A distinction needs to be made of false criminal reports, and false claims in general.

False claims of any crime are going to be substantially higher than false criminal reports of the same crime. The barrier to entry is just much lower. And there is still a social cost to being falsely accused of a crime even without a police report. (Loss of employment, social alienation).

It's also probably not true that it happens at the same rate as other reports. Certain crimes are more plausible to lie about than others, I would imagine false homicide claims are rare since there aren't mountains of dead people to pin on someone.

In the case of things like sexual assault and child abuse, there is lots of positive sympathy to exploit for something that is almost impossible to prove wrong, so the cost-benefit is much better than most other accusations of crime.

(Notice how often child molestation comes up in criminal defenses? It's an easy way to milk sympathy, while being impossible to disprove.)

Given the controversy already present with "super discreet", wouldn't you expect even greater negative social pressure with "loud and proud"?

It seems obvious that acting paranoid (regardless of sex or the subject of fear), results in negative views of the person, so they would naturally want to hide their paranoia.

There’s a person in another country driving that car and listening and watching.

Das ist sehr nett von dir, vielen Dank! Ich versuche so viel wie möglich zu üben!

(Außerdem hatte ich eher an „falsch gespielte Noten“ als Metapher für unpräzise Phrasierung gedacht, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich das im Deutschen schon mal gesehen/gehört habe.) 😅🤏🏼

Thanks for context

Anyone is more than welcome to put this in a repo. I will add the link to the post.

gOS is involved with Motorola Mobility, not Motorola Solutions (the companies split in 2011).

Companies don't stay domestic anymore to where they originated, and can be partially or fully sold off to foreign countries.

So any data given away is a risk with how ownership can suddenly change.

And then there's questions of how good security is and whether the company hasn't been breached so some foreign entity is sucking up all the data like the recent news of how Google Gemini hacked into three companies during testing.

Ideally this telemetry nonsense wouldn't be a thing.

Did someone not see that coming?

Flock or not, y'all know the game.

Also, the involvement of Motorola of all companies is deeply concerning, given their upcoming GrapheneOS phone offering.

Buy calls on Stanley Black & Decker Inc. 🪚

Europe has proven it's not afraid to enforce them. And it's waay better than living in a country that doesn't even care.

Nice, everyone gets £2.74

I'd be reluctant to trust everyone adheres to the rules

When VR is brought up and people say but Meta costs... I tune them out, since I refuse to buy one. Maybe if it could have the OS fully wiped like flashing GrapheneOS on a Pixel.

But, that's not the case for Meta products so using their hardware is a big no even if I got it free.

TL;DR all modern cars are a privacy nightmare.

the luxury feel of an iconic Range Rover

Also car people are fucking weird.

"You" in this headline does not appear to apply to non-Californians.

Not in Europe where they are required to ask for the permission to connect.

Hey für 20 Jahre kein Deutsch gesprochen klingst du relativ gut. Respekt.

(Ich glaube statt Notizen meintest du Kommentare)

It makes me gag when people praise the meta quest.

I'm not gonna put effort into responding because I can see you've already been told.

I will add: Don't bother posting again unless you've fully open sourced the code base. All of your marketing and comments so far show an extreme lack of experience and congruity with privacy and security, and I have little faith that your intentions are genuine.

Signal jammers can directly knock that out, or a hostile government can block meshnets through the legal back door by regulating them out of existence.

I think the primary issue here, and the underlying cause of a lot of the negative feedback you're getting is: you're making some very bold claims right off the bat that aren't substantive but present this project as something its not even close to being yet, and probably won't ever be, unless you get some serious buy-in and help from some of the smartest people on the planet.

"This might become the worlds most secure messaging app."

Really? Do you have any basis for such an assertion? My NAS might become the world largest repository of half-finished side projects. Do I have any reason to believe that it will be though? I do have a lot of unfinished side projects on there, but the only reason I'd ever make such an assertion is if I thought that it had a real shot at being the case.

"This project demonstates a unique approach to secure messaging. The approach is different enough that it can't be easily compared to Signal or SimpleX."

Yeah, it sure does demonstrate a unique approach alright. Does that make it incomparable to (what is widely considered to be) the worlds actual most secure messaging app?

Look, man, I like fucking around with tools in hacky, weird ways as much as the next guy. I even built a self-hosted, federated, zero-knowledge multi-user file storage platform, but you don't see me out here saying "this may be the most secure file storage system in the world". You're advertising what is at this point a hobby project, and trying to pass it off as something worthy of other people's time, to give you feedback and ideas.

You want some real feedback? OK here's why I wouldn't use this:

1. I don't know you, and so far, you're not inspiring confidence I should trust you with data I'd like to keep private.
2. regardless of if all data that lands on the actual repository is encrypted, you're still leaking a ton of metadata to to anybody who can read the repo in ways that other services don't.
3. you brush off the AI coding concerns as if they're unimportant. Look man, I don't care, you do you, but you're claiming this is a secure messaging platform. I'm not the guy who will tell you not to use AI for coding. I use it for coding too at work; but while coding with AI, you still have to be hypervigilant if you're going to end up with anything even remotely approaching good code. I've been around the block a few times, I've vibe coded, and I've built good code with it. But when other people are trusting me to do a good job, I understand their concerns, and I use AI for what its good at: typing fast and language fluency. I use it like a fancy keyboard that talks back. If it has made decisions for you (and it doesn't always tell you when it does), that's not a keyboard anymore. Thats a million monkeys pressing keys on a keyboard, and you're hoping you get Shakespeare.

I wish you the best of luck on this project. If you want serious feedback from people, show them your effort. I see someone that wants to be important utilizing the tools at their disposal to shoot their shot at getting some useful feedback. That's not a bad thing to be. But I think the particular audience you're aiming this at, and the type of thing you're making, and the way you describe it, need reconsideration, by you, the human.

We don't need to read the docs, you've been posting here for months, We know you don't know what your doing.

And XMPP!