Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-05-09 Thread Will Mengarini
* Andrei POPESCU [21-03/12=Fr 17:51 +0200]: > When Facebook was in its infancy (at least in my country) > they were spamming my e-mail inviting me to join [...] I wanted to know what "my country" designated, so ... - `g Andrei POPESCU` --- Andrei Popescu is a Romanian lawyer and a judge

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-05-08 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, May 8, 2021, 7:22 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 21 mar 21, 09:55:32, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Of course the *primary* private key should be protected properly. A > > Debian recommendation (that I can't find) was suggesting to generate and > > keep it on a Tails USB stick and use

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-05-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 mar 21, 09:55:32, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Of course the *primary* private key should be protected properly. A > Debian recommendation (that I can't find) was suggesting to generate and > keep it on a Tails USB stick and use it only for certifying other keys. > > Day to day work

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 21:21:32 +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > On 3/23/21 5:51 PM, Viktor Vogel wrote: > > An observation from a native English speaker - > > > > I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly > > good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-23 Thread ellanios82
On 3/23/21 5:51 PM, Viktor Vogel wrote: An observation from a native English speaker - I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it much more difficult than Chinese. Chinese has different sounds,

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-03-23, Viktor Vogel wrote: > An observation from a native English speaker - > > I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly > good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it > much more difficult than Chinese. > I remember seeing an

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-23 Thread Viktor Vogel
An observation from a native English speaker - I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it much more difficult than Chinese. Chinese has different sounds, and tones that need to be mastered, but

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Weaver
On 23-03-2021 06:06, deloptes wrote: > Weaver wrote: > >> Not an easy language to learn, however, unless you already have Slavic >> roots. > > You mean Chinese is easier than Russian and Russian is harder than French? > And I mean not only speaking, but also writing Yes, once you understand

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread John Hasler
deloptes writes: > You mean Chinese is easier than Russian and Russian is harder than > French? I have no experience with Chinese but I found Russian harder than French (though I've pretty much forgotten both). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread deloptes
Weaver wrote: > Not an easy language to learn, however, unless you already have Slavic > roots. You mean Chinese is easier than Russian and Russian is harder than French? And I mean not only speaking, but also writing

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Weaver
On 23-03-2021 05:47, deloptes wrote: > Weaver wrote: > >> Yes. >> But, once there, far better to learn the language. >> The resultant experience is well worth it. >> The money is not the same, but the cost of living is much lower. >> Cheers! > > I was thinking to go to Chech Republic or Russia -

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread deloptes
Weaver wrote: > Yes. > But, once there, far better to learn the language. > The resultant experience is well worth it. > The money is not the same, but the cost of living is much lower. > Cheers! I was thinking to go to Chech Republic or Russia - found the language easier, but thanks anyway -

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Weaver
On 22-03-2021 19:00, deloptes wrote: > Weaver wrote: > >> They have some excellent language schools and, being surrounded by it, >> it's a fast way to learn. > > you mean I can look for a position in China without knowing Chinese? Yes. But, once there, far better to learn the language. The

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Joe
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:20:02 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > > term Chinese government is quite misleadingit's used as if it's same > as other legitimate  government, i.e. elected by people its true > nature is criminal group, as described in bill by US senator > All governments are criminal

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread deloptes
Weaver wrote: > They have some excellent language schools and, being surrounded by it, > it's a fast way to learn. you mean I can look for a position in China without knowing Chinese?

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Weaver
On 22-03-2021 18:13, deloptes wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > >> where do you live? most rich Chinese are considering emigration to West, >> this is called vote by feet. how many people in West come to live in >> china? > > my problem is the language, otherwise we could switch for couple of years to

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > where do you live? most rich Chinese are considering emigration to West, > this is called vote by feet. how many people in West come to live in > china? my problem is the language, otherwise we could switch for couple of years to exchange experience

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Larry Martell
LOn Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:49 PM Long Wind wrote: > where do you live? most rich Chinese are considering emigration to West, > this is called vote by feet. how many people in West come to live in china? > I know quite a few Chinese people who lived in the US for 5-8 years and could have easily

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread John Hasler
deloptes writes: > The difference as said is, that you know what China is doing You think you know what China is doing. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Weaver
On 22-03-2021 16:49, Long Wind wrote: > On Monday, March 22, 2021, 2:20:20 PM GMT+8, deloptes > wrote: > > The difference as said is, that you know what China is doing, but you > do not > > know what USA is doing. The moment you speak out (Assange, Snowden and > many > > many others) it is

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Weaver
On 22-03-2021 16:19, deloptes wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > >> term Chinese government is quite misleadingit's used as if it's same as >> other legitimate  government, i.e. elected by people its true nature is >> criminal group, as described in bill by US senator > > The difference as said is,

