bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

Reminder of why #Signal is far from optimal:

- No #anonymity (every account is connected to a phone number)
- Not #opensource (the git repo of the server hasn't been updated in a year)
- No #decentralization
- No web client, and max. 1 mobile client per account
- No #privacy (your entire contact list is uploaded to the server. It's encrypted, but it's trivial to brute-force encrypted phone numbers. You can prevent it by disabling the PIN feature, but it's enabled by default without warning.)

#Signal turning into a crypto-ponzi currency scheme?

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html

Surprise!

That Signal:
- isn't really free/libre software (as Moxie denied freedom to redistribute modified version)
- would *never* federate (political choice of centralization)
- updated server software wasn't published
- invaded people's phonebooks
- runs on Amazon+NSA's infrastructure
- is virtually impossible to use out of Google's infrastructure -
- etc.

...didn't seem to be enough to alarm Signal users.

@TheFuzzStone I cannot get rid of the feeling that there's something fishy around #Signal. Like things don't actually go into the right direction. Privacy is used as a sales argument even though I believe they don't truly care about that. Also privacy is not sufficient. The world does not need monopolies nor their in-transparent white-washing agencies.

Learned from this essay on de-commoditized #protocol/#software, which #dillo browser recommended as MUST read. 🤔

Making sense. But firstly I was quit confused at what **commodity** means in English. Make sense now.

It’s a shame that #UNIX had the nature of commodity but it’s not utilized until the advent of #Linux/userland.

https://www.levien.com/free/decommoditizing.html

Good morning o/
I wish you all too have a nice day, here's a fortune:
fortune
Q: How many bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Two. One to assure everyone that everything possible is being
done while the other screws the bulb into the water faucet.

finding myself desperately missing the 90s

computers are wonderful things.
and you should use less of them.
stop putting computers in things.

been annoyed by "AI" hype for years, I think it's time to give up and accept the popular use of "anything impressive-seeming a computer can do"

so:

- I use Haskell's stong AI to catch my dumb programming mistakes.
- Apt uses AI to automatically satisfy an applications requirements
- Wireshark's network traffic analysis AI
- My fridge is controlled by a custom AI that allows it to run more efficiently from solar power

decentralise faster than they can centralise

ESP32-i3 was announced today by Mr Teoh (CEO at Espressif) on WeChat @lupyuen

Recent master and photo landscape studies

#MastoArt #CreativeToots

"Out of fear, many known Free Software projects joined in on the anti-RMS witch hunt because they did not want to be cancelled either."

https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html

#RMS #stopcancelculture