Yeah I wish there was a good answer to that. Floccus at least works ok for bookmarks.

Ich fürchte der wird es nicht lange machen und von Jens Span weggeputscht werden 😱

A timing attack is extremely realistic when you control one of the end devices which is a common scenario if a person gets arrested or their device compromised. This way you can then identify who the contacts are and with the phone number you can easily get the real name and movement patterns.

This is like the ideal setup for law inforcement, and it is well documented that honeypot “encrypted” messengers have been set up for similar purposes before. Signal was probably not explicitly set up for that, but the FBI for sure has an internal informant that could run those timing attacts.

There are some mitigations in place, yes, but Sealed Sender on a centralized platform is snake-oil as someone with server access can easily do a timing attack and discover who communicated with whom.

These are always only pilot projects with limited funding. And who do you think is more likely to maintain this infrastructure and proudly tell their neighbours about them so that they can replicate it? Surely not the person that is annoyed that some rich guy from the capital with a digger came and did all the work and took all the money that they would have happily earned. These largely subsistence communities are cash starved and projects like that are a welcome opportunity to earn some money on the side.

If you are even remotely involved in any activist type of things, you certainly don’t want this US government honeypot have your phone-number and device id.

AFAIK the “wear” does not mainly come from the spinning, but from temperature changes that make parts slightly expand and contract in size. An always on HDD has pretty constant temperature.

Be careful with powering HDDs on and off. That is actually the operation that puts the most strain on them AFAIK. Sadly there is no good rule of thumb when it does more harm than good, but I would guess if you turn it on more than once a week, you are probably doing more harm than good compared to just letting in run. Many people even intentionally turn off sleep-mode in “green” drives so that they don’t shut down automatically.

This isn’t about a laptop, but a full desktop case with 5.25" slots. 3.5" fit fine into these with a different kind of adapter.

Ich vermute die Parteispitze wollte primär die schlechte Presse vermeiden, und wenn man sieht das außer diesem Thema fast nichts von dem Parteitag ernsthaft in der Presse thematisiert wird wundert mich das leider gar nicht.

I find XMPP much more useful for day-to-day communication with people I know. Matrix has more IRC like public channels, but only a few are sufficiently active compared to Discord or even IRC.

But running an XMPP server is also extremely hassle free and uses little server resources, while running a Matrix server is quite involved and will likely need a beefy dedicated server just for it alone.

XMPP chat accounts on the same address as Email would be nice.

Oder wir könnten mehr Gütertransport auf die Bahn verlegen, wo es auch zumindest rudimentär noch so etwas wie Gewerkschaften gibt die solche Ausbeutung nicht dulden.

Naja, das eigentliche Argument geht mehr so in die Richtung das sich das (im Kapitalismus) eh nicht vermeiden lässt und es dann besser ist das wir davon profitieren als das die Chinesen (usw.) es tun und wir indirekt dafür bezahlen. Ist auch zynisch und macht es nicht wirklich besser, aber eine gewisse Logik hat es.

Taler ensures asymmetric privacy. The buyer does not expose their identity to the seller (or the government), nor what they bought to their bank/payment-provider. But the seller needs to expose their income for tax purposes. This is a good compromise as it follows existing law and prevents tax-evasion and (to some extend) money laundering.

Yes, like cash.

An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.

Except for some very niche crypto-currency users no one stores “money” like that. You have a bank account where you store money.

The same audience as Paypal, which seems to be reasonably popular. Except this is privacy preserving and an open standard that many providers can use.

It can be many different ones. Usually your home bank would allow you to exchange some Euro into Taler tokens and then use those to pay in compatible stores. But instead of a centralized system there can be many different exchanges that follow the same standard (protocol) and can be used with the same software and wallet apps.