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It’s a beautiful sunny day in Leiden, so have a picture of the house of famed homotopy theorist Herman Boerhaave!

“Here died [i.e. stopped doing mathematics]
Herman Boerhaave
23 September
1738
‘The simplex is the sign of truth’”

2025-06-18T12:34 Rapenburg, Leiden

@rysiek @simplex The #SimpleX brand account also promotes right wing slop, retweets posts from right wing accounts, and "love[s] Twitter and the role it plays in the world."

It's not at all disconnected from the project itself. This defending of right wing bullshit under the guise of "defending free speech" appears to be inherent to SimpleX's philosophy. Of course, people will screech about "keep politicks out oaf mah softwayre!!"

Evgeny also retweets Lunduke lol.

I'm not sure that I'd really trust #SimpleX because it describes itself as a startup with stock options for employees. I'd prefer projects which are public, non-profit, and don't deal in stocks. That helps to rule out any dubious enshitified agendas which can result in tears later on.

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@uhuru
#DeltaChat has no forward secrecy.
And depended on SHA-1 and using MD5.
Both are considered weak cryptography if I'm not mistaken.
While I believe deltachat to be a great app with good use case, it's not what I'm looking for.

#xmpp ecosystem is?/was! pretty bad in serving proper e2ee cross platform implementation.
Till recently there was only conversations as a usable app. Since some weeks ago it seems that @dino now also offers e2ee by default. But also both conversations and Dino using an outdated omemo specification, and are by that not compatible with @kaidan.
I will reconsider xmpp when they adapt the newer specification.

@briar not mentioned, but also no, cause it's not working on #TailsOS or on android with Orbot.
So very much unusable, since it's not running on the platforms we use.

#simplex, no, I don't like nor trust the dev.

#cwtch, yes, maybe

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@kuketzblog
Fast niemand verifiziert die Fingerprints. Signal kann einfach MiTM machen bei initialem Kontakt.
Sie hätten ja auch den Fingerprint im den Nutzernamen /QR Code packen können, wie #SimpleX - haben sie aber nicht.

For giggles, I'm periodically calling on 146.52 from the mobile while my kiddo has lessons, if anyone thinks they are within simplex range of Lititz PA

Times like these are the only ones where I miss having HF in the car. (I'm not in the car much anymore so it's hardly worth the effort to get it all set up for HF)

#HamRadio
#Simplex

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Some of you may have heart of #simplex which likes to elevate itself as "the first messenger without user-ids" ... a goal, similar to ours, of not letting the transport layer know about who talks. Only we are doing it in the email system, fully interoperable with tens of thousands of existing email servers and other #openpgp endpoints. The email system is much more than SMTP/IMAP or even openpgp btw ... there is plenty of room for radical shifts and new takes. We are just starting :)