Tell me you don’t know that the word politics means without telling me you don’t know that the word politics means.

Tailcat is a remix of Tailscale open source pieces to act like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane, without Tailscale’s control plane. Tailscale’s data plane (magicsock, internally) gives you point-to-point WireGuard®-encrypted tunnels between two machines with DERP as the NAT-hole-punching communication side channel and the ultimate relay-of-last-resort if NAT traversal fails. Instead of using the Tailscale control plane, all tailcat connection metadata is exchanged out of band, however you want.

The ignorant will never switch if even the informed don’t make the move.

Delete it. Inform those you regularly contact that they can contact you via Signal, email, whatever, but that you don’t have WhatsApp any more.

The only way to break the network effect of WhatsApp is to leave the network.

You might enjoy LibreOffice after changing to a different UI, here’s how:

Select a preferred user interface variant as follows:

Open a LibreOffice module to change the user interface.

Go to View > User Interface on the Menu bar to open the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog (Figure 12).

Select the preferred user interface from the options available in UI variants. A preview of the selected user interface is displayed in the dialog.

To use the selected user interface for all LibreOffice modules, click on Apply to All.

To only use the selected user interface for the LibreOffice module that is open, click on Apply to {Module}, for example Apply to Writer.

Click on Close to close the dialog.

https://books.libreoffice.org/en/GS252/GS25213-CustomizingLO.html#toc34

LibreOffice has multiple UIs to choose from and allows a huge amount of customisation, what are you on about? Did you last use it 10 years ago or something?

I was there. I was there 3,000 years ago…

I do believe, you may in fact, perhaps, be a nerd.

You don’t happen to have a simple how-to or wiki for these services do you?

Official documentation is all well and good but sometimes it can be a nightmare to follow and understand (Nextcloud for example had me pulling my hair) for us mere nerdlings that haven’t achieved full nerdhood yet.

I went through some eye surgeries and really needed a dark mode. But I couldnt get a dark mode in which buttons still were cleary visible.
I am sure if I search forums, git issues and documentation something usefull will turn up.

Ask and ye shall receive: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/issues-with-libreoffice-icons-on-dark-mode-in-linux-mint-22-cinnamon/111034

Because it’s clutter and annoying to see “Heyyy, is jellyfin a good video app?” ad nauseam, when a simple search would answer their question faster and without wasting everyone’s time and energy.

Modlogs are visible, if there’s truly a censorship issue then we’re free to upsticks and move to another community. That’s the advantage of the Fediverse.

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

• Edward Snowden

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American former technical contractor for the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who leaked details of several top-secret U.S. and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.

No one wants to leave because nobody is leaving.

You’re still on WhatsApp and Messenger, they can still contact you that way, so why would they bother changing?

Pick a date, a week, a month, whatever, from now. Tell those you message regularly that you will be deleting all Meta apps on that date. Make it clear that that includes WhatsApp and Messenger. Explain why. I just linked some articles instead of having a long explanation but it still made it clear why.

Let them know they can contact you via Signal/SMS/email whatever you use after that date.

If the informed don’t take the leap, the ignorant never will.

And it would’ve worked too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids BBC and MSM propaganda machines!

TLDR: The Gestapo and Stasi

Because the Swiss have famously never been fans of Nazis…

It validates that governments can see what’s happening on Telegram, and that makes Telegram a target.

They can’t go after the likes of Signal because they have very little to go on in the first place. They can’t say definitively what’s happening there as they can’t see any messages. Unlike Telegram.

It’s not a conspiracy that Signal are compromised, so they’re being ignored. They’re being ignored because there’s nothing to see, so governments might as well spend resources going after the apps where information is visible instead. At least they might get a result. E2EE apps are too difficult.

Signal only delivers a promise that their E2EE will be enough to make the information govts get useless.

Signal do more than just a promise. Their encryption techniques are available to see. You can confirm if it’s enough protection for you or not. Telegram are the ones making a promise. I’m not saying they’ve broken their promise (as evidenced by the arrest).

But it is just a promise when Telegram still has the ability to see messages. Signal can’t see messages and therefore don’t have to rely on a promise that can be broken (willingly or not). They instead rely on encryption, which appears to be far stronger than any promise could be.

For all we know, this is performative and the French government already has access to Telegram’s servers and can see everything. If they have access to Signal’s, oh well, they can’t see shit.