Jason2357 @ Jason2357 @lemmy.ca

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That’s a map of poverty.

That's not exactly true. See Sealed sender: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

At least in theory, this is mitigated. The signal activation server sees your phone number, yes. If you use Signal, the threat model doesn't protect you from someone with privileged network or server access learning that you use Signal (just like someone with privileged network access can learn you use tor, or a vpn, etc).

But the signal servers do not get to see the content of your group messages, nor the metadata about your groups and contacts. Sealed sender keeps that private: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

You would obviously want to join those groups with a user Id rather than your phone number, or a malicious member could out you. It's not the best truly anonymous chat platform, but protection from your specific threat model is thought through.

edit: be sure to go to Settings > Privacy > Phone Number. By default anyone who already has your phone number can see you use signal (used for contact discovery, this makes sense to me for all typical uses of Signal), and in a separate setting, contacts and groups can see your phone number. You will absolutely want to un-check that one if you follow my suggestion above.

It's insane that this is even needed. Show me ads for things relevant to the content of the web page and nothing else. If I'm reading about furnace filters, sure, show me an ad for buying furnace filters, I might buy from you, but don't follow me around for 2 weeks shoving furnace filter ads in my face. If I'm not reading about them anymore, I've moved on.

The added benefit of this approach for advertisers would be that you can literally embed the ads in the page, making ad-blockers ineffective. They literally chose the worst method for everyone involved.

It’s more complicated than that. It /did/ work in some sense. The prevalence of severe alcoholism was insane prior to prohibition and it dropped precipitously. The problem is, the cost of prohibition is so many actual lost lives. Both from unsafe supply and organized crime.

A public health approach also can reduce the harm of alcoholism while not creating new deaths. It’s worth understanding the difference so we can expect, for example, pot to become more abused after legalization, but if public health measures are in place, limited harm.

They don’t want moderate left (or democrats, whatever they are). They would be happy to prop up a far left group if they were actually a threat to the state (in fact, under the same policy, the USSR did just that). Their goal is to destabilize, not push ideology. Keep an eye out for isolationist left comments -anything that serves Russias plans. They do have their left bots.

Entropy is calculated from the character set size to the exponent the length of the string: E = log2(R^L). A long string of numbers can have more entropy than a shorter alphanumeric string with special characters. I looked it up and apparently their account number is 16 digits. That’s 53 bits of entropy, which is not guessable. Someone brute forcing would have quadrillions of login attempts to try.

Thanks for clarifying.

Wireguard is just the vpn software, not a service. Most of these services are running wireguard under the hood now because it’s so good. You can also use wireguard yourself to connect your own machines together, (or friends machines, allowing file sharing like a LAN) but that doesn’t help you with torrenting.

Unless you are willing to do the math, “no entropy really” deserves a [citation needed]

Organic farming is big business now, and so everything can happen.

Yes it is. Signal isnt PGP email. A lot of work went into protecting metadata.

They have a long history of supporting both ends of the spectrum and really anyone they deem will destabilize the hegemony. Noam Chomsky used to be such a regular guest on RT he could have been considered staff back during the Iraq war. The difference is that they have had wild success with the far right to the point that no one is even really hiding it anymore. Trump and brexit being the biggest successes on the books.

Because he campaigned on diversifying our exports. The Americans love carbon tax free products, but the EU does not, and will penalize them.

Margins are only high when you externalize so much of the costs to the public and state.

What is the threat model where this matters? You have to trust the recipient with Signal. The only one I can think of is the case where your recipient is using a compromised fork and is unaware. In this case, talking about the tool and checking with them about what they are using is really the only countermeasure.

I expect there are a lot of you. Stay safe.

I don’t think you can make a safe and practical EV for 14k without resorting to slave labour. The battery required to drive a range expected by Canadians will cost most of that alone.

The e.coli comes from the poop. Natural manure spread on the fields as fertilizer. Organic doesn’t avoid that at all.