Tweet reads: > "I'm no longer involved at Signal. While I may wish a lot of different things for it, the whole point of the project is that you don't have to trust your communication to anyone."
Is it replay to someone or just statement?
I'm no longer involved at Signal
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#12can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?
not sure. I searched comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
Most recent are a reasonably mundane culture wars stuff but (more interesting to HN) it seems earlier Signal related ones appear to suggesting a degree of alignment with the USA government. The words "spook" and "compromised" are used in different comments.
Edits. From the Signal page:
"She is an appointed member of the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, where she advises the Secretary of State on technology policy"
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#13Well this is certainly an unexpected and weird announcement. I actually thought Moxie was (the main person behind) Signal. Not giving any details about this feels weird to me. How are we supposed to trust an organization that prides itself to be the beacon of free communication, when they communicate so... cryptically? Does anyone have more information on what happened here? (And what/if any are the current alternati…
He announced his stepping down as CEO of Signal way back in January of 2022.
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#15Tweet reads: > "I'm no longer involved at Signal. While I may wish a lot of different things for it, the whole point of the project is that you don't have to trust your communication to anyone."
Is it replay to someone or just statement?
its a reply to dhh expressing surprise at the signal board membership of Katherine Maher.
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#16Judging by Mahar's TED talk about the diminished value of truth vs. alignment circulating on twitter, it looks like the Signal Foundation has finally fallen under the influence of the nihilists as well. FOSS doesn't need non-profit orgs, and people in tech aren't equipped to secure them from the people trained to take them over.
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#17can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?
DHH only has strong feelings. Katherine Maher is a great CEO and leader and has been taken out of context in order to isolate her and make her unsupportable by people who claim to not like cancel culture. The whole thing is ridiculous.
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#18DHH's "I trust Meta over Signal because a board member at Signal is woke" is utter content-farming clickbaity dishonest discourse for someone of his skill and intelligence (given the guarantees inherent in the Signal protocol and its opensource nature) and his previously stated stance against cancel culture [0]. This quest for influence seems to break people's brains in weird ways. [0] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/…
Why is this getting downvoted?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is why we need decentralization. That's an interesting interpretation. I read it as 'all cryptocurrencies are scams'.
Not all cryptocurrencies are scams, not all traffic on Tor is CSAM, and not matrix messages are spam. Some of us use all of these decentralized systems daily for their actual intended use cases of sovereignty and privacy. Things like money and messaging are too important to a functioning society to allow any single party to control. We need -actually- decentralized money and -actually- decentralized communication. Mo…
That's why there is no single party to control communication, and even for money there is US vs EU systems.
"Actually decentralized" has a lot of problems, especially with things like spam and scams (see also: usenet). Federation makes sure no single party has too much power, and yet allows one to have usable systems.
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#20can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?
Rufo, the guy who invented the Critical Race Theory conspiracy theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo , posted a video clip of her and wildly misinterpreted it for clicks. There have been a bunch of submissions and I think all of them have been flagged dead. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080036