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6y ago
They still force you to give your phone number, they still refuse to be on F-Droid, they still force you to go through their own server and not self host, their UX still sucks. Once those points are addressed Signal would be great
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6y ago
Not hard to be the most privacy focused big company when the competition Google , Facebook or Amazon... I don't understand why we should always have good guys and bad guys and we can't accept that none of those company respect us.
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6y ago
We should make fingerprinting illegal. Fingerprinting is an exploit, an attack on the person and machine. It is tracking using mechanisms that were not meant for tracking. It is without consent and it is without user control (you can clear
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6y ago
For me personally, the takeway is that both GTK and QT are getting old. React (and Svelte, etc.) have completely changed the way we build apps, and typical QT & GTK apps are still being written in a retained mode approach with signals &
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6y ago
The level of privacy you get with a degooglized Android is light years better than any Apple product. There are enough privacy scandal every months in the news to remind ourselves that Apple privacy is mainly marketing. If I have to choose
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6y ago
"Open-source" means nothing alone, what matters is the licence. For eg. Unreal Engine is "open-source" but under strict license. Defold engine is also "open-source" but has a Apache-modified custom licence prev
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6y ago
It hasn't anymore. They removed it some times ago