Attended a great talk yesterday at @dedependance hosted by Nuria Ribas Costa with @Mer__edith and Evelyn Austin (@bitsoffreedom) about #Signal, AI and Europe's "Big Tech Initiatives" (amongst other things).
They had an interesting perspective on how Europe can catch up on the US with regards to Big Tech, "the cloud"¹, hyperscalers, etc.
Their perspective was: should we even want this? Should we want to copy the US's Big Tech template and perhaps end up like them?
¹ such a dumb term
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This ties in with a lot of @bert_hubert's recent articles about Europe needing to become more independent from the US wrt technology.
Also @Mer__edith after the talk I mentioned #SailfishOS to you. Which is, IMHO, the only viable alternative to iOS and Android at the moment.
I've been using it as a daily driver since 2013. It's made by ex-Nokia employees after Microsoft destroyed it.
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@aerique @bert_hubert @Mer__edith
Note also the various GNU-like #MobileLinux variants -- see @linmob and things like @phosh #pureos #mobian #postmarketos
It would be great if Signal could become more friendly to those and not assume that everyone must use Andriod or iOS. Andriod or iOS are things of the past, we need to move away from those towards alternatives that put the user's freedom and privacy front and center.
@eliasr @aerique @bert_hubert @Mer__edith @linmob @phosh at least compiling signal desktop for arm64 could be a manageable improvement
> signal desktop for arm64
Yes, that's what I use currently on my #Librem5 phone, however it's a bit awkward, not very well adapted to the small screen. Also, because Signal Desktop does not work as a "main device" for Signal, I have to have some other device also. The way I solved that for the moment (being an anti-android fundamentalist) is to run signal-cli on a #postmarketOS device, that works as my "main device" for Signal.
@eliasr @nivea @aerique @bert_hubert @Mer__edith @linmob @phosh XMPP is a good solution to your issue that you call Signal. 😉
@eliasr @aerique @bert_hubert @Mer__edith @linmob @phosh thanks, i am also on L5 and seeking ways towards signal for pretty much tbe same reasons and with similar challenges. as yet it just hasnt worked to lure the rest of the world into matrix :)
@eliasr @aerique @bert_hubert @Mer__edith @linmob @phosh
It seems a nice #mobilelinux signal alternative
https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare
@eliasr @aerique @bert_hubert @Mer__edith @linmob @phosh
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Android_Translation_Layer
it could be as an option to have something working on linux.