Ulrich

XMPP is federated

I mean only insofar as every other chat protocol “replaces” SMS. It only works if the other party is also using it. SMS and MMS will continue to be used with a completely different transmission mechanism.

AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS

Nope

and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.

Only works with 3 proprietary apps, that I’m aware of. Google and Samsung Messages and iMessage.

I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly

No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.

I don’t know anybody who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate.

RCS is neither.

Newsom running for Pres?

LOL sure

sigh you don’t.

That’s not what you said. But since you did, it’s very easy to install and use. No hobby required.

GrapheneOS is ~10x more private and secure than iOS.

The $10 shovel doesn’t clear the driveway for you…

I watched a review of this thing and the guy had to hide in some bushes to film it because it would shut off every time he got near it. That being said, it required a lot of configuration and didn’t work too well.

Public streaming webcams have been a thing for three decades.

Most of those public streaming cams are streaming to a private server, and not 40k cameras contributing to the same global database. They’re also not being tracked with AI and storing license plate numbers, facial recognition, etc. to be categorized and later searched by law enforcement for, whatever reason they want.

Yes but you can’t always disconnect. For instance, my healthcare provider requires in order to access your account you:

1. Get an ID card with Google or Apple Wallet, which I don’t have.
2. Verify over text message, except they refuse my phone # bc it’s VoIP.

I will quite literally die without this so I had to get a new phone and a Google account.

If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

No.

Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

No.

It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned

Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”.

it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool)

A “privacy tool” could be an infinite number of things. A “crypto wallet” is super specific.

At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.

What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

…yeah? That’s absolutely much more informative

Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years

Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.

Correct again. I mean it’s infinitely better than the current one where it doesn’t matter if you do know what Samourai is. Also replace Samourai with “crypto” and baby you got a stew goin’.

You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise

You don’t have to. You just try to make it as information dense as possible. That’s the entire point of a title. It’s not supposed to be just a bunch of random filler words. You’ve just provided several great examples yourself.

Sure, and we’ve always compromised on the 2 as a society. But we continually trend more and more towards prevention rather than privacy and sovereignty.

They’re deliberately withholding basic details of the story so that you have to click the video to get them. That’s clickbait.

Ok but that is a separate discussion.

Honestly everywhere sounds like an awful place at this point. Freedom is a thing of the past. A thing from a time whence literally everything we did wasn’t tracked, and in order to exist in society, you’re expected to submit to the tracking.

I’m not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn’t stop the crime.

At some point we need to decide if giving up all semblance of personal privacy is worth stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won’t be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.