There’s definitely more to this story than OP is letting on, right?

police*

Any concerns around the fact that SimpleX Chat is Made in the UK?

And in case is stolen, you have a good amount of time to move your coins to another wallet.

In other words, restore the wallet to a different device using the master key, and then transfer the coins?

If the air-gapped phone is stolen, is guessing the PIN to unlock the phone the only thing stopping the thief from spending the victim’s money at that point?

and you can always just use an f-droid repository if they only publish releases there.

So Obtainium users can install F-Droid apps through Obtainium?

Are there any models trained on ethically sourced material? Even though this wouldn’t necessarily solve the environmental impact, there are still many times when a traditional search engine just doesn’t cut it. All else equal and without a self hosted workflow, I prefer tools that at least pretend to be privacy friendly (Duck.ai, AI Horde), and I had not heard of Proton’s Lumo prior to this post, so I do appreciate the suggestion even if it doesn’t meet all of our criteria.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around? I’d expect e2ee to be a requirement for anything for the administration even if their laws are a little funky (rules for thee not for me, etc).

Eh, yes and no. It may not have 1-for-1 feature parity, but it’s still an alternative insofar as two people can transfer files to each other. Yes, LocalSend requires them to be on the same network while AirDrop does not. I still think it’s beneficial for LocalSend to show up in search results for “airdrop alternatives” b/c it might be good enough for most people’s use cases and it is perhaps the most feature complete, easiest to use, free & open source option out there.

I don’t have any advice to contribute directly, but there is a similar thread from yesterday in !opensource@lemmy.ml where the OP asked specifically about Tuta, which generated discussion around other email providers besides just Tuta. You might find some nuggets in that other thread.

DCSs

Digital Combat Simulators?

I feel dumber after reading that thread.

I just read the blog post on pluralistic.net, and wow, that was a good read. So much to unpack, I’m kinda speechless at the moment. Thanks for the link.

Here’s the full paper for the study this article is about: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (PDF).

devs who were used to the tools

Not true - here’s an excerpt from the article:

including only a specialized group of people to whom these AI tools were brand new.

Thanks for the tip about the Wormhole app. It looks like PairDrop also supports multi-recipient based on a brief visit to their website and cursory review of their FAQ (that is assuming multiple recipients can join a room). Still good to know about various alternatives, though, especially for asynchronous transfers.

Good point about the word “safe.” A better way to phrase my question is, for sharing low sensitivity SFW photos w/ friends and/or family (e.g., a group photo at a bar or restaurant, or a family photo from Christmas morning), would you trust a tool like PairDrop or Destiny over “traditional” sharing methods such as texting the photo to everybody over SMS? (assuming we aren’t or can’t get on the same network, otherwise I’d probably just go w/ LocalSend)

Was getting great use of the Destiny File Transfer client for a while.

Did you move on to another tool or just stop needing to transfer files?

How do you mean?

Is PairDrop safe for transferring photos from iPhone users to Android users and vice versa without having to be on the same wifi network? This is one thing I miss after ditching the iPhone. The website advertises this capability but I often wonder about sending stuff over the internet. I know about LocalSend, though I haven’t convinced many of my friends & family to install that app, either.