zergtoshi
@zergtoshi@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
Sure. If you want full control, you need to run your own server.
Matrix crosses my mind.
But using that is a different animal than installing an app from a store.
As far as security when communicating conveniently on mobile phone goes, Signal does a pretty good job. But you’re right that it’s important to realize what’s possible and what’s not possible. - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
And you seriously think most people would look at and act on such an icon instead of just ignoring it?
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the never-ending weighting between convenience and security.
But are you going to tell me that those people don’t have Whatsapp, Threema, Telegram or any other IM installed and just use plain SMS instead? - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
Handling SMS and handling secure/encrypted messages could’ve made people think they communicate securely while relying on text messages instead.
Not handling SMS fixes this source of confusion and I applaud their decision. - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
The deal is that they run their program in a very transparent and wherever possible verifiable way.
More details here: lemmy.world/comment/14775870 - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
If they encrypt meta data like they say they do (signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/), it should be very hard to use meta data the way you explained.
Whether they do can be looked up here (github.com/signalapp) by those who know what to look for.
As Signal uses reproducible builds (signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/), itcan be verified that the builds are made from the public source code.
They make offering a secure and trustable app a lot better (by being verifyable) than other messengers. - Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 4 weeks ago:
…and failed to save anything at all.
- Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 4 weeks ago:
You expect Nazis and their sympathizers to have a brain and form coherent sentences, huh?
I fear, there are at least some who do and those are even more dangerous than the typical braindead Nazi. - Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 4 weeks ago:
If you have more torque and the same rpm, you get more horsepower as result.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
Sadly reminds me of Wall-E in some way.
- Comment on Can't unsee 1 month ago:
Donlon Trusk?
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 2 months ago:
So in your opinion the thousands of dead children and other civilians in Gaza are ‘terrorists rapists child molesters’ who don’t deserve human rights?
I’m baffled how you can understand that the Russian/Putin’s attack on Ukraine is wrong, but fail to see the parallel between that and what Israel does and what Netanyahu is responsible for.
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 2 months ago:
Looks like in your world there’s only black and white and you can’t seem to fathom that self-defense needs to have limits. Am I right?
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 2 months ago:
So it’s antisemitism to criticize political actions, which lead to genocide, rape, and piles of ded children, huh?
TIL… - Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 2 months ago:
You might have a different understanding of billionaire bacon than the person you replied to.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 months ago:
Language.
- Comment on sampling bias 2 months ago:
At least 0.2% lied.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 2 months ago:
Thank you for sharing the link. That webpage is amazing!
- Comment on Please Stop 11 months ago:
There’s attempts at having payments with 0 fees, that is, if you don’t involve exchanges or payment service providers, who obviously charge a fee for fiat conversion.
Using Nano you have 0 fees for the transaction and ideally as little as 0.25% fee at an exchange for fiat conversion.
It’s not only without fees, it’s very fast (ideallly sub-second confirmation) and eco-friendly (requiring no special hardware, because there is no mining and using very little energy overall).
What’s lacking is places where you can actually pay for things with Nano, but that’s the classic chicken and egg problem. - Comment on Please Stop 11 months ago:
Fixing issues like energy consumption, confirmation time, fees?
Just in case you haven’t heard of Nano, allow me to tell you it’s an attempt at creating a peer-to-peer digital currency with minimal energy consumption, 0 fees, 0 minimum account balance, very fast confirmation (ideally sub-second, sometimes a bit slower) and 0 supply inflation.
It focuses on doing one thing and doing it well: transferring value efficiently, sustsinably and without middlemen.
It’s around since 2015 and still kicking, getting better and better with each release, ironing kinks out.
It might sound too good to be true, but it’s worth a look; make up your own mind.