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Does the perfect messaging tool exist (100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open)?

Depending on your needs, XMPP or Matrix are probably your best bet. Both have different clients of varying usability and quality on different platforms, so you have to pick your poison. If E2EE is important, you also need to determine how encrypted you want your messages to be (as both XMPP and Matrix carry quite a bit of identifying metadata in its unencrypted headers).

For most people and use cases, either will probably do, but if you're a human rights activist or journalist in an oppressive country, I'd stick to Signal.


Realistically nothing is ever perfect, but XMPP comes very close. You've got Signal-introduced double-ratchet encryption if forward secrecy is your jam (so it's as "E2E-secure" in practical terms) and you've got a healthy ecosystem of independent client and server implementers, and service providers to choose from.

Is there a messenger that allows anonymous group chats, i.e. for union organizing in a company?

As far as I can see, you can invote people to a group chat using QR flyers, but your Signal profile is visible to everyone in a chat, so everyone knows what Tina in marketing thinks about it.

Because nobody is going to have a burner phone with a data plan for a separate Signal identitiy.


XMPP. Run your own (federated) server, chat with anyone outside it, with e2e encryption.

https://matrix.org is used by public agents of France's central administration, Germany's national healthcare system, Germany's armed forces, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_messaging

Reading a dead tree book or using an ereader? I read before sleeping on my iPhone. I just bought an ereader to hopefully avoid this and sleep better.


E-reader. Went for the latest Kindle Paperwhite as it can adjust the colour temperature as well.


Does anyone knows how much more the oceans can absorb heat?


Well they seem to have switched to releasing stored heat. Isn't that basically the El Nino / La Nina cycle?

Metaphorically relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption


To vaporize 10^21 kg of seawater from ~4 °C to 100 °C would require ~10^27 joules, around 16 trillion Hiroshimas or ~2.5 seconds of the sun's output.


the oceans can adsorb a great deal more heat, but all the ice will melt, while the deap ocean water expands, from it's rather odd temperature ,that keeps it at the highest density possible, about .5% more than if it were just a bit warmer, so more warming will cause very significsnt sea level rise through several different mechanisms related to heat.


(A)Social Media and the destructive power it has on society.


Having privacy should be a user choice. I am firmly in the Apple ecosystem and in the EU. Apple could engineer it such that interoperability means giving up privacy. User can choose. Apple could show in the App Store/settings exactly which data is leaked. Apple is using privacy as a tactic.


You think Trump is in power? I do not think he really is. He is a puppet. Others are the Puppet Masters.


Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but (and I'm genuinely asking) what is your point here?


Very much this! This is about removing (if it at wall will do that) without fixing the root cause. How deep can you put your head in the ground? It reminds of the Matrix where they scorched the skies to remove solar power capabilities as a way to block the enemy.


Climate science consensus is we need to decarbonize and remove. We've gone too far at this point, decarbonizatin alone is no longer sufficient. So we need all the solar-y wind-y nuclear-y stuff AND all this weird removal stuff. And some other weirder stuff too.


Or, use sensible CCS methods like plankton or kelp, charring that, and sending it to the bottom of the ocean instead of resorting to absurd plans like nukes.


This is what happens when you build a capitalist system based on quarterly results


Seeing the population still increase, this must be completely attributed to Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate


There are still some parts of Asia that are below replacement birth rates.


I think you meant to say above


Yes, thanks


over 942,562 CCTV cameras are in operation across London alone..

https://www.tnssolutions.co.uk/post/how-much-of-london-is-co...


One camera for every ten people, vs in the USA that (in 2019/2020) had 1 camera for every 4 people.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21002515/surveillance-cam...


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