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread Long Wind
On Monday, March 22, 2021, 2:20:20 PM GMT+8, deloptes wrote: The difference as said is, that you know what China is doing, but you do not know what USA is doing. The moment you speak out (Assange, Snowden and many many others) it is the same as China. China is bad, but the illusion of

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-22 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > term Chinese government is quite misleadingit's used as if it's same as > other legitimate  government, i.e. elected by people its true nature is > criminal group, as described in bill by US senator The difference as said is, that you know what China is doing, but you do not

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Weaver
On 22-03-2021 11:20, Long Wind wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > Well, they are brain washed - in a sense they know that it is > impossible to > > stand up against and also might be not wise, because proven is the > fact > > they manage things better than neighbor India or developed Europe. > > I

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Long Wind
 deloptes wrote: Well, they are brain washed - in a sense they know that it is impossible to stand up against and also might be not wise, because proven is the fact they manage things better than neighbor India or developed Europe. I wanted to avoid being criticized for praising China. can

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Joe
On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:33:50 +0100 deloptes wrote: > Weaver wrote: > > > > I was in China at the time, and it was far from > > `totalitarian/militant'. The people just played it smart, as they > > also did in New Zealand, which was also not > > `totalitarian/militant'. > > Well, they are

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread deloptes
Weaver wrote: > On 21-03-2021 20:39, deloptes wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> In hindsight, what was meant as a joke probably came out as mocking, I >>> apologise for that. >>> >>> I'm sure you do know that the public key needs to be made available for >>> others to be able to send you

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Weaver
On 21-03-2021 20:39, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> In hindsight, what was meant as a joke probably came out as mocking, I >> apologise for that. >> >> I'm sure you do know that the public key needs to be made available for >> others to be able to send you encrypted messages. >> >>

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In hindsight, what was meant as a joke probably came out as mocking, I > apologise for that. > > I'm sure you do know that the public key needs to be made available for > others to be able to send you encrypted messages. > > Of course the *primary* private key should be

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 mar 21, 19:11:07, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > In my (not so humble) opinion, this level of security could make sense > > for a disident in a totalitarian state, less so for regular users in > > democratic country. > > > > And you disappoint me here too - you believe

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 mar 21, 19:03:58, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Good luck in doing public key cryptography without publishing the public > > key :) > > Andrei - you disappoint me here! In hindsight, what was meant as a joke probably came out as mocking, I apologise for that. I'm

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Weaver
On 21-03-2021 17:06, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sun Mar 21 00:01:59 2021 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> In my (not so humble) opinion, this level of security could make >>> sense for a disident in a totalitarian state, less so for regular >>> users in democratic country. >> >> Reminds me of the

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-21 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sun Mar 21 00:01:59 2021 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> In my (not so humble) opinion, this level of security could make >> sense for a disident in a totalitarian state, less so for regular >> users in democratic country. > > Reminds me of the saying that the difference between USA and USSR was >

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-20 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > Reminds me of the saying that the difference between USA and USSR was > that in USSR the population knew that it was propaganda. Exactly - this part is absolutely the same. The difference is in the methods. There it was wellknown, here - not until internet came out ... or

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In my (not so humble) opinion, this level of security could make sense > for a disident in a totalitarian state, less so for regular users in > democratic country. Reminds me of the saying that the difference between USA and USSR was that in USSR the population knew that it was propaganda.

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-20 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In my (not so humble) opinion, this level of security could make sense > for a disident in a totalitarian state, less so for regular users in > democratic country. > And you disappoint me here too - you believe in illusion of democracy, which is not so obvious as i.e. in

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-20 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Good luck in doing public key cryptography without publishing the public > key :) Andrei - you disappoint me here!

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 mar 21, 00:54:08, deloptes wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I hear there's a lot of interesting discussions there about how to > > communicate safely, but sadly so far I haven't managed to configure my > > safe not-internet-connected machine to participate. > > do you think it is

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > I certainly agree that they aren't "perfectly comparable or even the > same," and I certainly do trust open source software considerably more. > I was just objecting to absolutist claims that non-open source software > is completely untrustworthy - claims such as yours that

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:53:13 -0300 riveravaldez wrote: > On 3/18/21, Celejar wrote: ... > > (...) The bottom line: no, I don't "know" that WhatsApp is secure, but > > neither do I "know" that anything I run is. (...) > > To put it simply, I can't accept the idea that in terms of security or

[OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > I hear there's a lot of interesting discussions there about how to > communicate safely, but sadly so far I haven't managed to configure my > safe not-internet-connected machine to participate. do you think it is possible to have public & encrypted discussion, when we do

