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Currently working on a way to help folks setup a signal account without requiring a smartphone. It's in rust with egui, and should help folks to do that without the cli. Not ready …

(Hi, disclaimer: I'm one of the current dangerzone maintainers) You are correct: that's basically what Dangerzone is doing! The challenges for us are to have a sandbox that keeps b…

(Hi, disclaimer: I'm one of the current dangerzone maintainers) That's a good question :-) Opening PDFs, or images, or any other document directly inside your machine, even with a …

(Hi, dangerzone maintainer here) There is indeed a dangerzone-cli tool¹, and it should be made more visible. We plan on updating/consolidating our docs in the foreseeable future, t…

Freedom of the Press Foundation is kick-starting a bug bounty program for this holiday season. Challenge the popular adage "containers don't contain", by sending Santa a naughty le…

I'm not sure the ratio of comments to LoC is a sign of good quality code. Too many comments might actually be a bad thing. It's more lines to maintain, and sometimes the comments j…

I'm not sure it's not do-able, actually. What about having an execution sandbox and a way to check the calls made during the execution of the install script for instance? I worked …

I still have a hard time understanding what's going on with startups : the power of money makes it too attractive to sell and "call it a life" I guess. That's why even if they don'…

It's still the same story : PyPI still doesn't have a way to automatically detect interactions with the network and the filesystems for the submitted packages. It's a complex thing…

Aren't startup made to be bought by the tech giants? Until there is a shift in their goals, I can't see thé gafam losing here.

Is DjangocCon US still worth it in 2022? I've been to some PyCon US in the past and it was really a great way to meet the community. I wonder if it's still playing the same role in…

The only thing that bugs me with Proton is that it's still very complicated to integrate with thunderbird (or any mail app?), which makes it practically unusable for my needs. Havi…

Thanks for stating this. It's still good to have people working on tools to help us have better usable solutions though. Depending who is your enemy (threat model), I guess proton …

In french we say GAFAM, I naively though it was the same in the US. Gasp, I'm still too focused on my culture =D

It's frightening to see how the nuclear power debate is done nowadays. Yes, nuclear energy is generating less CO2 than some other forms of energy, but saying it's saving lives seem…

This is a mathematical approach to music, and lacks (from my point of view) what is the mere essence of music : choice. I understand why they want to take back the copyright on mus…

Does it really pays better? I thought that cooks aspired to own/operate a restaurant because they think they'll be able to do the stuff they want the way they want.

It really seems they're trying to get things right, but are afraid of the competition. In my opinion this is because the company and the product is new to the market. Once they kno…

Resonate is nice and I like the fact that it's a co-op, but there is something missing that was present on band-camp, unless I missed it: the possibility to pay for real albums tha…

It's really sad to see these almost "public goods" platforms be acquired by other companies, which will probably turn them in something else at some point because their vision isn'…