Simplex is developed by a person who has a rather difficult view of the world. I would not recommend using it as long as this person is responsible for it.
I came here to write just that. It is all over the place as well. I find it a bit disturbing with regard to how one defines struggle against power. What does those views mean with regards to the long term priorities of the software?
If you're so eager on encouraging cancel-culture, would you be so kind to elaborate on why exactly you want to cancel this programmer instead of just vaguely pointing in the direction of a closed platform?
I don't know what you're mentioning, but let's not forget that whatever view he might have, it changes nothing in the technology he creates. It's open source, it's auditable, and the code does not have worldviews of its own.
Your comment promotes cancel-culture, and as filthy as it is in general, it's even more so in the technology world. Don't do it. Please.
As long as you are not auditing every bit of code you run yourself AND are sufficiently knowledgeable to detect even obfuscated malicious code, you need some basis of trust.
Evident world views far off reason, reality, compassion and pragmatic self-regulation, don't speak for a stable, predictable and reasonable personality.
If a person thinks some humans deserve less rights than others, how could you trust any update to not reflect this world view?
Additionally you may be becoming technologically dependent on a person whose actions may be detrimental to your safety or wellbeing in other parts of your life.
You may also just don't like to promote this person's work.
It's fair to inform others about the person behind the software they are running. Everybody can make their own informed choices.
However, human being human beings, they find it very hard to sequester their beliefs, emotions from their work. It's a common human failing. Often they are not even aware of it.
Having politically or socially divisive beliefs publicly also makes such a person a target of coercion and encouragement to yield to a "harmless" temptation by way of appropriate 3 letter like agencies.
To ensure that this does not happen will require maintaining a paranoid level of vigilance on the code all the time. That is a lot of work, very expensive and is unlikely to happen. Perhaps not fair to his creation, but that's just how it goes.
My comment is at a high level. This is the first time I heard of Simplex chat, so I don't even know what views its developer has.
baxuz|3 months ago
This guy?
guytv|3 months ago
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Xiol|3 months ago
That is quite the Twitter timeline.
bjoli|3 months ago
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sandblast|3 months ago
Your comment promotes cancel-culture, and as filthy as it is in general, it's even more so in the technology world. Don't do it. Please.
jijijijij|3 months ago
Evident world views far off reason, reality, compassion and pragmatic self-regulation, don't speak for a stable, predictable and reasonable personality.
If a person thinks some humans deserve less rights than others, how could you trust any update to not reflect this world view?
Additionally you may be becoming technologically dependent on a person whose actions may be detrimental to your safety or wellbeing in other parts of your life.
You may also just don't like to promote this person's work.
It's fair to inform others about the person behind the software they are running. Everybody can make their own informed choices.
srean|3 months ago
However, human being human beings, they find it very hard to sequester their beliefs, emotions from their work. It's a common human failing. Often they are not even aware of it.
Having politically or socially divisive beliefs publicly also makes such a person a target of coercion and encouragement to yield to a "harmless" temptation by way of appropriate 3 letter like agencies.
To ensure that this does not happen will require maintaining a paranoid level of vigilance on the code all the time. That is a lot of work, very expensive and is unlikely to happen. Perhaps not fair to his creation, but that's just how it goes.
My comment is at a high level. This is the first time I heard of Simplex chat, so I don't even know what views its developer has.
oneonetwo|3 months ago
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