Interesting. I figured there was just a backdoor in Knox or iOS it was using.
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Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Android@lemdro.id•Looking for a few beta testers for my Lemmy Android ClientEnglish3·12 days agoIt’s on Jerboa. It’s on Thunder. It’s on Interstellar, You can get it on Eternity. It’s on Voyager. It’s on Raccoon. It’s on Blorp. Download Blorp it’s on there. Download Blorp.
Interesting, I haven’t seen the “pure AP” thing, will check it out. Yeah I’m not attached to any particular model of it, since there are pros and cons of each, and they have the same basic structure (communities on lemmy appear as users reposting whatever mentions them, you could represent imageboard communities the same way, etc etc). Hopefully people evolve beyond just imitating popular social media products.
Well, Mastodon seems designed to have people give up on it. Austere interface, short charlimit, no federation of reactions, no search bar. I hate it so much. I recommend one of the Misskey forks. It’s more “modern” than any mainstream social media website now.
Use one of the crazier ActivityPub platforms if you want funny reacts. A lot of them are like an unholy mix of Twitter and Discord
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Are there Fediverse alternatives to Facebook I can try convincing friends to jump over to?English1·13 days agoMovim if they’re private, or interested in computers, otherwise I have had success with Pixelfed and Funkwhale. I don’t bother explaining any of the weirder forks or what Mastodon or Pleroma is. People want somewhere to post photos and videos on, and I just want to be able to see ActivityPub posts
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push NotificationsEnglish2·13 days agoOh hey it’s one of Signal’s main vulnerabilities again @rysiek@szmer.info
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypotEnglish1·13 days agoOh, you’ll just have forgive me for not diving into the high-level discussion of whether Signal is better for furries because of the UI needs of differently-abled individuals. It’s just too complicated for me. 😖
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypotEnglish1·13 days agoThat answers all my questions about you, like whether you’re able to provide an answer in good faith. It seems your issue is that I understood your clear subtext. I’m sure you’re not worried about a country with telecom and botnet rivals to the USA producing anything of consequence, why would you write about anything of consequence?
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypotEnglish11·13 days agoSo what’s your explanation if Russia follows through on this messenger development? It’s not unrealistic at all. Do you dislike this point because it doesn’t play into your characterization of Durov? He’s been very clear that his platform is for idiots and he will comply with any government’s law enforcement. Is the scandal just that it isn’t exclusive to the USA? The west’s telecom monopolies as they extend into law and covert action can’t last forever. Other countries are rapidly developing now, and as neoliberalism continues dying it will accelerate. Telegram seems more like a product of this weird interegnum period.
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypotEnglish12·13 days agoThat guy again lmao why do “security researchers” keep recommending signal with that softheaded blog. Get real
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Pavel Durov (CEO of Telegram) about the use of "the Gag order" in U.S against social media privacyEnglish21·14 days agoIf liberals refuse to say water is wet, eventually the Nazis will be trotting it out like they came up with it. Doesn’t really help anyone to deny that intelligence collaboration with USA bloc is mandatory for tech companies.
Does Carlson, who wanted to join the CIA and supported all kinds of neoconservatives throughout his career, really pose any challenge to this? No, he is just going to inoculate Trump supporters from the information being used against the right, which paints itself as “against the New World Order”. Fascism has done this since its inception, such as with Mussolini and others posing as anticapitalist critics as part of their eclectic strategy to gain support while out of power.
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Pavel Durov (CEO of Telegram) about the use of "the Gag order" in U.S against social media privacyEnglish2·14 days agoThis article you guys are getting worked up about is just silly. Telegram is obvious cop shit, but like most “cybersecurity” analysis, this only treats enemies of the US as a threat. Imagine if we gave any real weight to this kind of association with US, Europe, or Israeli intelligence. They’re the actual pioneers of spying technology for the past 70 years.
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the MiddleEnglish4·15 days agoGod JPEG XL has me doing the dog having flashbacks in the kitchen GIF
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the MiddleEnglish21·15 days agoHm fair enough, would you say it applies to the situation between Google and Firefox? Because at this point it’s clear donors are a bigger factor than any software community. I made the comparison since the improvements of Rust and the potential it has for Linux and technologies intended to replace XMPP seem to have been politicized, giving NGOs control of projects in a way that could be misused further down the line. They’ll have a legitimate justification for it since they keep the projects alive.
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?English121·15 days agoI have tried them all, I just use XMPP through Cheogram (mobile) and Movim (desktop in browser) now. I have had success getting my contacts to switch since I never bugged them about any other messengers before. Plus I am willing to follow through with ultimatums of abandonment and they are well aware of that.
If you have any actually normal friends (no offense) you’re going to have to use the regular phone network. XMPP has the best phone network gateway, I’ve bought like five Soprani.ca numbers. No it doesn’t encrypt the regular phone network.
Delta/Arcane Chat is cool but due to everyone basically being an admin-level user in the chat, I strictly use it as a home base for real homies. I mainly use it to run one gajillion bots, check my emails, run Mastodon/Misskey fork accounts in one location, and send stuff/WebXDC apps to myself.
You can’t seriously replace the social media monopolies or the phone network yet. I even run some Telegrams (don’t make fun of me) and control them with the Delta Chat bot. People just need to get used to “backing up” their social graph with secure options, and not just saying whatever pops into their head outside them
Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the MiddleEnglish1·15 days agoProbably spurred by the crushing knowledge I am the only person in the middle of this venn diagram + nobody else will ever give a fuck as much as me + how perfect and based I am
Libredirect is generally more useful than sponsorblock since it is built into Invidious now