So, it all reduces to a prior problem. The sewers are a red herring.

Dogs are able to casually identify the individual who produced the most minute sample of shit, tell you their last three meals, what they are going to die from, and when; and dog society didn’t fall apart. We’ll manage.

I feel like this is a superstitious resistance. My face is the least sensitive identifying factor I have. My email address is more sensitive than my face!!!

Many online services derive value from the critical mass of users they home. This plus financial apps would include virtually all instances where facial images are required for security purposes. Self-hosting cannot solve this problem for you, you are effectively saying you will refrain from using these social and financial services at all.

It is commonly used for AML and other user-verification purposes.

Settle down. You’re on the verge of giving yourself skin failure.

You’re calling people names. It’s very obviously not “about DISCUSSION” for you right now. Those things are utterly incompatible. You’re presently seeking emotional gratification through abuse. The bizarre choice of “incel” comes across as projection when you talk like that.

Your previous comment missed the point so widely and smugly, it also fails to engage in meaningful “DISCUSSION”. It’s okay to say something stupid, just try not to be a raging asshole about it.

Are you joking right now? Acting like you just won the argument??

meanwhile NetBSD runs on toasters from the 90s

There’s basically no such thing as anonymized telemetry. The data provided is so rich, it is inherently identifying.

Whenever I hear about heart disease, I’m sure glad I have cancer!

I recently switched some of my contacts from Signal to Matrix and I really prefer the user experience. The room-based model and the video chat features are great.

Here, go argue with this guy for a few weeks, and give us a break for a while.

No, it’s a private and secure protocol (not corporation) thanks to end to end encryption. You can evaluate the protocol yourself with your own eyes, except clearly you cannot read, but modulo that.

Newsflash, chuckles: your IP address IS NOT ANONYMOUS. Any private protocol you use without going through Tor, i2p, or some similar anonymizing network IS NOT ANONYMOUS.

You’re attacking a strawman. Neither Signal nor anyone else has claimed the protocol or the service are anonymous. Which, yes, is something that every user should know before trusting it. They should understand what it means and what the consequences are. I’m honestly not sure you’re even there.

Yes, we get it. You don’t consider it “private” because you are using your own personal definition of the word, and getting all fucking bent out of joint because the definition you just fucking made up all on your own doesn’t match what other people mean when they say the fucking word. WE FUCKING GET IT. END OF THREAD.

Dude, these are problems that people have been dealing with on the Internet for more than 30 years now. Not only do we have precise vocabulary that you have not bothered to educate yourself on, WE HAVE SOLUTIONS TO THESE FUCKING PROBLEMS. These are ANONYMITY issues, not PRIVACY issues. If you want an anonymous messaging platform, FUCKING USE AN ANONYMOUS MESSAGING PLATFORM. It’s not fucking rocket science.

Please spare us the autism and read a fucking RFC.

Yep we’re all out to get you. We have meetings and everything. We have a pot luck on Sunday, and you cannot come.

okay, it’s become clear that you’re simply broken. End of thread.

Holy shitballs what the actual fuck the difference is that if the conversation is private, people cannot listen in. Are you being obtuse?

what is the point of making this distinction

because they are completely different things

It is at best slightly obscured information. If your life depends on a phone number never being associated with you, and you frequently use that phone number, you’re a dead person.

Thank you for validating my pain.

As a FreeBSD user just trying to game on Unix, I’ve blown up my Debian machine so many times. A couple of years ago, trying to get CUDA in Blender working AND have a recent enough driver for the Windows games I was playing on Proton was killing me. I don’t remember what exactly but it seemed like every time I tried to change something, the whole fragile mess would bork itself.

Console output?

Why would you have been considering giving EA money

Do I understand that you have extracted the flatpak?

I mean… yeah, that’s not going to work. It’s hard coded to use those paths because it’s meant to run in a sandboxed environment.

By “you” I meant “one”, referring to the game’s developer/integrator. Pardon.

dwaa? you’d have to try so hard to make a game fail if it isn’t on the root partition. having trouble conceptualizing it

I once played a game with another complete waste of bandwidth, and it was so much fun. Once there are enough players for meaningful ranking it will be amazing.

BAR is tight. It will be nice when there are a bunch of shitty players for me to play, few people are as bad as I am.

A small or underfunded community of white hats will not necessarily outperform obscurity.

“I want people to accept a bogus solution so this will all just go away.” Okay? But surely you can appreciate that people are not likely to be moved by your bad faith suggestions.

That’s exactly a security concern from a design point of view. Your desire to trivialize it doesn’t change its nature, access control is access control. That’s not what DNS is for and making it do that is going to cause everyone regret.

DNS for security? What could possibly go wrong…

I have never received spam on Signal.

A link to an image and a link to a video, but no link to a website…

The lack of self-awareness in this comment is depressing

A link to a video with no description or even a meaningful title. Bad _carmin!

I got it about a year ago and I’ve been playing it again recently. It’s okay.

I’m super frustrated that for some reason, Sid Meyer’s SimGolf doesn’t run on any emulation or modern hardware. It was just a friggin windows 95 game!! I have no idea what’s so special about it.

Space-click is such a nice feature. I stopped wishing I could edit queues once I found it.

I’m playing a skirmish at 0.1 resource production, pausing constantly, and it’s STILL pretty overwhemling. But fun and slick!