Social identification is private, between people though ephemeral #P2P #E2EE messages.
Servers see messages with random sender and recipient addresses, but those can not be mapped to a phone number or public handle. Servers see IP addresses. But you can use Tor, or a VPN, if you want to hide that.
i created an account on a laptop, and logged with my phone trough QR, but my desktop (i logged trough backup), don't seem to take in things like contact that add picture etc, when both mobile and laptop do.
I used it a little bit now for testing and so far it works quite well for private messaging - although I noticed by design the use case seems to be for communicating with people you already know, right? Like public online community chats like irc or matrix does not seem to be in scope if I understand it correctly? (hence no public delta chat group exists, I assume?)
@der_schrank bei mir macht signal mehr probleme. Was sind denn deine probleme bei delta chat die es "weit entfernt" von signal machen? Auserdem: Signal ist in den usa, hat zentralisierte server, und hat als identifer allen ernstes immer noch eine handynummer die in deutschland standartmäßig an den Personalausweis gekoppelt ist. Und es ist nur ein account möglich pro app. Also wenn in der eu die staaten mal zuschlagen wollen wäre ich besorgt @sunshine
@lucy_idk @sunshine Das weiß ich ja alles und ich würde es auch gerne nutzen, aber dazu müssen meine Peers es auch nutzen. Signal und Konsorten sind mittlerweile halbwegs bekannt, Delta kennen nur wir Nerds (und da auch schon viele nicht)
Eine Chat-App ohne Peers ist sinnlos, so gut sie auch ist. Das ist das alte Problem. Ich könnte maximal meine engste Familie noch zu Delta bringen, aber ich hatte schon Probleme, sie auf Signal zu bringen.
@der_schrank zustimmung. Das ist aber nicht ein problem von delta chat, sondern den menschen in deiner umgebung. Hatte verstanden dir fehlt was oder du kritisierst was an der app :) @sunshine
do you have an official New Zealand digital identity? did you know that our super private details aren't stored on sovereign NZ servers?
"The government stores our most important data on US-owned cloud infrastructure, making it subject to US laws.
It's interesting to listen to NOAA Weather Radio and the WWV time station through an actual radio after so many years of hearing them through online streams. I also learned through this that the Weather Radio stream I was listening to was several minutes behind the radio broadcast. I'm glad it exists though.
@cordova5029 Yep. It's a weird multi-function radio thing that can access AM, FM, Shortwave and VHF bands, play audio files from USB drives and MicroSD cards, and act as a Bluetooth audio device among other things.
if you want to deport another 3M people using the exact same processes and procedures Obama used, go for it. Random people weren't being kidnapped or shot in the face
boaf. Meanwhile we received a vuln report from a vendor that found XSS injections in Go code, and hardcoded password for every occurance of the word "password". Slop is not AI exclusive. Unless....
I am trying to get TW blue on my Windows 11 laptop. I get it into the downloads folder, but Microsoft defender is giving me a warning that it isn’t commonly downloaded and to make sure I trust it, but it won’t let me get past the warning, even though I do trust it. What do I need to do so that I can try it out?
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox Ahahahaha I just went to look into series 4000 to find where that ow is and I immediately ran into the JAWS forms mode sounds.
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox Literally the very first track of the whole library, bonk snap, among its first 10 variations, has the sounds used for forms mode as well as the components of the layer gesture sound, and later in it are some other bonks that JAWS ships for scripting usage.
Big challenge for me on Sunday was helping a local pal learn to use a laptop. This man is older than me and has never used a computer. He uses his smartphone for everything and wants to get a computer so he can, among other things, go to recovery meetings on Zoom (there aren't enough local in-person meetings). I have, as you might expect, many extra laptops. Figured we'd start with the basics (point, click, double click, click drag) and go from there....
@matt Right now he's got the free laptop I am ledning him just to see if Laptop Life is good for him. If it is, he'd like to buy his own laptop and it would probably be a Chromebook. I do not know much about Chrome OS Flex, I'll poke around a little. Thanks.
My little brother (lives close to where Renee Good was shot & killed in Minneapolis) has been 3D printing ICE whistles & handing them out to neighbors & giving some to local businesses & churches to hand out. I'm really proud that his response is action, not fear.
The George Floyd protests play a part in this. The local places he knows will gladly hand out whistles are people he knows from 2020. All that commotion was NOT for nothing. A lot of people learned about organizing for the 1st time.
