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I thought moxie moved on from Signal? Is he still in the loop?
The anti-signal crowd loves to blame moxie for everything. Just part of their overall commitment to being fact-free
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Moxies always been fairly dictatorial about Signal. no third party clients, no decentralization. im not surprised to see a DMCA at all. So far Signal is a centralized encrypted messaging app that includes its own cryptocurrency and wallet no one asked for, shills me for donations every other release, and begs me to invite new users despite deprecating regular SMS message support. if youre a threat-actor the most male…
This doesn’t change the fact that signal is the best option for my grandma to use still. Moxie is no longer active in signal afaik. This is the new leadership.
Looks to me like Signal is the interior app here.
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Signal offers an official deb. The correct behavior would have been for third parties to not distribute trademark-infringing binaries and call them Signal
Binaries are just condensed source code. So when the source code is AGPL I sure as hell can distribute binaries if I like.
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What are your others? I use signal alot personally and haven't had too many issues.
Not GP but I'm a Signal user and here are my gripes: - No easy way to do and restore backups on Android and impossible to do backups on their PC client - Does not support Android tablets at all (my mom loves hers) - Fails to ring on Android when you call someone or someone calls you, later serving you a missed call notification (disabled Doze/battery optimization feature on Android and tested on 3 different phones wi…
This is mostly Androids fault... For me, even Whatsapp's built in camera is terrible. When you press the button to take a photo, it starts focussing, then takes a photo before the focussing is done. So every photo taken is reliably blurry. There isn't any way to take a non-blurry photo with the main (back) camera.
The main OS camera app works fine.
I think they have per-device logic for this sort of thing, and mine is an uncommon chinaphone, so presumably they haven't tuned the logic for it.
How in the world did a walled garden ecosystem like Snap manage to embed itself so deeply into Linux culture? There needs to be a user and industry revolt against Snap for this sort of shenanigans.
The same was systemd did? The force of a multi-billion dollar company, where profit is far more important than doing it right? Linux and OSS software became what it is, became the stable, secure powerhouse it is, literally dominating every aspect of computing, because profit was originally less important. Look at Debian, which only ships when ready, and never ever to a fixed deadline. Yet today, almost all private co…
I'm not being facetious, it's just that this aspect has not been described to me so far, IIRC.
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What this is is also another reason not to use Snap. This is a multi-level failure. 1. Signal-Desktop is AGPLv3: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop 2. The snap package metadata is AGPLv3: https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop So, this looks like a fraudulent DMCA claim by Signal, as the snap package maintainers and Canonicial have an open source license! This shows malice by Signal. 3. No-one from C…
AGPLv3 does not somehow permit trademark violations. Signal has taken issue with third parties building binaries and calling them Signal, and I can’t really blame them. This is the same reason Signal isn’t in F-Droid
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Binaries are just condensed source code. So when the source code is AGPL I sure as hell can distribute binaries if I like.
I think the point is that you can't call it Signal. Is that correct?
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The anti-signal crowd loves to blame moxie for everything. Just part of their overall commitment to being fact-free
Moxie was fairly controversial in his stance on several issues. That's not "fact-free".
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What are your others? I use signal alot personally and haven't had too many issues.
Not GP but I'm a Signal user and here are my gripes: - No easy way to do and restore backups on Android and impossible to do backups on their PC client - Does not support Android tablets at all (my mom loves hers) - Fails to ring on Android when you call someone or someone calls you, later serving you a missed call notification (disabled Doze/battery optimization feature on Android and tested on 3 different phones wi…
Also no problems with it not ringing, Signal is actually the primary way that my family calls each other now and no one has experienced it not ringing when expected.
The rest I admittedly dont use or arent impacted by.
While its not perfect in all ways, I disagree with the "alpha" quality sentiment. Especially when you are comparing it to apps that dont have the same security goals or standards.
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Signal offers an official deb. The correct behavior would have been for third parties to not distribute trademark-infringing binaries and call them Signal
Binaries are just condensed source code. So when the source code is AGPL I sure as hell can distribute binaries if I like.
As far as I understood the argument, you're free to distribute binaries, you just can't call them "Signal", since it's a trademarked name (?).