For me it’s the main way to stay in touch with many of my friends. In an ideal world we’d all be talking on a private foss platform but it’s hard to get everyone to migrate.

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I’ll look into what the pay-as-you-go plans are like near me

Does the torrent listing have any comments? Ofc positive comments doesn’t guarantee it’s not malware but I wouldn’t chance it if there’s no comments

I don’t think that’s a big deal with Signal data. You can log back into your account, you’d just lose your messages. idk how most people use Signal but I have disappearing messages on for everything anyway, and if a message is that important to you then back it up.

For most casual users, it is a deal-breaker. And it’s hard to get everyday people to use your software with roadblocks like that.

That’s fair enough, but the way the mobile app works is that you can opt in to having encryption at rest with a passphrase, so if you want to leave your signal database unencrypted you can.

You must not get email very often, this is absolutely a non-starter for me.

Once you open it you can leave it open if you need notifications. Sometimes I leave it open, sometimes I just want to check my emails and then close it. Idk, I really think typing in a password for authentication/decryption regularly is such a non-issue, like for instance do you not regularly type in a password when you run a command with sudo? Again, if it’s opt-in I also don’t see the issue, except for the issue of allowing people to not encrypt their Signal data thus potentially compromising the people they’re messaging, but obviously that issue is currently universal for Signal desktop.

If I’m not mistaken you were talking about how things work “on my phone” but I suppose you had in mind that the principle would apply to desktop as well.

Yes, I was using it as a comparator as an example as to why it’s not a big deal to type a password every time you open an app, which I don’t think is any different between mobile and desktop.

I’m now genuinely not sure what you’re saying. I did what? I said it was about the mobile app? I didn’t say it was about the mobile app?

Obviously there is the disk encryption passphrase at boot, adding another one for signal would in my case be redundant.

I also have full disk encryption, but I still have some databases on my disk encrypted because I decrypt my disk when I boot my computer. But yeah if you have Signal open (& its db decrypted) all the time it would probably be minimal. I don’t have Signal open all the time though, only when I want to check messages or am actively using it

I don’t think it does much on the typical desktop, be it windows or linux, where there are so many ways to escalate or persist privilege for anyone that has user-level access.

The point would be encryption, even the root user wouldn’t be able to read encrypted data if they don’t have the passphrase

I know. I never said it was about the mobile app?

I already enter a passphrase every time I want to use Signal; I use the Molly client on my phone. It’s really not a big deal. I also enter a passphrase every time I launch my password manager, every time I launch my two-factor authentication app on my phone, and every time I open my email client. I think it’s fairly standard to protect sensitive data on your computer with encryption at rest and to decrypt it upon launching the application that handles the data.

How are you inserting your signature? is it manually? Do you have some kind of keyboard shortcut to insert it?

It’s not a bad feature to ensure that eg if there’s a malicious process running on your computer it can’t send all your signal data to whomever

Whole disk encryption wouldn’t change your daily usage, no. It just means that when you boot your PC you have to enter your passphrase. And if your device becomes unbootable for whatever reason, and you want to access your drive, you’ll just have to decrypt it first to be able to read it/write to it, e.g. if you want to rescue files from a bricked computer. But there’s no reason not to encrypt your drive. I can’t think of any downsides.

Forensic data on you is already pretty easy to obtain unless you’re taking special effort to avoid it being taken. Also when you get arrested they take whatever biometrics they like. The info on you those DNA testing companies are getting is info already easily available to the government. I guess if you’re concerned about your DNA being used to tailor ads to you, not just to criminalise you, it could be an issue, but idk I don’t think your DNA can really predict what ads will be effective on you.

That was the url my personal Z-library url redirects to, unless my personal url was compromised? Like, remember when they first went back online and you had to register to get your own url to access zlib? I’ve just been using that

Try https://z-library.se/ ?

If not, libgen normally has what i’m looking for anyway

regardless of which computer I used

That’s really bizarre. I wonder how they did that. So a different computer on a different network with a different email address and everything would still get you banned for ban evasion?

Really creepy too, obviously they’re keeping a lot of data on you to be able to be that thorough.

To clarify, you can still use old reddit logged in with a VPN, but they no longer allow you to browse logged out with a VPN. Still bad of course. But if you’re willing to log in you don’t have to turn off your VPN. You can sign up with a throwaway/obfuscated email if needs be

Whatever notetaking app you use? If it’s just jotting down some things I came up with on the go it won’t be anything I need a whole ass IDE for, and I don’t think I do anything like that often enough to need even a lightweight plaintext editor for that. I guess you could try use vim with termux, sounds like a pain in the arse with a phone keyboard though…

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