There isn’t any proof that the app you download is built exactly from the source code on github. There could be an intermediate step to inject whatever they want before packaging it for the app stores.

There’s also the conspiracy that Signal has been compromised since the beginning as they received initial funding from the CIA. Not sure exactly where I stand on this, but it is plausible.

The protocol itself is open source though so someone could make an open source service with that.

I will not drink with you today!

Nice work getting to day 5! Good luck with your event tonight. Social events are tough for me too because I am naturally introverted and a little shy so I leaned heavily on the booze for almost any social interaction I had as an adult. Thankfully with the proliferation of NA brews, I’ve had decent success with holding onto one of those at a party.

No plans for the weekend yet. Things are just starting to thaw out here where I live. You got anything going on this weekend?

Thats fair. I’m sure they do make some nice cars. I’ll admit I have a bias against american cars.

Fr I was quite disappointed when I found out about the prologue and that it is just a GM.

One company I worked for used a shared folder of a ton of these excel sheets all that shared the same format. It was god awful. Thankfully one of the reasons I was hired was helping them migrate to a true SQL solution which enabled a lot of applications to work with their data.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

Its supposed to be e2e encrypted messages but I’m skeptical about that too

I saw a recent interview Bernie did with AOC and I learned that she got into politics specifically because she was inspired by Bernie during his presidential run in 2016. Thats something I didn’t realize and it explains a lot why we feel a lot of the same energy from them.

Some of us do and were ashamed at how hateful and destructive our fellow Americans can be. And it sucks that they continuously refuse to listen to reason despite the facts laid before them. Most of the supporters I know of have their head firmly in the sand with no idea what’s coming.

Idk where you draw that conclusion from. Many of us are quite aware many democrats are in bed with lobbyists. The main issue here is that RFK tries to slander Bernie Sanders who is one of the least corrupt politician we have.

Perhaps if it was in a vacuum but musk has openly shared Nazi propaganda on his social media site that he bought. The ADL is an organization I don’t trust

Hello me. Be kind to yourself

I’ve used mullvad before and it was a great experience. As far as anonymity goes, I don’t think you can do any better than mullvad where you even have privacy friendly payment options. That said, I haven’t used proton VPN so I’m not sure how they compare feature-wise

Congrats on overcoming that hurdle. Holidays can be really tough especially that first one when youre used to getting smashed.

Not drinking with you today

Infinite growth within a finite system is literally cancer.

Just ask Barbara Streisand

Your grandma sounds like a terrific human being. Sorry to hear that she has passed. Thanks for sharing.

I get what youre saying but this is still only kind of true for languages that only the variable assignment is constant (like javascript) rather than the value itself (like rust). If I create a map in rust, without any modifiers, that map is immutable and can’t be changed (not even the contained values). If I create a map in JavaScript using the const keyword, I have created a constant in that block that cannot be reassigned, but any values within the map are changeable like you mentioned. It means the object itself is mutable, but it belongs to a variable that is not.