Syncthing, its a self-run dropbox. Apps for every platform.

Then you can use whatever editors on any device you like. Markor is a good open source one for android.

I don’t doubt it. Those NSLs would have returned zero information from Signal because, as Signal has repeatedly demonstrated, and I have repeatedly stated, they don’t have any information to share.

Part of the stipulation of NSL’s, is that its illegal to disclose that you’ve been issued one. You are gagged, and you can’t even criticize that gagging publicly, or you will face criminal charges. You can read more about that here: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters

Not my name, email, birthdate, nothing.

Your phone number is already linked to all that info. I, even as a private person, could type in your phone number right now and get all that information about you in seconds. So you can stop saying “my phone number doesn’t have that information”, because it 100% does. And signal stores it as their primary identifier.

Again, if you really believe what you’re saying, you’ll give me your phone number, and the phone numbers of your friends. If this is a secure identifier, that contains none of the information above, then why not? Put up or shut up.

We desperately need an open-source obsidian. I like Markor a lot, but it has no WYSIWYG view, which is really nice to have in addition to source mode with markdown.

They still require a phone number to sign up, and its a US domiciled company (5-eyes country), so its inherently unsafe. The obama administration issued an average of 60 national security letters every single day of his administration.

If your answer is “I don’t think signal is giving my phone number to the US government”, then why do you have to “trust” signal to not do that? Actually private chat apps don’t ask for identifying information like phone numbers, then say “trust us”, like apple or something.

Lets use your favorite privacy app to communicate. Give me your phone number.

That doesn’t make much sense. With a single piece of info, your phone number, I can learn hundreds of things about you. It’s one of the most linkable identifiers out there.

Every chat platform has some sort of unique identifier, other than SimpleX.

Of course, which is why its super-important that the id not be linked to your real identity.

Here’s a test: I’ll give you my matrix id, and you give me your phone number. Deal?

zero information connected to your phone number.

A phone number is tied to your real identity in most countries, especially the US. This is why phone number leaks are so dangerous, I can probably find your current and past addresses, friends, family, social media, all with just your phone number.

No probs!

I don’t know enough about grapeneOS to comment on it.

Any signal app forks still have to use signals main servers, so they still got your phone number and identity.

Matrix was originally funded by an Israeli company until it spun off, but unlike signal, it’s entirely open source, self-hostable, and can be run in a private manner. Phone numbers and identifiers are not required, so even if you connect to a malicious server, the most they get is your matrix id, and things you’ve explicitly leaked about your identity.

The most we could say is that specific servers are compromised, but its also possible to host it outside a five-eyes country, unlike signal.

What’s funny is this is pretty out in the open, and ppl don’t realize it. When Yasha Levine criticized signal, the president of Radio Free Asia (a US government propaganda org), sent this out, openly pushing Signal to european internet freedom communities:

Our primary interest is to make sure the extended OTF network and the Internet Freedom community are not spooked by the [Yasha Levine’s] article (no pun intended). Fortunately all the major players in the community are together in Valencia this week - and report out from there indicates they remain comfortable with OTF/RFA.

And I remember you mentioned before, Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, holds interviews with US defense-department think tanks.

Matrix, simplex, xmpp.

I wrote a longer one here: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

The short version is, that it’s a centralized, US hosted service. All of those are subject to National Security Letters, and so are inherently compromised. Even if we accept that the message content is secure, then signal’s reliance on phone numbers (and in the US, a phone number is connected to your real identity and even current address), means that the US government has social connection graphs: everyone who uses signal, who they talk to, and when.

Cool, glad u like it.

I submitted it to f-droid, but it takes a month or two to get up there. You can add the izzyondroid repo to your f-droid client if you want this, and updates to all other apps a lot faster.

I’d have to know what spec / standard they’re using, then it’d be possible.

I’m not using uhabits, this is a different app I just made. If there’s a JSON or CSV standard for habits and their history, I could probably add an import / export.

EDIT: Oh I see. No I just used one function from loop habit to help with streak calculations, and wanted to credit their codebase. Everything else is from scratch.

No probs! Hope it helps, and if there’s anything I can do to make it better, lmk.

For sure. I was surprised that most of the habit apps out there aren’t focused on actually making new habits and ingraining them, but just tracking them. So I did a bunch of research on what works best, and am trying to apply that insight with this app.

For sure. I did a lot of research before making this, and one of the big takeaways was that you should never punish, or indicate that you messed up, for breaking streaks. Not only should it be expected, but punishing for breaking streaks also makes ppl less likely to start again.

Thx! I did add a way to hide streaks (or any of the other stats) from the home screen.

No web app, as this is written in native android.