Thanks. Where did you get the numbers to register on Signal, by the way?

GMt+2.

Linphone is integrating quantum-resistant algos into their ZRTP implementation (for now it would be in case of Linphone-to-Linphone calls, of course). How more modern can it be at the moment?

That's point number one. Point number two: SIP (and XMPP, for that matter) addresses look just like email addresses, sans the sip: part. Everyone has an email. Is it any harder than a phone number for normies to remember or what? I'd understand some people can dislike Tox for having long IDs, but this? Come on.

I guess they just want the Big Brother to choose for them. That's the main problem.

We aren't surprised that most blockchain nodes do the same, are we?

Except Mina, but even it supports so-called "archive nodes".

Yes, they should.

I think you got it a bit wrong. My proposal is that relays propagate notes automatically, unless the client tels them not to.

Yes, and I think this broadcast=true&global=all should be set by default unless explicitly requested by the client to keep the note on this relay only.

No, I mean across all of them. Every relay should be like Blastr.

In the interest of censorship resistance, this should be the default (and opt-out) behaviour. One shouldn't have to get through all sorts of hoops to get heard.

Because you can't make all people use one, and you can't make fiatjaf change the spec to propagate notes across relays automatically like SMTP servers do.

My answer is this: if you can't monetize your effort without hiding your code, then you just don't have enough skill to do so. Ever tried creating something that people will be glad to pay to see it improve and grow, not the 100500th "app" that looks and feels the same as the previous 100499?

P.S. I stopped doing programming for a living in 2016 and feel much better since then.

Ok, Linphone-to-Linphone end-to-end encrypted (ZRTP) calls work just fine even across different providers (SIP2SIP and OpenSips, in my case), different networks (Starlink and my carrier's LTE) and different devices (Android and desktop Linux). One of them was connected via TLS, another one via plain TCP. The call still was end-to-end encrypted. So remind me again please, why do you need Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and other number thieves?

By the way: https://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/post-quantum-encryption

More consumption is never a viable answer.

Privacy and security is important to me. But it can be achieved without the elevated NIH syndrome. Even without Tox (although why not?). Just adopt XMPP+OTR and SIP+ZRTP. Plenty of clients and servers out there. Proven track record. Works everywhere.

Gonna do some Linphone-to-Linphone test (Arch Linux to Android) to see if ZRTP is still properly supported on both.

Can I use SimpleX on my 15-year-old Macbook Air with bare-console Alpine Linux? Because I can use SIP+ZRTP and XMPP/OMEMO clients there. And they provide thr same level of security while not tying us to modern hardware.

Can I even use simplex on an old Android 4.4, to start with?

If you wanna chat securely, whatever haplened to XMPP with OMEMO/OTR?

If you wanna talk securely, whatever happened to SIP+ZRTP?

Why reinvent the wheel, spend more computing resources and give your phone numbers to some dubious actors?

You're not obliged to have a phone number at all in the first place. Think about it.

Why use anything that requires giving away your phone number when you can use just about any Tox or Matrix client?

The word "bitcoiner" is as pejorative as "youtuber": someone who turned the means into a goal of its own, sacrificing the quality of what it was initially used for.

A point of view of a potential malware writer? Why else wouldn't you open up the source?

and pilates

Why are pirates and pirates pronounced differently?