It’s a high dysphoria week and I gotta vent about it.

This is neither new information, nor something overlooked in the design of the software. Thats the point of end to end encryption and open source code: they can only give the data that they have access to, which is the sender, receiver, and timestamps, but we know they cannot decrypt messages in the middle, because it would show in the security implementation in the source code. This model prevents the carrier from knowing the contents of any messages they carry. Therefore, you have to attack one of the end point devices to get the contents, and all the warrants and secret letters in the world can’t compell then to give up the content of your messages, because they do not have the means to do so.

There are legitimate problems with the security model, like its use of phone numbers as account identifiers, that render it a poor choice for doing Certain Things, but that alone does not prove it was designed as a honeypot, or that it has been secretly compromised in some way that can’t be seen in the source code.

There have been rumors for years but as far as I know nobody has been able to substantiate the claim. The organization that eventually produced Signal, Open Whisper Networks, received some seed funding from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (today known as the US Agency for Global Media), from which has been spun some CIA fronts like Radio Free Asia. However, this is also true of Tor, and many other non-profit private communications projects during this time, and does not itself prove any technical subversion has taken place. The source code for both the server and client are open source, and have been subject to frequent scrutiny, including full independent audits and penetration testing. No backdoor has ever been shown to exist in the code itself. Beyond that, people mostly gesture towards Moxie Marlinspike’s radlib posturing and bad hair and invite people to Draw Their Own Conclusions.

It is the 90s again for Apple.

I am speaking from personal experience when I say you HAVE to stop arguing with people who hate you for existing. The very act of so-called debate is merely another theater in which to enact cruelty. More than that, you should simply not listen to or read anything they have to say directly.

I used to go on TERF blogs almost every night and it fully made me insane. Stopping was really hard, because it was a form of self soothing by self harming, but it was a huge improvement on my daily life.

Ah, sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

truly, like, have some self-respect, at least be an anarchist.

Reading chapter 6 of Capital and laughing my ass off as Uncle Karl refutes the notion that so-called service work isn’t “real labor” in the same paragraph that he defines labor-power by describing it as a use-value. Should have read this years ago.

Manjaro here. It’s essentially Arch with a pleasant installer, reasonable defaults, and a nice desktop theme. I recently had to switch from the KDE build to the Gnome build because KDE does NOT seem to get along with Nvidia GPU drivers right now. Now it’s butter. Use Lutris to manage your windows games in their own little sandboxes, 9/10 games you’d swear they’re native software. Some actually run better under linux than under Windows 11. Cities Skylines 2 was the most dramatic example. Like 20 extra fps.

#Tradle #705 3/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://games.oec.world/en/tradle

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Soulseek remains the goat. Use the Nicotine+ client.

Nah, the sincere utopian impulse comes from a place of deep empathy and a desire for a life without violence. Those are good characteristics, merely ones which can be bent to reactionary ends by propaganda or a lack of critical thought. And it forms the basis for imagination about how life could be under different circumstances, which I also firmly believe is beneficial.

Indeed, the extent of their supposed ecological platform is simply a thin pretext for plausibly -deniable genocide.

They are simply living mas.

Deranged. My nurse psych literally just asked me questions about how I handle daily life then prescribed me my addies. Down with the cult of the doctor.

Friends I’ve got to tell you, it’s so much easier to read Capital now that I’ve been prescribed amphetamines. I think I can catch up to the reading group in a couple weeks.

There are effectively zero commercial VPN services that will permit P2P traffic on their free servers, because they would be instantly swamped if they did. The few that do permit it for free, you have to ask yourself how they’re paying for that bandwidth.