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Last Notes npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre @npub1hxx…g75y do you still think IMEI editing is not real for Pixels? Think again. https://codeberg.org/luxferre/lexipwn https://hoi.st/posts/2025-03-03-the-graphene-saga-part-3.txt https://hoi.st/docs/own/pixel-6-imei.txt I'm always back with what I promise. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Some salty friends call me "a hermit"... well, if I actually were one, it would have a benefit of living in UTC and not giving a single fuck about the local time changes. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre It's not POS, it's POW. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Don't let your life turn into a cloud of hashtags. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I'm just too busy solving my local problems here (and won't be active again until I solve at least the base layer of them), but if I had one word to say, it would be Kaspa. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I am silent not because I don't have anything to say. I am silent because there's nobody to listen to me here. It's interesting how the words "listen" and "silent" are anagrams. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Is it moral to scam the scammers? npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre "Your plagiarism will be forgiven, your self-repetition will be forgiven, but if you don't bring any new ideas into this world, they will never forgive you" npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I used one (RAZR 2019). The cons are obvious: fragility and battery life. Very stylish though. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Ok, now my triad of watch-related software tools is complete, with Databankr joining the party: https://git.luxferre.top/rcvd-py/file/README.html https://git.luxferre.top/jjy-py/file/README.html https://git.luxferre.top/databankr/file/README.html npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre What do I think about emojis? Hmm... Don't even know... https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnj49/this-string-of-emojis-is-actually-malware https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-can-use-emojis-to-deliver-exploit-to-the-target/ First two results by searching "emoji exploit" on the webs. I have nothing against the other two things but they are not to be in any program source code either. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I've had a writeup on it some time ago: https://hoi.st/posts/2023-07-24-syntax-off.txt npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre > In 2024, a phone (as well as a paper notebook, for that matter) is much more likely to be searched or confiscated than a cheap Casio digital watch (unless it says F-91W, because, you know... stereotypes). https://hoi.st/posts/2024-05-20-a-look-from-another-side-again.txt npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre If a programming language is unreadable without syntax highlighting, it's pretty much useless with it as well. #syntaxoff npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre And... I now have something to sync it with. https://git.luxferre.top/jjy-py/file/README.html npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre My grand finale watch is Citizen PMD56-2951. https://hoi.st/posts/2024-05-13-the-grand-finale-watch.txt npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Well, then you know what I'm talking about. Just compare Ted Nelson's ideas with this cryptobro hipster level-7 pseudo-decentralization circus that some of them are calling none less than "internet 2.0". npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Being a visionary is not enough to get things going. Remember Xanadu? Just as I thought. Because if you did, it would be the bane of your existence. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Is it just me baffled about how many scam exposing videos promote other scams as their sponsorships? npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre The word "scarcity" sounds like a city of scars. Maybe that's what it really is. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Received my last watch today, and yes, I do plan for it to be the last for me within forseeable future. The phlog post is coming on Monday. I surely am going to have a lot to say about this watch. However, the mere fact that the rechargeable battery there is supposed to last for 20 to 40 years does say something about how quality gadgets really should be made as opposed to what we have on the mass market. Stay tuned. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I mean, mp3s are usually not recompressed by any CDN, so the question is whether or not the excess is truncated. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Now try the same with mp3 files. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Yes, this one does work. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I daily-drive Arch on my main PC which happens to be a NUC/nettop, and Alpine Linux on even weaker machines, even a rooted Kindle (in chroot). npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre They run Faildows and still think a VPN will protect them from anything. Let that sink in. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Modern rule of thumb: avoid any brand, thing, technology, person or movement that has a cult-like following. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre A famous saying can now be surely updated: If you think that Bitcoin/Web3/AI/Nostr is the solution, then you don't understand the problem. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Some free speech is freer than other, it seems, if one puts enough resources into it. Those who shout the loudest (e.g. with a gov't sponsored botfarm) will always mute the voices of sanity. I've spent enough time on unregulated media to confirm this: where the mainstream propaganda is silent, "anti-mainstream" and equally absurd propaganda rises. Nostr doesn't seem to be an exception as of now. