I'm suprised "privacy conscience" people use Signal.
Like... Sure! let me just give you my PHONE NUMBER THAT LINKS DIRECTLY BACK TO MY REAL-WORLD IDENTITY so that I can send "secure" text messages.
Signal promoters are clowns.
SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
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Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
#42I'm suprised "privacy conscience" people use Signal. Like... Sure! let me just give you my PHONE NUMBER THAT LINKS DIRECTLY BACK TO MY REAL-WORLD IDENTITY so that I can send "secure" text messages. Signal promoters are clowns.
Do you think its possible that they could be optimizing for a different problem domain than the one you judge them for?
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#43Cease and desist from Signal incoming, from their legal terms: > "Signal", Signal logos, and other trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Signal Technology Foundation in the United States and other countries (more info here).
This isn’t an official thing from Signal?
it's right on the page linked:
SignalBot was made by gwillem and is free to use.
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#44My SaaS is sending monitoring notifications using signal-cli, and I regularly run into rate limits (enforced by Signal servers, not signal-cli), especially when sending to new numbers/usernames. To the author--do you have any plans on how to work around that?
I guess they've hit the limit, because the bot isn't responding for me.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What damages are the courts referring to?
I couldn't really find any details about any of these cases. Some of the names there too are pretty strange like "Tobaccopedia" and "Kraft LLC vs Kraft ULC". ULCs (as far as I know) are a Canadian thing and I highly doubt I can just go an open a company called "Cocacola ULC" in Canada? Those examples look like LLM generated nonsense, though correct me if I'm wrong. The example usually taught in school for this sort o…
"German pharmaceutical firm Bayer was forced to give up its rights to the Aspirin trademark in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, which followed its defeat in World War One (it also lost the rights to Heroin, but in hindsight it's probably not so upset about that).
The punishment only applied to aspirin's use in victor nations the USA, UK and France, leaving Bayer's trademark still enforceable elsewhere."
Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't really find any details about any of these cases. Some of the names there too are pretty strange like "Tobaccopedia" and "Kraft LLC vs Kraft ULC". ULCs (as far as I know) are a Canadian thing and I highly doubt I can just go an open a company called "Cocacola ULC" in Canada? Those examples look like LLM generated nonsense, though correct me if I'm wrong. The example usually taught in school for this sort o…
"German pharmaceutical firm Bayer was forced to give up its rights to the Aspirin trademark in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, which followed its defeat in World War One (it also lost the rights to Heroin, but in hindsight it's probably not so upset about that). The punishment only applied to aspirin's use in victor nations the USA, UK and France, leaving Bayer's trademark still enforceable elsewhere." https://www…
“Elsewhere” being literally meaning else where. I wasn’t alive in 1919, though my understanding from the literature is that “the American public didn’t like the German”. Like how they didn’t like the Irish before that. Then how they don’t like the Japanese in 1940s, the north Koran in 1956, then the Vietnamese in 1950-60s, then the Arabs in the 1970s-2000s, then the Chinese in the 2010s-today.
Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
#47"Houti Alert" is a hilarious sample notification.
"However, it is not recommended to use the API to send passwords or war plans."
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#48Who is behind this and how does it work? Why is this information not present on the front page? And why does somebody who thinks people would start using and relying on it not immediately understand that that's important information?
pretty clear to me. >Who is behind this SignalBot − built by gwillem © 2025 contact (link to a signal group) >and how does it work? "Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts." "curl -d ' Houthi alert' https://signalbot.one/api/ ..." If you don't know what "API" or "webhooks" are, then you're probably not the target audience. That's fine. Your aunt probably doesn't know what an…
"Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts." is not "how it works" but "how you use it".
This is "hacker news". A hacker is typically interested in how something works (under the hood).
If a hacker asks "how does this mobile phone work?" then they are not looking for "well here you press a button and then here you speak" but something about radio waves and cell towers and mobile operating systems.
> > Who is behind this
> SignalBot − built by gwillem © 2025
When I looked, this information wasn't there. Only the "buy me a coffee" link. Now it is, thanks.
Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal
#49I love the Signal Home Assistant Add-On. Now home assistant delivers all messages. I use it for RSS news, device notifications, debugging,... This so good, I'm afraid it might go away. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/signal_messenger/
What is the advantage of using Signal for notifications compared to just using notifications built-in into Home Assistant mobile app?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems interesting but I have already second app linked to my profile.
https://ntfy.sh https://github.com/caronc/apprise
I am using apprise for several years. It works but have few drawbacks:
-no login, almost no security
-sometimes it does not works and there are no logs to see what exactly happens.
-secret storage is very bad
Ntfy I will check thanks.