Off-the-Record Messaging VS SourceHut

Get Pidgin, download the (OTR, Off the Record)[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/] extension so you will have no data on your device stored. Source: 10 months ago

To understand more about it read here: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca. Source: over 1 year ago

A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps. All the sudden you use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. At least that was my experience. I used to use Pidgin with OTR[0] for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I didn't need to trust them. Also used... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Why so pesimisstic. In a sane world (and probably in the world where they want to say "just use WhatsApp, we're better!") they'll say "This user is using an unencrypted app. [Paragraph about how all your nudes and contents of bank account will be stolen]. Are you sure you want to send them a message?". In a better world, something like https://otr.cypherpunks.ca could be implemented, where the user has control of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

OTR is the de-facto standard for encryption on IRC. It's also quite old, so it predates IRCv3. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

For anyone coming across this, a new page has been set up at https://sourcehut.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Do you know SourceHut? https://sourcehut.org/ I would be really curious to have your opinion about it as compared to how it was 14 years ago. I feel like SourceHut does a really good job helping on the tooling side (it's super easy to setup a mailing list). Also I find Aerc very cool for that. The author describes it here: https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/25/Code-review-with-aerc.html. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

A few comments in-line, but I don't want to "sell" anything to you, so just FWIW. > The amount of "gotchas" in this process and the tooling required just to use git + email seems insane to me. The base system is really, really simple, but there are some common rules/guidelines that just help when working together, and those are required for forge based workflows too (or do you like a single commit touching a dozen... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

> We're planning on expanding to support other forges, Just want to put in a request for SourceHut support in case it's not already on your list. Sometimes it gets overlooked in favor of the big corporate forges. https://sourcehut.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Https://sourcehut.org/ fits this pretty well. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago