Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 110

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@noorul
> I am will drawing off from #Signal soon as it's founder associates with NSA and honeypot

Careful! AFAIK nobody has claimed that's the case, let alone proved it. All we've said is some of the things they do are *compatible* with being a honeypot. It's more likely that Moxie is just a grumpy narcissist, who knows much more about crytography than he does about being an activist or dissident.

@noorul Wire Swiss GmbH is not a corporation (a publicly-listed company owned by shareholders). It's a self-funding private company, that makes its money from a premium service (based on the same software) aimed at enterprise teams.

All #fediverse apps ought to have an opt-in option for DMs to be sent to the email address they used to register their fediverse account. Discuss.

Does anyone know of a #TextComposer app for #GNU / #Linux? Like a #TextEditor, but all the user can do is write, not edit, and export as #TXT. Basically the software version of a typewriter. Or a text editor with a 'compose' mode the user can toggle on and off? I have a terrible habit of distracting myself by editing as I write. Composing with pen and paper limits this, but then I have to type stuff up :-{

@dredmorbius
> "The goal is to provide practical security advice that people will use, and that does not make things worse."

Right, but my objection is that at least half of the advice in that last, AFAIK, *would* make things worse. There's an awful lot I don't know about what makes this or that piece of tech secure or vulnerable (I'm human after all), so I could be totally wrong. That's why I want to see the reasoning, and as I said in another post, the lack of it is poor education practice.

@dredmorbius no, scrub that. My first piece of advice, the advice given to me by one of my most-respected mentors in activist security, is if you really *need* your comms to be secure (ie lives are at stake), don't do them using an internet-connected computer. At least not the important bits. Not using a mobile device or a day-to-day OS would the second bit of advice.

@dredmorbius my first piece of advice for people wanting to communicate securely, especially if they are activists or journalists who might be facing *targeted* interception, not just mass surveillance, is "don't use a vanilla mobile device". IMHO they are inherently vulnerable to such adversaries. Use a laptop that can run #Debian with no non-free repos enabled. Use a burner OS like #Heads (100% free fork of #Tails), and reboot (ideally relocate to a new WiFi) between each comms action you do.

@dredmorbius there is are a lot of questionable assumptions to be unpacked in this. For one thing, I'm still mystified by the specific recommendations. For example, why iPhone? This is recommending people buy a piece of hardware, not helping them secure what they already have. So why not recommend they buy one of the few mobile devices that is secure *by design*, because the OS is owned by the user (they have root), not the manufacturer or OS vendor (ie respects #SoftwareFreedom)?

@ckeen nah, my bad. I stuck my head into your conversation with a random shiptoast, and ending up cc'd into the rest of the conversation was classic #InstantKarma ;-P

@noorul aww shucks :-} That's nice of you to say. Although I some folks will miss me more than others ;-P

@cj maybe ask @jaywink or @zauberstuhl how to contact the #GangGo folks?

I notice a lot of people are boosting my post about @matslats 's proposal for #ProtocolCooperativism, so I just want to point out that I went off half-cocked (sorry Matt!), before I read the whole piece. What I said in my post is pretty much what Matt says towards the end of his piece.

@CharredStencil (note: I have suffered from chronic depression since early childhood)

@CharredStencil totally agree. Many of the conditions defined by the #DSM can be mistaken for "laziness" by a person who judges someone else without knowing their full circumstances. Chronic depression and the hypmanic phases of bipolar, for example. If a person has multiple broken bones, or is vomiting from both ends, nobody will call them "lazy" for staying in bed all day. But when they have a mood disorder ...

I've never registered a new account for anything with a mobile app (it seems risky to me), so I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip @leip4Ier
@switchingsocial

I've never registered a new account for anything with a mobile app (it seems risky to me), so I didn't that. Thanks for the tip @leip4Ier
@switchingsocial

@cj have you looked at #GangGo? It's written in GoLang (thus the name). Initially it was designed to federate with Diaspora, but I'm told they've been working on implementing AP. Maybe you could share code, or even pool your efforts?
https://git.feneas.org/ganggo

@maiyannah I realize that's because the the correct URL is now:
http://gitea.postactiv.com/

Maybe you could set up a redirect? There's still a few links here and there around the net pointing to the old URL.

@ar my wife got me to read it. It explains so much about why my life feels so broken so much of the time! I'm going to take a month-long sabbatical very soon, turn off the router, put my SIM card in a push-button phone, keep a pen and notebook handy, and take lots of long walks. Make my life as simple as possible for a month, and spend a lot of time thinking about how to start recovering from burnout.