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Perhaps you and all the others could use -debian-offtopic to air Not sure what "offtopic" has to do with this discussion, so I'll assume it was a typo for `debian-offline`. I hear there's a lot of interesting discussions there about how to communicate safely, but sadly so far I haven't managed

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread riveravaldez
On 3/18/21, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:49:27 -0300 > riveravaldez wrote: > >> I'm getting pretty confuse with these statements. >> >> On 3/18/21, Celejar wrote: >> > (...) >> > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps not >> > quite your vehemence), but

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Mar 2021 at 21:09:58 +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Come on, as soon as you go out to the street you can be run over by a > > bus... > > > > You'll still take some precautions, as it might enhance your odds of > > survival :) > > > >> Why should I bother with

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Come on, as soon as you go out to the street you can be run over by a > bus... > > You'll still take some precautions, as it might enhance your odds of > survival :) > >> Why should I bother with your encryption efforts, when I can read your >> screen? > > This is a

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:49:27 -0300 riveravaldez wrote: > I'm getting pretty confuse with these statements. > > On 3/18/21, Celejar wrote: > > (...) > > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps not > > quite your vehemence), but making **blatantly incorrect** assertions

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Suffice it to say that the only Social Media outfit I trust less than I trust Facebook or Twitter (neither of which I trust any further than I can throw the U.S.S. Hornet) is LinkedIn. Which I have loathed since *before* they became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsloth. -- JHHL (I'd use a

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:25:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:07:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps not > > quite your vehemence), > > :-) > > >but making blatantly

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Joe
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:49:27 -0300 riveravaldez wrote: > I'm getting pretty confuse with these statements. > > On 3/18/21, Celejar wrote: > > (...) > > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps > > not quite your vehemence), but making **blatantly incorrect** > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:07:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps not > quite your vehemence), :-) >but making blatantly incorrect assertions like > the claim that Facebook is one of the ends of WhatsApp's

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread riveravaldez
On 3/18/21, riveravaldez wrote: > I'm getting pretty confuse with these statements. > (...) Sorry to everybody, I forgot to fix the addresses...

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread riveravaldez
I'm getting pretty confuse with these statements. On 3/18/21, Celejar wrote: > (...) > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps not > quite your vehemence), but making **blatantly incorrect** assertions like > the claim that Facebook is one of the ends of WhatsApp's E2E

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:28:06 +0100 wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:54:24PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:45:28 +0100 > > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > Fortunately

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:55:54AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 18 mar 21, 09:28:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > So while I don't doubt that the WA client *could* *in principle* > > do end-to-end encryption, they'll do whatever it takes to trick > > end users to share their juicy

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 18 mar 21, 09:28:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > So while I don't doubt that the WA client *could* *in principle* > do end-to-end encryption, they'll do whatever it takes to trick > end users to share their juicy data with the mothership, FB. It's > their life-blood. I'm guessing the full

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:03:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > I'm not sure whether you're being serious or facetious, but WhatsApp > > apparently has genuine end-to-end encryption, using the Signal protocol, > > and neither of the ends is Facebook. > > > > Of course, it's

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:54:24PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:45:28 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > ... > > > > Fortunately most of the > > > conversations have been moving to WhatsApp

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-17 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: > I'm not sure whether you're being serious or facetious, but WhatsApp > apparently has genuine end-to-end encryption, using the Signal protocol, > and neither of the ends is Facebook. > > Of course, it's closed source, so we can't know for sure what's really > in there, and I

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-17 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:45:28 +0100 wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... > > Fortunately most of the > > conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are supposed to > > be encrypted, at least). > > Yeah, right.

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-15 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:54:26AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > I'm better at asynchronous as well, but still find instant messaging to > have it's uses [...] > And then there's group chats. There's a reason IRC still exists ;) Agreed. Tools, jobs and all that :) Cheers - t

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 14 mar 21, 14:49:03, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 13:23:17 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > in the first place, I'm not the target audience for

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> And signal... with all due respect to Moxie Marlinspike... >> - the centralised server model >> - the fact they don't publish their server code since a while > https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server To the extent that the service is centralized, I don't really care if their code is

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Federated services have metadata as well. > If a particular communication involves two different servers now *both* > servers will have all the metadata for that communication. Indeed, hiding all the metadata is *hard*. Still, Having the overall metadata divided among a hundred servers or

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The problem is also the metadata: it still leaves a centralized record >> of who sent what size of message to whom at what time and from which >> IP address. > > It's definitely more than just "dry" IP addresses: I was talking about Signal (I admit I didn't make that clear). Stefan

