Confused about why signal is absent and whatsapp is above telegram
It’s probably location specific, are you from eastern Europe? People use telegram more there.
Or maybe you meant to say that telegram is better than WhatsApp, which is objectively true of course, but I don’t think this is ranked by quality but by appeal/ease of connection, since most people (outside of USA) use WhatsApp it’s far easier for the average person to contact you via that medium.
yeah it was that second thing about telegram being better than WhatsApp.
i guess it makes sense itd be by ease of use but I think seeing mesh core threw me off
My and my homies are chatting on the self hosted team speak server. It doesn’t get safer than that.
Imagine putting Matrix a tier below email with all the fuckery centralised services are doing, with how far a couple of Matrix clients have come.
I can communicate on 7 of those things…
What’s this from?
it’s from cicada3301 in 2012 https://github.com/scream314/cicada3301/blob/master/2012.md
this image It’s the proper form of the onion 1/2 https://github.com/scream314/cicada3301/blob/master/2013.md
the whole thing appears to be a privacy tool recuitment thing
People who finished the 2012 round were asked a few ideological questions, such as whether they believed in freedom of information and privacy and opposed censorship, and were told to work alone. Marcus Wanner, a 2012 finalist who spoke publicly, said the group described itself as working on privacy and anti-surveillance tools, and that finalists were invited to a private forum to collaborate on projects in that direction. He said it fizzled out without much happening, at least for him.
Cicada 3301.
I was there, I was a Computer Science student & they were really cool to solve. I loved that because I had done similar puzzles &/or hackaton time challenges. 2010-2020 was a good era for those.
Not everything is obfuscation by volume, such a stupidly high amount of output that only a machine can keep up wish.
the internet i think
I’ve always found that so beautiful. I wish I had that on my terminal when I fire it up.
shove this into /etc/motd on linux
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God why a people calling it a WhatsApp number?!
i tend to say “my number on whatsapp” because my whatsapp account is tied to a phone number from another country, so i don’t expect anyone to text/call me outside whatsapp
The fact that signal isn’t even on this list is my daily fediverse reminder of how much of a normie I am with my privacy precautions. Wth is a meshcore
Meshcore is a LoRa toy.
I don’t get why telegram would be preferable over signal.
Related to Meshtastic. As i understand it’s like a bunch of walkie talkies using homemade hardware, that strangers talk to each other on, but sends digital data instead of analog.
Its a niche thing i see picking up popularity here on Lemmy. Been curious about it because I think there’s work being done to get TCP/IP working on it, which would be cool because it would be an internet without paying an ISP.
Meshcore, like Meshtastic, is a text messaging service built on top of LoRa. In the United States, LoRa is 900MHz UHF low power radio, intended for low bandwidth telemetry. There’s an entire class of nerds using it to ask if anyone can hear them and get no reply.
If you want TCP encrypted messaging with radio capability, check out https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
It’s TCP/Bluetooth/serial/HaLow/LORA, any interface that python has drivers for.
It has messaging protocols LXMF, It has a web browser like app called NomadNet, some browsers like Columba add on LXST telephony, People have written Chat clients, Git Clients, Proxies, VPNS,
To clear things up:
Meshtastic is really peer to peer and dead simple, but also almost no extra features.
Meshcore is setup to be routed. You setup mailbox server and routers and create your own backbone, good for a community and more reliable than meshtastic, but also requires more design so there’s less of a chance of talking to people if youre in a sparse area.
Reticulum can use R-Nodes, (same hardware as meshtastic/core) but the rnodes are way less frequently found than tastic/core. (i’ve never found reticulum over radio in the wild)
There is a messy radio issue to Meshcore, Meshtastic and Reticulum at least in the US, they’re using a very narrow band with their spread spectrum to get distance and it’s against FCC regs even in the free ISM bands.
what you are looking for is Nomadnet, thats basically internet without the internet
So what is its security vulnerability?
It’s a mesh networking protocol based on LoRa. The fact that it is in the middle of this list is kinda hilarious.
