Vincent

Lekker bezig! SMS en bellen is waarschijnlijk ook nog altijd een optie :)

Heh, da's bij mij ook, maar in mijn geval is dat omdat vrijwel iedereen die dicht bij me staat het al heeft :P

Signal heeft geen investeerders (en kan als non-profit geen winst uitkeren).

Maar inderdaad, ze hebben wel geld nodig, dus donaties zijn geen slecht idee.

any valid criticism against WhatsApp can be identically transposed to Signal

There's plenty of criticism that only applies to WhatsApp:

• Your social graph is visible to Meta,
• other metadata is unencrypted,
• it's controlled by a for-profit company,
• and that company already has its fingers in way too much of our communication infrastructure,
• and that company seems to be kowtowing to a (foreign, for some of us) government with ethics in direct conflict with some my own, more than they are legally required to.

I'm not against XMPP, Matrix, or whatever, but let's not pretend that Signal is not a significant improvement, and one that actually has a shot at success here.

Ja, afhankelijk van de offers die je zelf wil brengen is het iig geïnstalleerd hebben, zodat mensen die er wel om geven je iig via Signal kunnen bereiken, al een prima stap.

Merk je wel ook dat de laatste tijd er wel opeens weer meerdere mensen Signal nemen? (Als je de notificaties daarvoor aan hebt staan: Settings -> Notifications -> Notify when... Contact joins Signal.)

I think it's talking about https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/03/dark-day-freedom-george-soros-affiliated-central-european-university-quits-hungary. (Random link from WIkipedia on Central European University.)

after I translate something in a new language I haven't before, it still doesn't appear as downloaded (...) I wonder what the difference between the "partial" language files and the full download is

Possibly something @gregtatum@fosstodon.org could answer, if he has time?

Oh Germans do drop parts they don't like. For example, they drop the Gute- from Gutemorgen.

Ha I mean, that situation is indistinguishable from one where you don't get a pension and your salary is the same, but sure :P

You do miss out on the tax benefits that employer-provided pensions give you, but in many cases that's a fine trade-off.

Still, the actual point I wanted to make (but didn't) stands: most of us can't really switch our pension funds, which is a bit of a shame, because it means we can't "vote with our wallet" for a pretty significant chunk of our wallet :( If my pension fund decides to invest in cluster bombs, I'm investing in cluster bombs...

Haha no worries

Ha, does that mean they simply don't give you a pension? Or is it the case that you pick one and they handle it?

But yeah, sounds like it's specific to your company, unfortunately.