I hear people wondering, “WTF is LAHF?”

It’s a CPU instruction.

https://www.dapsen.com/X86/html/file_module_x86_id_148.html

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Signal is fundamentally centralised. It’s not going to become a distributed system like the fediverse, because the protocol’s design doesn’t work that way. (Also, its maintainers haven’t shown any interest in adopting that approach.)

If e2ee email is really what you want, you can already have it with PGP. Various email clients exist that make using PGP possible for a mortal. Good luck getting many of your contacts to use it.

If you also want modern encryption guarantees, like forward secrecy, then consider Matrix instead of email. It already does e2ee and is already decentralised.

To paint a more complete picture, PrivacyGuides.org comes from the subreddit of the same name. When I was last there (about a year ago) some of the people behind that subreddit had a habit of pushing misguided views as if they were facts, and did so with an air of authority that came from their control of the subreddit and the site.

My point is not to support either group, but just a warning: They are not “the privacy community”. Please take their advice with a grain of salt. Sometimes it’s good, and sometimes it is not so good.

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I believe Matrix has this in beta, sometimes referred to as MatrixRTC or Element Call.

Edit: Recent status update here:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/#3-native-matrix-group-voip-video-matrixrtc

I feel like matrix is a better alternative, but yeah it’s not ready yet since it lacks the call features discord has.

I haven’t used Discord in years. What call features are you referring to?

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See also: The constant push by governments to take away our right to private (encrypted) communications.

IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.

Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.

Some of us do, but that doesn’t remove the unending flood of business news and corporate drama that we don’t want in our feeds, so it doesn’t solve the problem.

I think it has to be focused on software or hardware as a rule.

I don’t. Those fields are but small slivers in the realm of technology, and they’re not even particularly novel any more. A community dedicated to one or both of them might make sense, but there’s no reason to let them dominate the technology community.

News about stocks, CEOs, rebranding etc should not be allowed.

I agree with you there.

SimpleX has some interesting ideas, but also some shortcomings for people who want a practical messaging service. For example:

• It is funded by venture capital, which calls into question its longevity, and if it does manage to stick around, suggests that it will be leveraged to exploit people once the user base is large enough.
• Its queue servers delete messages if they are not delivered within a certain time frame (21 days by default). Good luck if you take a vacation off-grid for a few weeks.
• No multi-device support. (This means a single account accessed concurrently from multiple independent devices.) The closest it comes is locally tethering a mobile device to a computer.
• Establishing new contacts requires sharing a large link or QR code, which is not always convenient.
• No support for group calls.

I look forward to seeing how its design decisions develop in the coming years, but outside of a few niche use cases, it is not a suitable replacement for Matrix or Signal.

We’ve reached the point where Chromium is essentially the de-facto web standard because Chromium engineers do the lions’ share of feature testing and development,

Most of the web standards driven by Chromium are not particularly beneficial to the web, but are beneficial to Google. This is not an accident. It is how Google has made itself gatekeeper of the web while maintaining the facade of an open and standards-compliant browser.

This is not a good thing. Community-focused projects investing time and money into supporting it is a bit like digging one’s own grave.

One wonders how upset he’ll be when he learns that Mexico is in America. North America, even.

If this becomes law, I wonder how it will end up affecting US agriculture, and through it, the food supply.

https://archive.ph/4YrDM

Microsoft’s approach to their OS seems to be, “constantly add more stuff that relatively few people want or need, and require everyone to buy new hardware to support it.” The resulting upgrade cycle is needlessly wasteful of people’s money and harmful to the environment.

Meanwhile, the Linux ecosystem is more like, “make new stuff available, but optional, and constantly optimize things to be more efficient.”

I was still gaming and developing software on a ten-year-old computer (with a somewhat newer GPU) until very recently. I’ll let you guess which OS I was using.

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