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lol, what the fuck
Centuries? I knew their bad period started roughly around the Meiji Era and stopped after WWII, in regards to killing people, but that hardly constitutes centuries
Must be a god among apes
People miss stuff when reading. I know I do. Also, it is potentially helpful information for cats, which I am not at all opposed to spreading.
Right in the beginning, the article mentions that inhaling secondhand smoke can be bad for cats.
Well, thanks for taking the time to answer me, in turn!
Also thanks for telling me about the Desktop GUI, I was searching for one and didn't find it. So I'll look again.
Mind you, this is very recent and it's in the releases page of their GitHub under a pre-release. It's in the assets of the 5.3-beta release, which, now that I've checked, has packaging for MacOS, Ubuntu and AppImage. They're the ones with the *-desktop affix.
Now, concerning the absence of identifiers, the marketing material clearly mentions "[not] any user identifiers". As I understand it, it still has identifiers, but as conversation endpoints, and they are unique to a given conversation. So, yes identifiers, but their meaning is a lot harder to infer than with user identifiers. It kind of is like with using unique cryptocurrency wallets per contact, and making transfer through exchanges, converting between currencies. It is a lot harder to track.
Yes, I think you've done a better job of explaining it than me. It's impossible, to my knowledge, to communicate without any kind of identifier, but their model is a rather ingenious one for people concerned with privacy. Couple that with onion routing, and I feel very safe talking to people on the app.
And as for people adopting the app, it is via people like me and you. I run the operations for around 6-10 people in my immediate surroundings (friends and family), and my recommendations mean a lot to them (it often influences entirely what they get to use). Besides, I also advise people professionally. And, so, assuming we each influence a dozen people on average, they will, in turn, create momentum for their own social circles. That's exactly how gmail gained traction.
You sound more hopeful than I am, lol. But I too hope that technologies such as SimpleX take off, if only because of early adopters such as us.
Edit: also, something that SimpleX does is markdown editing, which is just… 👌
Curious, I went to the website and they didn't seem to advertise being open source too much.
Thanks for the link!
I was under the impression that it was proprietary? Where can I find the source code?
I've been using it the past few months - since April, if memory serves me. I mostly interact with one contact, individually, and a small group with others.
There's definitely been a few hiccups. I use the default servers, and there's been times when they weren't reliable in the past, but that's been rare. The app itself is not really buggy, but it gives you options without really explaining them, regarding configuration of messaging servers and file transfer servers. You have to go and read the documentation, which is actually pretty good.
Regarding battery consumption, it's been very battery efficient for me, and this is considering I use the service to receive notifications instantly. This is on a degoogled Galaxy S8, so YMMV. Anyway, there's plans to use some implementation of UnifiedPush in the future, if I recall correctly?
The bad parts are not really a big deal, in my opinion. I've tried a few private messengers in the past, such as Jami, Briar, Signal and (even though this definition is controversial) Telegram, through Nekogram. SimpleX has been the best one so far.
One of the reasons is the feature set. It really tries to be a "mainstream" messaging app, with a sane default set of features. You can send messages, make groups, big and small (the biggest I've been in had some 400 members - it was the app's support and development group), send pictures, video, audio, use a command line client and, since last week, try out the desktop GUI client. I don't remember if this last one had other releases, but I tried the AppImage, on Linux. It's okay, if a bit slow.
Also, there's no user ID and the messages can be routed through Tor, and I think they are by default. Do your research on this, as I'm not too sure, but the way they manage not having a user ID is that they usage message queues on each server, and each is particular to a group or connection between contacts. So you don't have an ID, people can't search you, and it's only you that can give out a link to connect to you. Such a link can be revoked and regenerated at any time, so it's a platform that is inherently immune to spam.
Regarding the servers, there is the possibility to host your own. Even though I have a small personal server, which serves as a backup for my files and some other small stuff, I have not tried setting up a SimpleX server because my communication with the app is vital and I don't have the budget to build a trusty server just yet, so I can't make a review of self-hosting a server. Still, it's good that the option is there.
Anyway, what I like most about SimpleX is the steady pace of development. As I said, I've been using it for just a few months, but a lot has changed already - it's gone from version 4.something to 5.2. The file transfer, which was slow when I first used the app, has been through a whole redesign, in terms of the protocol used, and they've created what they call XFTP, which I think stands for simpleX File Trasfer Protocol. You can self-host your servers with this protocol and they've completely changed the game, in terms of sending and receiving files. It makes me very hopeful for the project to see features being steadily implemented. A ton of small others have been added since I've been using the app, but that's the big one, in my opinion.
Phew. That was quite the write. I don't have to say this, but I am quite invested in this app and want to see it succeed, so I obviously recommend people try it. The problem is convincing regular people to "download one more app".
I don't know, I don't like how this video was linked and it isn't news, per se, but I took the time to find something in the video and they show a clip of CNN. Now, I'm not American and I don't watch CNN, but they reported that the counter offensive on Ukraine is not going as planned and, in fact, it didn't advance at all.
Maybe OP could have linked this here, or maybe not, but most people on the US tend to consider CNN as at least a little credible, unless I'm completely out of the loop. Take that as you will.
I'm interested in the documentaries, if you could cite them. Not trying to be snarky and say "Sauce?", just genuinely curious and I'd like to watch a documentary on the topic, anyway.
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I don't know if this is a matter of being right, but I think neurodivergent people are fine. Neurotypical people are fine. They're just people, after all. What defines humanity lies somewhere else.
Many such cases
What's the original xkcd?
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Aka the rapture
Mom said it's my turn in the box
I was granted one upon presenting my previously tattered door. The cat was declared innocent, and I didn't press charges
I installed a little door in my door for this exact reason. Best of both worlds.
Yes, but I wouldn't call it genocide. I don't know, I'm not defending them for their crimes in the past century, but the original comment is a little hyperbolic.