That’s really bad luck because now you’ve got to be the default which is American.

You need a bit less patient and a bit more gamer.

Apparently it’s used even less than SVN,

Going to need a source for this.

Since nobody else has linked to it, the video in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Yo7PULlPs&t=614s

Dead? They just had a major version update 1 month ago and the last minor release was 1 week ago.

What does Facebook using it have to do with anything?

This article is about UEFI rootkits, not malicious CPU microcode firmware.

It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.

What?

“This is a particularly sophisticated supply chain attack,” noted Mika Aalto, Principal Threat Researcher at Withsecure.

Mika Aalto is an incompetent clown. A “Principal Threat Researcher” at any company should understand the difference between a trojanized version of an app distributed through phishing, and a supply chain attack.

Security experts have identified multiple attack vectors, with the primary distribution channel being tampered download links spread through phishing emails and malicious advertisements that redirect users to convincing but fraudulent KeePass download pages.

🤡

Aren’t microcode firmware updates loaded by the OS on boot? So they’re not actually persistent since it doesn’t modify any kind of flash memory in the CPU. You can just replace a malicious firmware on disk with an official one.

Am I misunderstanding how microcode firmware works?

How is nobody talking about the fact that

What is this title?

there is no need to be rude and combative about it.

Actually, I think that when anyone makes claims that their software is “private,” being combative is strictly necessary.

The bar needs to be set very high for any software that is handling our personal data and claiming to be private, because when these systems fail it can lead literally to the death of the user in some places in the world.

How do users in dangerous situations know what software they can rely on for private communications? It is through peer-review and reputation that we as a community filter down the available software to those things that we actually recommend. And peer-review is inherently combative, because it requires pointing out every potential weakness in any part of a system, and any hint of suboptimal behaviour.

1. user uses html input to select file from device. this requires the user to grant permissions.
2. file loaded into into os/browser/js memory-space.
3. this file is base64 encoded and sent to peer (base64 encoded to make the data serializable for network transfer)
4. peer recieves file in base64 which can then be converted back into a file.

There is no encryption?

Please take your AI-generated marketing and kindly fuck off.

Where is the source? Is it some subdirectory of the positive-intentions/chat repo?

This has been their policy for many many years. It sucks and I won’t even fly Ryanair again, but they do advertise that this is the policy quite clearly.

Built on IPFS

true censorship resistance

Last time I checked, IPFS was not censorship resistant.

F-Droid on iOS?

Something a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpBAFOmdNgU

Going to need a source for a bombshell like that.

Austrian