For those that want more security:

https://simplex.chat/

Your Mom could use https://simplex.chat/ I bet.

Usability of Simplex is very similar to Signal.

That’s not the flex you think it is.

Your preoccupation with image here hurts you more than it helps you.

I recommend https://simplex.chat/

I agree, but I have concerns about accessibility.

I wouldn’t trust windows to follow their don’t screenshot API, whether out of ignorance or malice.

There is an argument for that to an extent.

Microsoft’s support of Israel’s genocide is an exception and has been a long time.

At least… for anyone with a modicum of ethics.

Or https://simplex.chat/ where there are no identifiers like phone numbers or any other identifier.

Security review was done by trail of bits.

Nah he was right about Linux so be quiet about the racial slur stuff for sure.

Yeah, that rule is stupid and short-sighted.

I heard https://www.onlyoffice.com/ is good, but have no personal experience.

https://obsidian.md/

https://github.com/FBarrca/obsidian-handwritten-notes

Pixel + GrapheneOS is a dream.

Preventing supply chain attacks for one.

The Rust code isn’t closed source, but I’d strongly prefer a coreutils replacement to use GPL over MIT as well.

Already fixed, in software that’s existed for years and is used by millions. But Oh no, memory issues, let’s rewrite that in <language of the month>! will surely result in a better outcome.

Rsync is great software, but the C language fates it to keep having memory issues in spite of its skilled developers.

Preventing a bug from being possible > fixing a bug.

I fear moving away from GPL that moving to Rust seems to bring, but Rust does fix real memory issues.

Take the recent rsync vulnerabilities for example.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/cve-2024-12084-rsyn-security-urgent-update-needed-on-unix-bsd-systems/#more-2215

At least this one in a Rust implementation of rsync would have very likely been avoided:

CVE-2024-12085 – A flaw was found in the rsync daemon which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time. Info Leak via uninitialized Stack contents defeats ASLR.

I would love this news if it didn’t move away from the GPL.

Mass move to MIT is just empowering enshittification by greedy companies.

GrapheneOS reboots often for updates and security against cold boot storage attacks.

Sadly I found out yesterday:

Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.

https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

Many were claiming its impossible to get contributions merged as well.

I would be happy to find out this information is wrong or outdated.