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A question about secure chats
  • Content of the Tweet if you don't want to click X links:

    What #Telegram collects and stores:

    1. Unencrypted messages, photos, videos, and files
    2. Encrypted photos and videos from secret chats
    3. Phone numbers and contacts
    4. Metadata such as IP addresses

    What #WireMin collects and stores:

    1. None.

    #Decentralization #privacy

    By @WireMin

  • Will there be a restock of PinePhone Pros on pine64eu.com?

    Right now, the European webshop of Pine64 says the PPP is out of stock along with the PinePhone Keyboard. If it won't come back in stock in a few weeks, I might order it from the US-based webshop.

    Does anyone have experience on ordering the PPP from the US to an EU country? Roughly how much extra would I need to pay thanks to customs/delivery?

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    What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?

    cross-posted from: https://fost.hu/post/226135

    > Let's say, I create a bank with the caveat that all of my banking phone apps and webapps are FOSS (or if they depend on non-free components — banks probably do to communicate with each other —, then just OSS). Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this? > > If the most secure crypto algorithms are the ones that are public, can we ensure the security of a bank's apps by publicizing it? > > Are they not doing this because they secretly collect a lot of data (on top of your payment history because of the centralized nature of card payments) through these apps? > > EDIT: Clarifying question: Is there a technical reason they don't publicize their code or is it just purely corporate greed and nothing else?

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    What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?

    Let's say, I create a bank with the caveat that all of my banking phone apps and webapps are FOSS (or if they depend on non-free components — banks probably do to communicate with each other —, then just OSS). Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this?

    If the most secure crypto algorithms are the ones that are public, can we ensure the security of a bank's apps by publicizing it?

    Are they not doing this because they secretly collect a lot of data (on top of your payment history because of the centralized nature of card payments) through these apps?

    EDIT: Clarifying question: Is there a technical reason they don't publicize their code or is it just purely corporate greed and nothing else?

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    What is your workflow on eBooks? Do you anotate them? Are there any open standards that are useful?
  • Jailbroken Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2 with Koreader installed. Never really bothered to take notes while reading (let alone sync them), so I'm gonna follow this thread.

    I download my books from Soulseek and manage/transfer them using Calibre.

  • How to customize firefox-gnome-theme with Dracula colors

    Hi all!

    I recently installed firefox-gnome-theme to Librewolf, but it doesn't respect my GTK theme's colors, which is Dracula.

    All I need to edit is the color palette. Which file should I need to edit for the hex values?

    Thank you for your help in advance!

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  • I tried editing my config.yml as the guide suggests but the problem persists. The problem seems to be that I'm using MariaDB instead of MySQL (pdo_mysql is compatible with MariaDB). Is there anything more I can do or should I try installing MySQL?

    EDIT: Purging MariaDB (Debian repo ships this instead of MySQL) and reinstalling it with sudo apt install default-mysql-server fixed the problem. Thank you.

  • What messenger app to recommend to those not interested in privacy?
  • I just simply sent a message to everyone I kept in touch on Telegram to switch to Matrix/Element and guided them through the registration to a local homeserver thanks to one of my friends' blog posts.
    The easiest way to convince your friends to switch is to just make the switch and help them sign up and use the service.

  • Little rulemaid

    Alt text: A screenshot of a 4chan post showing Ariel from Little Mermaid (2023). The post and reply text is as follows:

    "explain why you havent watched it"

    "i'm a nazi."

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)NI
    nIi7WJVZwktT4Ze @fost.hu
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