Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov

Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by Vinnl on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:56AM (#15282865)

> their desktop client is based on a dead technology (and limited to a single machine without SMS support)

They're working on an Electron version (Chrome apps aren't dead yet, so they still have some time), and I'm using Signal Desktop on two machines.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by izacus on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:59AM (#15282885)

Are you perhaps also using it on two Android/iOS devices?

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by Vinnl on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:57AM (#15283798)

No, one Android phone, two computers.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by MaymayMaster on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:10AM (#15283896)

>Electron

Absolutely disgusting.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by Vinnl on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:22AM (#15291248)

Regardless of your opinion of it, it's not "dead technology" like Chrome apps are, i.e. apps written using it are not guaranteed to stop working at some point.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by magic_quotes on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:34AM (#15292252)

I wouldn't be so sure. Electron (libchromiumcontent) is a patchset on top of Chromium and it can be easily broken by upstream changes.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by Vinnl on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @08:13AM (#15292819)

But its deprecation hasn't been planned, and a binary you provide won't suddenly be upgraded and stop working. That is not the case for Chromium apps.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by magic_quotes on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:35AM (#15294913)

Yeah, I'm actually more worried about Electron devs manpower/ability to catch regressions on the very big and simultaneously fast moving codebase where the upstream project doesn't really care about their use cases. This must be total PITA. Otherwise it's an ok platform, I guess.

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Re:Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pav... by r3bl on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:45AM (#15285649)

I'll double my RAM every year if that's what's necessary for cross-platform apps that are truly easy to develop.

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