good managers don’t care.

I will say, not too long ago there was some question if I had setup a WhatsApp account with my number due to some emails I was receiving. Not wanting to install the app and unwittingly create an account just by checking if I had one, my wife created a group chat with just her and my number, sent a message, and then we saw it get marked as read by all. Which in an E2EE system should not have been possible without me having the app setup. so I did go ahead and wiped an old and setup the app to make sure I was in control of any account for my number, and I did then receive that group chat. But still, very sketchy.

An e2ee group chat would need every member to have every other member’s public key. So for 5 people, your client would sign with your private key and send 4 unique messages encrypted each with 1 other person’s public key. Each of them would decrypt their copy of the message with their private key and verify the signature with your public key. So I think what arcterus was saying was that employee who requests access to a user’s messages then becomes just another member of a group chat, but the UI just doesn’t show it as such. Every message you send is then secretly encrypted, on your client, with their special public key and sent to them to be decrypted. That would still be E2EE.

depends on the person.

he’d have some 'splaining to do.

God damnit

do you get some kind of financial kick-back for linking with these janky-ass URLs or something?

Not sure why the attachment lost the extension. And actually the whole filename was completely different then my local copy. That’s weird. It did give me an idea that turned out to work, but I couldn’t begin to reason why. I have the file saved in google drive, and am using GNOME’s online accounts to access google drive within my file browser. So when I went to the profile settings in Piefed to upload the file as my profile pic, I selected it directly from the mounted google drive in the firefox file chooser. I did that for both the profile pic and my banner image. They’re in the same folder in the same google drive. The banner image worked but not the profile pic. So I just copied the profile pic to my actual local drive, and uploaded it to Piefed from there, and that worked.

So the issue seems to have ultimately been something about how firefox receives the file from Google Drive in GNOME’s file system APIs, but it is inconsistent.

Anyway, problem solved.

sent

I’m using the main web site (https://piefed.social/) in desktop Firefox on Linux.

4th, really: Popular Digg, the version that drove people to Reddit (which they labeled as v4), whatever it languished as after that and before now where I think users could only comment, and the new site that just went live.