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre The internet 1.0 was designed by real engineers, not hipster cryptobros who don't know anything lower-level than JSON and websockets and piggypack off the ready-made inventions taken for granted at OSI level 7. Remove internet 1.0 et voila, Nostr, at its current state, is nothing. Recreate all the levels and then you'll be able to call it like that. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Tell this when it's able to function *without* the internet 1.0. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre #sned npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I mean, if it was truly censorship-resistant, the files would go to the note body itself, not to a third-party uploader service. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Censorship-resistant, you say? https://media.nostr.build/av/e257c74735fec912e7129d2496679dacb26aa53e838c6a1a11cdc63dd92534f3.mp3 https://media.nostr.build/av/e7694fc69016f05145d0fec66c7f14e40c5497d49d67f63e49c7c327ea3137c5.mp3 npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre For the context, the previous post was about Citizen PMD56-2951 I still haven't got, but I have got a Pixel Tablet and the first thing I did was installing GrapheneOS on it. Luckily, this is the instance where there's no IMEI to change and where rooting isn't so relevant for me. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre "Aren't you afraid to experiment with such expensive things?" "No. I'm afraid to have them and not be able to experiment with them" npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Halving-shmalving. Your privacy has been cut in half, then again in half, then eaten and shat out a long time ago. How much more arrests, seizures and restrictions before people switch to privacy-first cryptocurrencies once and for all? But of course, sheeple will continue using their #1 fiat in disguise (removed from its original vision as far as possible) and think that it makes them free to any extent. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Holy fuck, that would have never happened if they ran something saner, like a Monero node. Again, let me repeat: too many people are proud of creating problems themselves and then heroically overcoming them. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre By the amount of shit its fanatics talk about everyone else, Bitcoin is the OG shitcoin. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre For any open social platform to get on par with the proprietary ones, a simple change is necessary: people need to start talking less about the platform itself and more about real life. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Those who view the time on their phones, by the way, represent a pre-wristwatch era of pocket watches, only now they are much bulkier, less reliable and allow their manufacturers, governments and various third parties to track their owners. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre In the beginning of April, I got myself a full-steel version of Lamy 2000 EF. Same feeling, considering it has a white gold nib. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Which repo? The one on GitHub? I ceased any activity there a long time ago. Why are nips on a repo hosted by one of the most censorship-loving companies in the world? And not e.g. on a wiki hosted independently. I can formalize my proposals into a document when I have time and put it up somewhere if anyone is interested though. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I still doubt you fully got the point, but OK. Let's consider HTTP as a baseline, I have three questions then: 1) Why JSON? HTTP itself offers a wonderful way to transfer metadata, it's called headers. They require much less CPU cycles to parse and shape. They are naturally separated from the request/response body. All specific headers can start with X-Nostr- to not interfere with anything current. Even the digital signature can be put there if it's short enough. 2) Why TLS? Aren't signatures themselves enough to prevent tampering with? Isn't current centralized PKI prone to censorship as well? On top of that, TLS over e.g. Tor isn't necessary at all. 3) Why a single (and not very popular) signature algorithm instead of the wide choice offered by OpenPGP, where we can reuse existing libraries/tools (that have been working all this time even on DOS) for both signing and, if necessary, asymmetrical note encryption (to mitigate number 2 completely)? P.S. "Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful" Being different from mainstream is not enough to automagically guarantee yo're doing things right. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Well, that's already something. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre "Junk on top of junk" is exactly what JSON on top of WebSockets on top of HTTPS is. At least in terms of wasted CPU cycles and energy watts. SMTP is just as censored as the underlying infrastructure. Run it e.g. on the Tor layer and you won't have to deal with DNS, DMARC etc. I only gave it as an example of an already established transport that everyone can build upon (and it's not the protocol's fault it has been heavily misused by big players on the clearnet). And more importantly, it's plaintext, human-readable (except MIME extensions for attachments) and can be debugged without all those fancy tools. And this example was given because, from what can be seen from outside, Nostr tries to reinvent the same functionality + mailing list servers' one. Just wrapping everything into more opaque binary layers than it should. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Or rather of the Dunning-Kruger effect. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre The same data, over the same websockets, wrapped into the same json, signed with the same irreplaceable algo (as opposed to what's offered by OpenPGP)? It's cool that there is an SDK to take care of all the low-level stuff. But it still won't run where S/MIME-enabled mailing lists would. Because the protocol itself still is too fucking bloated at the core level. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Just insert a wallet address into your mail signature (not S/MIME signature but the one under the text) and have clients recognize it as a clickable one. There you go. