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GigglyBobble ,

BwMessenger was launched in 2020 and Android Playstore shows 50k downloads. That doesn't seem like mass-adoption. I don't see anything replacing WhatsApp in Germany, unfortunately.

GigglyBobble ,

Why doesn't the screenshot show the prompt but only its title? Unnecessarirly suspicious since it wouldn't even be hard to fake it.

GigglyBobble ,

Applicable and economic solutions are needed now though. The tech isn't there and yet the moron of a Minister tries to force it, no matter the cost.

Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal (tuta.com)

The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption...

GigglyBobble ,

Damn right he will! Wait, who again?

Smartphone Keyboard Information Bonanza: What's available and what's best for your needs

Howdy. I wanted a central place for information surrounding smartphone keyboards since there have been some changes recently to a few of them. I hope to keep this post afloat over the long term so we can share experiences, information, news, etc to find the perfect smartphone keyboard for ourselves and help others do the same....

GigglyBobble , (edited )

Unfortunately, it's an abandoned project that hasn't gotten updates for 2 years.

There's an active fork but no release yet, you can only install by building it yourself: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

GigglyBobble ,

You're right, scratch that.

I've just never downloaded apks directly from Github and probably shouldn't recommend it for the reasons OP gave wrt keyboard apps.

I got confused by that issue about naming conflicts with the original OpenBoard. If you have installed that one, you need make your own debug build to run them in parallel.

GigglyBobble ,

Thanks. That's some advanced internet shit.

GigglyBobble ,

What a stupid thing to say.

Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody uses it. But hey, everyone has email, so let's kill that.

BTW since you said encryption is important to you: your walled-garden messaging service has a much easier time profiling you and your friends than they would in a heterogenous environment like email. They don't need the content anyway, just metadata.

GigglyBobble ,

No, they can't since I don't have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they'd have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.

GigglyBobble ,

That's the superior approach and Firefox introduced it far earlier than Google addressed the problem.

Why OP is blindly arguing in that corp's favor and ignoring all the reasoning provided here, is beyond me. Shilling?

GigglyBobble ,

I don't think it'll be as easy as calculating SHA256 hashes, so ASICs as small as this might never be a thing.

On the other hand, brains do use orders of magnitude less power, so who knows.

GigglyBobble ,

Proprietary messaging is worse though. Email is interoperable and relevant as ever. Just nobody bothered to seamlessly apply PGP for encryption (probably spy agencies actively worked against that too).

GigglyBobble ,

TIL IT is volunteer work.

GigglyBobble ,

I happily shelled out $600 for the first iPhone. But $3,500? For a V1 product that will get way better (and cheaper) in the next few years?

Cheaper? When has the next gen Apple product ever become cheaper?

GigglyBobble ,

Interesting. I see it the other way around and believe it's only AR that'll be a real benefit (once it lasts indefinitely and is tiny or even implanted some time in the future). Pulling out your phone to navigate somewhere is cumbersome, for example.

GigglyBobble ,

Since Signal also uses phone numbers as account ID, you'll give that to WhatsApp at least. Then they continue to track metadata of the messages sent between you and your WhatsApp contacts and will be profiling you.

I don't see how communicating with any Meta service isn't compromising privacy. I'm a Signal user and won't connect to WhatsApp.

GigglyBobble ,

According to the article, WhatsApp requires the Signal Protocol for message encryption.

Signal is the single third party that shouldn't have a problem with that since it's been using that protocol before WhatsApp adopted it, too (they hired Moxi himself to help them do it, remember?)

GigglyBobble ,

they get lazy about using/doing non device things.

That's the key. Over the generations media (from books to smartphones) got more sophisticated in grabbing our attention to the point that addiction really has become a problem. While everything fun can be somewhat addictive we now have corporations optimizing their products in that way.

I'm sure kids can develop healthy habits with phone and internet consumption but I also believe they need help by restricting exposure in order to play "conventionally". It's similar to sweets - if you leave kids to just eat whatever whenever they want, they'll stuff themselves with candy until they vomit repeatedly.

GigglyBobble ,

It's not immoral to sell a business but anybody who actually has or even founded one and has an intact moral compass would not sell in a way you described.

You have a responsibility for your customers and employees and you don't just throw it into the dumpster like that because money isn't everything.

GigglyBobble ,

Isn't the just based on a matrix server connecting to all your accounts?

What the EU forces them to do is to be able to send messages across service borders, so you could communicate with someone on WhatsApp, for example, without having an account there yourself.

I do share the most upvoted comment's skepticism though - Meta and Apple will fight this tooth and nails and make it so cumbersome (and opt-in, of course), it will have no relevance in practice.

As a Signal user I'm also not happy that the very least I have to share with Meta is my phone number (that's also criticism towards Signal though, I guess).

GigglyBobble ,

I just wanted Windows and none of the Linux substitutes were it.

