Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a shitty overbloated Electron app.

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  • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s fast and has good functionality, what exactly is bloated about it?

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    • weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People being triggered by the sheer existence of Electron – it just HAS to be “shitty”, even if it works perfectly fine.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It takes up half a GB of RAM and constantly keeps the CPU active. It’s still on X11 and thus integrates poorly with the rest of my Wayland apps. It seems to report itself to Pipewire as something else every other week and is thus impossible to control reliably.

      It works well and I haven’t encountered any crashes or other bugs in months. But I genuinely think it could have been much better as a QT app or so. Plus, thanks to Electron there isn’t an ARM version either making it impossible to run on my Raspberry Pi or my Pinephone.

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      • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Use these to enable Wayland support: –enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland To launch the app on ARM, install electron from package manager, copy paste signal’s application directory and launch like this: /path/to/electron /path/to/app.asar I don’t use Signal, these are generic instructions for electron apps so YMMV.

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      • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know why they didn’t just make it a web application. It’s the same damn thing. Just like there’s web.whatsapp.com, make Signal the same way. At least that way I get to use my own browser and in a single instance.

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• D_Air1@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a couple problems with it aside from being electron.

  1. On linux, whether it is a native package or flatpak. I have to launch it twice for it to open.

  2. I can’t restore chats from my phone to the desktop application which frankly sucks. It makes sense if they don’t wanna have to store extra data on their servers, but at least let the backups that I manually take on my phone be usable on the desktop. Not having the majority of your conversations from before you linked the desktop app is a pain in the arse.

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  • Delusion6903@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never have to launch twice on flatpak.

    And I only keep conversations for 2 to 4 weeks so starting over doesn’t bother me. Sorry if that doesn’t work for you too.

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    • D_Air1@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t do temporary conversations, but this is the open issue on the flatpak github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454. The thing is, I’m having the same issue as the flatpak even though I’m not using the flatpak.

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      • Delusion6903@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That sucks and they need to fix it. Still out hasn’t happened here yet. Are you on Gnome desktop environment?

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On linux, whether it is a native package or flatpak. I have to launch it twice for it to open.

    Could it be yours is set to start in the tray?

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    • D_Air1@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, its basically the same issue that the flatpak is happening, but I’m not using the flatpak. github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For me the january 13th solution seems to work, but I was doing that to begin with so I never noticed the issue. Signal flatpak, openSUSE Tumbleweed and KDE Plasma 6. Signal is started with --use-tray-icon --start-in-tray

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• vladmech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t have gif searching though which is so annoying.

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  • AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It had a PR open before with gif search but the desktop dev closed it because he didn’t want to review something so big. Nevermind most of the PR was just assets.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quite-good is stretching it a bit. It’s serviceable but it’s still Electron with gazillion megabytes of RAM taken for no reason and absolute nightmare on laptops since browsers like waking CPU a lot.

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  • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair points, I normally use it on a high-end gaming pc, making me ignorant to issues of that nature.

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