aleken··on Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets RightMedium-rare is how you want your beef, no?
aleken··on Retroshare: Secure Communication for EveryoneI really wish this was more adopted. But the fact that there’s no mobile app (that I know of) keeps a lot of people out.It’s good software though.
aleken··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I VisitI moved to a rural area in Europe with poor internet. Those GIFs take their time to load!
aleken··on Wave – A private and unique messenger for iOSNorwegian eight digit numbers are not possible to submit in the signup form. Strange that they need the phone number for an “anonymous “ messaging device.
aleken··on Telegram: Taking Back Our Right to PrivacyAll of these are features a rouge client simply can ignore.
aleken··on Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant instant messagingBriar project is doing something similar. https://briarproject.org/Actively developed
aleken··on Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatantGood luck tonight! I know I will most likely collude.
aleken··on Tell HN: Enigmail 2.0 to automatically encrypt e-mailsWill pep handle key exchanging as well? Looks interesting, but I can't find out if/how it handles this?
aleken··on Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFSI imagine an IPFS chat software could store it's necessary information in... IPFS. So why involve redis?
aleken··on Wire open-sourcedOtto is my new best friend. I cannot see any information about a bot API on their site though...