Notices by Luna Lactea (jackemled@furry.engineer), page 2

@silver_huskey The issues with Telegram are:

• owned & run by neonazis
• years old unpatched vulnerabilities in app
• refusal to fix unsafe & ineffective cryptography, which is off by default anyway & very hidden
• advertises their app as super ultra mega secure, but it has more holes than a fishnet
• shares user data with police too freely, including for things like people being gay in countries where it's illegal to be gay
• dumped 26GiB. of my nudes, tax documents, & other files into a groupchat completely on its own for no fucking reason before I was able to turn on airplane mode, kill the app's processes, & get a group moderator to delete everything
• anti LGBT
• requires phone number
• nazi dogwhistles in their blog posts
• premium lets you ignore other users' privacy settings
• crashes if someone sends a GIF

The only issue Telegram doesn't have yet is requiring you scan your face & government ID for them. Matrix is almost worth dealing with, assuming it's somehow your only other option.

@silver_huskey @PepperTheVixen First time setup for a new client is more complicated than logging in to an email server if you're using encryption, since Matrix has no automatic key management & you have to load them yourself, but that's all. If you know what a key is it's fine. Matrix with e2ee is pretty unreliable when someone's server is slow though & I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for something end to end encrypted. If you just need a groupchat & you're not sharing sensitive information that would require encryption, it's decent.

@silver_huskey Isn't Telegram much worse than Discord even after the stuff they're starting next month though? Switching to Telegram is probably not a good idea.

Is there anything like rule 34 of the Internet, but instead of porn it's about for profit & corporate run stuff?

Something like "If it is corporate run, it will be bad. If it is not bad yet it will be tomorrow."

@soatok if only I needed this😔

@SuperDicq I know Debian Unstable isn't actually very unstable, but it's called unstable for a reason. It's the development version. Ideally this would be something a stereotypical grandma could use. Thank you though!

Is there a Debian based Linux distro that isn't super old & outdated (Debian) & isn't straight up Ubuntu (so many of them) & isn't a tech demo (KDE Neon) & isn't "anti-woke" (Mint)? I'm looking for something I can give to someone that might want to try Linux for the first time that has sane defaults & won't require much fiddling until they want to make their own big changes, so I want to avoid Arch based stuff.

#Linux #Debian

@SuperDicq @tusharhero are you fr or on god right now

@soatok lmao

@soatok I wish there was a way you could charge them money for wasting your time.

@soatok If I was a billionaire & I wanted to be adored I would simply pay my employees fairly until I wasn't a billionaire anymore.

@snow NTP over AC

@dalias @aud I should clarify, "Bad for authoritarian use". I did not word that well & I should have thought it through more. I think you're right; I would want to give the correct impression that nazis are here to scare software developers, & everyone else, away from supporting their communities, at least if the cost is that it supports nazis too. I would rather leave people with a usable but less than ideal program, tool, or supply if it means that they can get by with it but nazis can't. I would rather continue supporting the community some other way than to improve something in a way that benefits nazis without giving much to the community, such as pausing feature updates so nazis don't get more use out of it but continuing security updates so people don't get hacked by nazis.

However, any software developed by me will be bad, because I don't know what I'm doing yet lmao

@dalias @aud "Issue closed, tagged as 'wontfix' & 'wontimplement', this software will stay bad to spite those who have just made it known that they want to use it for evil, this software will not become more useful for doing evil."

@cwebber So what you're saying is we need to take some feral American queers to Canada to crossbreed with tame Canadian queers to reintroduce more aggressive queers back to the Canadian wilderness?

@soatok "So does Grindr have better security than Signal?"

@soatok When I want to figure out if some security or cryptography software is good, I ask these questions.

What's its threat model? What are any potential flaws the author sees in their implementation? What do unrelated experts in the subject think about it? Are there any drawbacks to using it? How might it fail? What threats does it not cover?

@SuperDicq @izzy We steal the Declaration of Independence.

@SuperDicq @izzy We should work together to acquire 11.11.11.11 & 111.111.111.111 so we can be cooler than CloudFlare.

@fiore I love silly animals so much