One of the authors' first name is Claude, haha.
Readit NewsValodim commented on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT theregister.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
- Messages by default are encrypted in transit. Client to server. Yes Telegram does have access to those messages. (I don't believe we had any e2e encrypted chat service before the likes of signal, matrix etc. Whatsapp added it after Telegram too if my memory is right.)
- The library IS used for all encryption including the above client to server encryption. As far as I can tell from casual use the other end does not need to be online for secret chats per se. There's a key exchange with picture verification that requires the party on the other end to accept the chat request.
- The phone bits in your and the other commenters response sound a little bit handwavy to me.
- Telegram client(s) are also open source. The comment was about the server and interoperability with other clients.
After all it doesn't seem to me that I am more misinformed than yourself.
> - Messages by default are encrypted in transit. Client to server. Yes Telegram does have access to those messages.
No connection over the internet is not transport encrypted these days, but that is not what this conversation is about. It's about whether messages are encrypted so the server cannot read them. And Telegram is commonly mistaken to have this property, including OP I was responding to.
If you go around telling people that telegram is "encrypted", please stop. You are spreading disinformation.
Valodim commented on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT theregister.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I am a daily user, family and friends chatting on Matrix.
My take is that there are two layers of friction:
a) people that care about chat encryption and would be willing to change, already did, to Telegram and/or Signal. "I'm not going to install yet another chat app" is a real answer by a friend of mine
b) no one wants to either host their own server, nor pay someone to host it for them. If it wasn't for me and a one of my friends, none of the people I chat with daily would be on Matrix.
And yes, there is the matrix.org server. Out of the ~13 people I chat frequently with, 1 is on matrix.org. "What's the point of changing apps if I'm still going to be using the centralized server" is another answer I've gotten.
I don't know what the solution to this dynamic is other than us, the power users, setting it up and paying for the group of people around us.
> a) people that care about chat encryption and would be willing to change, already did, to Telegram and/or Signal.
It continues to baffle me that the "telegram is encrypted" spin is still widely believed, even on a forum like this. Telegram is for 99.9% of intents and purposes not encrypted.
Valodim commented on Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo si.edu/newsdesk/releases/... · Posted by u/gmays
> [this individual] will help strengthen the genetic diversity of the Asian elephant population in North America and around the world.
I'm happy for them that there is now a calf after a long time, but this sentence doesn't read as hopeful as the author probably intended
I have no idea what shell means either! Isn’t it called ricing to customize desktop environment? Since when do people started calling it shell?
I'm not sure about Linux, but on Windows it's been called that since forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell
Just me or does sit well to monetize _mostly_ off the core benefits of an open source application?
Can't be easy to build a GUI on top, but I'm sure a 10% revenue to be redistributed to the hero behind jj would go a long way. Would also pay off.
The hero behind jj is employed by Google afaik, so we're good.
Valodim commented on I'll pass on your zoom call operand.online/chronicle/... · Posted by u/c4lliope
As a pessimist who's often right, and not rich, this resonates.
But how can this be true? Surely you get rich by being right?
But optimism favors action, while pessimism favors inaction. And action vastly (and compoundingly) increases the amount of opportunities for being right.
Valodim commented on KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android kisslauncher.com/... · Posted by u/ifh-hn
Wow, I hadn't seen a launcher with an annual subscription before. $14/year.
https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/104-price-of-niagar...
You mean one with a business model where the user isn't the product? I happily paid for a (fairly expensive) lifetime license of Niagara, hoping that I will never read an "after the acquisition, all developers were fired and all ad frameworks were added" article about it.
Can you explain how „AI Application“ differs from „Software“ in your model?
I don't even hate the player, it's just what you gotta do to run a business now. But man I can't wait for this chapter of the game to be over.