Radioactive Butthole

Trying to get my family to use signal and its like pulling teeth. “Dont you want to be on the same messaging app as everyone”, “sure but you’re the one with a problem”

Mate, I only have a problem because of you!

You can pry Vim from my cold, dead hands!

My problem with forums is that they spiral out of control. Forum lovers see this as a huge plus but I’m not reading 1700 pages (not posts) of bullshit across three posts just to get to the current info.

Any time I see

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …, 653

At the bottom of a post I just click off the website and go somewhere else.

I really liked the client but HTML emails are a real pain in the ass.

AskJeeves!

Very nice! I really like the direction Gnome is headed in.

I have a server with a RAID-1 array, that makes daily, weekly, and monthly read only btrfs snapshots. The whole thing (sans snapshots) is sync’d with syncthing to two rPi’s in two different geographic locations.

I know neither raid nor syncthing are “real” backup solutions, but with so many copies of the files living in so many locations (in addition to my phone, laptop, etc.) I’m reasonably confident its a decent solution.

So don’t do that if that’s important to you. I don’t. Besides, home assistant has its own local voice commands if you want them.

Honest question, do you use Home Assistant?

You must be here from c/all. Home Assistant is a self-hosted application and stores all of its data locally on hardware you own and control. If there’s data mining, its because you put it there yourself.

D’oh!

It is a text editor from the 50s or 60s, so right off the nat you aren’t getting a product you’re at all familiar with. Its been a while since I cracked it open but from memory you can only view one line of code at a time. You have to specify the line of code that you want to view, the commands are esoteric, and there is no help available in the application itself. As I recall it was pretty much immediately replaced with better editors, such as og vi.

Its sort of like programming in sed. Sure, you can, but why?

Ed is the most user unfriendly text editor ever created.

Logseq has a horrendous UX. The concept is amazing but check back in a decade to see if its usable.

Yeah, lots. Lots and lots.

In what way was Signal coöperating with Ukraine before? Signal only has access to when you created your account and the last time you connected to their servers; that’s it.

In what way did Ukraine honestly expect to utilize this information in their war? I can’t find any evidence that they’ve coöperated in the past, or that this would have been actually useful information. We have court cases proving they only store what they say they do:

everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted by default, the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps simply doesn’t exist on Signal’s servers,” the company wrote. “The subpoena requested a wide variety of information that fell into this nonexistent category, including the addresses of the users, their correspondence, and the name associated with each account.”

Signal went on to further note that it “doesn’t have access to your messages; your chat list; your groups; your contacts; your stickers; your profile name or avatar; or even the GIFs you search for.”

The only data Signal was able to hand over for the accounts listed in the subpoena were the times and dates when they were created and the last time they connected to the app.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/signal-grand-jury-subpoena-data/

Also, Ukrainians have and continue to use Signal every day. This isn’t like Starlink turning off internet for Ukraine but not Russia; its Ukraine asking for information that doesn’t exist and then getting upset that they didn’t get the non-existant data. It’s a complete non-story designed to get you to use weak messaging apps, don’t fall for it. Signal doesnt want to cooperate with any government and this is a good thing for privacy. If Signal could give information to Ukraine on Russians, it could also give Russia information on Ukrainians. But Signal can’t give anyone information on anyone, and it needs to stay that way.

Slava Ukraini, Fuck Putin.

That’s fair. My only real gripe with Signal is that it isn’t federated. Matrix isn’t ready for the general public and I’m doubtful it ever will be, so in the meantime Signal is the next best thing.

source for audits

Not me, but someone on the signal forums helpfully compiled many of them; there are a lot more than I thought! https://community.signalusers.org/t/wiki-overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243

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It is a us based non profit that doesn’t store any information about you, your contacts, or any of your metadata, and encrypts all of your data in transit and at rest, using a strong open source encryption protocol. Signals privacy is so strong that when delivering a message, they cannot tell who the sender is. It is developed out in the open and has been independently audited like four times.

Also you don’t need to purchase the app so boycotting it really only harms you since every other messaging app (that isnt self-hosted) is objectively worse in all of these measures, or has no network effect.

Don’t punish orgs who are doing things right.

I developed a spreadsheet for a company I worked for a few jobs ago. When I left I used a picture of Dennis to lock everyone out of the spreadsheet but only for one day, months after I left. Stupid idea, but felt good.

Edit: this was it: