Alternatives Pt. I - Messaging, Browsing, and Email
So you've heard about all the data harvesting, ad targeting and surveillance, algorithmic rage farming, and all sorts of other things you really didn't actua...
Delta Chat: Delta Chat, decentralized secure messenger
delta.chatDelta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app 💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support ⚡️ Sign up to secure and interoperable chatmail relays 🥳 Interactive ...
Stop Using Encrypted Email with William Woodruff
There was a bug in an OpenPGP library which finally gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. Our special guest William Woodruff joined us...
Public IPv6 for Incus Instances on Your Home Server with the ROUTE64 Tunnel Broker
Skip the VPS: use Incus instances at home and publish selected services directly on the IPv6 internet via ROUTE64.
Teleporting a Public IPv6 Address from Your VPS to Your Home Server
Running a Delta Chat Chatmail Relay in an Incus Instance with a Routed IPv6 /128 over WireGuard.
How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram
How to make your own Delta Chat Email server and free yourself from the enshitification of Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram and others.
February status update
CRDTs, a new contact form, a rant about super-spreader events, and the start of an idea
Unveiling our new theme song by Kirk Pearson, and Big Tech alternatives | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU
Exciting news: Kirk Pearson has created a new Techtonic theme song. It’s excellent. We’ll officially unveil the new theme song, and for more good news, we’ll discuss alternatives to Big Tech platforms.
Software I use
Index of FOSS software and ethical services
Teachable Moment: John McAfee's Gmail Rant
Responding to arguments from a late veteran computer expert
Fungible Digital Infrastructure for bottom-up resilience and censorship resistance
They can't stop the signal: Manyverse, Nostr, Delta Chat & Mitra
On mixing plaintext and encrypted messages
Software engineer.
Aangat Lahat / Delta Chat
Delta Chat is a secure, private communications tool, and it's really fast to create an account (and as many accounts as you want!), and it has the same interface across all platforms. Messages are encrypted between contacts by default (in fact, unencrypted messages aren't allowed to be sent out.)
my ideal tech setup
Dreaming up tech I wish I had is a good way to evaluate what I really want and need.
Exapt existing infrastructure
The internet is one of the greatest open-ended technologies our species has created, up there with language, writing, money, math, markets.