In general, they're fantastic. Totally changed my perspective on myths and legends throughout history!
How so? Genuine question, I just don't quite understand how SimpleX has a better anonymity setup.
I also listen via EscapePod, this was the link that app provides. Not the official RSS, as far as I know. They're also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2148550.rss
They've mentioned that they'll be giving users access to their accounts' keys in the reasonably near future, that way they have full ownership and can migrate to a different "Social Web" app/service at any point. I'm guessing that will allow you to effectively become a nomad if you want, or just migrate to a different service if you get banned from one.
Can't say for sure, though.
Utterly phenomenal episode of Haunted Cosmos. If you're a Christian and a lover of mythology/fantasy, this podcast is a must-listen because, well, the world isn't made up of "just stuff". Even if you're not Christian, you still might find it interesting!
#Christian #mythology #fantasy #dragon
Yes, I agree, I just mean that most folks don't know how to "feel" that music. The fact that people like Taylor Swift are so popular is proof of that hah
Yeah they're moving away from that centralized reliance on big tech though, so I'm okay with it personally lol
Amethyst has way more features, such as a video scrolling feed (think TikTok without the brain rot) or note groups that help you find popular notes, things you missed, notes in a particular subject, etc. It also has a much more pleasant GUI, both aesthetically and practically.
I really think one issue with society that we don't talk enough about is the commercialization of music. "Just let people like what they like" is fine but with the commercialization of music, nobody knows how to "feel" music anymore.
They're used to sounds performed by celebrities, written by committees to appeal to a lowest common denominator. If it's catchy, it gets all the attention.
Music is the language of emotion but nobody truly speaks it anymore.
#music #musings
At this point, the only reason I still have any big tech products or services is because of the networks I've built there. A lot of family refuse to communicate outside of Facebook or SMS. I also have a very pleasant community of people I talk to on Twitter. However, I take every opportunity to talk about freedom tech and the dangers of big tech's influence. I also tend to strongly delay my replies on Facebook, in an attempt to get family to move over to MeWe (which is basically a partially decentralized, privacy-friendly FB alt).
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I don't own one because money is really tight for me, but I certainly plan to get one at some point when I am able to afford both the weapon and classes to use it safely and effectively. Sounds like a great concept!
I don't sell tea, no. I don't have the time, experience or products I can sell to actually make a business at this point. It could change down the road but it's definitely of something I can do at this point in time, unfortunately.
Session is not very decentralized as Tor because it requires imvesting ~$1000 in a token (which is being replaced soon...) to run a node. Tor nodes can be ran by anyone. Session downgraded their encryption based on incorrect statements: https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-explained
Anyone can run the SimpleX servers, there's many other public instances you can use instead. IP address is indeed an identifier, but not part of the messaging protocol itself. You always have to expose your IP address to third parties, it's just your choice who sees it (SimpleX servers, VPN, Tor, etc).
Tor is also fully supported with in-app SOCKS proxy support and effectively kill switch for not connecting directly to non-onion servers, as well as .onion server mirrors. They wrote about it here: https://simplex.chat/blog/20240604-simplex-chat-v5.8-private-message-routing-chat-themes.html
Interesting info, you've given me a lot to read about. Thanks!
Nope, I'm able to unblock users without any issue.
Well, the thing about the number is that I only give that out to friends and family that I know won't bug me all the time 🤷♂️😂 But also, in a way, I would say that using Messenger is definitely a *little* bit more secure than using SMS, considering the fact that SMS is completely unencrypted, whereas Messenger does encrypt in transit and is now partially end-to-end encrypted.
It's not ideal either way, but unlike a criminal tapping a cell tower, Meta can only do so much with my data in a legal way. So yeah, at the end of the day, if I can get a person using Signal instead of Meta's chat apps, that's great, but I will still take WhatsApp or Messenger over SMS.
It has, I'm not saying that it's not trustworthy, but Signal definitely has a much longer track record and it's not run by a for-profit company like SimpleX.
That's good to know for sure, thanks. That basically leaves only one more concern: the anonymity aspect.
On Session, they use onion routing based on nodes run by volunteers who stake the Oxen (soon to be Session Token) cryptocurrency. Meanwhile, on SimpleX, I don't know what maintains the anonymity. It appears to be based on SimpleX's servers, but how does that keep people anonymous? Because, if that is how it works, their servers are inevitably seeing the user's IP bouncing around. Compared to the onion routing, that seems like a relatively weak form of anonymizing users, even without the ID metadata.
Then again, I'm definitely not an expert, so I could be completely misunderstanding how all of this works. I know a lot of people say that SimpleX is more decentralized than any other messenger, but I'm not sure how that is the case if SimpleX themselves are running the servers.
I think he would be, if not for the fact that he's the richest man alive and has virtually unlimited resources (as well as a growing friendship with the potential next president of the United States). Pavel Durov, he is wealthy, but nowhere near as wealthy as Elon. Plus, Elon's business ventures span more industries than Pavel's. That means that arresting him would cause more of an economic reaction than arresting a man who runs a chat app.
Now, if we're talking cause, it's definitely 100% political. The fact that Discord and Facebook propagate far more illegal materials than Telegram, yet neither company is in legal trouble over it, tells you all you need to know. Telegram may not be the best app for privacy, but they didn't really censor political speech, and I think that is the number one cause for Durov's arrest.
I did know that, but does it use the post-quantum addition that Signal recently created? Genuine question, I don't know.