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Yogthos
26 August at 21:01

While Signal messages might be e2e encrypted, people tend to forget that the platform collects phone numbers of its users, which can be used to identify people.

This makes Signal an effective metadata collection tool that resides on a central server in the US.

By cross-referencing these identities with data from other companies like Google or Meta, the government can create a comprehensive picture of people's connections and affiliations.

#signal #privacy

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26 August at 21:04 | Open on mastodon.ml
Yogthos

This allows identifying people of interest and building detailed graphs of their relationships.

Signal may seem like an innocuous messaging app on the surface, but it cold easily play a crucial role in government data collection efforts.

It was originally funded by CIA cutout Open Technology Fund, part of Radio Free Asia.

Its Chairwoman is Katherine Maher, who worked for NDI/NED: regime-change groups, and a member of Atlantic Council, WEF, US State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board etc.

26 August at 21:04 | Open on mas.to
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@yogthos Just to play Devil's advocate:

What are the alternatives?

XMPP might be, but they haven't been able to get their shit together for a decade and a half regarding... well, everything. Jabber is in shambles, especially regarding E2EE:

soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against

Matrix just has awful protocol design that crumbles under its own weight. Don't believe me? Try visiting #matrix:matrix.org.

So... We're kinda screwed, aren't we.

26 August at 21:23 | Open on mastodon.ml
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The state of geopolitics is like one long episode of Game of Thrones, sans fuckable characters.

26 August at 20:53 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈
26 August at 20:27 on post https://www.notion.so/help/restrictions-for-customers-based-in-russia Woah, this is genuinely messed up, #Notion

Did I miss a memo or did the US told to outright ban all russians? So far it seemed like those targeted enterprises only and free single users remained unaffected.

Still cannot fathom how can you just say ‘Because you are a person of a nationality deemed wrong now, you have two weeks before we delete all your data you could've accumulated throughout years of using our services. Get out.’

26 August at 20:28 | Open on mastodon.ml
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@brawaru This is the world we live in right now, apparently.

To me, the more I watch the international situation unfold, the more it looks like it's fascists all the way up, no matter the country.

26 August at 20:32 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Славелий Роза
26 August at 20:13

Степан тут соблазняет меня наконец-то записать песню про Дурова, которую я написал давным давно. Точнее, про его стену. И точнее, Степан уже всё и записал. Мне только напеть надо. То ли сделать

26 August at 20:13 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕

@drq yeah, and they're made by JetBrains :blobcatbadumtss:

26 August at 19:49 | Open on mastodon.ml
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20 August at 3:17 on post Thor, Theo and Primagen are scabs. I love their other content, but as far as Stop Killing Games campaign...

But government is stupid and they'll fuck it up: You guys have been fucking it all up for decades, and appealing to your conscience doesn't work, because it's not in your interest - so you got rid of it. We know that governments are stupid. We know, they'll fuck up. *Somebody* has to put a limit on how much you screw the gamers out of their money AND their games, though. And, trust me, you WANT this to be the government, because all the prior data suggests that you aren't going to suddenly stop doing it by yourselves, and the alternative would be direct action - read torches and pitchforks (or, leaks and hacks - for the modern era). That's, supposedly, why we have the government in the first place - so it doesn't come to that, when interests clash. Truth be told, we don't want to be doing ANY of this. The government is our second-to-last resort, and you brought it on yourselves.

But government is stupid and they'll fuck it up: You guys have been fucking it all up for decades, and appealing to your conscience doesn't work, because it's not in your interest - so you got rid of it. We know that governments are stupid. We know, they'll fuck up. *Somebody* has to put a limit on how much you screw the gamers out of their money AND their games, though. And, trust me, you WANT this to be the government, because all the prior data suggests that you aren't going to suddenly stop doing...

26 August at 19:32 | Open on mastodon.ml
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But games require huge server infrastructures to run: Only applicable if it's a massively online multiplayer game. If your game requires thousands of people to be connected to the same game world at the same time - then your argument does hold water. If your games only requires a handful of people to play, it's not hard to host a server. People are not stupid or computer-illiterate. There are games older than I am that are still enjoyed all over the world - because people host servers all by themselves. Don't give us this patronizing crap.

Then there's also single-player games. Those require no server infrastructure AT ALL. So shut fuck up.

And, by the way, theoretically, you can make a federated game server. It's a huge undertaking, but it potentially can make your MMO game immortal. Not that you're interested.

