Yup, makes sense, since Android is also Linux

AFAIK, the main difference is that Firefox’s process isolation on Linux specifically is incomplete. They’re working on fixing that.

Honestly, a very impressive move. Makes me way more confident in the trajectory of the company and I’m happy to have been a visionary user for multiple years.

I wonder, though, just how much of Proton A.G. does the foundation now own? They say it’s the largest shareholder, but they didn’t say “majority shareholder”.

Yeah.

Personally, I care about the phone number requirement not because I don’t want to reveal it to Signal servers, but because it limits access to Signal for people in countries that block their SMS service - registration messages just don’t arrive

This is important context. Signal needs to make phone numbers optional…

YARRRRRR!!!

Yeah, afaik, it only goes through TURN servers. The thing with direct Wifi or Bluetooth is that you almost never need it. Most of the time you will be messaging people on different networks. If you want more pure mesh options, check out Jami.

There’s also https://simplex.chat/

Nah, you’ll never get rid of human self interest, whatever you do. That’s just how biological life works.

I bet even if they tried to deport you, they wouldn’t know where to, since you technically don’t have a home country

Ah, I never encountered that. I see. Is it mostly in remote areas?

I’m all for IPv6, it’s just that there’s always something extra you have to do to set it up.

There’s another question: will we ever actually run out of IPv4 addresses, so that cloud providers and ISPs no longer offer them?

You can buy computers and phones with those OSes preinstalled, so it’s not necessarily “custom”. Otherwise, no.

Not an ad if it’s not paid for

Good thing open source projects are… open and worked on by a bunch of people.

I’ve suggested a routing protocol to the lemmy devs - to use federated instances to route all the messages to other federated instances. The idea was received with some interest, but it seems that people believe that there’s still a ton of performance that can be squeezed out from the current architecture through optimisations.

I usually just VPN to my routers if possible. Point to point is feels more reliable than a hole-punching mesh or proxy. On the other hand, this seems to create an end-to-end secure tunnel.

I do think tone is important though. Sometimes, I can’t agree or support a person not because of what they say, but because of how they say it.