I bet he uses the nothing to hide nothing to fear line all the time though, just not for himself.

Remember how you used to have to go on sketchy piracy sites to install such sophicated spyware? Now it comes standard with every Windows installation! How convenient!

Skill issue probably. They want to collect more but Musk’s shitty hires can’t figure it out. /s

We laugh at the people of the past for putting lead in their wine, arsenic on their walls, mercury on their skin, and deadly nightshade in their eyes. The people of the future will have plenty to laugh at us for. The chemicals we use now will be named in shocking factoids of how foolish and ignorant we were, just as we do for chemicals that people used before us.

We might think the people of the past did not know any better, but they absolutely did, just as we do for the chemicals we use now. Discontinuation of using a chemical comes long, LONG after science has rigorously documented its grave dangers, if it ever happens at all. People will continue to use it, and more importantly, businesses fight tooth and nail to continue peddling it, for far too long after we find out it’s deadly. Lead was known to be lethal even in small amounts as early as the Roman republic, yet the vast majority of cities today still have a non-trivial amount of lead pipes in their potable water infrastructure just like the Romans did, houses built just a few decades ago still used lead paint, small piston aircraft use leaded fuel to this day, and don’t forget that whole thing with lead solder being used in Stanley Cups, you know, water receptacles for drinking, because it’s ever so slightly cheaper (and some electronics enthusiasts vehemently swear by lead solder and absolutely hate how “everything is switching to lead-free nowadays and it’s slightly harder to get it to stick to the pins being soldered”).

Basically, don’t hold your breath that we’ll get rid of any of these chemicals just because we found out they’re lethal or crippling to human health or whatever. That has never once happened in the history of humans using chemicals.

An important distinction is security for whom? When a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie passes some piece of security legislation, their sole concern is security for the rich elite, not the commoners. In that case, oppression of the people is not an unintended consequence of the legislation going wrong like this image suggests, we’re collateral damage at best and the intended victims of the legislation at worst.

DeepSeek at home: None

Windows is malware. If you give the slightest shit about your privacy, switch ASAP

I agree with everything you said except for this:

Plus, DotNet is almost trivially cross-platform these days and almost ridiculously easy to develop with… for something like an install script you really don’t have an excuse to not hit all three platforms anymore.

But so is Java. Or Kotlin. Or Rust. Or Python. Hell, even JavaScript is acceptable for a simple GUI program that’s meant to be run once to install the real program.

And those are open source and don’t have Microsoft telemetry in the build tools AND IN THE RUNTIME!!! So you now have to taint your Linux or Mac system by installing the JVM we have at home.

How’s signal compared to Element?

Also, is there a secure way to directly send messages to someone else’s phone without the message having to be stored on a central server? As in they’re only stored on the recipient device. Is that even possible with how the internet works and how packets are routed between networks? Even if the server has no way of decrypting messages by default, just having the encrypted messages stored there is a liability because your encryption keys can easily get leaked by malware running on your device, phishing, etc.

Why Linux Mint specifically, why not just Linux? Or if they want to pick a specific distro, why not Trisquel or another FSF-endorsed distro?

it will be harder for OpenAI to compete with open source

Can we revoke the word open from their name? Please?

Has been since 1991

I already have a pixel. Is it just as easy as installing Lineage OS on the phone?

A DM is literally just like @ing someone on Mastodon and setting the visibility to that user only. It’s just unlisted. If you were the instance admin or otherwise knew the ID of the DM, you can find it.

“So don’t make us torture you for encryption keys got it?”

Let’s be honest, they were almost certainly already doing that. They’re just getting brazen enough to not hide it anymore.

Found the real life Feng Huang!

That shouldn’t matter to the open source encrypted chat apps because their code can be easily be independently audited. Just another reason to ONLY use fully open source software when dealing with anything cryptography related.

IDK I didn’t think that much into it lol

Bypassing authentication or checks by incorporating a statement that always returns true, and doing an ‘or’ operation with the statement being injected. It manipulates the return value of the SQL statement to make it always return true, so if the website is checking if the statement returned true to indicate, for example, the password is correct, it will now think that was the case.