Readit NewsThat is a terrible reason to request camera access. It is just restating the access request and it should be rejected. Why will photographs be taken? Because it is a camera/photography application and will only take photographs on explicit user request.
Any distro can have Telegram clients, both official and third-party, in their repository.
Compared to this
1. You cannot download Signal from F-Droid. You need to download it from the Google Play Store. The released source code has lagged behind the version on the Google Play store by long periods of time many times. One example was when they implemented cryptocurrency payments, pushed the update to everyone but no one could inspect the source code.
2. Signal has sent legal threats to repositories that package Signal. The repos either need to confuse users by offering the client under other package names or remove it.
3. They also send baseless threats to forks that use their server. Combined with their lack of federation, this results in people having to use multiple apps from different sources with a much larger attack surface.
4. They beg for donations in the app even though they made an app with payments and cryptocurrency integration with an obscure coin (which they were involved with and had ample opportunity to hoard before ever announcing it as a feature in Signal).
5. They claim to have privacy features that other messengers lack, but these features are based on known-to-be-broken technologies like Intel SGX.
Based on the exchanges, Vlad is both extremely combative and unwilling to accept the possibility that he is wrong (which he is here).
Being aggressively wrong is no way to go through life. Vlad should be more humble, and open to being wrong, rather than being unnecessarily belligerent.
The whole point of this lawsuit is that their jobs are being made harder with no additional resources.
Would you prefer the additional resources required to deal with the issues outlined in the lawsuit come from “your tax dollars” or from those causing the costs?
It’s a classic socialize the costs privatize the profits situation where negative costs caused by private sector are paid for by the taxpayer.
Ironically your viewpoint if it were to stand will inevitably cost you more “tax dollars” when we have to pay the increased costs of dealing with these issues in schools rather than those responsible paying.
[0]: https://plane.so/
https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape
LiveStore shows recreating linear as one of their examples though I haven’t tried it. It was on the front page recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105412