"Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship." - Wikipedia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Please, reread the Off-Topic carefully but before that, read the On-Topic paragraph:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Mindfulness. This way you can meditate without any god beliefs

Freedom has different meaning by FSF-alike and BSD Communities.

GPL License Freedom is also an "enforcement". You cant "revoke" and make the software "less free" turning it into proprietary software.

BSD License Freedom is a freedom that can be "revoked" to make the software proprietary. It is also "more free" free cause you can do actually whatever you want.

I'm using double quotes in specific words cause it is up to you and your philosophy/lifestyle to decide what kind of Freedom you like most. You don't have to swallow the FSF pill and believe on all they put as right and wrong.

Chose the Freedom you want

You feel more secure is not a good point. This needs to be technical of what kind of encryption feature is used, and not trust on "pappers" of the software creator, or try to feel safe just by using your "spider senses" while using the software.

And remember: You liking or not, WhatsApp is a Facebook developed software.

RING is the only real secure chat software, with DHT, peer-to-peer discovery and encryption. https://ring.cx/

Unfortunately, even as a software engineer (although a mediocre one) I don't even know which one is actually safer.

I know that Whatsapp encrypts everything on the device so that's a really good start.

But I have no clue what security holes, backdoors, etc are in neither of them and we are leaving in dangerous times.

So basically the only thing I really trust is GPG-encoded emails which noone uses.

Tox is worth a look for peer-to-peer, encryption and DHT too.

> The PS4's OS is FreeBSD, which they did release a lot of code in return, but they don't have to open source or > release all their code (i.e. DRM and other "Security" based stuff) if they don't want to.

And that is a 2-way road, where some people cry on forums and maillists anyway, that companies tend to use BSD and not return to community. There is no need to paint it as a win-win situation(distribute proprietary derivate software) when it clearly has its problems too.