tripu @tripu@qoto.org

@swiley
Thanks for the reminder. Reproducible builds are indeed a feature.
E-mail, IRC and SMS are so clumsy and offer so much friction… they're very far behind in features compared with #messaging apps. Don't you think?
#Telegram

@mkul
Yes, please. If there's evidence of that, I'd like to know.
#Telegram

Trying to make up my mind about #Signal vs. #Telegram in these days. (Most likely I'll keep both — it's about which to use by default and promote among my contacts of the #WhatsApp #exodus.)
So far:

✅ Telegram:
‣ Web client (this is big).
‣ Many useful features, and rapid pace of development.
‣ One can edit past messages, and (more or less) delete them, too.
‣ API, bots, apps.

✅ Signal:
‣ The server is #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource, too (although this is not terribly important per se).
‣ Better #encryption (eg, E2E also in group chats).
‣ Developed by a non-profit (is it an advantage, though?).
‣ Recommended by #security experts I personally trust (#EdwardSnowden, #BruceSchneier) and other thoughtful techies (#ElonMusk).

Fediverse: anything to correct or add? Specifically: has anyone compared their respective ToS? I'd like to know what types of data they [say they] harvest, and exactly with what legal entities they're shared.
#messaging

#GlennGreenwald, spot on on #BigTech / #monopoly / #Censorship / #Parler 💡
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348320646443528201

I thought the language of #Proust's “Swann's Way” was affected, dense, convoluted. Then I started reading the second part of #InSearchOfLostTime, “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”. Man, the twenty-line-long sentences containing several subordinate clauses, some of them eight lines long! Why? Why!?
📚 #French #literature #book #TheGreatestBooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHHErfX9hI

@gasull He might be a genius — I don't know him, really. But my first reaction about a writer that's “cryptic” is that either he's full of shit (most often), or he's dog whistling because he doesn't have the balls to be clear. I'm now reading a couple of his long posts, and I'd love to find the time to write a critique, because so far I'm irritated by so much bad reasoning.
#menciusmoldbug

I love listening to lunatics and contrarians. There's a lot of value in learning about unsuspected points of view. That's why I like #Unregistered #podcast so much.
Too often however, #ThaddeusRussell is just letting idiotic ideas stand unchallenged.
Case in point, the latest episode with #MenciusMoldbug:
https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/146
MM: [Blatant overgeneralisation]
TR: “Wow!”
MM: [Reckless call to subvert everything]
TR: “Oooh…”
MM: [Caricature of opposite PoV]
TR: “Nice!”
MM: [Faulty logic]
TR: “You make my mind stretch!”

I'm hearing so many attacks on #democracy and so many calls from people I would respect otherwise to have “less democracy”… All those (#ThaddeusRussell, #GarettJones, #MenciusMoldbug…) seem to be confusing “smaller State” with “less democracy”.
When we #ClassicLiberals criticise the tyranny of the majority, what we are saying is that no State or institutional power should intrude so deeply into personal matters — not that we would prefer those intrusions to be orchestrated by dictators, oligarchs or technocrats instead of democratic institutions (imperfect and fallible as they may be)! We want less #coercion overall (ie, less #State) — not to move the extant coercive power from democracy to #autarchy.
Please reflect about that distinction if you find yourself dissatisfied with the status quo and flirting with the ideas of #NRx, #DarkEnlightenment, autarchy, #monarchy, etc.

I really can't stand the lack of intellectual rigour in all those hints and captious questions about alleged #ElectionFraud in the #US…
Latest example: in this #podcast, #CurtisYarvin argues that there are “means, motive, and opportunity” to suspect crime. But anyone can find as many red flags as they want — *evidence* (or in this case, the lack thereof) and presumption of innocence is what counts. He also wonders why there were #election observers at all, if the process is supposed to be so clean and fair (by the same logic, air travel must be riddled with safety issues and we should assume it's much more dangerous than people think, since there are so many checks and protocols and inspectors).
And this is the messiah of the #NRx…?
https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/146