@Mayana I ended up with 11, so I'm officially famous now.
Hashtags have been added. :)
Thanks for the follows, folx
@Mayana It only starts working once you have 10 followers, and I'm not that cool yet.
@uniq @riccomatx@mastodon.at @freedomboxfndn @cryptpad
Thanks for the compliment (I'm one of the CryptPad devs).
I'd be happy to chat with anyone interested in building more apps with this kind of architecture. There are definitely some challenges, but we've learned a few tricks along the way.
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RT @Gen_R_@twitter.com
#1 in our #opensciencetop10 is @cryptpad@twitter.com https://cryptpad.fr — web based rich text editor - the reasonis that a Google Docs replacement is a must. Great though it is — researchers need greater privacy and real-time collaboration is the future. 🚀 https://genr.eu/wp/open-science-top-ten-tools-all-open-source/
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A reminder that just because there isn’t some big, evil company behind mastodon trying to monetize your interactions doesn’t mean that activity isn’t being tracked for various purposes.
Interesting discussion on the mastodon admin mailing list today about a university student running analytics in mastodon instances. Not malicious or really even concerning, but highlights the issue.
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I made it clear a few days ago that there are limitations for commentsEnabled.
Instead of delaying it for months to engineer a techbro approved solution, we shipped it joining PeerTube as the only other implementation (I know of) that has this option.
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As announced yesterday, http://cryptpad.fr is going down for some server maintenance. We'll be back shortly.
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Hey everyone! privacytools.io is now on Matrix at #general:privacytools.io 😄
Feel free to join us or make an account at https://riot.privacytools.io/ if you don't have one already!
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Hugely important work here: https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/
Encrypted tooling gets a lot of attention, but there's a lot of effort needed to change norms, and especially to motivate laws that actually protect vulnerable demographics.
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Sharks are older than trees. 🦈
The first plant species which can be considered a real tree is known as Archaeopteris, and it evolved about 350 million years ago.
The first sharks evolved 50 million years before that!
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Just finished preparing and rehearsing my opening speech for the debate in Singapore this week. I will be defending the motion “Entrepreneurs today do more harm than good.”
This is my opening slide :)
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CryptPad was pretty rough at that point too, and we still have a lot to fix, so I'm definitely not trying to call anyone out.
We may have to disagree re: OWS. I'm glad they developed the protocols used by the majority of the encrypted messengers today.
Building software for privacy is hard. Proprietary services get paid good money to deal with complaints, but I think the services you're criticizing deserve at least a little recognition for their efforts.
I think this too is a matter of audience. They're not expecting their readers to be able to launch a service.
I'm not trying to argue whether it deserves to be on the list, in any case, but the more general statement of whether the developers are "unethical".
I'm happy my project is listed, as we do need support. If you want them to remove items from their list you may want to use their contact form.
I'll have to give it a try again. The last time I used it my battery life was cut in half.
I appreciated a lot of their technical decisions with regards to privacy, though.
Signal is a step in the right direction for people who are otherwise just using SMS, and I think that's the audience the makers of this list were trying to reach. You may notice that it's nowhere near as focused on privacy as privacytools.io.
I met the Jami developers at fosdem 2018, and tried it out. I agree they're doing good work. All the same, I don't think anyone who does less is a bad or unethical person.
Considering ethics in boolean terms isn't really that productive, as I see it. Most things aren't that simple.
Regarding Loomio, I think it's their decision how they want to host their flagship instance. Cloudflare has a lot of issues, and I would never use it for one of my own projects, but I don't blame them for outsourcing some infra to someone else.
It's really hard to work full time on a product while giving away its source as free software, and they have my support for doing so. Anyone who doesn't like Cloudflare can self-host because the dev team made that decision.
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