Em Adespoton

As a centralized system, nothing has been shown to improve on Signal yet. For decentralized systems, I haven’t seen anything better than Matrix yet? SimpleX is slightly more secure, but harder to spin up and easier to break.

Session… there have been multiple articles written on how it is flawed and untrustworthy.

That’s why he had to seek out the authors and appoint them to key government positions… so he’d be properly informed!

Reminder that you don’t need to use iCloud backup; local backups still work fine and are encrypted.

For those in the UK: reminder that you can still back up locally to your computer to an encrypted file; you don’t need to use iCloud.

As seen in the Ars comments, the Ars article is missing a bit of context.

Musk got into a tweet war with the commander of the space station over whether Suni and Butch’s extended stay on the ISS was political. Musk eventually called him a mentally challenged idiot and then followed that up with a call for the ISS to be deorbited ASAP.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/elon-musk-iss-deorbit-00205268

He’s already investigated himself and found that Xitter is a bastion of freedom. Same goes for Truth Social.