No, you still need a phone number to sign up. You can now optionally have a username as well, but a phone number remains a hard requirement.

Leave your phone at home! They can remotely track you EVEN WHEN IT’S OFF.

My daily strategy for keys and wallet are:

1. Keys go in the key bowl the moment I step inside. They are always there. Always. It’s muscle memory at this point.
2. Wallet is in the pant pocket from the day before. It moves from one pair of pants to the other without any steps in between.

I must have a different kind of ADHD because I need to be an hour or two early for my appointments, or I’m constantly stressed I’ll forget them.

They tried to weasel out of saying that they sell your data, claiming that the CA law has an absurd definition. But the CA law just defines the term how any reasonable person would: the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

So yes, they’re selling your data, and CA law is finally forcing them to admit it, rather than continuing to lie about it.

Especially one that’s now selling your data. If Mozilla did this instead of selling our personal information, that would have been great. But here we are.

24-678% uplift sounds incredible for CPU-bound games.

https://spec.matrix.org/latest/#room-structure

The content of the messages can be encrypted. Who is in a room and who sent each message is not. See the “shared data” section of the chart.

Encrypting that data would require something like Sealed Sender (like Signal), and that is entirely absent from the spec and any implementation.

Edit: to the people downvoting, this is the literal Matrix spec upon which all the implementations rely. You are asking me to prove the absence of something in it. If you could, point me to the section that comments on the encryption of metadata in the spec. You may not like the answer (I’d love for it to encrypt metadata too!) but that doesn’t change the fact that it doesn’t encrypt metadata at this time.

Matrix shares metadata in plaintext with every participating server: who talks to who, when and how often.

I think it’s not so much ignoring history as embracing it, unfortunately.

I have that same blouse.

Unlike every other note app I’ve ever used, you don’t need to organize things manually or manage an organizational hierarchy (like folders, etc). That’s where I always fall over in other apps, eventually. Organization happens automatically in Logseq.

It gives you a new, date-stamped journal entry everyday, and you jot down notes in that. You can link to other pages just by adding a hashtag or using 2 square brackets around some text. Each link/hashtag is automatically given its own page, and if you visit it, you’ll see all your mentions of this page, neatly organized in a chronological order by the date. So think about daily work on a project/goal, or anything around a specific topic, all of it is automatically organized for you.

Under the hood, all the links form a graph and Logseq is backed by a graph database, so it visualizes this graph for you and gives you some powerful querying tools on top of it too.

Shoutout to Logseq (AGPL licensed) https://logseq.com/

Found it was perfect for my ADHD.

I get all those stated benefits on my Framework 13 AMD, except my battery life is longer.

The challenge with messengers like Matrix and WhatsApp (and I assume sup, correct me if I’m wrong) is that they don’t encrypt the metadata like Signal’s sealed sender. Knowing exactly who you talk to and how frequently is a very juicy target for the government … And the government right now is orange Hitler and his ragtag team of muppets, so I trust that they’ll abuse whatever power and knowledge they have to the utmost.