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What an awful name though. Why would you name a messaging app after herpes?
Horrible names seem to be a thing in open source projects.
Looks at GIMP
Its like a workshop for photos I guess
When I first heard it, I thought it was a name of a stock photo bank.
I remember on July a project named crackpipe launched
Is it related to X?
I mean, X is kinda like a herpes sore
I'm sure you pronounce also those words wrong:
Hope this helps 🙏
What an uneducated red herring! Simplex is not named "Herpes".. in "Herpes simplex", "Simplex" is an adjective..
"Dude! why would you name a messaging app after a latin adjective dude!"...
Now can we resume talking about messaging protocols, and why Simplex is one of the most promising, way much better than Signal when it comes to privacy, as it enables communications without disclosing identity?
The word simplex is not common in normal everyday English, unless you happen to be talking about the Herpes Simplex Virus.
The association between Simplex and Herpes is not a hard one to make, as noted by all the other comments.
I’d rather not discuss Simplex vs Signal with someone who tries to give off ‘big brain’ energy instead of realising the social norms of holding conversations.
Not everything is literal my dude.
Fine. Then Signal for the English-native-speaking dudes who think herpes is funny bro, lol...
Simplex for the rest of us, who truly value our privacy, aonymity, and not having to trust Amazon for the safety of our meta-data, lol dude
Simplex is also used in communication channels as a single client to be able to speak at once as in amateur radio. A lot of internet links are duplex, where multiple machines can speak at once, such as Ethernet.
I never made that connection.
He who smelt it, dealt it! 🤣
Although I doubt that Signal would leave the EU (or that this dangerous regulation would even become something that could ever be applied in practice), SimpleX looks very promising as a possible alternative.
However, it would also mean that you have to convince all your contacts to make the move, too - which was already difficult when I told them to install Signal additionally to WhatsApp, which is virtually on almost every device.
it won't be easy, yes. but I think that with Signal everything will be ok 🙂