Sadly I found out yesterday:

Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.

https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

Many were claiming its impossible to get contributions merged as well.

I would be happy to find out this information is wrong or outdated.

Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?

You can’t export your MFA? Aegis for example allows this.

You shouldn’t trust TurboTax so much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/turbotax-privacy-tax-return-2024/

They also keep trying to trick you into giving consent:

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/are-turbotax-and-hr-block-sharing-your-personal-info/

They also lobby to keep taxes complex.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

Threema bad:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/security-analysis-of-threema.html

Signal if you trust them to not leak your identifier and because its gotten the most mass adoption.

Simplex if you can convince your circle to use it because it has no identifiers and is user friendly.

https://simplex.chat/

You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.

Signal is still very good though.

https://devenv.sh/

Note this also builds oci compatible containers you can run with podman, kubernetes, etc.

It lets you develop on bare metal in an environment the same as the docker container and is reproducible rather than just repeatable.

This could be solved with a:

Can’t make up your mind?

Click here to choose a random general topic instance. Don’t worry, if you want to switch later you can.

Google play services betrays you.

Use https://grapheneos.org/ and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.

But simplex seemed just as easy as signal to set up?

Pretty much the same in use IIRC.

WhatsApp -> Simplex

I recommend Simplex over signal because its not tied to your phone number and has no identifiers.

The first messenger without user IDs

https://simplex.chat/

Kim Kardashian

People are definitely born cops and it’s an immutable characteristic.

Most social justice aware leftists don’t deny class issues, lol wut

Whats the story on GrapheneOS drama?

What’s your take on what valve has done for linux gaming and how much off it is open source?

Doesn’t opera gx have horrible privacy issues?

Maybe the Nobel should have went to you.

No identifiers, so your social graph stays private.

Also has an independent security audit.

To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.

https://simplex.chat/#how-simplex-works