Of course not. At the very least you have to be fed up with Windows before moving elsewhere. If you want Windows, stay with Windows.

You shouldn't continue using Windows 10 after end of life though. Once it doesn't get security patches anymore, it is a time bomb. And since the code base is easily 80-90% the same across versions, new vulnerabilities patched on newer versions are just hints for malware devs making the obsolete version even more likely to be attacked.

GigglyBobble ,

I think it's alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).

But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.

GigglyBobble ,

I don't remember that. Where is it from?

Microsoft never liked competing browsers (not even in the pre-IE6 era when all they had was crap), so it's hard to believe it came from them.

GigglyBobble ,

You clearly don't understand how that works. We can't shut up once we moved!

GigglyBobble ,

They'll only do it once though and serve regular ice after that. Or do you think the ice gourmets will notice?

GigglyBobble ,

The only things I probably want in terms of future tech is

And how would you know? Before cars nobody anticipated them. Same with planes, computers, smartphones... You won't anticipate close to all new tech by extrapolating what we have.

GigglyBobble ,

what jobs does MIT’s president imagine will be created for 60 year old truckers if they’re replaced with autos? Do we get the funny joke where people suggest truckers should learn programming?

The way it's developing, programmers will be replaced before drivers.

GigglyBobble ,

Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach

Yep, done that. And I agree it's great. I need a plane to visit the beach though.

GigglyBobble ,

Lots of added tech makes these more likely to fail. And I don't think they'll be cheap to replace.

GigglyBobble ,

Oh man. By that headline I got my hopes up that Logitech came to their senses and renewed the Harmony Hub or even the glorious Harmony One.

GigglyBobble ,

How do you secure email accounts then? And wouldn't that make those just even more attractive targets?

GigglyBobble ,

"5 ways to hack 2FA" is pretty click-baity though. All of those attacks are either not exclusively related to 2FA or could target another component. If you can just bypass security altogether, instead of questioning 2FA, you should consider ditching that service/site.

All except point 1, that is. But everyone should know by now that 2FA by SMS is insecure.

GigglyBobble , (edited )

Do I win or lose when I cannot even start the survey with Javascript disabled?

GigglyBobble ,

To the replies in the other threads, they never see fanboys defending Apple, especially not on Lemmy: see? Whataboutism and "sideloading is automatic security and privacy (?!) nightmare" kool-aid.

More direct reply: no, alternative app stores don't imply less security. They could be more secure even. And sure it's all about money for Apple (and other companies = irrelevant here) but that doesn't void criticism.

GigglyBobble ,

They have much higher standards

Than who? Android play store? Definitely. Decades old established package managers like Debian's apt? Not so much.

Or do you mean the potential third party tool for iOS that doesn't even exist and now is much less likely to be good because of Apple being a douche about it?

GigglyBobble ,

Well, it basically prevents something like F-Droid for iOS arising from the EU ruling. Kinda big deal. Not that the fanboys would care though. Apple is infallible.

GigglyBobble ,

Sure but they’re also sold secondhand. Also people can be born in one country, but move to live in another one… bringing their devices with them. Apple’s DRM can’t be tied to hardware.

Why not? What happens in the examples you gave? The EU won't forbid such devices entering the EU or they'd have to confiscate them off tourists. How many Americans do you know who have EU devices and vice versa? That issue may be negligible.

GigglyBobble ,

that I can do a lot of cross platform development

I'd never have thought that to be the strength of an Apple device.

GigglyBobble ,

Show the cable, don’t show the cable; no matter the outcome people will defend the design decisions when Apple is involved.

GigglyBobble ,

Samsung is crap too. They just saw there are enough idiots paying horrendous prices and matched Apple's. I'd never pay even 1k for a phone.

GigglyBobble ,

Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

Apple is a strange choice as a champion for that. Their devices always have been notoriously overpriced.

GigglyBobble ,

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

GigglyBobble ,

I think it's sad. This corpo worship results in higher prices for all of us. Apple created this weird pseudo religion that makes other vendors (like Samsung) raising their prices more acceptable while competition should actually put prices under pressure.

GigglyBobble ,

Battery life must be equal or better, no extra points will be given for massive CPU/GPU power

LOL. Cherry-picking much? You corpo fanboys are so pathetic.

GigglyBobble ,

Nuclear produces that 1 GW 24/7 and all year though. My solar panels vastly overproduce on most summer days and are worthless at nights and from fall to spring.

GigglyBobble ,

How about an efficiency breakthrough instead? Our brains just need a meal and can recognize a face without looking at billions of others first.

GigglyBobble ,

The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update. Now the app is garbage.

Wait what? I have it too and see no changes at all. How does it spy since the app has 0 bytes of traffic (now blocked it to be safe)?

GigglyBobble ,

nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down

Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn't prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn't and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it's infinitely better than Apple's walled garden.

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