Vincent

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

Hier nog wat tips voor als je overstapt, met bijv. een afbeelding die je kan gebruiken voor je Stories om aan te kondigen dat je overstapt.

On-topic: ik ben even ziek geweest (griepje wss), maar gelukkig weer aan de betere hand :)

Signal can update the client to reveal your social graph, sure, but right now, Signal technically cannot know your social graph. And there's two additional layers that make that more likely, which is incentives: being a non-profit, they have no shareholders that would push them to try to look into them, and their primary selling point being privacy, they also have more to lose by doing so. Neither of those apply to WhatsApp. Oh, and a third one: they'd have been in contempt of court, which specifically requested access to such data, and Signal did not provide it because they were not able to.

(I will also say that, in a decentralised communication system, you are reliant on every party you communicate with, and the tools they use, to not expose such data about you either. It's not a panacea.)

Again, it my not be as big a step forward as you'd like, but it's utterly ridiculous to claim that this is not a way forward.

And given that it's not unlikely that larger steps forward may not be possible at all, or would be reliant on us collectively taking smaller steps forward first, I would definitely reconsider putting active effort into discouraging Signal use. Especially if you're not putting at least a multitude more effort into discouraging use of the incumbents.

Vroeger deden we dat iig, inderdaad.

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?