Putting aside my opinions about Framework and their nazi-enveloping tent, I think this is good news and could help get more Linux users. North America already has 10% linux market share. If more youtubers keep talking about it, we could see another jump.
And if you have a YouTube account, you can also ask MKBHD to join the fediverse. Now that he’s on Linux, it’s the next logical step!
Android is still controlled by Goofle. They release the source when they want to and how they want to. They change the rules the same way and everybody has to scramble to adapt once the changes drop. That’s hardly the way it should be working.
Just because android has a headstart, doesn’t mean we should stick our heads in the sand and proclaim a forever winner.
For now, yes they aren’t more secure. That’s no surprise as that hasn’t been the focus. Linux hasn’t been used in that fashion for a long time and there’s catching up to do.
Getting a linux phone on the market and getting it into many people’s hands plus that of developers will make it secure. Especially if governments invest in secure phones for their armies, special forces, and intelligence community.
I really hope you aren’t in charge of security in grassroots orgs, because if you are, they are fucked.
AI companies, the gift that keeps on giving…
If you’re using text messages, yes, but not with signal. They just know that you have it, nothing more.
Buddy, how are you going to communicate with people via Signal even without a username? Are protests full of free WiFi?
If you think getting rid of phone numbers on an internet connected application will help you at a local protest where you should be using a local network for communication (Bluetooth for example), you are just lost.
Having your phone number will only reveal that you’re using signal, not who you’re talking with nor the groups you belong to.
Any official message from them? I thought they had a mastodon.
Edit: Lol the mastodon instance they’re on is also down. And it’s a German instance on a German cloud server. German engineering?
Just because I’m not willing to accept “trust me bro” doesn’t make me “paranoid”, it makes me not gullible. If you’re willing to trust them without proof, why not believe Google’s marketing about being safe?
Wat? What about public groups?
I assume I need to create an account for that and login? Why should I go through the hassle of creating an account to verify claims? These are things that should be verifiable externally without privileged access.
And reading further, they say that after 12 months you can get the code with a BSL and then AGPL. That’s great, but they say you can’t publish the archive once they give it to you? That’s not very AGPL. And it means that you first have to pay for a year before knowing whether their claims are valid. And that depends on you getting the code for the relevant parts of the search engine.
It’s possible they are doing what they say, but to start trusting, there has to be proof. Somehow.
And how’s the spam on simplex?
You’re fighting a scarecrow in your head that you built. “This has a vibe so I’ll vibe comment”
Once you come back down to earth and want to talk seriously, ping me. I don’t debate paranoid snow bunnies.
They provide no proof that they aren’t just a bing frontend. I too can make a pretty website with a Hetzner VPS that forwards traffic to bing.
How can I trust anything they say?
It’s still the best social media for anything worthwhile.
I was a fool for expecting a serious response 🤣
Bug bounties. Depending on your response to this, I’ll go out and find more links to substantiate claims.
I misremembered the first one as there was a lot of negative news regarding the security program. Here it is: from 2020 [We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found] (https://samcurry.net/hacking-apple)
Here are the negative reports:
The last one is about the community uproar regarding the nerfs to their bug bounty program. That’s probably the most relevant right now.
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social and rewrite in rust? or just keep it cpp?