Dear #Mastodon this (quoted below) is the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission. Who joined today (Jan 13). Great to have someone from the commission here. 🙌 🇪🇺 ✌️
Update/Good news: The mastodon.social account *was* legitimate, and has been migrated to @HennaVirkkunen All people who were following on mastodon.social have been moved to follow that account. (Thx @dgoldsmith for the update🙏)
X offering the use of Grok to create and share pictures of undressed women and children is horrendous.
The EU Commission has already:
• taken investigative steps
• ordered the company to retain internal documents.
@solimanhindy it's a small thin client PC -- Dell Wyse 5070. Pop in an SSD and it's perfect for a fedi server even though it only has 4 old cores and 4 gigs of ram.
What #Grok generates is non-consensual and abusive. It is not "AI porn", it's AI sexual abuse materials. "#AISAM", let's call it.
Sex work is work, there are plenty of sex workers trying to make a living publishing their own works.
Conflating porn with sexual abuse materials is how we get to a place where independent sex workers get ostracized and lose their livelihood through being banned by payment processors, while a fascist oligarch can materially benefit from sexual abuse materials.
@Bri That's right! I knew that somebody had to know that at least. I actually ate that shit back then. Talk about a throwback Tuesday, I would say throwback Thursday, but it's Tuesday.
I don't think I've ever seen an emerging technology that's driven CEOs from multiple companies to come out in public and ask people to stop saying mean things about it.
Thank you for waiting until I'm temporarily staying with a friend who has fiber. I have to tolerate being envious of the 3 gigabit upload but at least I'm not the target of hate.
@simon ... I have fiber but now I'm a wee byt jealous because we only have 250 Megabit up and down symmetric Granted I could get more, but it already costs 85 bucks a month. I can'n even fathom that speed right there.
I have Gigabit symmetric at home, with the option of 2.5. Here, where I am staying now, they have 200 symmetric, and they offer up to 8 GBPS for $ProbablyWayTooMuch.99. I didn't look.
@blindbat84 It's surprisingly common to find fibre in the middle of nowhere, because lots of the nothinghams and boringvilles had no cable until the 2010s, by which point fibre was yubiquitous enough that companies decided to just build fibre infrastructure. It's harder to justify that in an area where you can already get gigabit cable. Sure, it's not symmetrical, but go survey a thousand Comcast users and ask them what their upload speed is, I dare you. Unless you're a YouTube creator, a tech enthusiast, or someone who relies on good upload for remote work, you don't know and you don't care.
I just hate all people with a faster connection than I do, even if I do like them really. I'm essentially on now what's coming close to third-world internet speeds, 80/20 DSL. In London... A financial capital of the world.
@FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 To add fuel to the fire, I was speaking to someone in Vietnam the other day, and they apparently have a 300Mb fiber connection for around 200000 Vietnamese dong (roughly 5.5 Pounds). I don't know if that's true fiber, but eh.
@twynn @FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 It won't matter too much. Connectivity outside of Vietnam is super slow. I have a friend who lived there for a while, and he told me that, with a Gigabit connection, the best he could do even to just the rest of Asia was about 2 or 3 Mb/sec. Even worse to North America. Fast inside Vietnam though.
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers.
Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting. people.com/ice-employee-arrest…
Ok yes, he has been a douche for a few years And That Said ... I cut my teeth in I.T./Corporate reading DIlbert and most of the time it was Waaaay too close to home.
All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards.
these psychos put a Discord link in their github FAQ on how to build the project. The instructions are not in the Github repo FAQ, they're somewhere on Discord
I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase. 1/7
You know, I'll be super interested when they bring the new version of Tweetscake. I think they've been working on it for a while. Always love to see people compete with great programs.
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i created an account on a laptop, and logged with my phone trough QR, but my desktop (i logged trough backup), don't seem to take in things like contact that add picture etc, when both mobile and laptop do.
did i miss a settings ?
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in reply to Der Schrank • • •Auserdem: Signal ist in den usa, hat zentralisierte server, und hat als identifer allen ernstes immer noch eine handynummer die in deutschland standartmäßig an den Personalausweis gekoppelt ist. Und es ist nur ein account möglich pro app. Also wenn in der eu die staaten mal zuschlagen wollen wäre ich besorgt @sunshine
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Eine Chat-App ohne Peers ist sinnlos, so gut sie auch ist. Das ist das alte Problem. Ich könnte maximal meine engste Familie noch zu Delta bringen, aber ich hatte schon Probleme, sie auf Signal zu bringen.
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Nichts wird ohne Anstrengung erreicht, hilf also Schritt für Schritt, Delta Chat in deinem Umfeld bekannt zu machen!
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