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[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

She is great, however she is from Die Linke ("The Left") political party who have no political significance and no allies whatsoever and is likely to fall out of Parliament at the next election because of the changes to the election laws just pushed through by our horrible hypocritical neoliberal "Traffic Light" (Social Democrat - Liberal - Green) Coalition. Germany is in deep dive. There is slim hope for leftists and pacifists currently, involving some very hard to swallow compromises with the far right to stand any chance of getting representation...

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

None that I've read. But for me the fact that Taibbi had to make a deal to publish it on Twitter in this annoying thread format rather than on his substack makes it more likely, that this is sanctioned or even initiated by Musk...

 

Twitter ie. Musk is making public internal documents and emails on past content moderation practices and direct lines between politicians' teams and senior Twitter personel, taking first the Hunter Biden Laptop / New York Post censorhip episode. More is supposed to follow, including publishing "The Algorithm" (?). It appears that the deal with the journalist, Matt Taibbi is that he has to publish it on Twitter...

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I wish they had made the pm.me domain completely free instead :-)) I find it really cool but it is not quite worth the money for pro. I already have a tutanota paid account and I dont need two encrypted email inboxes to be honest :-D

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Very good analysis. Agree!

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh I love FairEmail!

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Also, something is up with the time zones I guess because my freshly posted comments show up as 'posted 1 hour ago'

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

where can I file bug reports? For me, links won't open at all. Also, when commenting, I have to manually close the keyboard before I can hit "post" and then the comment gets sent twice :-))

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Guys, I use and love both XMPP and Matrix however I don't see masses adopting them in fact I can't even convince my immediate family to use them. People want reliable push notifications and cute stickers :-) I think Signal is a good compromise, I know it's US based (I discuss this in the post) however it's zero knowledge. The code is open source if there were vulnerabilities we would probably know by now...

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by gabor@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Recent intrusive changes in the privacy policy of WhatsApp (including the sharing of never before seen amounts of unencrypted user data with the parent company Facebook) have prompted a mass exodus of WhatsApp users to the secure and open-source alternative Signal. I have been hoping for a change like this for years. I wrote a non-technical blog post about the problems with WhatsApp in detail, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of other messaging apps as well.

https://output.ilonagabor.de/general/2021/01/11/Signal.html