The general idea was that there are usability and feature tradeoffs, and different tools try different choices, and it isn't clear what the right fit is, and by trying a bunch you help figure it out. If I see the video link, I'll forward it, unless someone beats me to it.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 3:22 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:33 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 1. Lack of true interoperability and vender / platform lock-in. It used > to > > be that I could login to Chrome at the library and use Cryptocat and then > > Signal. > > > > > The millenial generation is currently engaged in an internal battle for > protocol dominance. Once the bubble bursts and we have our second dot com > crash, we will achieve a brief era of interoperability before the next > innovation tears it all apart. Few people my age learned from history, and > will therefore repeat it. > > > > > 2. Feature bloat. A lightweight secure text app with out any voice, > video, > > emoji garbage. > > > > > Remember the sole purpose of technology is to solve a given problem. A lot > of people ask questions like "Which app should I use?" or "Does anything > have any recommendations?" but in order to answer your question, we need to > know what you intend to use said app for. > Can you elaborate on your intended use case? The software is FOSS, so it's > hard to pinpoint a feature when everyone offers the same set of features. > To be perfectly honest with you, the majority of these apps are just chrome > extensions. It often takes more effort to remove features than it does to > add them so you are unlikely to find a "popular" app that doesn't do > unicode and VOIP. > > As for the Secure part of your question, that's an easy one: Don't trust > anything based on Electron or Node.js. The concerns you mention about > feature bloat and security are largely due to convergent .JS platforms, so > if you ignore anything based on those platforms, you are much more likely > to find what you are looking for, with better confidence in your end-to-end > encryption. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
