Signal devs accuse f-droid for not being secure, but do not offer any convincing arguments to back it up. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.

F-Droid works. I have 20+ apps installed on my phone from F-Droid. I am not going to go back to installing apks from website or Google Play just so that I can use Signal.

No, but an app like Signal claiming to care about privacy should at least make an effort to be on the largest open source appstore. The fact they don’t, despite very loud complaints from the community, makes me question their commitment to privacy and security.

I don’t trust an app that tells me to download from Google Play. Sorry, not going to happen. Signal has too many red flags.

Just above you said “You’re even better off using WhatsApp”.

I will use Signal if Signal devs get over their hate of F-Droid.

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

Lets teach that uneducated moron Vance the Streisand effect.

nothing you say will make me use a closed source app like whatsapp.

Telegram is very successful in getting people off Meta’s ecosystem. It has open source clients and very good Linux support.

This is why western media is obsessed with Telegram and spend a lot of time smearing it.

They were doing this already. Visa applications going back many years asked for lists of social media accounts.

on linux it is easy to record the audio that is sent to the sound device. lots of programs do it.

onthespot doesn’t look too bad if you want to download from spotify directly.

I just download from youtube though. It’s very easy with yt-dlp.

It’s open source. Which is way better than ClosedAI, or anyone else. Show show gratitude folks.

LLMs are great at automating tasks where we know the solution. And there are a lot of workflows that fall in this category. They are horrible at solving new problems, but that is not where the opportunity for LLMs is anyway.

For VLMs I love Moondream2. It’s a tiny model that packs a punch way above its size. Llama.cpp supports it.