This shitpost makes me feel so seen. 🥰
What normies see if you give them anything other than an Instagram handle
I was looking to buy a membership at some nearby gym, and half of them can only be contacted through Instagram, no number, no email, just goddamn Instagram that I’m not gonna sign up for. What the hell. 🌚
I’d rather send them a letter.
Disgusting, who are these people, do they let children run these places now
450 mills of Benadryl, talk to the Hatman, I usually check in with him for messages every day at 9pm UTC+10.
Just send me an SSH public key and I will leave a txt on the desktop for you to read at your convenience.
You meant private key, right? … right?
They meant that they’re leaving the text file on their own desktop. So they’re expecting the owner of the public key to log in, and have therefore added them to their .ssh/authorized_keys file
No, you keep the private key. They are private.
How to SSH: I add your public key to my authorized_hosts file, now you can connect to me over SSH because your public key has been authorised. From the SSH session you can edit or read text files.
Bonus: SSH chatroom! Ages ago I made a very short bash script to turn it into a chatroom for my own amusement. Top half of the screen is just running “watch cat chatlog”, watch is to run it repeatedly, cat chatlog just prints the content of the text file. Then the bottom half you use to add new lines to the text file.
Best i can do is adding your reticulum identity to my rnsh allowed identity list
Forget SSH public keys. Give them your Chrome Remote Desktop and they will edit the txt remotely
If you tell me you’re on signal my respect for you grows.
Why? It’s yet another centralised communication app. Want respect? Set up your own Matrix server. Contribute to open source federated methods of communication.
At least you’re on Lemmy, that’s a start.
i’m on signal because that’s the only platform some people use and at least it’s not discord (or worse, telegram), but it has given matrix a run for its money for how many times it has eaten my chat history, and eaten my entire account including contact list twice. plus i really would love to be able to create multiple accounts (or multiple identities on the same account) so i can avoid showing people i don’t know my legal name and avoid explaining my fake name to people i know irl without using either twilio or google pay
Go use SimplexChat at least, it only uses single use identifiers and you don’t need an account !
well wouldnt you know it, thats my main communication platform. even got my closest friends and my family to use it
Same. Got my parents on it. I recommend it to everyone.
Mine got on Threema, before Signal became a big thing. Meh, better than WhatsApp.
I’m on signal
My man/girl/bean.
Threema anyone? Is this still a thing?
The swiss have a bad track record when it comes to encrypted communications
If you tell me you donated, my respect grows 3 sizes.
Just use Signal
what frequency and modulation tho
Signal still requires a phone number to register an account. Matrix is the only reasonably private messaging service outside of darknet.
What do you think of SimplexChat? It does not require a phone number or account setup and you share single use links to set up a chat so there’s no identifiers that can be traced back to you. I’ve been using it with my friends for years now. It has some reliability issues but you can even host your own server if you want full control.
Simplex is good. There are actually many private and secure, yet simple ways to communicate online. The problem with all of this private chats is not that they themself are bad, but that normies often prefer convenience of big tech apps over less feature rich, but private and secure messangers, even if setup is as effortless as simplex.
Actually, they somewhat recently added phone numberless registration. It does require a $2.99 fee however, apparently to prevent abuse.
Oh, that’s a great step by signal!
But
Select to pay the $2.99 fee using Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Maybe that part can still improve? Still, great addition. They have to start somewhere.
If $3 was all we needed to prevent abuse my childhood would’ve been a lot better.
Well prevent abuse that was also prevented from requiring phone numbers …
Not like those are perfect, just less bad than email.
Or XMPP, if configured correctly. There are others as well.
Yeah fuck phone number based services! Tho i would like to mention, matrix isnt the only service thats private, take a look at reticulum for example.
Ive been using Disroot conversations. No phone number required
I’m just bummed they got rid of text support in the app. Made it simple to use one app for text and signal messages
Just put an X in masking tape in your window, and I’ll be there when you wake up. Smoking a pack of Camels.
Camels form herds, not packs.
Feels like an ad for Facebook WhatsApp
I think they want to complain about reticulum.
this is more a self reflection of my journey into isolation thru the means of getting increasingly harder to reach as i switch to more obscures means of communication
Peaceful, ain’t it?
No, lonely
