Way back machine has it since December so not exactly news but good to hear anyhow

Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.

And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.

I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.

(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)

Stremio

If you want decentralized private messaging see https://delta.chat

I mean compiling an app to do that seems quite a high barrier to entry. I guess you could use the web version on mobile too maybe?

P2p encrypted file sharing is sadly still an unsolved problem even though file sharing is basically the whole premise of the internet.

Will look at this when we implement p2p file sharing into https://delta.chat

Finally, humane child slaughter

What do you base that on? A cow can’t consent to this.

You don’t need a credit card for most things in Europe so it’s not as pressing. Even if a company leaked my bank account details, no one can charge it by default.

I also highly recommended using a temporary email for signing up for stuff whenever possible.

This is the worst security advice I have ever heard. Now someone doesn’t even need to get your password, just your email and they can just use the temporary email provider to reset your password?

All software should be open source

Just tested on nobara 40 (which is basically fedora 40) gnome and it works

Works on Firefox if you ever get angry enough to bother switching.

The CMD key. MacOS got it figured out with CMD separate from ctrl. Never have problems copying from a terminal because CMD+C is not ctrl+C

~/dev

If you’re doing it for companionship, get male chicks so they don’t put them in the macerator.

20 million pound of meat recalled and a few thousand pound of drinks and mushrooms recalled. Oh what should I avoid.

Listeria outbreak trackers all show MILLIONS of pounds of meat that’s being recalled while thousands of pounds of plant based foods, where did you find that cut fruit is dangerous?