Why not Signal?

Good Alternatives

• Matrix
• XMPP
• Briar
• Jitsi
• SimpleX

Reason: Trolling

Good luck with that 😂

Okay, be a dumbass. Why don’t you fork yourself?

There is plenty of space between absolute trust and its contrapositive.

Was it revealed, or did Tucker Carlson assert this with no evidence? Because what comes out of his mouth is usually bullshit.

History shows that you shouldn’t automatically trust encryption technologies from the US government.

• Scientific American: NSA Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged U.S. Cryptography Standard
• Washington Post: How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

“Feel,” “happy,” “comfortable”… Privacy doesn’t care about your feelings.

And it has also been revealed that american feds are able to read everyone’s push notifications and they do this as mass surveillance.

Speaking of the feds, it was they who funded the creation of Signal, which is one of the reasons it ought not be trusted.

And that’s why you always leave a note.

“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.

He edited that book, didn’t write it

It’s essentially a compilation of articles, and he wrote or co-wrote about half of them.

New tagline just dropped: Kape Technologies, the MindGeek of VPN

I wouldn’t trust anything at MB/FC. I trust Alan Macleod’s work, though. If you want to actually understand the media, he wrote a book on it: Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent.

I’m not the one who needs to chill: the reporter whose name I redacted does.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: piracy

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But that wouldn’t even work… am I over-thinking it?

Is this some sort of normie joke that I’m too diaper fetish to understand?

Nuh-uh, tradwife uses a rotary phone; I know because I saw it on her Insta.

I wouldn’t know.

I’d love to, but I don’t have the spoons for it.

He can’t comI TOLD YOU!

JWZ seven years ago: Signal

When you install Signal, it asks for access to your contacts, and says very proudly, “we don’t upload your contacts, it all stays on your phone.”

And then it spams all of your contacts who have Signal installed, without asking your first.

And it shares your phone number with everyone in your contacts who has Signal installed.

And then when you scream ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME and delete your account and purge the app, guess what? All those people running Signal still have your phone number displayed for them right there in plain text. Deleting your account does not delete the information that the app shared without your permission.

So yeah. Real nice “privacy” app you’ve got there.

Update, 2018: Subsequently.

Katherine Maher is a very busy beaver. She’s a major figure in the contemporary manufacturing of consent.

2020: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

2023: U.S. regime change activist named Web Summit CEO after founder forced out for condemning Israeli ‘war crimes’

2024: Web Summit CEO jumps ship to head up NPR after just 3 months

Link?

• [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
• “Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

Ocala, FL. Their website seems to be down at the moment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240525234942/http://www.jawsjumboburgers.net/

I actually clicked on all the web-related Awesome Cobol links yesterday. Each one is either a broken link or golang code.

Yeah well, if you’re so smart let’s see you write a website in COBOL.

Can I reuse the graphics card from my blockchain toothbrush?

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)

Is he the new Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)?

Yeah… ActivityPub is anything but private.

I think I ended up wearing a beanie, though after a while I was able to sleep through the draft without issue.

I shaved my head once. I had trouble sleeping that night because there was a draft at the head of my bed that I previously had no awareness of.

I mean, McCourt has his own school at Georgetown U.: https://mccourt.georgetown.edu/

Georgetown U., situated literally in the middle of D.C., is a major center for training new generations of US domestic & imperial functionaries.

At first glance this seems to be some bullshit by oligarch Frank McCourt. Billionaires won’t save us, or did we learn nothing from Elon Musk? Musk and McCourt are transnational billionaires and constituent parts of the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex. My first impression is that he’s trying to capture the federated social media space in order to get it under control, to bring it in line with the corporate social media space which is already integrated with the US propaganda architecture.

Seriously, anyone who’s trying to buy TikTok right now and has the means to potentially do it must have ties with US intelligence “community”.

“dub dub dub”

I don’t know about unlimited, but: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591073-How-to-set-up-aliases#pricing

How many aliases can I have?

Accounts can have up to 600 aliases, plus 15 for every user in the account.

They support catch-all aliases as well, which is in effect unlimited.

This government intrusion is brought to you by Surfshark.

Is this a tall people problem that I’m too short to understand?

Forbidden cotton candy.

It’s not that complicated: US tech companies are constituent parts of the US military-intelligence-industrial complex.

Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths:

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.”