Notices by j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social), page 2

@GrapheneOS And suggest avenues for resolutions of these differences.

@GrapheneOS

I think you're dismissing the important curation work of F-Droid.

Sure it's imperfect and security patches take too long, an additional intermediary etc.

But using Obtainium or Accrescent just leaves the users to their own devices installing any app, with zero oversight.
Far from ideal.

You seem to be suggesting bad will from FDroid management, it would be better if you were more explicit on why you think that way, instead of just insinuating.

@GrapheneOS

F-Droid never shipped Firefox.

Do you mean Fennec Fdroid?

@piegar

Alt text:
Cartoon title: Americans deports its migrants.
Picture shows an native American at the center in an imposing posture and folks dispersing in various directions: Ireland, Germany etc...

Researchers show even lower ranking LLM can self-replicate, solve obstacles, create self-replicating copies.

Google and OpenAI have denied their more advanced models are capable of such.

[2412.12140] Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12140

@nando161

This level of appeal to violence is a deal breaker. Unfollowing.

@wdjorth @atomicpoet

They are bound to have a business model.
Why wait until it's fully enshitified to block the full instance?

@wdjorth @atomicpoet
Why wait?
#blocklist already

this is the first good meme I've seen in like six months

@claclax 🧶

@andymckay

Good luck US folks 😬🖖

@ErickaSimone

https://nomads.com/

Used to be a good start before, hopefully not too enshittified

@Capheind

So definitely worth it to consider alternatives to Signal if:

- you need to protect your social graph from US gov
- metadata privacy is important for you
- you are concerned about having a single point of failure

What alternatives is the million dollar question.
XMPP on Tor?
DeltaChat on Tor?
Simplex? ...

@Capheind

The downside of Signal is that it was overhyped as secure.

There are no guarantees the software running as server is what you have published, given it's centralized.

Given the over reliance on it as a secure product, it is a hugely high level target for attacks by US gov agencies and being hosted in AWS it should be considered compromised IMHO.

So forget about metadata level privacy.
Still a huge leap from WA and SMS and Matrix.

Expect the US Government to know who you contact.

@Capheind

Signal is verifiably e2ee.
That puts it ahead of Matrix.
Matrix has had a lot of security issues, and they just announced they will solve escalability issues by going close source for bigger projects. That alone is an immediate exclusion factor, taking into consideration European gov agencies have adopted it.

XMPP is the place to go for anonymity, but least user friendly.

@itspomf

Depends on where you're from.

Generally useful information here:
nomadlist.com/

The process of getting a visa changes sometimes without much or any advance notice, specially in these times.

@andytiedye @John

There will be some sacrifice in convenience because these are all little people and organizations doing all the effort, and offering it for free to world as open source software everyone can help improve.

There is no time money to throw around UX problems or marketing.

It's a best effort base, and that's what we all have to be right now. A best effort base.

@andytiedye @John

The whole idea about Gancio is being easy to deploy locally.
Mobilizon is also quite easy to deploy.

Using it will make it more mainstream.
I'm in Europe so using things from another continent is quite common here. And it was ok until recently.

@blashphe_me @SimpleProgrammer
Same experience.
Real Life engagement is very much back.

@SimpleProgrammer @blashphe_me

Hi I'm a pessimist too, you can always try to scream louder, maybe it helps who knows?
I'm just more optimistic about actual movements, beyond TikTok trends.