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At least they tell you about it - there's a banner on the top of the app. Last time WhatsApp was having issues, it didn't give any indication - messages just weren't being delivered (but as a user, there's no way to distinguish between "no messages" and "messages not being delivered").
You on android? No such banner on my ios client.
I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/
Signal is being used by at least 10 well-paid medical professionals (group chat) that I know of, and one of them proclaimed today that Signal is owned by Elon Musk (probably because he tweeted about it). I did not care to educate them. And this is in a first world country with a rather wealthy population. Why am I saying this? Users don't give a damn, they expect free things, and they expect things which work. They h…
here is another one (with an insane amount of likes/retweets for something so wrong):
"Signal is owned by Twitter and monitored. While open source it is not as secure as they say. Use telegram." -- https://twitter.com/RebelOutlaw1990/status/13471653380777000...
I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/
Signal is being used by at least 10 well-paid medical professionals (group chat) that I know of, and one of them proclaimed today that Signal is owned by Elon Musk (probably because he tweeted about it). I did not care to educate them. And this is in a first world country with a rather wealthy population. Why am I saying this? Users don't give a damn, they expect free things, and they expect things which work. They h…
At the same time, I agree that there is practically criminal negligence of the education of people about what makes those techno-social institutions which "just work", work:
* Commercial interests and the role and nature of large corporations in tech and elsewhere;
* The massive amount of hard work, expertise, and good will invested by people in public-benefit work (which could be writing FOSS or volunteering in retiree caregiving etc.)
* What the machinery of government - and its myriad branches and institutions - does, beyond the political horse race shown on the evening news;
and through that, the realization that free lunches get made by someone, and its very important who and how they get made.
> Majority will never, ever, even think about it
It is a challenge for us to educate people around us about this fact.
> I believe that it is time to stop making free products.
Software is free by its very nature. It is only state coercion via threats of incarceration and violence that we are deterred from copying software.
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The loan is not a loan, its a gift. There was some tax reason it was done this way
Do you understand what the tax play is?
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The loan is not a loan, its a gift. There was some tax reason it was done this way
Do you understand what the tax play is?
And a donation would bring him deductions which he probably doesn’t want..
And there is a gift tax but since it’s a non profit, it gets different treatment. But having said that IRS scrutiny increases with such large donations.
Chances high for an IRS audit. Etc.
So many reasons why the loan aspect is a better idea.
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Telegram is insecure and also being swamped with right wingers. Doesn’t seem promising.
> also being swamped with right wingers So is Signal. 'right wingers' are everywhere.
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I doubt we’ll get much info about it out of Signal / OWS. I’ve asked about their tech stack and ability to scale in AMAs before and got fairly vague responses.
The server code was published. Even if we don't know what services they use, you should be able to find quite easily what language the stuff is written in.
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"...As of June 2020, Signal had more than 32.4 million total downloads, and the app had approximately 20 million monthly active users as of December 2020...." [0] "...The initial $50M in funding was a loan, not a donation, from Brian Acton to the new nonprofit Signal Technology Foundation. By the end of 2018, the loan had increased to $105,000,400, which is due to be repaid on February 28, 2068. The loan is unsecured…
Why is this structured as a loan? It sounds like it's structured in such a way that he isn't interested in getting paid back. Is it so he can exercise control in a weird scenario like a buyout? Is it some weird tax thing?