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Charles ☭ is a Green

The problem with old macs is broadcom. The rest of the hardware is great, but the WiFi just quits working because somebody sneezed wrong or whatever. They can only go to places or people I have really regular contact with.

Like, the charity I do audio for now has one but I couldn't just hand it to a stranger unless they are super motivated or are already experienced.

Anyway, apparently broadcom still exists and makes shit for data centres? In the end, we won't even need to attack the centres, somebody will just sneeze, all the networking will collapse, and it will be end of large lying machines.

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fraggLe!

Yes! I have a 17" MBP from 2011 and it's just perfect as a Linux daily driver, except after one of the minor kernel version bumps the wifi simply goes catatonic and only a reboot will bring it back. Can't even replace it with something not-shit because it's an apple-specific form factor.

Doesn't do it on MacOS, but the highest this machine can reasonably go is High Sierra (because it's a 2011 MBP so the Radeon GPU is cactus).

So frustrating! It's still a fine machine, bar the wifi!

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Steldamm

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@kkarhan
Moxie´s new villa (after his #Signal #MobileCoin scam)

finance.yahoo.com/news/signal-…

But #Matrix is also not the solution:

telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-0…

why not matrix?

at this point it seems like most of the tech community is familiar with matrix, the "open network for decentralized communication".
Telegraph
#matrix #Signal #mobilecoin
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Steldamm

@kkarhan

XMPP leaks metadata, like matrix

"Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody´s life. If you have enough metadata, you don´t really need content."

#NSA General Counsel
Stewart Baker

in:
"We kill people based on metadata"
nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/w…

The only messenger that does not leak or store metadata is the one the user pays for: Threema!

'We Kill People Based on Metadata' | David Cole

A bill to rein in NSA spying on Americans’ metadata has wide bipartisan support in Congress. It is an important first step, but it addresses only one part of the NSA’s vast surveillance activities.
David Cole (The New York Review of Books)
#nsa
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Charles ☭ is a Green

@kkarhan @Steldamm @monocles

Look, like you, I am a tech nerd. I've hosted fedi servers. I have a lot of websites. I'm writing a CMS for an MMPORG.

I cannot be fucked to host my own XMPP server. Nobody I know uses XMPP since the embrace extend extinguish thing happened with it. Is this fair? No. Is it true? Yes.

No normal person in a train station wants to hear about ex em pee pee.

@monocles @Steldamm
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Charles ☭ is a Green @monocles @Steldamm @TelH90 my experience was that hosting an XMPP server lead pretty quickly to having friends and family use it, although there were a couple additional factors:

* family members (who are pretty normal people) got an account on that server, so they only had to install conversations on their phone
* most of our friends are of the FLOSS-nerd variety, and there are enough who are able to run their own server to provide for themselves and for the non-uploading nerds of the group, but everybody had at least some motivation, once the effort required was low
* I'm not on other chat systems (other than IRC, which I'm not going to recommend to family members :) )

@monocles @Charles ☭ is a Green @Steldamm
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jordan

@Steldamm @kkarhan I run my own #XMPP server and still had to migrate my family to #Signal for for daily use because the app ecosystem is only so-so for it, especially on iPhone/Apple products. Never could get my family to receive push-like notifications when they got new messages, no matter what I tried.

Nothing's perfect, but some things are more perfect than others. :)

#xmpp #Signal @Steldamm
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@kkarhan @Steldamm @monocles
i'll consider switching to XMPP once two things happen:
1. i'll be convinced that i can get my technophobic boomerest of boomers dad onto XMPP like i got him to Signal
2. their cryptography actually becomes good: soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against…

Against XMPP+OMEMO - Dhole Moments

XMPP is a messaging protocol (among other things) that needs no introduction to any technical audience. Its various implementations have proliferated through technical communities for decades. Many…
Soatok (Dhole Moments)
@monocles @Steldamm
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pixelschubsi

@Yuvalne The gist of that article is: The OMEMO most clients implement (which is roughly equivalent to version 0.3) is prone to Invisible Salamanders, which may be relevant in group chat context (when there is untrusted people in the group). The latest specification draft doesn't have that issue, but is not implemented widely yet. And then there is some notes about a specific implementation and rants and misunderstandings about the specification development process.
@Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️

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