@wizardyuuka it seems cool, but there's a mess of little things
whoever takes care of the wikipedia article has lots of fun:
> As of June 2023, according to the sources used to populate the table below, there was only one actively maintained desktop client[31] in existence, authored by a presumably Russian developer.[32] > According to their Stack Overflow and Gitlab accounts,[33][34] they were at some point an employee of a Russian company which supplied CCTV hardware and traffic cameras to various police departments around the Russia.[35][36]
also from there:
> During the first two years of its life, the project's business and monetary side was handled by Tox Foundation, a California-registered corporation.[19] On July 6, 2015 an issue was open on the project's GitHub, where a third party stated[20] that Tox Foundation's sole board member, Sean Qureshi, used an amount of money in thousands of US dollars to pay for their college tuition,[21] with those funds coming from Tox Foundation's participation in Google Summer of Code.
there's been a prominent crypto issue deemed "Key Compromise Impersonation” (KCI) noted since 2017 and apparently getting fixed now, for eurobux no less:
https://blog.tox.chat/2023/03/redesign-of-toxs-cryptographic-handshake/ > He applied for funding at NLnet foundation and their NGI Assure fund to continue his work on Tox and to be able to implement a production-ready Noise-based handshake for toxcore. Fortunately, this application was successful [5]. NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme (https://ngi.eu/).
if you do wanna try tox, you will note that the long time flagship client is marked archived on github: https://github.com/qTox/qTox
for android clients, there's a vomit-inducing one with features and a great one with no features to pick from. the protocol seems to shit the bed if you connect from two locations, so in either case these are of questionable use.
I've yet to inspect the landscape on desktop, I bet the unmaintained clients are useful anyway. So far it seems like a good auxilary way to connect with people, since it *can* do audio, video, chat, all over p2p so can't ever die.
I'll probably never get a person to use this thing, anyone reading tox me if you care: E2C9882607464184835EC51A4AFEF5362403D73658F94E4E2D7A78086E5A9617FE7D892DEA4C
@wizardyuuka@menherahair uhhhhhh, former employee for a firm that supplied the police here? he sounds like a shitlib to me, especially the fight government part
@menherahair@wizardyuuka the dummy conversation he chose to show was "fsb is... LE BAD!!!", so once again westoids are thinking someone is literally hitler because he's russian even though he'd suck BBC on a moment's notice not caring that it wouldn't redeem him when will people realize that people fucking hate us and trying to prove otherwise to them will never work?
@meso@wizardyuuka@menherahair corporations are fucking cancer, i agree, but saying "fight government" while there's a fucking war going on is basically wanting your entire country to collape
@lina@wizardyuuka@menherahair no Total secret service death. TOtal NSA death. TOtal DANS death even doe theyre retarded and only fight certain criminals which is good ig but like meh they suck too
@lina@menherahair@wizardyuuka its like. i wouldnt want to serve in the military cuz id get killed in some retarded oil war or something but military stuff is cool
@lina@wizardyuuka@menherahair i just think its cool to work in an intelligence agency and know their craft and get paid for spying like thats so cool but like they're EVIL fucking CREEPS
@meso@wizardyuuka@menherahair that's geopolitics, it's politics related to geographical ownership even if it's a more convenient tobacco route and the way you solve that is primarily via bloodshed because the only time land was actually sold between countries was the alaskan deal as far as i know
@meso@wizardyuuka@menherahair whatever man, just know that bulgaria wouldn't start a war over shit like that and you'd enjoy a cushy position in the military or the government, at most it'd just hire hitmen to get what they want
@lina@wizardyuuka@menherahair even doe its like not necessarily geographical ownership because like they dont need that place they just wanna go to war for political reasons not geo and theyre gay even doe
@meso@wizardyuuka@menherahair meso coming out as transtotalitarian? chances are your government doesn't even fucking remember you exist, so chill the fuck out, unless bulgaria was used to launder american money, you won't get sent to die for american interests