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre That's why someone must fund a glorified overcomplicated parody on SMTP, right? npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I have ready answers even though I haven't seen the particular list of questions, but I don't want people to lose the reason to exist. They genuinely believe they're working on something innovative and useful. Truth can be hard. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre No one controls email. Stop asking for permission... the rest of the text is the same. Host your own email servers and mailing lists. No need to reinvent the wheel. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Damn it, they really are trying to reinvent what I just mentioned: mailing lists. #nevent1q…vecj npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Today was the first time in my life I had ever mailed anything physically. Ever. I'm not a merchant, and prefer giving things in person, especially valuable ones. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Are we still talking "user-friendly" or "noob-friendly"? I think an email client is something everyone got used to. Mailing lists do have web interfaces as well. Essentially, this is how the first Web forums started. Some of them still operate that way. Topic subscription model also has been working since the beginning. "Following" someone would essentially mean subscribing to their personal feed topic. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Let's get real. Notes == PGP-signed emails\*. Relays == mailing list servers. Feeds == filtered views on those servers. What's new here, besides all this json/websocket/ecc bloat and cryptobro-hype? Everyone can run a mailing list server. All this stuff has been around since 1990s. #NIHsyndrome is so NIH. \* (offering much more signature options) npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre I'm still genuinely stunned with the amount of effort some people put into constantly creating problems for themselves and then heroically overcoming them. It gets, however, much worse if others have to be involved in this too. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Today, I've lost a nice text. Yes, that happens. But the key takeaway from it is: don't blame the FOSS model itself for how it's being used nowadays by the people two generations away from the people who started the movement. Also, even if you have a public repo with an OSI-approved license but all you think about is to how sell yourself with this, then you're not a FOSSer, you're a slut. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Orange Pi Zero + quality Bluetooth adapter + Bluetooth speaker + BlueALSA + mpd = nice Internet-enabled jukebox. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Some of them gambled in 2011 to 2015, and won. And now, they think everyone else should listen to them just because they got lucky that one time. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre When you see that the libtinfo6 package is being updated and your brain automatically appends "il" to "libtinfo", it's time to reevaluate something in your life. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre What is VC? I already am too old so VBA is Visual Basic for Applications for me, and VC is something like... Vacheron Constantin, idk. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Which OS do you run? Because for me, everything worked from the first time even in the bare Alpine CLI. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre To the people asking why I have a collection of 8 Victorinox knives while only using two of them on a daily basis: don't worry, I also use one calculator out of 7, one fountain pen out of 9, one watch out of 31 and three phones out of ~60 at any given moment. That's, like, the whole point of a collection: being able to rotate your tools. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre JFYI, I'm not anti-bitcoin. I'm anti-propaganda. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Cyberpunk not cyberdead. #DWB5600 https://image.nostr.build/2266ef86a295c766bad4e8d768e370688d9803adb00c75fb857c2cd008648900.jpg npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Ported my BLE-enabled Casio watch synchronizer from JS to Python. https://git.luxferre.top/rcvd-py/file/README.html Planned for this for almost two years but it took half a day. The protocol is a canonical example of how not to design protocols if you don't want the devs to curse you. Don't get me wrong, it's still cool but far from elegant. Do you know which watchmaker made an elegant sync protocol? Timex. With their first Datalinks. They were purely optical. That's what I call elegant. No additional hardware required from the PC side. And yes, the protocol is now out in the open (along with other repos from the same author): https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client Many years later, Longines tried to replicate this optical calibration in their Conquest VHP line. As a result, they made a total mess. And instead of opensourcing the effort, they just abandoned it, and now you can't even install the app on newer Androids. Some research is ongoing, but of course such watches are much more scarce and short-lived. Thanks, I'll stick to my BLE Casios instead for the time being. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Amethyst is a product (as in a consequence, not in a sense of market goods) of the exact newspeak-induced vision I was talking about. It will only remain fully FOSS as long as it can lure enough people to eventually make it a product (in a sense of market goods). Afterwards, some dubious binary blobs, ads and "premium features" are inevitable. To sum it up, it's the absolute opposite of the artwork I was talking about. And again, it's not a problem of the FOSS model itself that some people use it this way. Maybe I'll dedicate my next phlog post to this entire question, there's too much to say about it. