1. Blurt out an opinion without the slightest effort to support it with evidence.
2. Whine you’re getting downvotes for ir.
3. Claim your baseless opinion is “just stating the facts”. Again, refuse even the tiniest amount of reasoning.
4. Profit?

Ignore the downvotes. That’s a fair question to ask, but one that does have answers. Signal is FOSS, has E2EE and was audited several times, so we know that

• it did not contain any backdoors at the time of the audit
• it will not for the foreseeable future (they’d be visible in the client code)
• I need not trust the server code since messages are E2EE

Thus, while mistakes do happen and can open up severe vulnerabilities, cf. Heartbleed, there’s reason to assume that Signal is relatively secure. Signal’s centralisation of server infrastructure is a valid concern, but not for security, but rather for

• privacy (they might capture metadata, although it appears they don’t; nation-state actors trying to subpoena user data have so far only gotten “date of registration” and “last online”, which appears to be all they’re storing; that’s as close to “zero knowledge” as you get)
• availability (as the recent AWS outage has shown, which took out Signal as well)

Fair, that’s why I want to avoid it as much as I can.

Follow-up: I added the Guardian project repo to FDroid. Turn out: once FDroid has the repo, it can “take over” and do updates, even if Signal was originally installed from the Play Store / Aurora. That pretty much solved my primary issue here. (I’ll look into Molly at a later point anyway, just for the sake of curiosity.)

Thank you, once again!

Now that’s a smart solution that might just work for me. I completely forgot that they were packaging Signal for their repos too! For anyone interested: Here’s the link to their repo.

I’ll reply to you since you first brought it up, but it’s a question to anyone here recommending Molly: what makes you cofident that Molly is secure (i.e. they’re not fucking up Signal’s cryptography by accident) and maintained by trustworthy people. Signal does get audits from time to time, Molly doesn’t.

Mind you, I’m not trying to shit all over Molly; Unified Push looks great. I’m trying to approach this with due caution though.

Obnoxious Windows 10 “upgrade” nag screens on Win 7. If you think you can push me, I’ll push back harder. That, and Snowden showing the world that American tech is backdoored all the way to hell and back.

Aurora is all I use. We’re still trusting Google not to inject anything malicious into the app, which they’ll do in a heartbeat if the feds come knocking.

I’ve been a great fan of the project and used it as my daily driver for >5 years. It was stable as heck and the devs were super responsive, even adding in neat features at users’ request.

That said, I’ve lost trust in the project and moved on to GrapheneOS. The departures of Chirayu Desai and Nick Merrill smell weird from miles away. The latter left without any words of farewell explaining why he’d abandon his own project from one day to the other. I won’t engage in speculation as to what happened behind the scenes, but there are enough red flags here to keep my distance.

Man, your basement has the weirdest carpet I’ve ever seen. Also, much too bright for my taste. If you can see the keycaps without backlight, you’re doing the lighting wrong.

Corporate-driven > community-driven distros

It is now.

Is it Shitpost Saturday already?