06-14-2023, 03:41 AM
(06-13-2023, 01:15 PM)Pelecanus Wrote: I share your criticisms regarding Signal. Unfortunately I still "need" Signal to stay in contact with relatives and friends.
I use Signal-Desktop from here. When I first installed it on my PP I used my old Android phone to link Signal on the PP.
But since I don't use Android anymore I'm now using the signal-cli to link Signal-Desktop on my computer and PPP (see Installation, Usage - Register a number, Linking other devices - Add another device).
good, signal-cli works. seems little combersome, but at least i can run on many platforms. it seem that running subcommand "receive" is required before adding other clients. or some other subcommand. it is important to note that signal-cli can function as a primary client and linked client.
(06-13-2023, 02:38 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: @zetabeta I actually know nothing about axolotl. A few months ago, Signal Foundation made the decision to stop letting the android app act as an SMS/MMS client. Prior to this, I used signal for all messages, no matter the recipient. Their reasoning for this boggles my mind.
signal cannot send ordinary sms/mms and i approve this decision. sms and mms can't be secured any easy way. so if signal can send ordinary sms messages, then it might bring false sense of security and privacy. (reminder, signal is good for medium security or privacy).
however, activation sms is a different thing. axolotl bugs are related to activation.
(06-13-2023, 04:29 PM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: Axolotl is actually still developed, see the commits under https://github.com/nanu-c/axolotl/pull/985. But it will take a while for the port to different backend and frontend libraries to be complete. (Looks to me like basically a complete rewrite, since both the backend and the frontend are being switched to different technologies.)
As far as I can tell, the issues with the current/old Axolotl are not actually due to Axolotl itself, but to Electron. Chromium still does not properly support text input under Wayland, and Electron still carries no downstream fix for that issue either. So Electron is just not usable at all under Plasma Mobile or Phosh with their virtual keyboards.
I have tried to get Axolotl running, but since I was unable to register with it (it was impossible to enter the phone number due to Electron just being broken, see above), I have just given up on it. No Signal here, sorry. Since it is the only registration option that does not require proprietary software, there is no alternative.
Flare is at least considering primary device support, but for now, Axolotl is the only one (and that one is broken), unfortunately. There is also hope that Axolotl will be working better once it is ported to Tauri (which wraps WebKitGTK on GNU/Linux) instead of Electron.
when i used axolotl last time, i manage to pass captcha, but no registration. if i remember correctly, no activation sms, or activation code did not succeed,
