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If that's his autobiographical documentary, I'll pass. Never seen a more narcissistic piece of trash in my life. He won't stop talking in his monotonous voice the whole time--made it to the first scene where he films a conversation, but had to cut it off because even that he had to overdub--guy loooooves the sound of his own voice.


More worried about NSA correlating the two after getting the data from Google, but the one good thing about their centralization model probably is that with millions of users to a central server (and something you do as often as texting) this makes timing analysis extremely difficult.


I have no data to back this up, but I bet patterns would reveal much more than you would intuitively think.


They want more users. Google actually makes special deals with carriers to optimize GCM, so it's best for battery life. It depends on your carrier, but the websockets fork LibreSignal can use up to 5x the battery life. On my phone using the fork bumps battery usage from 1-2% to 2-4% (Sprint), but is totally worth it to avoid Pentagon/Alphabet (I mean Google).


He can only demand that they don't make builds using the same name or logo. That's his right. Who cares? Stop whining like we're supposed to care that you have to change the name of a piece of free software before you can distribute it.


Except that they aren't. Read the responses in that thread from the actual FDroid devs.


Except they are. The F-Droid devs kept claiming they weren't. Moxie asked them to describe the system and surprise, surprise the keys are stored on a machine that is connected to a network that is connected to the internet. It turned out that the F-Droid devs didn't/don't understand the concept of stored offline vs online.

Response from actual FDroid dev:

> It's connected to the network, yes


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