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Comment · 5 hours ago
This was never an issue with my Pixel. Using my pixel with graphene without google play services resulted in better battery life than stock.
Comment · 6 hours ago
Go makes signal handling harder. Further, there is no FFI call overhead in Rust, C++, Swift. It isn’t marshalling, a function with no args will still incur an overhead.
Comment · 8 hours ago
The whole point of signal is that they cannot provide you with your data - they do not store it.

Further, I have been frustrated with similar design decisions with Signal - but how can they ensure you can export your messages without allowing letter agencies to do the same? Falling back on platform security guarantees is a rather good choice in terms of the economics - Signal need not gatekeep access to their private data - it is android and iOS that do the heavy lifting there. I’d love to move my messages between devices and sims - but I understand why that is not feasible for now.

Comment · 9 hours ago
Calling C functions is not free, compilation becomes a lot more difficult, Go tooling is not as helpful. Signal handling is still a mess. It works in the happy path where the FFI is not on the hot path.
Comment · 2 days ago
Go really sucks at calling into C code.
Comment · 4 days ago
So far.
Comment · 5 days ago
Not sure about iPads, but going from a pixel 3 to a pixel 5 made me feel like my pixel 3 was broken. Xr to 16 pro was similar, but that is because Xr was legit broken.
Comment · 5 days ago
Would a Trump puppet not also be anti-NATO and pro-Putin?
Comment · 7 days ago
Postmarket is very much not like any other aosp derivative.
Comment · 9 days ago
Swift gas a facility for this type of thing, Rust could adopt it too.
Comment · 10 days ago
I guess I should update my nextcloud.

No, scratch that. I should replace it with something that is not a trash fire.

Comment · 10 days ago
Be a tech maximalist- use tech and will power to pull ahead with green energy. Go hard on batteries and energy storage. I do not even care that I may sound delusional - the contrary doomer viewpoint is deluded in a far worse manner. The things we need either are or are not within our abilities- you will never know unless you try. Resigning with *it’s too hard* ensures we will know that we cannot.
Comment · 11 days ago
Don’t apologize for x, just don’t post x links.
Comment · 11 days ago
Or use fido/gpg in a yubikey - the user gets to authenticate the use of the secret, but it never leaves the hardware token, let alone the client computer.
Comment · 11 days ago
Zero hardware changes forced springboard teams hand here.

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