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Could you give a particular example of the project you're talking about? npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Who said it's for sale in the first place? There are many things in this world that are not supposed to be monetized yet still remain useful. Of course, if you're talking solely about Nostr clients, it's very far away from art. Starting with the protocol itself. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre There's no fundamental problem with FOSS. There is a problem with the modern pandemic that (regarding software) started back in 1990s, I guess. When megacorps began turning art into "products" as a part of their anti-individuality vision. People also got used to "products" instead of engineering artworks. And now, whenever they essentially look at a Jacquet Droz automaton, they expect it to perform like a Teslabot. Of course, not even realizing that Teslabot is mostly vaporware. The true art and the remaining hope for the software world now lies at the intersection of FOSS and demoscene. Doing this for your own amusement, as optimized as you can, making it work on the weakest hardware, not being bothered that some square-minded rookies can't read what you write, and sharing your knowledge with the rest of the world, for those who can and do understand and appreciate it. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Bare Linux installation on the same VPS. RAM consumption. Debian 12: 111 MB, Alpine 3.19: 47 MB. 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Same picture for USDC. But yes, I have no idea what to use instead of USDT-TRC20 yet, and Ethereum chain is too greedy in terms of fees IMO. Solana tokens are all freezable by design as far as I see. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Ok. I studied the USDT contract again and it looks like yes, the contract owner has a possibility to blacklist individual Tron addresses as well. Nasty. https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TR7NHqjeKQxGTCi8q8ZY4pL8otSzgjLj6t/code npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre AFAIK there is no possibility of targeted freezing of USDT-TRC20 transactions on the token smart contract level. Is there any proof that it can ever be done on the Tron network? npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Signal is available outside of Android, but you still need Android (or iOS) to use it outside of Android, which kinda defeats the purpose. As far as I remember, this BS was modeled after WhatsApp. The issue with spam is mostly related to numbers leaking elsewhere. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre While packing a bunch of keypad phones (16, to be exact) and three androids to bring to my best friend tomorrow, I caught myself in the following thought. There exists only one kind of people I really envy nowadays: those who can live without a cellphone at all. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Spam deterrence? There is a lot of Signal-targeted spam these days, specifically through the leaked number databases. It has almost reached the WhatsApp/Viber level of scale where I live. Convenience and security rarely go hand in hand. If someone uses iOS, what kind of privacy are we talking about, regardless of what's being offered on the application level? It's like typing in the most secure password manager on a keyboard with a hardware keylogger embedded into it. Those who use iOS look like someone who deliberately wants to get pwned, and if one really is privacy-serious, any apple (as well as m$ and google and xiaomi/huawei/etc) products are the first things to get rid of unless you can install a fully custom FOSS system on them. If possible, I'd advise to get rid of anything with non-removable batteries either (unless you can Faraday-cage those things when necessary), but, alas, as of now I can't follow this recommendation myself. Don't get me wrong, I salute any privacy-improving effort, but a service running on top of the the stock irreplaceable vendor's spyware and collecting phone numbers (which are sometimes totally KYC in some countries, luckily not in mine... yet) upon registration hardly looks like any improvement. And to those who don't know the real deal (and don't buy temporary SMS verification specifically for this purpose), such services can give a false sense of privacy and an illusion of safety. Because you know, there are some places where you can get arrested just for using encrypted calls. With exposed numbers, it is too easy to confirm that you are you (even if they are not KYC but used for PSTN calls or other signups). So, even to noobs, I'd recommend Linphone or SimpleX instead. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Yep, something like that. Except it's not 2009 anymore and we have some cryptos that suit the cypherpunk philosophy much better. They even get delisted for this. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Thanks. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre You really like having no alternative to using touchscreen bricks with preinstalled bloatware and illusions of choice, I get it. Really makes it worth revisiting my attempts to put together a SIP client for KaiOS 2.5.x whenever I have enough time. Although KaiOS is a huge mess on it's own, it's at least _some_ alternative when it comes to userspace. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Why is SimpleX praised so much here if it offers no desktop client, let alone CLI? Again, this imposes obeying mobile duopoly for no real reason. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Depends on the weather where you live. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre Here's what the official website says: > To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone. What if I don't have a phone (in fact, pocket PC) where Signal can be installed? Like, at all. I'm a keypad maxi. Of course I do have some Androids as well, but what if I don't? Why do they make this so fucking complicated for those who really are freedom-first? Even Telegram doesn't care where you're registering from. npub163gcvh4dwwqm4yp2y7355tu9s7e6pzmqlcl3p78m7vm52fq7ej9s0g40f6 Luxferre With a name similar to OnlyFans, it might end up being a paid feature.