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28 days agoGreat explaination, thanks a lot!
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Can I get an ELI5? My understanding is that easements are the fees that customers (either individual or community) pay to get the equipment/infra run to their property for service.
Are you saying that customers wouldn’t have paid those easements if it was the normal telecom company doing it, as opposed to Google? If so, what are the “damages” in this case? I’m not understanding for what you could sue.
How obtrusive are the popups? Are you on iPhone or Android? The pin verify popup is like 20% of the screen at the bottom for me. And it’s nearly the same color as the background, so I sometimes don’t even notice it. Or at least, I finally see it and think “how long has that been there?”
I agree that some things can probably be scaled back. But wouldn’t it be an even worse experience if someone forgot their pin, and thus was unable to access their data?
So there is actually disinfo about it being funded by the CIA. I had heard it was, and tbh didn’t care too much. I figured they funded it because they used it and got value. It’s well audited so I trust it. Only learned it’s disinfo when I looked for a source to include in my original reply
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/us-intelligences-services-control-the-signal-app/
Does that person allow searching by phone number? That is a setting you can disable.
- I have never been asked to verify my recovery key.
- It asks to verify pin once a month. Which I think is fair, since it can help you recover from a lockout / transfer your device.
- backups are important, but they can also be disabled
- Donating to open source projects is important, as it’s a large portion of their funding.
I hate this sentiment. I was part of a bachelor party, and we had a group chat going. Had Android/iPhone users, so it was just a MMS chat. I suggested we use signal, and one of the iPhone users goes on a rant
“I’m not gonna use Signal. It’s just a honeypot for the CIA. Why else would they fund it if they didn’t get any value out of. It’s obviously a honey pot”
1·2 months agoYeah, I noticed that recentjy. I had lost track when it was an initial PR. Was a nice surprise
Everything you mention is great. However I think everyone needs GadgetBridge in their lives. Especially with the “internet helper” they’re working on to allow opt-in ability to share with internet things (like they’re working on supporting Endurain)
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