But games require huge server infrastructures to run: Only applicable if it's a massively online multiplayer game. If your game requires thousands of people to be connected to the same game world at the same time - then your argument does hold water. If your games only requires a handful of people to play, it's not hard to host a server. People are not stupid or computer-illiterate. There are games older than I am that are still enjoyed all over the world - because people host servers all by themselves....

20 August at 3:38 | Open on mastodon.ml
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20 August at 2:52 on post Thor, Theo and Primagen are scabs. I love their other content, but as far as Stop Killing Games campaign...

Game preservation is killing the game publishing industry profits.

We left the server binary in, so you can help.

26 August at 19:27 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Arch users, please get off your high horse and chill the fuck out. Stop pushing Arch on any rando you meet.

I'm an Arch user, and believe me when I say: Arch is NOT a desktop distro. It's not a server distro, either. The value of Arch is precisely that: it's a non-specific Linux distribution.

That means that things that are expected in, say, desktop use case may not come out of the box and need to be installed in post, by the user themself.

Most of the supposed advantages of Arch can easily be chalked up to drawbacks, when you want a nice-and-ready desktop OS, just because of Arch's low-assumption nature.

You only install Arch when you know you need Arch and can handle the jank. Otherwise, choose another distro.

Arch users, please get off your high horse and chill the fuck out. Stop pushing Arch on any rando you meet.

I'm an Arch user, and believe me when I say: Arch is NOT a desktop distro. It's not a server distro, either. The value of Arch is precisely that: it's a non-specific Linux distribution.

That means that things that are expected in, say, desktop use case may not come out of the box and need to be installed in post, by the user themself.

26 August at 18:36 | Open on mastodon.ml
Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕

@drq what a long way to say «I use arch btw, and it sucks»

26 August at 18:39 | Open on mastodon.ml
Kir4ik52 :debnyan:

@drq I fully agry :blobfoxbongo:

26 August at 23:16 | Open on mastodon.ml
lnkr_

@drq >You only install Arch when you know you need Arch

The only thing I kinda disagree with.
I didn't need it, had no idea why the hell I could possibly need it for. Installed it anyway just to see what all the fuss was about, first on a low end laptop about ~6 years ago or something where it's still stays to this day, and then for a couple of years it was the main system on my desktop too.

Ended up being surprisingly fun and educational. Gave me some cozy sandbox game vibes that I didn't get with other systems I've tried before.
There is no point on _pushing_ it on somebody (as with any other OS tbh), but if you (not literally you, just anyone who at least has touched ubuntu or manjaro before) have some spare time, patience and general curiosity - I'd say give it a go even if you have no freaking idea what for.

@drq >You only install Arch when you know you need Arch

The only thing I kinda disagree with.
I didn't need it, had no idea why the hell I could possibly need it for. Installed it anyway just to see what all the fuss was about, first on a low end laptop about ~6 years ago or something where it's still stays to this day, and then for a couple of years it was the main system on my desktop too.

26 August at 23:37 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Айсылу 🦊
26 August at 16:41

привет @rf ! нас давно просили написать список ботов на press.anyaforger.art, и вот @MrClon это сделал! его стараниями появилась таблица, где указаны название, хендл со ссылкой и описание каждого бота

:anya_whoaa: press.anyaforger.art/about :anya_whoaa:

26 August at 18:28 | Open on mastodon.ml
Тихий свет

@wonderfox@mastodon.ml найс, +4 аккаунта через этот список нашёл ​:ablobcatwhackyfast:​

26 August at 17:07 | Open on shitpost.poridge.club
iliazeus

@wonderfox очень круто! Был одним из просивших :) Спасибо @MrClon!

26 August at 17:12 | Open on lor.sh
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int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)

@slyka @miunau
Minds me of my single sided 78 RPM phonograph disks that my grandad left me.

27 August at 18:58 | Open on mastodon.social
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@slyka @miunau

Great work!

It sort of reminds of one of the first scenes of the Russian movie Стиляги (2008) that shows how they made bootleg copies of records...using X-Ray film base:

youtube.com/watch?v=UavmKtLIV3

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilyagi

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26 August at 10:05

ВНЕЗАПНО интересная история от Хомака
26 August at 16:02 | Open on mastodon.ml
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ну мне интересная вам хуй знает похуй

26 August at 10:06 | Open on shitpost.poridge.club
Григорий Клюшников

ага, только сам оригинальный лурк восстанавливать никто как будто бы не собирается

26 August at 16:14
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