These messaging apps are worse than... well, I don't know. This is as bad as it gets. Bicycles maybe? Incompatibility, fragmentation.. the worst thing you can have for application that is supposed to be used for communication.
Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
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#22Interestingly, Fitch downgraded Brazil's Debt to junk yesterday.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/057c1240-a40f-11e5-b73f-95454...
Anti-technology culture tells a lot about an economy, group or nation.
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#23Shame they went there instead of to Signal, but I guess it may still be a marginal improvement.
Signal, and in extension the other privacy-aware messengers (Threema etc), can not replace Telegram or iMessage because they lack basic features like multi-device sync. The hard problem of messaging has not been solved yet, what people should build is a service like iMessage but with the public key pool per account publicly auditable and verifiable.
> they lack basic features like multi-device sync
I've never used multi-device sync, ever. Not on iMessage, Viber, WhatsApp, ... The only one that I use across devices is Skype, but I don't use it except for video.
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#24I am from Brazil and I can say: we are almost becoming the new Argentina.
And this is quite interesting because Argentina is becoming the new Venezuela (at least they were, but few weeks ago they had elections and the left wing lost). And Venezuela clearly is becoming the new Cuba.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Signal has multi device sync now, and it's cryptographically secure. It works by sending Signal messages to the other linked devices. This enables Signal-Desktop (the Chrome app that is now in beta). Sync is only implemented in the Android client at the moment though.
That's quite literally multi-device >>sync Seems like a low effort solution and would not satisfy my requirements, but it probably works for some people.
I receive messages on my desktop regardless of whether my phone is connected to the internet or not.
Edit: just verified. Phone is in flight mode and chatting away on signal-desktop works just fine.
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#27I am from Brazil and I can say: we are almost becoming the new Argentina. And this is quite interesting because Argentina is becoming the new Venezuela (at least they were, but few weeks ago they had elections and the left wing lost). And Venezuela clearly is becoming the new Cuba.
Can you explain each of those statements in turn?
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#28I am from Brazil and I can say: we are almost becoming the new Argentina. And this is quite interesting because Argentina is becoming the new Venezuela (at least they were, but few weeks ago they had elections and the left wing lost). And Venezuela clearly is becoming the new Cuba.
How can one country become another?
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#29I am from Brazil and I can say: we are almost becoming the new Argentina. And this is quite interesting because Argentina is becoming the new Venezuela (at least they were, but few weeks ago they had elections and the left wing lost). And Venezuela clearly is becoming the new Cuba.
If you followed the latest news you will quickly realize that Argentina will not be like Venezuela and that Argentina could be in better shape than Brazil.
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#30I am from Brazil and I can say: we are almost becoming the new Argentina. And this is quite interesting because Argentina is becoming the new Venezuela (at least they were, but few weeks ago they had elections and the left wing lost). And Venezuela clearly is becoming the new Cuba.
And Cuba is becoming the new Mexico? :)