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What about Jack Dorsey's Bitchat . Could be useful in india (especially Kashmir) where govt shut down internet during protest

Check the news from the past year. If you care about security or privacy, Bitchat doesn't actually have either according to !any independent security audits), so I'd stay away.

If you dont care about those things, I'd look at Scuttlebutt (SSB) protocol apps instead.


Bitchat seems like a good solution. It will be even more effective once Bluetooth 6 becomes more widespread in a year or two.

Could be useful in Bangladesh and Baluchistan too.

"Raliv, Tsaliv ya Galiv" didn't need the internet or fancy mesh networking - rabble-rousing Friday mosque-sessions were sufficient for ethnociding the native population over the course of many centuries.

Dude.

Back in 2014 when briar or something similar came up, we found the app.needed to signed in "online" first then it could be used offline.

There were apps used in 2019 but it wasnt enough.

The government "banned" 14 appps including element "because use by terrorists" meant anyone using element after the ban got a loud knock on the door by the stazi with 100-300 personnel, fully ready to engage in battle.

Have seen horror stories.

They used isp data to locate homes where element was used and then staked them out and made a big show of attacking at night.

Then the usual. Phones are confiscated and literal spyware installed.


That was Bridgefy that required initial online access to setup. Briar doesn't and never has.

Traceability of Briar users, if not the actual content, is certainly potentially worse than something like what Bitchat claims (don't use Bitchat it's provably not secure or private at all) with it's traffic obfuscation and multihop. However, the lack of multihop also makes it less promiscuous, so someone would have to be monitoring when you came in contact with the transfer source or destination, unlike multihop that just broadcasts to anyone so they can hopefully relay it.


that's why its difficult to trust these apps? i've been out of the game for years and i would rather be on the fence about the whole thing.

the problem i saw back in 2019 was adoption. it just happened suddenly and the scaremongering done by the government was top notch. literally any anti-government tweet or post was "deemed social media misuse", how dare you question the might of the great nation.

https://thewire.in/rights/kashmir-fir-vpn-social-media this is fresh "misuse".

what i am saying is, in that heated environment, no one wanted to be the one holding the short straw so this tech did not play out, simply out of personal safety.

few years ago we had clubhouse and https://kashmirlife.net/sleuths-silently-listen-to-clubhouse...

which someone like me knew "out of habit" so i didn't even try the app but people did and paid the price.


Why are people downvoting him? He's right (even though if his dream for "Azad" Kashmir came true, it would mean my family is Kishtwar would probably have to leave for Punjab or Himachal with only the clothes on their backs, but the current status quo means he might be detained indefinetly as well) - the DoT, Home Ministry, and State STFs have been rolling out fusions centers since the mid-2010s [0].

The rules are much more strict/draconian in JK [1]

[0] - https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/AdvNATGRIDCOT_151...

[1] - https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-blocks-14-mobi...



Wait really? Was this only in Kashmir? I've had Element on my laptop for years.


yep. only restricted in kashmir

I'm not sure so many Iranians have $1000 iphones to use hipster bitchat; cheaper android clients are more the norm.

While bitchat was originally iOS only during release, they released the Android version shortly after https://bitchat.free/ (scroll down)

2025-20-29 ?


Looks like the first digit of each part of the date was incremented by 1. I think it's meant to say 1025-10-19.


A rare pre-William the Conqueror essay on functional programming.


Had the battle at Hastings went the other way, the state of functional programming might have been much different, methinks.

Alas, 'tis not meant to be.


I've always known the Green Knight was something of a time traveler. Knew too much.


Was this written on 2025-20-29?


Reminds me we named our sprints on these moon names


I have been using Project IDX from Google since last few days. idx.dev Works fairly well in Chrome, has a lot of issues around clipboard in firefox. For beginners its really great as it has some good Hello World template which is usualy the friction for adopting new tool. Also one click deployment and key management is really cool.


Wow #13 in HN. I am a caregiver of TN. Is was strange 8 years ago it was HER2+ but it changed to TN this time even though it was exactly at the same location(conserved last time).


I like such short article given the attention span I have these days. This could have been a tweet.


I sometimes use this https://github.com/topaz/paste


Could be usefull for places where government have shutdown internet for weeks https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/sambalpu...


My thoughts exactly - other places like Iran have also experienced deliberate government internet blackouts recently. Thanks for sharing.


Yeah I am a regular heaven's above user (too bad they dont have iOS app) but this looked almost spooky when I saw my the sky with my building where I live (pulled from Google street views). At least in stellarium you see random horizon not your own freaking house


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