My wish is to have Telegram clients and user experience (both mobile and in Linux desktop versions) with Signal security and whatsapp adoption.
Signal is a cool 2nd alternative to WhatsApp, but their desktop client is absolute garbage, their videocall echo cancelling is non-existent and sending media over slow connections absolutely sucks (it keeps on resending and resending the files)
Zstd is a personal project? Surely it's not by accident in the Facebook GitHub organization? And that you need to sign a contract on code.facebook.com before they'll consider merging any contributions? That seems like an odd claim, unless it used to be a personal project and Facebook took it over
All Google dev’s personal projects are under the Google account on GH for legal reasons. I assume the same for Facebook. I believe fb championed zstd and lets the dev work on it at work but it was a personal project iirc.
According to cheema33 React is most "popular frontend stack", but I'm not allowed ask questions of why websites demand JS to display basic content... I suppose my reply could have been more _constructive_ as to ask "by whose count" or "how does popularity correspond to quality" but that's like playing chess by one step in front of you.
Look, I'm seeing an increase of blogs made with an implication that _infinity_ amount of visits requires less resources than one and I don't just find it true.
They want to do this because they want more traction for their blockchain: TRON, which, IIRC, is the payment method for ads, usernames and "stuff" inside Telegram.
However Du Rove is right about a bunch of things:
- Signal clients suck, specially the Desktop one where they ship (or used to) pre-built binaries like their own lib: https://github.com/signalapp/ringrtc
- Also you can't have Signal without Google Play Store
- Signal client suck in usability. I wish I had Telegram client (android) and desktop (qt) instead of this electron garbage. Telegram clients are super-duper-awesome
- I would say that removing phone number requirement is their #1 request. yet they take so much time to address it, specially when they cry about phone number validation SMS costs
- BTW, telegram is implementing a very nice idea of a crowd sourced sms validation, where they use their users phone numbers to send the validation sms
- They have a very questionable crypto integration with MobileCoin, which have a obscure value: they depend on IntelSGX and is 95% pre-mined
You can use Signal without the Play Store. Download the apk from Signal's website and it will use a background connection to receive calls and notifications. The downside is that it's heavier on the battery.
They seem to want everyone to use the official app. That's supposed to be fine because of the reproducible builds.
In any case, if we don't trust the official client/app/build, then I'm not sure if a F-Droid release would help that much. If we think there's something funny with the official apk, then we can't trust any part of Signal.
Anything chromium based is just moving the problem of Chromium being overly dependent on Google sponsoring its development, setting its roadmap, and effectively taking important decisions as to what it can and cannot do. Long term, it would be nice to see Chromium becoming more independent from Google. It might take a fork and a consortium of companies taking over development instead of outsourcing that to Google.
But the reality today is that most development on Chromium is done pretty much exclusively by Google with trivial amounts of external contributions.
That's why I use Firefox. I'm not necessarily happy with how that is overly dependent on Google but at least they are semi independent.
The main issue is that there are plenty of companies that like the idea of providing a browser that don't seem to be interested in funding the development of one. Other than Google which at this point is bank rolling Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. This is weird and not long term sustainable.
Fedora atomic kde is close to perfect. Where is the need to reinvent the wheel?