Yeah, xmpp is a great protocol, but everyone needs to be in the vicinity of the server

I’m also thinking about the possibility of blocking/hijacking the network by the law enforcement forces. If every device is also a node connecting to each other, they can be more hardly taken down I think.

meshtastic

I’m not so familiar with meshtastic, but wouldn’t be more helpful to have something that actually runs on people’s phones instead of having a separate device? I mean, as you said, everyone has phones, and with something like the Ripple app (or any other panic button app) you could hide the app or clear its data (or you could do it manually). With meshtastic, in the event of a search, I think you would be more suspicious, I think.

I frankly think there should be something like a Bluetooth-based protocol allowing for every messaging app to exchange messages, much like #XMPP. Then, even if you block one app, there will be others available that anyone can use with the people that managed to install that blocked app in the 1st place.

a link saver like pocket but simpler (mobile version)

I use Zettel Notes for this.

Teal is quite a nice color. I love your setup

No relevant EN podcasts from me fwiw. I do have some Romanian recommendations if you want to:

• Știrile Zilei Recorder - daily news from the independent investigation publication Recorder - they mainly quote other media sources, but they’re a good and fairly neutral digest of general daily news in Romanian.
• Recorder Talks - a collab with politica la minut - a (social) media project aiming to better explain the political events in simple terms in order to combat disinformation
• Vorbitorincii - hosted by Cătălin Striblea, a journalist at Europa FM, together with writer Radu Paraschivescu and a few others. It is a bit right leaning, but they positioned themselves firmly against fascism and our far-right political forces
• Istoria României (The History of Romania) - as the name implies, it is a history podcast. Although the host previously worked in IT, she manages to provide a comprehensive, fairly balanced and non-nationalistic vision of the events. She also declared that she is a fan of Mike Duncan.
• Arhiva de Sunet (The Sound Archive) - a listened history of Romanian music. All genres and subgenres, from jazz, to rock to manele.

It’s weird that it’s not working. I tried opening it in a private window and it opened just fine

I have nothing to hide, but I don’t have really much to show either.

Teal is a wonderful color

Ok so if app stores like f-droid don’t care about the play store catalog

I’m assuming this would be highly debatable. I mean, you do get some of the apps that are in the Play Store. You do not get them from Play Store directly.

Also, apps like NewPipe are on F-Droid too. Not sure how good this will go to Google.

@solbt saving this

oh, I know about this one. Too bad they’re being forced to go FOSS this way 😁 I thought Valve explicitly took away someone’s Steam library or something.

@Sunshine wait, what? Any context?

If it was Europe, the guy couldn’t have burnt the flag in the 1st place /s

hot pee

This is such a fail on behalf of them, honestly, even if it was a Ukrainian drone or a Russian AA system. In fact, if they actually faked the video to show it was actually they themselves who blew up that lid speaks volumes about how stupid they are.

sCaRy AsIaNs

@FoxtrotDeltaTango Thanks for also pointing out where Saddam’s hideout is relative to the strait. Highly useful graph!!!

They probably misheard his statement. He probably meant “world piss”

Any other party. But only one other party is needed for a coalition government.

All hail @jolla and @ubports I guess…