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Again, I do not donate. I just send checks for thousands of dollars to OSS projects.
Well, I rest my case - kudos to you.
Of course, you as a business owner do make money from your business, so just donating privately remains a valid option.
We don't donate to OSS software which we use, because we're legally not allowed to.
Why aren't you allowed to donate?
I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me a ...
Sounds like an excuse to not donate - or did you ever get a response? Why not just donate $100 once and feel good about it?
Well ... With all due respect. The primary incentive for a man in nightlife is girls. The guy on the right most likely didn't get much of a chance in that area. The guy on the left might enjoy sober nightlife quite a lot. Girls prefer sober men.
You've been trumped ... that's all ;)
Good point - one might choose one's peers based on the desired feedback - the end result wouldn't be more healthy than adapting oneself to the feedback of a static peer group.
69 points and growing - but nobody has anything to say about it. at the end of the day this is anyway just yet another post about how you can actually do something practically relevant with Haskell :D
How about this: "PHP Game Server". Nobody would care because PHP is just one of those stupid languages mostly known for being (merely) useful ;)
So it is for real ... o.O
It's a recurring theme in science that the more we know the more we become aware how little we actually understand.
But the brain and it's embedding in the rest of the body and environment raises this phenomenon to a new level.
I think to some extent it shows that considering something to a certain restricted level as true until falsified is a valid approach. Because a lot of the things science is uncovering about our mental capabilities has been postulated for thousands of years by means of introspection and meditation.
Don't forget to support them if you like their stuff - I just remember several posts from that site on HN:
You just have to install Gnome Desktop and everything is fine.
8/16 - 1-9 IM rulez
Is it really that hard to grasp?
Huh? Apple and MS have a record of communicating in sharing data with US government - plus as companies providing closed source software they are likely to introduce backdoors ... also something you might have heard of since Snowden.
NSA only knows then that somebody with that phone number is using Signal ... so what?
They would find out anyway b/c your packets are sniffed on a regular basis and so they know your phone is communicating with the Signal server and maybe the packets itself are characteristic.
So in my humble opinion this criticism is irrelevant.
I tend to repeat the 'central server' and 'a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity' criticism.
Your phone number is not your identity in Signal. If you change SIM cards then your friends won't notice and the app works as before.
Signal is based on asym encryption - your private key effectively encodes your identity in combination with your public key.
And only if the first client is Android?
There is no point in dwelling on that. Android and its syblings are the only potentially secure popular smartphone OSs. Apple and Microsoft OSs are fundamentally flawed in that regard.
I think the identity is connected to what key pair you control / what private key you have on your phone.
F.x. I installed a while ago Signal on my phone and recently went to another country where I used a different SIM card (hence a different phone number) and I could still use my Signal app as usual.
Signal uses asymmetrical encryption - your private key is very well able to prove your identity - I'm pretty sure the concept "identity" in Signal is built on that technology. But for contacting people - well - what else would you suggest?!
I don't trust Apple ...
If I search for "Signal" on google.com in a private Chrome window then the first five results are all about the "good" Signal app.
Interesting perspective! It's true that it should be very easy and cheap - something like setting up an E-mail account or installing an app.
- Google plus: that would be kind of pointless, wouldn't it?
- LinkedIn: The worst of the worst ... :D
- HN / Reddit / Twitter: How do you share pictures privately with friends? (to name one necessary feature)
Maybe for a synching feature it would be necessary to compromise on security of the data. The data is asymmetrically encrypted - so you'd have to synch it yourself by sending the data encrypted with you second phones key or you'd have to copy the private key itself. But I guess it would be possible. Though I don't miss this feature anyway.
AirBnB needs to make sure you are not undermining it by making the deal outside of their system ... b/c then they don't get a provision for it. So I'd say it's fine in this case. AirBnB is no medium where free speech is a significant concept.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9662724/signal-encrypted-c...
Seems like he changed his mind.
It might also be due lobbying given that Telegram was recently in the news for being a popular medium of ISIS communication (not for the attack - as we know by now, but for its public channels)
Given the credibility attributed to Signal - f.x. by Bruce Schneier and Edward Snowden - I don't understand why it's not more popular than Telegram.
We need a competitor to FB ... sadly options like Diaspora are very problematic b/c you need to either run a server or trust a private person with it.
But it is also possible to parasitically communicate encryptedly through FB - isn't it? At least in a browser it should be possible.
I love the idea of encrypting by default - since yesterday my public key is available on the usual key servers.
I'm opportunistically supporting more secure messengers by "digital osmosis".
Next to WhatsApp I also have installed:
1. Signal
2. Threema
3. Telegram
And I will use those (in described order) if possible.
Threema seems to be comparatively popular in Germany, while Telegram is at least not among my peers and Signal (the one recommended by Schneier and Snowden) is only used by my gf (b/c I installed it for her).
The psafe3 file is encrypted.