nunobrito

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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
There is zero baggage on NOSTR regarding identities. An npub became the non-ambiguous way to reference anyone regardless of where they are writing from.

Thank you for the reference to that project called anproto, never had heard of it and I'm still without understanding what problem it really solves. Seems to encrypt texts but then contains zero outside metadata to route it somewhere. The website is very scarce on details for someone unfamiliar the scuttle-something they mention.

Comment · 1 month ago
Identities. Creating an identity in XMPP is an absolute mess and requires domains along with approvals. At least in IRC this isn't complicated.

My own preference goes to NOSTR, just a set of public/private keys as identity and nothing else needed.

Comment · 1 month ago
This is a great tool, really deserves more recognition that currently has.

Discord tries to fool with the concept of "servers" which really aren't, Armada is indeed giving full control where data goes and even on public NOSTR servers is kept safe/private beyond doubt.

Comment · 1 month ago
You can downvote my posts as much as you want with your cronies.

It won't change reality, doesn't matter how many paragraphs you write. The fact is that all that security is useless when using hardware that is compromised from the start. And I will repeat this again: any NSA supplier does bug their hardware and they do this for decades until finally admitting, just need to take a look on the NSA museum.

Stop promoting suspiciously funded Android distributions that run on even more suspicious hardware by groups that routinely promote state-sponsored tools on their social media.

Comment · 1 month ago
Excuses. None of that is a reason to force users into high-profile hardware that is not audited and makes anyone buying them an automatic Person Of Interest.

Furthermore, sound cryptography isn't dependending on specific hardware to function, with that kind of reasoning we'd never get encrypted communications anywhere. So stop inventing excuses and for once in life look deep into how they are financed, which apparently is OK to be as opaque as possible as to whom is paying them so much money.

Comment · 1 month ago
This android distribution is very suspicious because of a lot of bad architectural decisions (that is one of them) and their famous refusal to disclose funding sources which go beyond common logic for open source projects.

There are other Android distributions that run on practically any Android phone you have, look for LineageOS. Even your phone is not explicitly listed as supported, using Claude is easy nowadays to adjust the distro to run on your phone perfectly.

Comment · 1 month ago
Reticulum creates networks but over radio the bandwidth is so limited that what you can realistically send are just messages.

There are more efficient protocols like APRS and more recently XPRS.

Comment · 1 month ago
Why.. just why..?

What a waste.

Comment · 1 month ago
When they already mine for ETH, why would any of them be interested in a secondary coin without value?

Value should come from somewhere more than just speculation.

Comment · 1 month ago
Oh the memories. Took them forever to introduce something as simple as tabs that virtually all other competitors had since years.

File explorer was the same, only recently it got tabs.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yep, and didn't work.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Learn to play piano

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