You can’t simply say “we must assume” as evidence.

Okay yeah you definitely didn’t read it. Large sections in that doc just before that are on phone number identifiers, NSLs, and 5-eyes countries, the US goverment pushing signal in privacy spaces… literally the reasons why signal isn’t trustworthy. Unless you can tell me what an NSL is, then I’ll assume you didn’t read it.

While there may be other US government requests they are not alllwed to disclose, they were legally required to provide the same information to the courts, and we can see what they provided.

Did you ignore the large section on NSLs? These come with a gag order, meaning its illegal for signal to notify their users about them being spied on.

In fact, they implemented “Sealed sender” in 2018 where they are not able to see who the message is being sent to.

This is a “just trust me” from signal, since neither of us have access to their centralized DB, but you also ignored two paragraphs down, where it showed that with message timestamps and recipient information, this would be trivial to find the real sender of a message, regardless of sealed sender. Again, actually open source software can’t say “just trust me” like signal can, we actually have to show code to prove it, and let people run that code in a private manner.

And sure, while the US government funds Signal, you know who else endorses it? Edward fucking Snowden. If anyone knows about secure messaging, it’s the man that physically removes the microphone and camera from his phones before using them.

Elon musk and jack dorsey also endorse signal. An endorsement means nothing, especially for centralized software based in a 5-eyes country.

Read the linked doc, because it’s clear you didn’t.

Signal is a centralized, US-based service which requires your phone number (thus your real identity, IE name and address), has social networking graphs of everyone you talk to, and must forward that information to the US government when asked, as well as (by law) not tell you that they’ve been asked to do so. During the Obama era, 60 NSLs were issued for this private information every single day.

People overlook its privacy concerns for the same reason they do with apple: it has a shiny interface and is easy to use, and makes people very attached to it. Behind all that, is a surveillance network that its creators have explicitly said they do not want it to be able to run in a decentralized, private manner.

It has a long history of privacy offenses below (such as refusing to publish its server’s source code for years, its reliance on other US tech services (amazon, google), US-government funding, and a US-defense-tank friendly administration) which get ignored or shouted down by many of those above. See the article below.

Why not signal.

Pretty much any alternative is better, as long as its not hosted in a five-eyes country, and especially if it doesn’t require phone numbers or real identities like signal does.

I personally have been using SimpleX for friends and real life contacts, and Matrix for larger more anonymous group chats.

For a good intro to unequal exchange, and imperialism in the modern era, without reading a larger book, here’s a really good article: John Smith - the GDP illusion

Yeah, the ACA was really a program to force people without insurance to pay private insurance companies, and on the other side they could no longer deny people. There was nothing progressive or positive about further entrenching this parasitic industry, and the ACA did nothing to reverse the trend of increasing healthcare costs.

5m seems about right. Lemmy’s from scratch builds are ~3.5m on a fast machine, and we have ~60k lines of code, and are using some with large libraries with lots of features enabled.

But you really should only ever have to do a from scratch build either at the beginning, or when you deploy. When developing, your IDE should only ever really run check or clippy, which should take seconds at most.

This is pretty sad. Oneplus phones, tablets, and watches have like double the battery of samsung / apple, at 1/3rd of the cost. Hopefully OPPO will make another branding for europe at least, because the EU still does allow chinese smartphones to be sold there. The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.

Xiaomi, vivo, and oppo(oneplus’s parent company) are growing pretty rapidly in market share at least.

Same for me, + limewire and IRC channels, then torrents. There was a golden age in the 2000s where you’d see new albums and movies get released before they even came out, and in relatively good quality too.

This is anecdotal, but everyone I meet born after 2000 has no idea what torrents are, or how to share media, and many of them are paying for like 3 streaming services. They have no idea all this stuff is available for free without much effort, and with better quality.

Cool article, I wasn’t on any of these private trackers, but I remember them getting shut down.

It’s quite possible that in the future, ai bros will rediscover “thinking”:

I know this is mostly a joke, but its also incredibly dangerous. Just use an explicit tool like bfg

It took me like a full minute too.

Its also especially rich considering the US state has access to even disabled nest door cameras, which amazon is happy to give them.

Even someone who is completely sinophobic, would have to concede that the PRC, even if it wanted to, could not send police to your door.

Send cops to your door, imprison you, kill you, etc. The US has many political prisoners, and even jailed a mother for discussing abortion with her teenage daughter over facebook.

I realize its the aesthetic of that time, but so many of these are not too far away from a star trek command deck.

I love the oval or hexagonal-shaped front, and the bright, clearly comprehensible indicators :

We use renovate for dep updates (for lemmy-ui), and a self-hosted woodpecker CI for lemmy.

CI is imo the more dangerous way people are linking their projects to github.

You can use rust and still use the GPL.

Looks like they’ve all already been banned here a while ago. Thanks for the heads up.

Optics

We shouldn’t concede defeats to the anti-communist witch hunters in any field, especially language. To do otherwise would be implicitly accepting their worldview as the correct one. Instead we should dismantle the weak supports for their anti-communism / anti-marxism in the first place, which isn’t difficult for any person whose attention can be drawn to the mass suffering capitalism causes.

There is a similar quote from Arundati Roy, that’s something like: “Pacifism is a theatre piece, and it needs an audience to be enjoyed”. But ya I don’t think this is a real Fanon quote.