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Joe
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 13:23:17 +0100 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > in the first place, I'm not the target audience for instant > > > messaging anyway. > > > > Every step towards

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > in the first place, I'm not the target audience for instant > > messaging anyway. > > Every step towards more privacy is good. Let's not let the perfect be > the enemy

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:03:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > To be clear, far from me to claim Signal is perfect, it's just (in my > > not so humble opinion) the only *feasible* option to compete with > > WhatsApp,

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:03:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > To be clear, far from me to claim Signal is perfect, it's just (in my > not so humble opinion) the only *feasible* option to compete with > WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, etc. Dunno. What's wrong with

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 14 mar 21, 09:44:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:42:01PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > > >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > > >> > secure/private". > > >> I

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 14 mar 21, 05:58:42, Tom Yates wrote: > > an excellent point. furthermore, you can be summarily thrown off a central > service, by the provider; it is *much* more difficult to eject someone from > a federated service. That can easily backfire: https://xkcd.com/1357/ Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:42:01PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > >> > secure/private". > >> I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:55:24PM +0100, grumpy wrote: [...] > How can "sheer luck" be a factor? My non-participation in Facebook > is due to a conscious decision. Good for you if you think that all you have and are is due to your own hard work. In my case, it's different. Cheers - t

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Tom Yates
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really secure/private". I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see the code of the client, but AFAICT

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread William Torrez Corea
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 3:39 AM The Wanderer wrote: > > I decided long, long ago (sometime in the first half of the first decade > of this century, IIRC) that I didn't trust Facebook - initially because > it and its embedded ads were a notorious vector for malware, later > because I just didn't

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really >> > secure/private". >> I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see >> the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread grumpy
March 13, 2021 7:36:39 PM CET Larry Martell wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:45 AM Brian wrote: On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > [...] > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 16:15:54, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > > secure/private". > > I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see > the code of

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > secure/private". I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as centralized :-(

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 09:10:36, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-13 at 09:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm > >> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of > >> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are > >>

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:45 AM Brian wrote: > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > > > neither your

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm >>> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of >>> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are >>> supposed to be encrypted, at least). >> W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-13 at 09:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm >> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of >> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are >> supposed to be encrypted, at least). > > W.r.t. something

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm also > not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of the > conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are supposed to > be encrypted, at least). W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to Facebook

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Exactly. "Hey, won't *everybody* switch to using for > our communication, photo sharing, event coordination, etc.? Why? Because > I'm (the only one in the group) worried about my privacy on Facebook." > > Besides the social

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 18:27:58, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > [...] > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > > neither your friends nor your family. > > I don't know whether that hard position is

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 22:45:55 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:44:54PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:44:54PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 20:27:09 +0100, grumpy wrote: > > > > From: The Wanderer > > Sent: Fri Mar 12 10:38:54 CET 2021 > > To: > > Subject: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating > > system?)

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread grumpy
> > From: The Wanderer > Sent: Fri Mar 12 10:38:54 CET 2021 > To: > Subject: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating > system?) > > > On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 19:26:05 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 19:03, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > > I'm just guessing, but how do they access Facebook and yet not be able > > to use a telephone? > > I think some of you miss some of the advantages of Facebook. It allows

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 19:03, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > I'm just guessing, but how do they access Facebook and yet not be able > to use a telephone? I think some of you miss some of the advantages of Facebook. It allows me to stay loosely in touch with around 120 friends, many of whom I

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 12/03/2021 17:41, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:27 AM James H. H. Lampert > wrote: >> >> On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >>> I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, >>> but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was >>>

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > [...] > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > > neither your friends nor your family. > > I don't know whether that hard

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:27 AM James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > > I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, > > but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was > > communicating and I was being left out of the

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: [...] > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > neither your friends nor your family. I don't know whether that hard position is always viable. I mean, I managed without Facebook (and *all* the

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:09:45AM -0800, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:51 AM Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > Eventually I had to give in, because I was being literally forgotten by > > a group of friends that were using Facebook for most of their > > communication (I was the only

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was communicating and I was being left out of the loop. I joined as my dog only my family knew how to find me. Even to this day

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:51 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Eventually I had to give in, because I was being literally forgotten by > a group of friends that were using Facebook for most of their > communication (I was the only one without a Facebook account), so I did > create an account under a

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 04:38:54, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:11:16PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > >> I have never had a Facebook account and never will. > > > We (three?) are the invisible Internet Underground \o/ > > > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 05:57:54AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: [...] > My memory may be failed, but I think the reason I have a Facebook > account is because I found they had my name listed. To this day, I > don't understand how websites get away with that. The first person who > finds your

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