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This was linked in the discussion there, and I think I’m a fan: https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/

I’m definitely considering adding something like this to my projects.

Signal gets me all the privacy I need. I don’t care if they know my phone number uses Signal, I don’t use it as anonymous chat, I use it with friends and family.
As others in this post have said, Signal handles privacy perfectly fine, it does not provide anonymity.

Unlike several other users here, I actually view Signal’s contact discoverability as a feature, not a security flaw. All it means is if someone I know installs Signal, they can easily send me a message without a complicated back and forth through some other medium.

Signal is actually good, still, but there are even better alternatives.

… Would you care to list some of these alternatives and how they are better?

Every alternative I’ve looked at has some major drawbacks that would prevent me from getting any of my friends to move. Having to selfhost my own chat service isn’t really a positive in my mind due to the maintenance required and the higher possibility of outages.

The audits determined they don’t have any user information to provide. You can see this in previous government requests where the only thing provided was a timestamp of last connection to the network.

The government already has access to every phone number in existence. They can already track every phone to figure out who attended a protest or whatever. Filtering down to “all phone numbers who’ve ever connected to Signal” doesn’t exactly narrow anything down. They don’t have any metadata about who you were chatting with.

A lot of those things list, especially around deletion, seem like issues with federation in general. I’d love if they suggested an alternative, because quite a few of these are just general issues with encryption/privacy in any system.

shocked pikachu face when they can no longer finish a marathon.

If anything my personal experience is the opposite. When using AI the way work wants me to, with multiple agents going in the background, I’ve completely lost any sort of “flow state” I normally get when focused on a problem. It’s no fun anymore, and the only thing keeping me going is working on my personal projects without AI in my free time… I didn’t get in to this to become an AI babysitter.

I’ve seen it personally at work where the AI generates its own metadata files containing uuids that it made up, and they end up being duplicates from elsewhere in the project. Unfortunately I can’t really share links.

I’m sure you could find examples in GitHub issues

Edit: I had an honest look, and can’t seem to find anything that isn’t AI slop in web searches anymore… GUIDs aren’t exactly the most common thing in the first place, so maybe I overstated how common this is.

There’s actually lots of evidence of people using AI to generate GUIDs that are infact not globally unique.

First time?

It’s things like this that make me glad I’m still renting. Anything that breaks is the landlord’s problem.

Can confirm, my linux server with ECC RAM has 1040 days of uptime now without a single issue.

This checks out with Linus Torvalds saying most OS crashes across linux AND windows are caused by hardware issues, and also why he uses ECC RAM.

I’m just not sure. It seems contradictory to me, since the manufacturer of a physical device is also “a person or entity that controls the operating system”. Unless they sell the hardware with no OS installed? This exemption doesn’t seem to mean anything.

With how they’ve defined “App Store”, basically any product that can download applications is affected by this, including devices that don’t even have the concept of a user account. I’m a little unclear still on what’s required of an entirely offline OS.

Is a mobile phone not a “physical device”? An operating system always has to run on physical hardware, so does this just invalidate the entire thing?

The last two-minute-papers video on the subject makes it look like a solved problem, until you notice the stats in the corner are measuring “minutes per frame”

Careful, that table is critical for getting airflow over that server in the corner. If you move the table it will overheat and cause a cascade of failures and bankrupt the entire company.

Bold of Gemini to imply any sort of liability for what it says. Google’s lawyers really don’t want that to be the case.