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I'd hesitate to say that beings capable of intergalactic travel couldn't easily cloak/hide themselves from our primitive technology. An ant can't, with all its sensory capabilities, tell that it's staring at a car even if its standing right in front of it.
Agree. I if I want a twitter-like experience I'll open Mastodon. Lets me keep separate identities too, which is nice.
Great, so between Chrome and Safari's total 80% market share we're basically fucked. Now's the time to get friends/family to change to a non-Chrome browser.
people on new phone are now auto enrolled to Google's RCS. This poses a few issues:
- if a user switches from RCS to SMS they're now using a less secure messaging mechanism.
- it's confusing (to some not all) to have a very insecure method of messaging in a secure messaging app.
- if a user switches from RCS to SMS and they don't know to unregister, they'll now be sent RCS messages that never arrive making Signal look like the cause of the problem.
- Google hasn't provided an Android API for RCS. the writing is on the wall, text messaging via alternative apps is no longer a long term option and a waste of developer resources when they could instead be improving what they do control, Signal.
- SMS on Signal was already unmaintained and not that great.
- SMS was a feature on a single platform, Android, and didn't even sync to the desktop app, confusing some (not all) users.
All that said, with limited resources and budget, they really should not be spending any dev points on 40 year old tech. does it suck for some? yes, absolutely. Is it the end of the world?
Lastly, while I love Matrix, its not ready for prime time. I was able to get my grandma to install Signal and join group chats with almost no help. I wouldn't fare as well with Matrix/Element.
Privacy is not the same as anonymity.
It's a "basic" Diffie-Hellman key exchange that's been a solved issue since before mobile phones were even invented[0].
Think of it like this:
I give you a lock that only I have they key to open it. You can secure (read encrypt) any message with it by placing it in a box and locking it with my lock, send me the box and - because I'm the only person in the world with the key to open it, we can say you're sending me a secured (encrypted) message. It doesn't matter if anyone can intercept this lock because all they'll be able to do is send me secure messages from their inbox. Now, in the digital world this lock we're giving each other is a cryptographic "public key" that you can lock a million things with (messages, images, videos) and send them to me via the internet. We can thus exchange public keys and securely message each other.
I've simplified it a lot, as Signal actually uses something called the "Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman" (X3DH) [1], but I hope this explains how it works. You can read more about it here [2]
[1] https://www.signal.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/
[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/45963/diffie-hellman-key-exchange-in-plain-english
lmfao. sure, buddy. get bent.
what OS are you using? Is this a windows thing?
What's the purpose of converting webp files to png? Isn't it potentially making the filesize bigger? Is it for compatibility for legacy apps?
Fair reply, but my point still stands, although maybe I was too vague. I would prefer data vs "well my experience is..."