Unfortunately even with E2EE, the admins of a homeserver can still impersonate you or take over your channel.

Of course you could run your own instance, or maybe none of this is part of your threat model, but I felt like bringing it up either way.

American general population are not intelligent enough to posit this. Signed, an American

I think this is actually why history repeats itself... the majority of people just aren't smart enough to learn from past mistakes.

my ubuntu 22 AWS VM only got 6.2 in september, and I haven't rebooted yet so it's still on 5.15. probably tons of desktops and servers are still using < 6.2

"checking" does not prevent anything bad from happening. and if that file were read by a malicious actor, it would likely be immediate and you'd never even notice.

I only trust the people that don't comment, because they know it's not worth their time.

then what's the point if you're still not getting away from the same people?

so you're saying a fire sale is coming... got it

open source licenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court

keeping a list of changes in the source code

Source?

there's absolutely no reason you can't use git

Unusably buggy for me... always has been.

Programmer for 25 years. Only time I have ever used math more complicated than simple multiply/divide was... actually never.

That one time when I copy/pasted a formula for linear interpolation, was still just multiplication and division. And I still have no idea how it works.

I've even done OpenGL and graphics programming and still haven't needed any algebra/trig/etc, although I don't do complex 3D rendering or physics or anything like that.

I wish I knew how to do cool programming stuff like draw circles and waves and stuff though, but I've never seen a tutorial that didn't go WAY over my head immediately.