
like i guess but linux has such high enterprise usage already that idk what it brings to the table for the free software people. if they didn’t have their own bespoke DE maybe that, but as far as i can tell the only thing chromeos brings that the enterprise guys don’t is consumer hardware support
idk i’m not here to be a downer but it seems like counting chromeos kind of dilutes the open-source surge part of the headline yk? like obviously it counts as a linux but i wouldn’t call anything google-made libre at the very least.
cash
as a sidenote i just noticed i posted the dessalines essay twice in this thread so i’ll say just for the record i still like signal. the security of the messaging protocol is, according to every cryptographer i’ve read on the topic, the gold standard in the field. it just makes me uncomfortable that a service, especially one centralized around amazon aws, is demanding my phone number. means they can tie my government name to my social graph