High-end Windows PCs have always been the best devices for the best graphics in the latest video games, but what if you want to play some of those PC games while you’re bored sitting on a plane or train on your way to somewhere else? Well, there are plenty of gaming handhelds available in the market right now, but now (finally) there’s an “ultra-mobile PC” with acceptable graphics capabilities for real gaming on the go. …
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Have you ever missed the old days around the turn of the century when smartphones were designed to fit in your hand and actually be usable with that hand? In 2004, the i-mate JAM was the talk of the town in the tech world for being small and powerful. That was one of my favorite smartphones ever. Don’t you wish there were some modern smartphones that weren’t giant slabs of the touchscreen but could still run …
Continue readingMeta (Facebook) released yet another social media network app called “Threads by Instagram”. It’s basically a clone of the Twitter interface, but automatically lets you follow everyone you follow on Instagram. That’s the thing that made it so popular so quickly… all you have to do is log in with your Instagram account. This makes it extremely easy for Instagram users, who may think they’re too good for Facebook, to join a new Facebook-run social …
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There are hundreds of messaging apps out there these days. Slack is one that has recently become popular for business communications as has Microsoft Teams. Discord is another one that’s become popular with gamers and other consumer communities. These are all, at their very basic level, just “type message, press send” programs. There’s nothing particularly special about that and we’ve been doing it for decades on the internet. Unfortunately, those consumer-friendly products are designed with …
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Many servers in the Fediverse have implemented “private mentions” or “private messages” or “direct messages” in a manner that uses the ActivityPub protocol without encryption. Fediverse server administrators are able to read all of these private messages on the server which means they’re not really private. Some have suggested making them encrypted so that server admins can’t read them, but that poses more problems. For example, who’s responsible for enforcing local laws on the server? …
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UPDATE: Since this article was published, a new server package has been built that’s even better for use with Delta Chat. The new server is called Chatmail and its open-source repository is here. Also see: Using Delta Chat with Chatmail servers for decentralized, open, secure, private messaging. The below instructions are still valid if you want to make a server that supports both encrypted Delta Chat communications as well as regular federated email. If you’ve …
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