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almost 2 years ago | about 7 years ago | |
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nostr
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WebRTC TipXmr Idea
Other things that might be worth looking into: Nostr for comms https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
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Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email
nostr (https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.
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Facebook to allow calls for violence against Putin
Nostr [1] seems interesting. I don't trust the idea of "relays" on the long term but it seems like it should be possible to develop alternative ways to distribute the content, and it can be a way to bootstrap the network in the short term. Though at this moment it seems a bit too bare-bones, and it would need some interesting application built on top of it to make it usable.
[1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
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Towards a Greater Federated Architecture: What does a next-gen Fediverse platform look like? How features might help the network move forward?
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr comes to mind as so far the best example of p2p social networking.
- In This Environment, I Don't Think We Can Have Decentralized Media Without Bitcoin
- /u/Mark_Bear reddit account suspended. What happened? He was one of the most frequent commenters on this subreddit and seemed to know what he was talking about regarding Bitcoin.
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Ask HN: Getting Started with Web3 Development
I don’t know if this is the answer you’re looking for because it’s not tied to a cryptocurrency but take a look at nostr: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
It’s a protocol that allows nodes to gossip event messages amongst each other. The event relays can be used as a backend to provide data to your web/desktop/mobile apps.
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The Nostr Protocol - NIP01
Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is a new type of social experience on the web where "dumb" relays can be used to send messages from one user to another, in a secure, censorship resistant manner.
- Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
- nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
LibreSignal
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Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
>what does this mean?
Moxie (Signal's founder) has thrown fits in the past over the existence of third-party clients using their servers: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37#issueco...
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Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol
0: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37
I push back when anyone recommends Signal because they are fundamentally not an open network.
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Hosting Signal frontend on a local server (Like Signal desktop but through website)
OWS has historically been hostile to third party implementations outside of their clients. There are multiple unofficial options but the only one I've been looking at is the bridge with matrix, though setting up a matrix server just for this is likely overkill.
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After High Court Ruling, Telegram Discloses Names/Numbers/IP of Users
I have to say that I find him fascinating too, but there are a few things that raise my suspicion, but of course do not convict him of anything:
The way he is attacking this alternative Signal client and rules out interoperability:
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Signal was a word before he decided to turn it into a brand.
The signal server source code repo was not updated for a year. Communication intransparent.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa...
I am not even against crypto integration, but I found the choice of MobileCoin odd. Instead of integrating an existing privacy coin or working with the community, he decided to integrate MOB and to be one of their "advisors":
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/mobilecoin-moxie-marlinspi...
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mobilecoin
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Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
Is that so surprising? Signal had always a hostile attitude to alternative clients. They have this weird disconnect of the new CEO saying they want to be available to as many people as possible and be a fully commited FOSS app, and then have no version on F-Droid (while Telegram has!) and actively fight alternative clients (see https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...)
Because of this hostility Signal is not a trustworthy organization at all.
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Signal discontinuing SMS support.
LibreSignal existed before Moxie was like “no, don’t”: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal
- Combattez la censure Iranienne en hébergeant un proxy Signal
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Nokia 1680 phone gets new PCB, runs mainline Linux
They have shut down third party clients, and resve the roght to continue that.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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Office 365 implementing AI to detect employees colluding, leaving and more
1) You need to audit that code, which.. everyone will have to do.
2) https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
> the Signal Android codebase includes some native shared libraries that we employ for voice calls (WebRTC, etc). At the time this native code was added, there was no Gradle NDK support yet, so the shared libraries aren’t compiled with the project build.
a good answer in my opinion, but it means what you run from the play store is not reproducible and thus can never really be confirmed to be what the sources actually include. There are also binary blobs needed for interacting with Google Play.
3) Signal is openly hostile to third party client implementations: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37
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Axolotl: First cross-plattform Signal client
Moxie Marlinspike on May 5th 2016:
> I'm not OK with LibreSignal using our servers, and I'm not OK with LibreSignal using the name "Signal." You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you're not entitled to use our name or the service that we run.
> If you think running servers is difficult and expensive (you're right), ask yourself why you feel entitled for us to run them for your product.
Moxie Marlinspike left Signal this January[2] 2022.
Whose to say whether there will be any change, but it's been interesting seeing Signal as a somewhat defended property. Although various third party clients/tools/libraries do exist already.
The claim that running servers is expensive would have been more interesting, imo, had there been any viable way to run your own. But for a long while Signal server source code wasn't being updated at all.
[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
[2] https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
mollyim-android - Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
synapse-admin - Admin console for synapse Matrix homeserver
signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.
rsslay - A Nostr relay that creates profiles from RSS or Atom feeds and emits items as Nostr events
calyxos-fdroid-repo
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".
snapshot - Interface for Snapshot. Join us on Discord http://discord.snapshot.org
Signal-iOS - A private messenger for iOS.