Strong-type for Karl!

Further, they’re hosted in Germany, so they must still follow German law and court requests.

SimpleX is taking a lot of venture capital money which makes it just slightly suspect, imho. Those guys usually want a return of some kind on their investment. I simply don’t trust the motives of technocrats like Jack Dorsey.

The Matrix Foundation, on the other hand, seems a lot more democratic in governance and stewardship of the protocol.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft saying you’ll be able to play Xbox games on the Switch 2, implying that Game Pass is coming to Switch 2, was the thing that finally kicked their asses and gear and made them realize they were being fucking stupid trying to have so much control while Microsoft is out here with even tighter controls and a cheaper model (in a lot of gamers’ eyes at least, those who don’t care about things like longevity of studios or actual ownership of a product as opposed to rental licensing).

Sorry for the run-on sentence I don’t feel like fixing it.

Blahaj.zone runs on AWS not Cloudflare.

Blahaj.zone is a smaller instance with less than 3000 users.

There is no character limit that I see.

At least on lemmy.blahaj.zone Ada has blocked nsfw instances, I assume she did the same on blahaj.zone. EDIT: I just double checked and for sure a lot of NSFW instances are blocked by blahaj.zone.

Finally, as the instance for transfolk, it has never at any point federated with Threads

Art design here is off the charts good and it can run on basically a fucking toaster to boot!

Wishlisted.

I’m just saying like all things American, it’s a very, very Amerocentric view of the world, where we’re the most important and need to be destabilized.

We wrecked our own soft power with the Iraq War and Snowden leaks. No foreign actors forced our hands. Iraq War was just plain stupid and Snowden leaked because his big boss was lying to congress (and has never been punished for it).

Foreign influence kicked up after that because we created an opening with our own fucking hubris by destroying international credibility as well as credibility at home with our own citizens.

Cops were already practicing Killology and being a violent problem in US communities long before the Iraq War and the death of US soft power. (EDIT: In point of fact, the Iraq War was when the cops started to get all that disused military equipment, too. No foreign entity forced that, Bush did. Cops generally didn’t have APCs at local departments in the '90’s)

Dude as much as there is an amount of foreign interference, I have lived in the USA for over forty years and the people who live here have genuinely always been this fucking dumb so blaming it on the “spicy hot cold war” sounds to me like not being willing to take responsibility for the massive amount of absolutely dumbfuck motherfuckers in the USA.

No, sorry, they’re real, and we don’t get to pretend that they’ve just been subject to a foreign influence campaign.

Further, what about the non-foreign influence campaigns like FOX News, One America News Network, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Xitter? Those are totally okay because they’re not foreign? Our own influence campaigns are fine?

And yes, I’m way more worried about people who have the State backing them when it comes to owning guns and being able to violently assault citizens than a fucking foreign influence campaign. Because they’re actually here and have actually already been causing massive damage to US social cohesion for fucking decades. Just look up Killology. A foreign influence campaign didn’t create Killology, a fucking psychopath ex-military American created it.

So let’s go over once again:

1. Americans are genuinely that fucking dumb.
2. Our corporations do the same fucking shit to us and they don’t even come from a foreign country, they’re just worried about money.
3. The cops have been a violent occupying force who abuse the citizenry and have been for a long fucking time, arguably always.

This just sounds too much like blaming it on everything but our own fucking real homegrown problems.

Maybe it would be if every dirtbag cop in the country wasn’t on their side.

I’m way more worried about the cops becoming Brownshirts than the military.

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I’d wager this isn’t just Denver that restaurants are struggling in.

Before COVID restauranting was already a hard fucking business to stay afloat in the US.

It’s been a fucking bloodbath in restaurants all over ever since COVID. I know chefs who just can’t find a fucking job because half the places have shut down.

Hittin them Windows users with the Wololo

Actually, this idea has some merit, because it already has examples in other mediums. It’s technically referred to as “steganography.”

A common example with computers is hiding text, files, or applications within an image file.

https://github.com/7thSamurai/steganography

In the example for how to use this simple Image Steganography tool, the user hides a ZIP files with the entire contents of the book Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde into the example image.

I don’t see why something similar couldn’t be achieved with audio.

In fact, here’s an article on some basic audio steganography methods.

https://sumit-arora.medium.com/audio-steganography-the-art-of-hiding-secrets-within-earshot-part-2-of-2-c76b1be719b3

He thinks he’s doing that Art of the Dipshit “Anchoring” shit.

Hell, Kevin Mitnick was caught via cellular tower triangulation all the way back in the 90’s.

It’s far from new technology too, so at this point you would think radio triangulation would be piss easy and cheap to do.

Agreed on the LoRa devices. I personally think the future of comms is in meshed low power high latency devices.

https://hackaday.com/2022/05/25/long-distance-text-communication-with-lora/

https://github.com/BigCorvus/LORA-QWERTY-Communicator

These take some knowledge to build, but I think they’re pretty slick.

Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

This is unfortunately part of Rule 1. I am not reporting this post, because I agree the entire statement is important, but do not be surprised if it’s removed under that rule.

Perhaps use an excerpt that gets the gist across? I don’t think it’s behind a paywall, the Guardian is usually good about that.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

-Jean-Paul Sartre

Fuck this quote has basically had nonstop use for ten years now. It’s the same fucking bullshit every time. It’s all “jokes” right up until it’s not.

Steve Jobs’ wife Lauren Powell Jobs publishing it makes it non-corporate?

No such thing as a good billionaire.

They’re not, surprisingly.

What’s even sadder is this was all the way back in 2016. They showed us who they are and whose side they’re on a long time ago.