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Comment · 3 years ago
For Session:

> Accounts can only be used on a single device, multi-device support is planned for the future

Can confirm that this is not true. I have multi device set up and it works just fine.

> Files are temporarily stored on a central server (encrypted) until the recipients retrieve them

Not just files, but also your messages. However, it's not as "centralized" as you think. The messages are stored across the Loki network, not just on one centralized server.

> Still new, bugs exists and features may change

Another con I would add is that it is painfully slow. There's often a delay of 10-15 or more seconds between sending a text message and receiving it. Interestingly, media files have about the same "lag". This makes faster conversations difficult, since I would send a message and an older message would backfill in making my message irrelevant. For example, I would receive "I have an idea", send back "what is the idea", but then a few seconds later a message would backfill in and appear before the message I just sent with clarification on the idea.

But that being said, I still think Session is one of the best truly-secure messengers out there. It's bug-free enough for daily use, very decentralized, solves the "offline message" issue. The only concern I have left is their weird crypto integration. The nodes in the Loki network are crypto nodes and it requires staking some $LOKI to join the pool. You do get rewarded for participating in some ways, however.

Comment · 3 years ago
FreshRSS for sync and on my computer, with NetNewsWire on my phone
Comment · 3 years ago
The power went out where I am right as the temps dropped. That means no heating. Luckily, I was able to get my fireplace running, despite it being fully electric-controlled and we were out of batteries (I just wired together a bunch of triple A's and it happened to work)
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It's gotta grow at a rate of e^x so that the rate of growth is also the rate of the rate of growth and also is the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate...

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