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Can you link to one or two? I read through most and haven’t seen any, but I may have missed it.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... ?
Didn't Signal have some weird licence restriction saying that non-official clients are not allowed to connect to official servers? How does this client bypass it? Can I use it to text a friend who uses the official servers?
It's not a licensing restriction, it's a terms of use for their network service. It's also not enforced. Their clients are open source, signal-cli uses a fork of the Android app's client library.
Yeah I stopped right there. I've had enough of one app wanting IBM Java, another wanting Oracle Java, another wanting Sun Java, another wanting 32-bit Java, another wanting 64-bit Java, another wanting Java 8, another wanting Java 11, ...
I really wish this were written in literally any other language, ideally one whose compiler can be apt-gotten on a default Ubuntu install.
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They can apply measures to the users. They are not doing it right now, but they could suddenly start. By the discussion on some reddit threads [1], this moxie guy looks sketchy to say the least. But I support the devs who work on alternative clients. The official Electron app is just bad, especially on Wayland. Hope signal-cli will keep working. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mp2j0j/starting_a_na...
> this moxie guy Most people here who are interested in privacy know who "this Moxie guy" is.
This makes me really miss Keybase.io. Anyone around from Keybase? Will it just bit rot away or will it get some attention/love in the future?
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https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... ?
Again, can you point to a specific comment in that thread indicating enforcement? I see none.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
A Google Play app was taken down: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.privatecha...
A GitHub repo was removed: https://github.com/WizDom13/SignalPlus-Android
After reviewing the thread, I think that it may just be that we have had a genuine misunderstanding over the meaning of the word enforcement due to context. moxie has made it clear that third party clients are not allowed to use OWS servers, and enforced it by having such clients removed from the internet. I feel that counts as 'enforcement' although upon re-reading the thread I can see why this happened. I am not aware of enforcement on the server-side although this is certainly enough to dissuade me from pursuing third-party Signal clients.
edit: reworded after rereading the thread a couple more times
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Again, can you point to a specific comment in that thread indicating enforcement? I see none.
Yes, the one that I linked, and then this one: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... A Google Play app was taken down: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.privatecha... A GitHub repo was removed: https://github.com/WizDom13/SignalPlus-Android After reviewing the thread, I think that it may just be that we have had a genuine misunderstanding over the meaning of the word enforcem…
How does this compare with signald? I wrote a signald xmpp bridge, but signald can be a bit wonky. One time it just stopped responding, and it doesn't pull in as much peer data as the official client.
signald works in the background and can be used with libpurple. If you want to use bitlbee, spectrum2 or similar you need to use signald. Signald needs to be controller over signaldctl
Signal-cli needs to be called manually. There are a few clients that provide wrapper functionality for it and it has dbus functionality.
Edit: removed a sentence over commit frequency and quality as I feel everyone should make their own assesment of this