E2EE would be nice, but what’s your idea of open standard for collaboration as opposed to simply open source?

If we had multiple software solutions implementing the same ways of collaborating what would be gained / in what ways would they differentiate and still remain compatible?

As open components, we have the OpenDocument standard + signal protocol for E2EE + CRDTs for conflict resolution. No idea whether they’re compatible though.

As a product, Collabora Online is open and collaborative.

Exactly. At this point idk why anyone bothers migrating to things that are not backed by open standards. The price of vendor lock-in always comes.

The banking system in the US is a legacy mess. Transfers still take business days to go through and making your bank account # and routing information available is actually a security concern, honestly I don’t even know why that’s still a thing.

Products like PayPal and Plaid try to provide something that is slightly more usable, but with this underlying obsolescence their functionality is very limited.

When paying for services, credit cards are still the way to do it. For P2P payments, people use PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and others. Nothing even close to a unified system like Pix in Brazil.

if your tractor can’t run farming simulator, is it even a tractor?

And that’s also a lot for an app that doesn’t have that many binary assets like images or videos. I do wonder what makes up most of these sizes. I see other apps that are arguably more complicated - like AntennaPod - using under 40MB; So I guess it has to do with actual native apps vs cross platform ones.

Doing that with GNU or WINE will use your entire memory

yes, and you still need zhe mnemonics

I use the command line every day, but can’t be bothered with all the compression options of tar and company.

zip -r thing.zip things/ and unzip thing.zip are temptingly more straightforward.

Need more compression? zip -r -9 thing.zip things/. Need a faster option? Use a smaller digit.

It turns out that startup funding for Signal was from a US Government tied entity. Some people won’t like that. Here’s an interesting article: Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

Someone already commented on the “nothing-burger” this article and line of reasoning actually is, so I won’t repeat it here.

$19m / 50 = $380,000 per year per employee!!!

This $19M figure includes more things. That’s why a blog post shouldn’t be read as an accounting report. Report summaries with salary figures are available btw, one search away.

The infrastructure was not designed to minimize the cost of operations, it was designed for another purpose, data collection by third parties:

The quoted text is not evidence for this. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Elon Musk also promotes Signal:

He promotes Linux too. Also, I bet he drinks water.

I see some valid concerns / questions, but it’s immersed in a muddy water of arguments that is hard to disentangle.

Bingus Duckus

yes, even turning swap off entirely doesn’t solve it. It doesn’t take much to find people reporting a similar experience.

that won’t solve the system unresponsiveness

Related and IMO a much better option for Linux desktops:

Early OOM

of course nods along

I would. It’ll rule out if you need to do anything or just wait for your account to be a bit older.

A while ago I created an account with a Simple Login email and had a similar problem. In my case I just wanted to check an authentication via GitHub I had set up was working properly and couldn’t do it because they weren’t accepting the aliased email address. I reached out to support, but they basically told me to use a regular email address.

Fruit juice is about as nutritious as a soda

Not even close. Different kinds of sugar, preservatives, and vitamins all have vastly different ratios.

different kinds of sugar

idk, I make them at home with no sugar and it’s pretty good. But I guess expecting the sweet stuff plays a factor on your perception.