I read that article and had a good laugh about it. It is nonsensical. It does raise good points occasionally, but that is drowned by nonsense.

Don’t blame AI for human failings. This is on humans, not machines.

ummm no. I don’t want Meta to access my chats.

Signal devs accuse f-droid for not being secure, but do not offer any convincing arguments to back it up. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.

F-Droid works. I have 20+ apps installed on my phone from F-Droid. I am not going to go back to installing apks from website or Google Play just so that I can use Signal.

No, but an app like Signal claiming to care about privacy should at least make an effort to be on the largest open source appstore. The fact they don’t, despite very loud complaints from the community, makes me question their commitment to privacy and security.

This might be true, but at the end of the day I don’t care. I just want things to work out of the box.

I don’t trust an app that tells me to download from Google Play. Sorry, not going to happen. Signal has too many red flags.

Every accusation Americans make is also an admission of guilt.

I own BYD and it is a great car. Very pleased with it.

Just above you said “You’re even better off using WhatsApp”.

I will use Signal if Signal devs get over their hate of F-Droid.

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

Lets teach that uneducated moron Vance the Streisand effect.

nothing you say will make me use a closed source app like whatsapp.

Telegram is very successful in getting people off Meta’s ecosystem. It has open source clients and very good Linux support.

This is why western media is obsessed with Telegram and spend a lot of time smearing it.

They were doing this already. Visa applications going back many years asked for lists of social media accounts.

on linux it is easy to record the audio that is sent to the sound device. lots of programs do it.

onthespot doesn’t look too bad if you want to download from spotify directly.

I just download from youtube though. It’s very easy with yt-dlp.

Graphs like this will always be population graphs. Russia is the 9th most populated country with 140 million people.

Elden Ring runs better on proton/wine/dxvk then it does on Windows.

I know I can. But the hostility of Signal devs to open source and F-Droid makes me uncomfortable. Why use an app with such hostility?

I don’t use Signal because they don’t release the app in F-Droid. Signal devs refuse to release the app outside of Google Play Store, which is very evil.