The US want to take all my money and put me in jail. I like my freedom.
China want to blackmail me to do their bidding. I dont actually have much shame, so probably wont work so good.
There are days where I think the lesser of two evils when it comes to invading my privacy might be the regime whos jurisdiction I am not, and likely never will be present in.
The US government is monitoring traffic at all major points including undersea cables. The US reasons are complex ranging from terrorism to cyberwar faire to unknown reasons.
One reason China does it to monitor and control their own people. Speaking out against China in the west will often put family in China at risk and any business interests. Monitoring journalist, tracking western movement, cyberwar faire, are all reasons.
Being a US company specifically doesn't make it better, but being a Chinese company absolutely makes it worse.
I wouldn't be nearly as worried if Tiktok were owned by Italy or Germany or France. But China, with it'a ongoing genocide of Muslims and totalitarian oppression, yeah that is worse than Netflix selling your data to advertisers.
> The US was killing more central asians than China every year of the last 20 years straight. Hopefully no longer true going forward.
That's absolutely a fallacious comparison.
1. We don't have accurate data from China on the number imprisoned and killed by them, so no one can make absolutely comparisons like you did.
2. The Chinese do this to people living peacefully inside their borders. If the US started rounding up and killing ethnic minorities WW2 concentration camp style then you could make this comparison. The US was engaged in active conflict with a group that itself was detrimental to human (specifically, women's) rights and that engaged us first.
I dont agree with a lot of what happened in the middle east, but you can't in good fairh stretch that as a comparison to fit your own narrative.
There's those qualifications and spin I was asking for.
China is bringing economic development, secular institutions and women's rights, in a heavy handed way, whether the residents want it or not, with minimal regard for costs to those residents. It's the exact same thing as we've been doing, minus a fig leaf of democracy.
In neither case is the word genocide or ethnic cleansing appropriate, body counts don't support it. But it's especially rich to level the accusation 5 seconds after our 20 year war ended.
Note the word "war". They killed us as well. Again, this is not comprable to the situation in China with the Uighur Muslims. Unless you're one of those running these camps, you don't have an accurate body count, so you don't know what word is or is not appropriate. Based on the perceived scale of the operation, genocide seems very much correct, but I have no more information than you.
I don't understand how you can sit here and compare a war in the middle east to literal concentration camps. Stop performing mental gymnastics to fit your own narrative.
Because dead is dead. If you can't read, who cares what the declaration of war said.
It's counterinsurgency in both cases, attempting to modernize a tribal Muslim society in hopes of improving security from terror attacks.
You are aware there were terror attacks in Urumqi?
There are differences between their style and ours, the re-education camps vs the drone bombs. Maybe there's an argument about freedoms vs deaths. But Americans clearly do not actually give a shit about Muslim lives, it's just a political talking point. 300k dead in Yemen with our weapons doesn't even make the news, Afghanistan barely cracked the news for a decade, etc etc.
How many Americans were baying at the moon to invade Iraq and now they're the world's greatest humanitarians about Xinjiang?
>2. The Chinese do this to people living peacefully inside their borders. If the US started rounding up and killing ethnic minorities WW2 concentration camp style then you could make this comparison. The US was engaged in active conflict with a group that itself was detrimental to human (specifically, women's) rights and that engaged us first.
This kind of whitewashing is what allows us as Americans to ignore the mass scale death we inflict while pointing fingers at other kettles. You don't even have the cause of events correct - we invaded afghanistan first, America were the aggressors. Do you think we invaded Afghanistan to preserve women's rights? Do you know that American soldiers were told to turn a blind eye to the afghan national army raping little boys? You mention that we don't have accurate numbers about china's tyranny, but under Trump, we repealed the rule that the USG had to report drone strike casualties. I'm not surprised other countries don't see a functional difference between the US and China, after all only one of those countries has a solid track record of overturning democratically conducted elections because they didn't like the outcome.
I've been using my own Planck* for a while now, and I absolutely love it! It's actually my second - I've pretty much exclusively used Plancks for almost 5 years. Strongly recommend giving them a go, even though the layers will feel very alien to begin with. I've also used an ErgoDox EZ for a while, and I actually prefer the Planck.
I always feel weird about comments like this. Instead of discussing the merits of the actual project shared, we're going on a rant about whether or not ORMs are a good idea?
It's like whenever someone shares something they made with Electron, and the comments are just Electron hate.
I guess I got lucky then! I've had one of these for quite a long time, maybe since 2013/14. A good number of those years it's been running 24/7, and I actually only recently replaced it
> More details on how the encryption for server sync works would be helpful for assessing security.
Good point - I'll add something more detailed to the README shortly
For now though, it's fairly simple. Almost all of the information is first serialized with MessagePack, and then encrypted using libsodium's secretbox. This blob is what ends up being POSTed to the server
The only other information available to the server operator is
- the username/email address/hashed password of the user
- the UUID of this history item
- the history timestamp (needed for sync at the moment)
- the hash of the machine's hostname (also useful for sync)
Honestly the multi-device support is a big barrier to my adoption of Signal. Currently I use Telegram across several devices, and the messages just "sync" near instantly. With Signal you see them appear one-by-one, which is painful in a large + busy group chat. Obviously Signal has technical issues to overcome that Telegram does not, but the UX issue is still there
> With Signal you see them appear one-by-one, which is painful in a large + busy group chat.
How much delay are we talking about? In my experience we're talking maybe seconds, definitely less than 5s (depends on your connection of course). And since you only use one client at a time in theory (?), this shouldn't matter.
Or are you talking about the initial sync when you start your Signal client after a long period offline? This has improved recently for Signal-Desktop.
Telegram doesn't have encrypted groups, though. So it's a bit of a different use case. I share your pain when syncing Signal but Telegram is no option in regard to true privacy.
