Well magnet links to torrents would probably be most efficient. Nostr is not made for media storage.

Very happy to hear Julian Assange is a free man now! No matter the deal he had to sign, he's an innocent man to me and an important journalist!

That's Telegram putting up "targeted" advertisement in their app. Group admins have no way of disabling this or choosing what ads are shown. You could subscribe to telegram premium to have the ads gone I think.

Nice! Do you still have another device for banking apps etc? Those seem to not vibe with GrapheneOS.

SimpleX over Tor seems to me like top notch security. With a self hosted SimpleX server that is For only, you of course require your communications partner to also use Tor

SimpleX recently got the private routing feature which sends out messages over your trusted inbound SMP server. That way you won't ever connect to any servers except the one inbound relay your can set to a trusted one.

If you assume with XMPP that both users are using Tor, than I would say if both users on a SimpleX chat are using Tor with random SMP servers, it's just as secure.

No information can be gained by the SMP servers except that there are messages going out from one queue and that's it.

SMP Servers only ever get to see one side of the communication, never the reply. Add to this the absence of user accounts, you cannot build a social graph and tracking by IP does not work if both sides use Tor.

Interested in your thoughts, but SimpleX over Tor is a much lower barrier to entry than both sender and receiver having to anonymously host a XMPP server behind Tor.

They also would have to run a new XMPP Server per person they contact so as to not link identities by using the same .onion for more than one conversion.

Other way around I would suppose. You can deposit into the mint using an on-chain TX.

Sowohl auf Amazon.de , Thalia.de und Buecher.de keinen Erfolg gehabt. Entweder gibt es das Buch auf Deutsch, dann aber nur als physisches- oder Hörbuch, oder als englisches Ebook.

Hat jemand das Buch «Fountainhead» (dt. Der ewige Quell) von Ayn Rand als deutsches ebook gefunden?

Habe das auf Englisch, aber tue mich bei Ayn Rand Büchern schwer alles auf englisch zu verstehen.

Gerne DM, ich finde das nirgendwo zu laden oder zu kaufen.

Dear EU: please ban #Bitcoin self-custody and require Hardware wallet manufacturers to KYC users, so that one day I can tell my kids tales about how some plebs and I smuggled a bunch of BitBox HWW across the Swiss-German border and distributed them on the black market for sats 🙏

The drawback of "harder to access in an emergency" quickly turns into a feature if the emergency is duress.

Sure you can do a honeypot wallet with another 25th word, but that does not work as soon as the attacker knows one address of yours and becomes suspicious why it does not show up on the wallet you unlocked for him.

With MultiSig it is evident you need to gather several keys and might have to travel places dkr that ...

Gebe ich dir Recht, dass ist ein Problem, dass ich auch schon oft hatte und immer noch habe mit neuen Kontakten.

Vielleicht hilft aber bald das Argument: Die EU hat das verboten, lass uns das geschickt umgehen 😉

Ich glaube SimpleX.chat ist eine gute Lösung. Einfach in der Handhabe als Instant Messenger und man kann Server selber hosten, oder auf Community Server zurückgreifen für den Fall, dass SimpleX als Firma gezwungen wird, alle Server für EU Nutzer zu sperren. App als .APK runterladen, dann kann man auf seinen Servern auch weiter schreiben, wenn SimpleX die App aus dem Play Store nehmen muss.

Ähnlich optimistisch bin ich bei XMPP oder Matrix: Ist die App einmal installiert und ein eigener Server ausgewählt, kann weder die EU noch der App-Entwickler einen davon abhalten sicher zu chatten.

SimpleX ist nur am einfachsten einzurichten und verbirgt Metadaten am besten.

Zentrale Messenger wie Threema, Signal und WhatsApp können einfacher dazu gezwungen werden EU Nutzer auszusperren, wenn keine Hintertür implementiert wird.

Sehr optimistisch aber am Tag des Events mit der Deutsche Bahn quer durchs Land anzureisen. Der Kenner empfiehlt vorher einen mehrtägigen Aufenthalt in Düsseldorf als Puffer😁

Okay, AI is ridiculously good at writing elaborate professional letters/emails from just a short prompt.

Shout out Venice.ai

Keep us posted with some pictures along the way of what stuff you got on there 🤙

You are not answering the question. If you argue that Google has a backdoor to all mobile phones than no messenger is safe to use.

SimpleX Ltd clearly state that they do not store IP addresses. Don't trust them? Use Tor, a VPN or both. By the way you can enable private routing which routes your outgoing messages over your inbound relay which you can self host and trust. That way your device NEVER CONNECTS TO A SERVER YOU DONT CONTROLL.

I don't know why you shill Threema so much they are in no aspect better than SimpleX.

Your adversity to "Big money" is purely ideological and not based in fact. Threema receives money from government actors (that pay for a good messenger). Does that corrupt them?

Don't just refer to some messenger tier list, do your own research.

With Simplex are always routed through relays.

What metadata does the recipient relay server get then?

For most messengers I would agree but Simplex is designed in a different way.

Don't trust a relay you don't run yourself? Don't connect to it. You can chat using Simplex without ever connecting to a Server not run by you.

And if you do want to connect to your recipient's relay, just use Tor and there is no evidence of where the message came from.

I don't find the funding of VillageGlobal for Simplex concerning. The founder clearly said that VG does not make any operational decisions and they are just an investor. Simplex has had plans on how to monetize corporate clients from the early days and that's what VG is interested in. Returns from that business model.

Besides that: Simplex is open source and you can host your own servers, that way nobody at simplex even knows you use their app and can't get any data from you.