If anyone actualy understands this one, they're going to find it ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! 🤣

Give it a boost, lets see if that person is somewhere out there on #Nostr. If you get the joke, give it a like.

Boost if you remember running this program

If you don't get this one, you're probably missing out on some amazing food!

When if the right time for puns? All the time!

Thechnical complexity in theory and practice.

Hello. 👋 I am the General Manager of nostr and I'd just like to say that I really appreciate all the support from people who give me a mention every morning. 🤙 It's what motivates me to continue my work here at the platform.

Sincerely,

GM

Article shared today talks about a US gov't shutdown: "...before an anticipated September 1st drop-dead date."

Me: Checks date. Today is September 18, 2023. Hmm.

Me: Checks article published date: September 18, 2023

🤡🤡🤡

Wow. Real trustworthy info there. Kinda obvious you fired all your authors and editor(s) and are just having AI write your stories.

Well at least I know I don't have to trust that source of "news". No, I will not link to that 💩.

If you want to avoid them, just check all your news sources for huge, glaring errors withing the first sentence. If you find them, that's either this publisher or one that is equally unworthy of your attention.

Pretend it was 15 years. It's all about perspective!

Here's Moxie saying "real soon now" which is the only category sooner than "on the roadmap" according to him.

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1567492610713079814

I can't find the link to the tweets, but I have a screenshot of one instance of this promise

When Moxie was at the helm, he'd ocassionaly reapond to privacy advocates with how easy it would be to support usernames, and the protocol supports it, and that anyone could run their own Signal server that used usernames instead of phone numbers. Later he alluded to them working on it.

I wonder what the United States of America would have been called had the North lost the civil war. 🤔

They kept the "united" part even during the civil war. I guess it was part of the campaign to discredit the new country that split off.

Same reason they referred to the South as "rebels". They wanted to make it clear they were not acknowledging the soverenty of the Confererate States of America.

Amazon is going to lose a lot of their top notch people over this. The bottom tier, who can't instantly find another job will remain.

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There's a write up of what it is at https://tildeverse.org/

You're absolutely correct 🤣

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PGP can be a real rabbithole if you get into the gory details of what subkeys are, and what exponent you should use and so forth.

Fortunately Thunderbird has PGP support built now ehich makes practical usage very easy after the initial setup. If you are public enemy #1, then you'll want to go down the rabbithole and learn about all the ins and outs of PGP. Honestly though, the main risk is that someone you talk to is compromised/a snitch/turncoat/enemy of some sort.

As for Matrix, some Matrix servers require an email to register, some ofvthose also won't allow disposable email addresses (mailinator, sharklasers, etc.). This is because of spammers. I found a small community of hackers who run and instance and just asked them to create an account for me. If you are on Mastodon check out the "tildeverse". Those folks are likely to help you out. Just don't be an asshole and ruin it for everyone.

And having your cellphone tied to your encrypted messaging app is going to feel really short sighted when encryption is outlawed.

For those who think the forced attribution is bad now... just wait, it's going to get worse.

It is. Hopefull not soon, but that's the trend.

People (myself included) though Signal was awesome until we realized that they don't care about removing PII (phone numbers), decentralization, or pretty much anything their users have been asking for.

Now it's #nostr, #Matrix, #pgpmail, #Tor, and other decentralized solutions for me.

I haven't gone as far to close my account with #SignalApp, but my usage has steadily been dropping since they dropped SMS support. Plus now my SMS messages are no longer encrypted at rest (beyond the standard FDE).

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Yes, people aren't retiring because they think they would get bored. I'm sure that is the explanation.

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