oooo i really like the layout for this one

It’s still being actively developed. There’s been multiple releases in just the last few weeks and all through the year. He’s just not posting immediately to github as he’s built-in git support over the reticulum network [0] and it seems that’s his primary way of releasing source updates.

Once you have rns installed [1] (and configured to connect to the broader network) you can run the following command to get the latest source files:

# From the 1.3.4 release notes [0]
rngit release rns://7649a50d84610232d1416b41d2896aff/reticulum/reticulum fetch latest:all --signer bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165c

That said, rns is mostly feature complete. Now its up to others to built tools/apps on top of the network. For anyone not aware, here’s some apps/tools to try/check out:

• Columba: Modern Android app that supports browsing nomadnet pages and chat.
• Nomad Network: Browse nomadnet pages, chat, group chat, host nomadnet pages, etc.
• Retipedia: Serve up wiki pages.
• Sideband: Swiss-army knife reticulum network Android app.
• MeshChatX: (appears to be down right now) - A GUI-oriented alternative to nomad network.
• rBrowser: Browse nomadnet pages.
• LXST Phone: - Make calls over rns!

Lastly, for anyone still reading, there’s a few ports being developed that are compatible with the python implementation:

• Reticulum-Go: A go implementation
• Leviculum: A rust implementation.
• Reticulum-rs: Another rust implementation.

[0] https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/releases/tag/1.3.4

[1] https://pypi.org/project/rns/

I wonder if this falls in scope of what’s known as open-core? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

The “core” is technically FOSS, but that’s about it.

switched my gaming desktop to Linux and my 32GB of RAM are basically useless unless I unnecessarily open a bunch of stuff for no reason and even then it doesn’t take as much as Windows did. Amazing how bloated Windows is.

I’m a IT-Specialist for application development

Appeal to authority.

Session is indeed a good competitor

Unfounded claim.

thought they had some flaws

Flaws they introduced by removing PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) and Cryptographic Deniability, just to name two big ones, which they got free from Signal. For anyone not aware, they removed these security features because it made development more difficult for them, not because it was in the interest of their users.

upcoming V2 protocol would’ve fixed

Has yet to be seen, although if they bring back PFS, they will have at least reached Signal’s level of privacy/security from over a decade ago

Edit:
Additional, more technical details on why you shouldn’t use Sessions: https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/

actually, the way twitter likely works is that you have to pay for your posts to not be suppressed. the game, of course, rigged.

You can’t, but you could comment or “like” loops.videos if they come across your feed. I’m on mastodon and have seen a few come through. No need to even have an account on loops, the beauty of the fediverse.

for anyone looking for an activitypub alternative check out loops.video. based on the same tech as lemmy, piefed, mbin, mastodon, pixelfed, etc.

do they have a .onion domain?

meanwhile, the US is slipping back into the dark ages.

EDIT: To stay on topic, congrats!

pixels are supported for 7 years now, and older second-hand phone is still an option. but agree on privacy being a spectrum and not an absolute.

16 CVE’s for libjpeg just last year: https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=jpeg

are these in-person conversations or on the internet with anonymous people? remember there are many trolls, bots, AI and paid actors to spread misinformation online. yeah, there are dumbass racists and fascists, but they are just a vocal minority.

The guy in the video claimed the year is 2020. Any info on this? I agree with what he says, but would be great to have context and a year in the title. Without context this makes it seems like this just happened.

Just thousands of regular people manually downloading the WhatsApp client for iOS

Not trying to discourage people from doing this, but they likely have caches or rely on CDN’s that wouldn’t really show any impact of any kind. Even if they do, a single day of being “down” is not doing much. For it to be effective people would need to continue this for weeks, and I don’t see anyone caring enough to do that— they’re not even willing to ditch facebook/twitter/whatsapp, we think they’re going to maintain a DDoS attack?

Same issue with uploading encrypted backups to Amazon Drive/Google Drive/OneDrive, etc; there’s already built-in limits that protect them, and at the end of the day you’re just using what you already paid for. If you fill up your storage you have to pay them more to use it. Not a good strategy IMHO. The only real way to hit their wallet is to leave their ecosystem.

The no internet doesn’t make sense to me. We’ve already paid for the bandwidth, we’d just not be using it? May be better to advise people to switch to Firefox and install uBlock origin or ditch Whatsapp to hit Meta/Facebook where it really hurts. But I guess that’s not as easy to communicate.

Why would anyone listen to pedophile don?

The only real answer - same as with any other software/code.

ahhh I see it now. I was scanning the URL and thought it was the same. didn’t catch the end piece that makes it link out to other platforms. TIL. thanks!

the tidal link? that’s all I can see and it doesn’t play back for me. figured I’m not the only one. maybe I’m missing something?