I think you’re missing historical context. There are more options now, but when Signal came out (or became Signal, after TextSecure), it was the only tool to offer such strong cryptographic properties with it’s then novel double ratchet algorithm. Compared to OTR and, much worse, all the other crap that was not E2E encrypted at all, it was the first really credible option on a mass scale.

The crypto was reviewed by well-considered experts, and came out looking strong.

Telegram fought for years trying to say they were just as good and in fact better, which is entirely disingenuous considering it’s not an encrypted messaging app.

These things contributed to what you call the cult following. Which wouldn’t be negative (a cult film has a cult following) if not intended to mean “a cult like Scientology”.

OMEMO is probably good enough, but i wouldn’t assume it’s the same quality as the Signal protocol it’s based on (this analysis isn’t too positive: https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/)

I believe it’s electrical engineering. A safe trade (pun intended) for the foreseeable.

There’s no such thing as “side loading”, they literally made up that term some years back in a release of android tools (adb).

It’s just installing software.

Telegram is a social network masquerading as a messaging app, not a “secure messaging” app.

Ah yes, good old E2E AWA3E.

“End to end, and we are also an end”.

Theoretically, you can check the code actually running on the Signal servers is the code they publish under a free and open source licence, using the hardware-based TEE attestations the servers will return

Someone more knowledgeable than me may have managed to do so, I haven’t.

Element / matrix.

Pray explain how those are pronounced in French?

So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.

Shit, Kodi isn’t mentioned once in the article. That’s a sign of the times.

More unfixable crap for a world drowning in crap. Hooray!

Celluloid is a nice take on an mpv GUI too.

The obliviousness to the layers of knowledge and understanding to comfortably issue play movie.mk is impressive honestly.

Thanks for this.

It really misses the point of why you’d want Jellyfin in the first place. Share a link to a film and give people the optionoption to watch it? Read something about a film before deciding toto watch it? Start watching something on Kodi then finish it later on your laptop?

How would mpv answer any of these…?

Ah ha, exactly

The future we hoped for: Dyson sphere, free unlimited energy

The future silicon valley shitlords are hoping for: let us sell you sunlight (or maybe lack thereof, wink wink)

Also, what’s international law like, in space? What consequences would be if you just shot down one of their satellites? (I say this with zero knowledge of how practical this even is)

I’m sorry, what, a balanced and informed answer? Surely you must be joking!

Lobste.rs is probably even more on the “engineers talking to engineers” side of things. I’ve not visited in a while and am not sure what people there think of (the current crop of gen)AI.