argv_minus_one @ argv_minus_one @beehaw.org

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as a gen zer myself I would follow it up with WHY? give me a reason WHY.

So that spooks and advertisers can't read your messages and use the information to help them brainwash you. Isn't that reason enough?

Then maybe they aren't worth talking to.

“Not your keys, not your crypto.” Doesn't only apply to cryptocurrency.

It’s a matter of time before E2E doesn’t cut it and law enforcement and governments possess keys.

That's why you only use open-source E2EE like Signal. There's no way to slip in a back door without a bunch of people noticing, sounding the alarm, and forking the project.

if they haven’t circumvented that to spy on you yet

You mean the government breaking encryption? If the government could break encryption, it wouldn't be trying so hard to make encryption illegal.

Why would you want SMS in Signal? The whole point of Signal is to be secure. SMS is not secure.

Proprietary messenger programs, even if they do encrypt your messages, probably do so in a way that allows the vendor and the government to read them.

Desperate circumstances call for desperate measures. Smoking will ruin your life.

Getting my friends to use Jitsi was actually really easy, because Jitsi actually worked, and Google Meet didn't (people's voices were breaking up very very badly).

Gotta love it when opportunity knocks.

And that's why the world is rapidly going to hell. Everyone is under attack and almost no one is willing to so much as lift a finger in resistance.

1 out of every 6 college graduates not getting a job is a full-blown jobs crisis.

Pasta lovers must brace to pay even higher prices for their favorite dish, as megacorporate greed reduces supplies

Fixed that for you.

You all do realize that deep fakes are a thing, right? Video footage isn't proof of anything.

We won't. That requires a lot of energy, and we also have an energy shortage. I don't expect civilization to last much longer.

As civilization falls apart, this is only going to get worse.

Good idea. Goodness knows Putin will do everything in his power to install a puppet in the White House in 2024, just like he did in 2016.

There is no context that can justify apartheid.

He can install one of his puppets as US president, though.

Regardless of the cause of the productivity boost, full time WFH will come at the expense of training young (or new to the field) employees.

Employers these days don't bother with that any more, so that doesn't explain it.

It's not intended to. It's intended to make the CEO happy.

Small convenience? A lot of goods these days can only be bought online, and buying them from a no-name website is a great way to get your card number stolen. Using Amazon is basically mandatory.