Based Stallman delivers us from the botnet, what's your

yet another messenger. pls stop.

>>57388502

Looks interesting.
So basically it's a free** skype?

>GNU
>showing windows 10 as the first picture

>>57388553
>>57388558
>>57388591
It's just Tox again.

>>57388591
>Ring is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users.

Including the data mining slaves of win10.

>>57388553
It's a decentralized and encrypted alternative to skype/fb messenger/etc.

>No no, pls stop I liked to get fucked in the ass by the NSA, microshit, and jewgle

>>57388502
>Stallman hasn't coded anything in 20+ years
>giving him credit

>>57388650
>Skype credit

>>57388650
Stallman started the gnu project, which funds the development of gnu project software. This ensures ring won't be a failure like tox.

>>57388502
If it can't communicate with existing network (skype's and facebook's mainly) it won't take off.

>>57388502
I actually want to talk to people

>>57388502

Everytime one of these comes out I wish I had friends.

>>57388739
Doesn't matter, regardless of the program being free or opensource if it doesn't have users on it then it might as well become a failure. Besides if it does grow(top kek) paying for the servers would bankrupt the whole gnu project. And if you even think about paying for a video/audio call then it would not be a real gnu program.

>>57388626
What actually happened to tox? some fiasco with the funding, and then it died?

>>57388502
using it for about 3 months now

it looks promising but it does not work
lost messages while changing networks
and behind certain nat setups

no patches since august

I even shilled it here, but is now nearly dead

>>57388819
cont:
the win client is a joke

>>57388834
>t guy who never used ring

Uh
https://ring.cx/en/documentation/faq#node-129
Good luck setting it up, especially on CGN 3g/LTE shit

>>57388796
>paying for the servers would bankrupt the whole gnu project.
What? It's DHT; peer to peer.

>>57388502
The binary wouldn't install.

>broadcasts IP and messages to everyone using it
lmao

>>57388502
What's a good encrypted messenger for my Cyanogen Samsung S5 and gf's unrooted LG G5 though?

>>57388889
So they made an IRC chat with video steaming?

>>57388929
No.

>>57388925
Signal

>>57388873
you are the one who have never used ring

I have been shilling it here months ago

nice to see that there is a new beta ready

beta 1 was not functional
it only worked reliable on wifi
months of testing with my friends

ITT:
>I like my botnet skype

>>57388739

Savoir-faire Linux is a Canadian company specialized in Linux and free software.

At least with Skype your IP doesn't show to others.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10813826/skype-hide-ip-address-default-setting

>>57389151
Do you torrent? Cause that also shows your ip to others.

>>57389151
Do tech illiterates actually believe this?

>>57389169
>>57389175
>what is "gamers using skype get skype resolved and booted offline"

>>57389150
Look at the op picture, or read the blog post. Ring is a gnu project now, like emacs, gcc, or nano.

>>57388764
Just use obnoxious marketing, it worked for Discord under the same conditions.

>>57388797
No, still alive. "Soon" they'll have async messaging, then SPV-esque clients will be trivial. This in turn will make mobile Tox feasible. Then it will be useful.

>>57388502
I need friends

ring:7fd598e17290c6186b128fcaab9e90c9a0dee35f

>>57389585
Let's be friends

>>57390038
add me

>>57389240
Discord is proprietary

>>57392688
Yeah? Is that relevant here? Would that it's botnet-free make this any less likely to succeed?

>>57388558
WIRE IS WAY BETTER

USE WIRE FAGGOTS

>>57388502
>Released under GPLv3 licence


No thanks, fuck

>>57388502
>open source
into the thrash it goes.

testing this shit

add me you niggers

ring:9fdbd9cf603faa0bcc113f10182d3c1aafb6de14

>>57392951
>not using wire
kys

>>57392967

>implying that there are cables going through the ocean
>implying that you control where your traffic goes through

Even if you're wired your shit goes through satellites and stuff dumbass.

>>57393043
>being this retarded

https://wire.com/privacy/

>>57393058

How does this change anything retard? The traffic still goes wireless at some point regardless of the app you're using.

Redphone or signal. Why ring?

>>57393189
wat the fuck are you talking about

>>57393219
GNU quality just like GNU cat

>>57389585
Why does the ID have to be so complicated? Why can't it just be user selected?

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Dropped

>>57393354
>connects to open distributed hash table's server
>malicious

>>57388502
Just took Michael as my username

Fuck you guys

>>57393274

>backpedaling this hard

>>57393523
>thinking a program name without a suffix is identical to a word with the suffix

>>57392912
>closed source
into the trash it goes.

>>57393354
>blindly trusting antivirus flagging known-good software
wew

>>57393354
>Using antivirus instead of common sense
Please stop posting, you have absolutely nothing of value to add.

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>>57393354
Pick it back up, fucker

>>57388502
They could have just contributed to tox instead of making their own shit.

>>57393845
that's not how open source werks

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>>57388502

>>57393877
Are you saying the people of Tox would deny support?

I mean Hell, tox.chat links to gnu when speaking about free software

>>57393877
Also
>“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and IMPROVE the software.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

>>57388889

I hope they learned from Skype's implementation of P2P all those years ago.

>>57388591
>>57388650
it was donated to gnu yesterday if you didn't noticed

>>57388502
Oh wow, someone made an acceptable looking logo for GNU.

So, it`s just tox again? But with a worse license

>>57393331
Using public keys as primary keys in DHTs is usually one of the most practical organisations.

Securely allocating unique names in untrusted distributed systems requires a global consensus protocol: it's the same ordering problem as preventing double-spend in digital cash protocols. See "NameCoin" for a practical example of this.

It gets a lot easier when relaxing either uniqueness (allow duplicates, disambiguate; but this requires out-of-band signature checking for safe use of names), or trust (centralised name server, or identity-based signatures of some form; but this is unpalatable).

>switching from IRC or XMPP to this shit
Why?

>>57388650
>>giving him credit
???