My last job used #GoogleMeet and #Zoom. I wouldn't wish those on anyone either.
Wish my undergraduate studies in #UX and #database design had better prepared me to create a world-conquering team #messaging solution that would put #BigTech out to pasture, but no one was handing out giant bags of money when I earned my diploma. #capitalism
Telegram has 700 million users and has always marketed itself as a "secure" and "private" messaging app, even though experts have repeatedly warned that Telegram is not as secure as end-to-end encrypted app Signal, for example.
To avoid leaking your IP address, you have to go to Telegram’s Settings > Privacy and Security > Calls, and then select "Never" in the Peer-to-Peer menu.
Meta is concerned that Indian govt could regulate internet apps with proposed telecom law
Meta’s India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, ‘Govt could have sufficient discretion to designate OTTs as a telecommunications service’ under the Telecommunications Bill, 2023.
#EU#Privacy#Encryption#Messaging#Surveillance: "It has become common knowledge that the governments of France, Germany and Poland have in particular refused the Commission’s proposal for encryption-breaking mass scanning of private messages. But so far, these countries have remained stalwart in their commitment to ensure that EU rules to tackle child sexual abuse are effective, sustainable and compatible with the EU fundamental rights framework. This has meant refusing to agree to a proposed Council position.
On the other hand, Spain’s interior minister shockingly used this government meeting to criticise the Parliament’s position, calling it “not sufficient”. "
Mittwoch: Signal mit sicheren Push-Nachrichten, Millionenstrafe für Kryptobörse
Signal-Benachrichtigungen nur Ping + New York gegen Kucoin + Glasfaserausbau auf Kurs + ASML mit südkoreanischen Partnern + Bit-Rauschen über RZ-Stromverbrauch
Some days it's hard to believe the #Democrats won't listen to @owillis when he explains. Today's column has an answer to one of their hardest problems. Plus puppy dog eyes.
Facebook Messenger wird öfter verschlüsseln, Bilder weniger komprimieren
Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung wird in Messenger-Chats mit 2 Teilnehmern zur Voreinstellung. Das ist Teil der "größten Verbesserungen seit es Messenger gibt".
Fitness-App Strava unterstützt jetzt Direktnachrichten und Gruppen-Chats
Accounts auf Strava können sich nun gegenseitig Nachrichten schicken, auch Gruppen-Chats sind möglich. Das soll das Gemeinschaftsgefühl der Aktiven vertiefen.
For databases, there are transactions, that ensure that all things that all related are either stored or are not at all.
This avoids to have partial data snippets polluting or even corrupting your data.
Now this gets more complicated when things are stored or messaged into different locations...
This is where the Outbox pattern comes into play
Read more about it in this excellent article by @dgafka :
heise+ | Per E-Mail chatten: Delta Chat als Messenger und Mailsoftware nutzen
Der quelloffene Messenger Delta Chat nutzt klassische E-Mails zur Kommunikation. Er ist Chat-App und Mailclient in einem. Wir zeigen die Vorteile und Grenzen.
#Signal#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Messaging: "Signal is a nonprofit, but we’re playing in a lane dominated by multi-billion-dollar corporations that have defined the norms and established the tech ecosystem, and whose business models directly contravene our privacy mission. So in order to provide a genuinely useful alternative, Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Here we review some of these costs and where this money goes, in the name of providing more transparency into Signal. But we hope to do more than that. Where money goes and how it’s made is a bit of a taboo in tech, something that most tech companies avoid talking about. The actual costs of consumer tech are generally hidden behind stories of innovation and the word “free,” and the connection between the product marketing of a highly profitable tech industry and the ingress and egress of profit and revenue is usually unclear. We believe a material map of these dynamics can help clarify just what is required to fulfill the dream of privacy-preserving alternative technology, and contribute to establishing a solid foundation from which we can grow alternatives that contest tech surveillance and the incentives behind it."
“While MAGA Republicans are focused on taking away abortion access and cutting Social Security and Medicare, Democrats in Congress are focused on bringing down the cost of your insulin – which is why they passed legislation that allows Medicare to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs.”
How Beeper Mini Works (blog.beeper.com)
It's a technical deep dive, so buckle up!...