Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don’t get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.

There are ways to save messages before they are deleted even if the stock app is used. Do not ever rely on this feature to work in a “safe” way.

Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)

That is a problem the users who prefer 3rd party clients have to deal with. Obviously if you care enough to not use the official build, you of cause have to take care of using a trustworthy source. That is not “your problem” though.

The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.

That sounds a lot like “I don’t use it, so none else needs it either” argument. In my opinion, none of your arguments above are a good reason to combat 3rd party clients.

Not in all situations. And in a way a user will not be aware of. The service or website can define what type of passkey is allowed (based in attestation). You may not be able to acutally use your “movable” keys because someone else decided so. You will not notice this until you actually face such a service. And when that happens, you can be sure that the average user will not understand what ia going on. Not all passkeys are equal, but that fact is hidden from the user.

In addition, Huawei now blocks sideloading Android apps to promote its ecosystem growth.

Well looks like I’m never going to get a device from this manufacturer then.

Here a a few things that I miss from OsmAnd:

• adding more than a handful of routing points is tedious
• you cannot plan partially or fully independent from existing roads
• no way to save and restore a planned trip
• no overlays for hill shading or incline visualization. Very useful for assessing the effort of a route.
• no public transport support. Very useful for planning a trip with transitions.
• no rain radar
• satellite view

Organic Maps is my goto solution for car navigation because it is very quick, responsive and does not require an high end phone. It just works. However for anything more advanced than that (e.g. live location sharing or recording, planning a hiking trip, navigating mountain bike trails, contributing to OpenStreemMap), OSMAnd is still without contender.

Availability still very limited:

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=QssFZHtIOfAYNSSmzXNwY9

Garmin’s ECG app is currently available in the following regions:

United States
   American Samoa
    Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
    Guam
    Puerto Rico
    US Virgin Islands
Hong Kong
Philippines
Singapore
Taiwan
Vietnam

Sad to see Mozilla being managed into the ground, betraying their principles and selling their users.

That is not entirely correct. The reported found the app using permissions that are not covered by the manifest. It also found the app being capable to execute arbitrary code send by temu. So it cannot be clearly answered if the app can utilize these permissions or not. Obviously they would not ship such an exploit with the app directly.

This is your best option. I did do movie nights with friends during the pandemic in a similar way, but I used OBS Studio to create the stream and Monaserver to stream it to all users. I did not know VLC can handle the streaming to users directly, making this dead simple to setup without additional software. You just need to know how to configure your router to allow the needed port forwarding.

Die Wahl der Komponenten ist sicherlich wichtig, ebenso die Fahrweise und der Einsatzbereiche. Datenpunkt meinerseits: Schimano XT 11 Gang hält bei mir ca. 500km am EMTB.

Denke auch es kommt stark auf den Einsatzbereich an.

Als teure Option gibt es noch Pinion, da ist dann der Mittelmotor mit einem Getriebe kombiniert. Das wird auch bei Mountainbikes verbaut und damit auch in richtig steilem Gelände grundsätzlich nutzbar.

FUD

Lass auf jeden Fall die Finger von Mods/Hacks vom Motor. Wenn du erwischt wirst wird es richtig teuer und im schlimmsten Fall kann es dich bei einem Unfall finanziell ruinieren.

Beim Einsatz mit starker Steigung würde ich von Frontmotoren abraten, denen geht schnell die Puste aus, wenn es zu steil wird. Ich persönlich bin ein Fan von Mittelmotoren.

Wenn es wartungsarm sein soll solltest du über einen Riemenantrieb nachdenken. Der Ketteverschleiß ist bei Pedellecs stark erhöht.

Und schließlich würde ich mich bei der Auswahl auf bekannte Antriebshersteller beschränken. Bei den günstigen Chinamodellen wäre ich insbesondere bei der Sicherheit des Akkus skeptisch.

Wenn mit “möglichst vielen Menschen” wirklich alle Menschen gemeint sind und nicht bestimmte Gruppen, dann sind diese beiden Ziele zwei Seiten der selben Medaille.

Agreed. From a privacy perspective, it is a lot safer to run the app in an environment where you have admin control. E.g. disable when not in use, block access to sensitive device information, limit background and network activity as much as possible.

I’d second this. The organization behind it (https://calyxinstitute.org/about) is a long established non profit, their portfolio covers various cool projects. The vpn client itself is basically a rebranded version of https://f-droid.org/packages/se.leap.bitmaskclient, it it is nothing special.

The question is not weather Google is tracking or not, the question is if Google is breaking the law doing so.

“Could”. More likely it was closed loop. As I understand it this is an estimate, thus the word “could”. This has nothing to do with using closed or open look water cooling. Water isn’t single use, so even if true how does this big number matter.

The point they are trying to make is that fresh water is not a limitless resource and increasing usage has various impacts, for example on market prices.

The outdated network holding back housing is that it doesn’t go to the right places with the capacity needed for the houses. Not that OpenAIUK is consuming so much that there’s no power left. To use a simily, there’s plenty of water but the pipes aren’t in place.

The point being made is that resources are allocated to increase network capacity for hyped tech and not for current, more pressing needs.

Ich bestreite nicht, dass es digital in der Regel mehr Komfort bieten kann. Das rechtfertigt aber keinen Zwang, wenn das mit Nachteilen verbunden ist. Man kann problemlos gut funktionierende digitale Systeme bauen und dennoch Alternative anbieten. Das ist aber in der Regel nicht das Ziel, weil es mit Kosten verbunden ist. Digizalzwang ist hier für den Anbieter viel bequemer. Daher ist hier Regulierung die einzige Möglichkeit den Verbraucher vor Entscheidungen zu seinem Nachteil zu schützen.

Es ist ein bisschen wie mit dem Bargeld. Digital hat meist viele Vorteile und ist für viele einfach bequemer. Aber es gibt gravierende Nachteile die man in Kauf nehmen muss. Von daher ist es sinnvoll, wenn hier die Wahlfreiheit über Regulierung erzwungen wird.