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> “Ende” is an anagram of “Deno”

no it’s not. did you outsource naming your thing to an llm (which famously can’t do letters), and then outsource writing your blog post to an llm (where it explained its faulty reasoning), and then didn’t even read your own blog post? is that what happened? I’m genuinely baffled, but I can’t see another explanation. it’s four letters, you’d think a human wouldn’t mis-anagram this.

I think at least some skepticism about independency is warranted when the board of directors is 3/4 Anthropic employees. Zulip is an awesome tool, and I want to assume good faith here, but it’s really hard to interpret this as anything other than acquihiring, especially given how industry is prone to using intermediary non-profits for things they actually control.

I think this misses the point of LISP macros. LISP macros are just functions written in LISP, so here macros need to be functions written in Rust-but-LISP, but it is not so. In fact, I think this macro language lacks conditionals, so it’s not even Turing-complete.

> Folks who manually enable our "Resist Fingerprinting" preference (which we don't officially support, and I don't generally recommend - but hey, you do you) are very loud on Bugzilla. VERY loud. To the point where I've had a lot of managers and executives come telling me "Everyone is complaining about this breaking stuff, we really need to disable this so people can't accidentally turn it on." Telemetry let me show that despite being SO LOUD they're still a minute portion of the population. Management's question "Should we block it?" became "No." You're welcome.

Telemetry shows that users who didn’t opt out of telemetry don’t care about fingerprinting. Who’d have thought.

I’m facing it on Element Desktop, but I’ll try to reproduce it on Element Web. I’ve tried to submit logs from Element Desktop, but it says that `/rageshake` (which I was told to do) is not a command. I’m happy to help with debugging this, but I’m not sure how to submit logs from Desktop.

Something like this happens basically every time I try to use Matrix though. Messages are not decrypting, or not being delivered, or devices can’t be authenticated for some cryptic reason. The reason I even tried to use Element Desktop is because my nheko is seemingly now incapable of sending direct messages (the recepient just gets infinite “waiting for message”).

> Say more. Plenty of people use Signal as a serious communication tool.

I did say more already. Maybe you believe in serious communication tools that can’t synchronize searchable history between devices, but I don’t.

> They, and other communities that use GPG-encrypted emails are LARPing, and it’s only fine because their emails don’t actually matter enough for anybody to care about compromising them.

Are we talking about the same Openwall? Are you aware what Openwall’s oss-security mailing list is? Please, do elaborate how nobody cares about getting access to an unlimited stream of zerodays for basically every Unix-like system.

I’m definitely not “commiting malpractice” on account of not being a security practicioner. I’m talking from a perspective of a user.

It’s important to me — as a user — that a communication tool doesn’t lose my data, and Signal already did. Actual practicioners keep recommending Signal and sure, I believe that in a weird scenario where my encryption keys are somehow compromised without also compromising my local message history, Signal’s double-ratchet will do wonders — but it doesn’t actually work as a serious communication tool.

It’s also kinda curious that while the “email cannot be made secure” mantra is constantly repeated online, basically every organization that needs secure communication uses email. Openwall are certainly practicioners, and they use PGP-over-email: are they commiting malpractice?

Yes, if your only device is a single Android phone you can do that. You can’t, however, use that backup to populate your message history on other platforms.

I’ve already lost message history consistency because one of my devices was offline for too long. The messages are there on my other device, but Signal refuses to let me copy my data from one of my devices to another. Signal is, quite literally, worse at syncing message history than IRC — at least with IRC I can set up a bouncer and have a consistent view of history on all of my devices, but there’re no Signal bouncers.

> You don't have to use it like "encrypted SMS"! You're free.

Using it as something more than encrypted SMS requires persistent message history between devices.

> metric fuckton of messages

“More than 45 days” is a metric fuckton? Seriously?

> If you want Signal to host the encrypted storage, that costs money. If you don't want to pay Signal money, they provide 45 days of backup for free.

I don’t want Signal to store my messages. I want Signal to not lock in my messages on their servers, so I can sync them between my devices and back them up into my own backups.

> If you want to self-host your own backups (at your own cost), that's easy to do.

Except there’s no way to move it between platforms. I have more than one device.

> Are you referring to MobileCoin? That feature isn't in the pipeline for sending messages.

I don’t want shady crypto company to hold my data hostage, and there’s no way to store it on my hardware and then move it between platforms. That’s my problem with signal.

> A Synchronized Start for Linked Devices

It only properly transfers 45 days. You can’t have more than one phone. Phones are special “primary devices” and AFAIK you can’t restore your messages if you lose your phone even if you have logged-in Signal Desktop.

> If you want a suggestion for secure messaging, it's Signal/WhatsApp. If you want to LARP at security with a handful of other folks, GPG is a fine way to do that.

I want secure messaging, not encrypted SMS. I want my messages to sync properly between arbitrary number of devices. I want my messaging history to not be lost when I lose a device. I want not losing my messaging history to not be a paid feature. I want to not depend on a shady crypto company to send a message.