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by hiq 6y ago
Some of these features are using SGX, which is why people dismiss them. Using SGX is still better than nothing, and there's no better alternative given the simplicity goals of Signal (e.g. selecting manually which of your contacts has
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by hiq 6y ago
I don't think it's clear that a federated service has better chances against censorship. Take any federated service: if you ban the servers accounting for 90% of users, you end up in a situation mostly similar to censoring Signal,
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by hiq 6y ago
It looks like the author started from this conclusion and then came up with a contrived and weak reasoning to end up there.
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by hiq 6y ago
The problem is that having multiple clients for a given platform is confusing for non-technical users. Most users will give up after they have failed with the first client they found, especially if alternatives like WhatsApp etc. are easier
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by hiq 6y ago
...way easier to assess once you have such tracking in place.
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by hiq 6y ago
> there's very often not a single clearly superior move Maybe it's not clear to human players or current engines, but that does not mean it doesn't exist, and indeed the theorem mentioned above states that at least one pla
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by hiq 6y ago
> there are many states in chess where there is not one superior move, but only a probable optimal move I don't think this statement is true given [0], but maybe I understood you wrong. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by hiq 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess
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by hiq 6y ago
> That sort of suggests another question, though: why are we in the App Store at all? Because as far as I know, Apple only allows NetworkExtension-based apps to be distributed via the App Store, according to their developer relations guy
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by hiq 6y ago
Like everything you will eventually end up with diminishing returns. E.g. I doubt many people track potatoes vs carrots, or underwear vs socks.* But: 1) Once you've automated most the of the steps, it takes, say, 1h per month to have e
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by hiq 6y ago
It's nice to store any information that's nice to have, but not important enough to expressly record somewhere. "search, don't sort" applies especially well to this kind of info. Addresses were already mentioned, bu
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by hiq 6y ago
Well, it seems to be time to revisit your decision then!
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by hiq 6y ago
> This drops Signal out which has a limit of 150 on groups Your own link mentions "Size limit of 1000", where did you see 150? To be fair that's for new groups, maybe the limit used to be lower. Or do you mean that in prac
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by hiq 6y ago
> My message history is extremely precious to me and Telegram does an admirable job protecting it How would you know without E2EE? A Telegram sysadmin could copy all your messages from non-secret chats and you would never know. The lack
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by hiq 6y ago
> 1) ... you have no idea if / when individual messages will disappear. There's a small clock between the sending date and the (double) tick which indicates just that. Also, I think it's recent, but if you select a message
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by hiq 6y ago
> - UX/UI - whatsapp seems to have a much tailored UI for beginners How so? UX/UI for beginners is a big priority for Signal, your feedback could be helpful. I might agree with you for Signal-Desktop: installing another applica
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by hiq 6y ago
If you browse the F-Droid website they actually mention that it's possible to use the .apk distributed by the developers, if the apk is reproducible. It's cumbersome and requires a lot of goodwill from both the developers and the
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by hiq 6y ago
> you trust Whatsapp, Facebook You don't trust WA nor Facebook regarding your data, which is what we were discussing. You do trust them regarding your metadata, and it's indeed a problem.
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by hiq 6y ago
> Do you make sure that in group chats no one there ever enables it by accident? Because it's really, really easy to inadvertently do. Fair comment. Still, at that point, you're trusting a third party just like in Telegram case
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by hiq 6y ago
A lot of users just think that Telegram is E2EE by default. I really don't see why a user would make a conscious choice to activate E2EE on Telegram but not verify the fingerprints on Signal. In both cases a manual step is involved. As
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by hiq 6y ago
> The reasons given by them are reasonable. Whatsapp ain't e2ee since all chats are backed to google drive and iCloud. That's up to the user, I've never backed up my WA data to any cloud service.
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by hiq 6y ago
Part of the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_source_coding_theo... You could also think about lossy compression that is indistinguishable from lossless for the human eye, then you get another (lower) l
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by hiq 6y ago
> I'm not buying it. Look at Matrix and tell me it's holding them back. The main argument against federated protocols playing well with security is that they have a harder time evolving. The example always given is email. Once
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by hiq 6y ago
> - Metadata handled by Amazon That's rather broad, which metadata are you thinking about? Especially given the sealed sender feature. Assuming you have access to everything at Amazon, what can you deduce about Signal users? I can t
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by hiq 6y ago
> When I delete my account I'm going to lose old conversations, but that doesn't bother me anymore because I already recently lost them once when I switched from Android to iOS... WhatsApp has no way of keeping your history in
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by hiq 6y ago
Better security, worse UX.
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by hiq 6y ago
Blockchain is way too hard to interact with even for moderately technical people. And the minute you create an interface that makes it easy, you become the single point of failure. I used to think BitTorrent was easy for the average compute
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by hiq 6y ago
More funding can mean more people working in the field with the same amount spent on everyone rather than more money spent on the same number of people.
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by hiq 6y ago
What about WASM?
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by hiq 6y ago
Regarding sleep that would be the role of e.g. systemd (or whatever you have on your system) and you'd have to write a service unit handling that (although I'm not sure what you'd want exactly, if you have a program running w

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