With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to repost this old strip

Sooo I guess at this point it's just literally the old background blur with extra steps?

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle

"Dobbiamo andare oltre Signal": l'interruzione di AWS di oggi mostra i punti deboli delle app centralizzate

"Signal è un'ottima app di messaggistica con una privacy e una crittografia straordinarie, ma è basata su un sistema centralizzato con sede negli Stati Uniti. Un servizio che esiste solo in un posto diventa molto più facile da bloccare o attaccare."

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

@informatica

Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:

https://gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_2025

Signal was down for few hours today, after an outage that affected AWS:

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

Let's ignore for a second the blind reliance on AWS or any other cloud provider. In a decentralized system, this would not have happened, or at least it would have not impacted so many users.

Yes, I am a cryptographer myself, I know that Signal's encryption is the best. But encryption is not everything. Availability issues, geopolitical troubles, risk of enshittification, limitations on users' freedom to use and control the software lead to a lack of trust, even in a supersecure solution. And I say that with honest admiration for the folks at Signal, who are doing a great job.

May they prove me wrong over and over again.

I hate this dynamic. Valve is also a shit company, like any other company who makes proprietary software, spyware and distributes DRM.

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It's official! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

🔗 Learn more & celebrate with us tonight ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/happy-internet-archive-day/

#YouTube making the absolute worst random changes that nobody asked for and that enrage their whole userbase for over a decade (but the users will eat it up and it's gonna keep happening forever because "muh youtube has no alternatives" when there actually are it's just that the youtubers would rather keep sucking NordVPN's dick than start using the alternatives and promote them to their viewers).

Fedora Council approves AI-assisted contributions policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1042947/ #LWN

Windows 12 Is Already Here. What's Next?

https://spectra.video/w/in9RHSkRhb52F58rdGuFKV

Search without LLM crap: https://html.duckduckgo.com/

updated my firefox howto with some advice on killing AI

feedback welcome

https://sciops.net/information/technology/firefox

VST3 is now open source, under the MIT license. 🤯

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-8-0-sdk-released/1011988

I HATE THE ANTICHRIST :xf_trollcrazy:

KDE Plasma Needs Your Help #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/lf0ixMctoU4

A while back I suggested creating a P2P voice/ video calling feature for Delta Chat. Well, good news everyone! #TIL something along those lines has been developed, and is in active testing for a future release;

https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

Great work @delta@chaos.social devs!

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#P2P #telephony #DeltaChat