We are living in a era of truth now.

We are living in a era of information warfare.

The only reason the genocide got to the people uncensored was because the geopolitical enemy had a mainstream platform that the genociding side/allies didn’t control.

So what did the genocidal side do? They tried to discredit them, smear them, ban them, and finally forced them to be bought out.

It had its own agenda but that aligned with showing the atrocities of the enemy. Other atrocities like those of Sudan and Syria were not this popular.

So yea, truth is more widespread if there’s an opponent that benefits in revealing them. For other things, YMMV.

They seem to know that the market for privacy is more than people who want just want their private data safe. There are also people that use these services for controversial and or illegal shit. So they use these chuds and reach those spaces.

It’s the swiss business model. A lot of controversial and corrupted people, politicians hide their money in privacy oriented banks offshore. They make profits no matter where the money comes from.

A little bad press after the stuff is out doesn’t really matter all that much if that drives more profits. The backlash might even get them more exposure.

They apologize and say they’ll never do it again and everyone moves on.

“Tricksy little scrooges, they stole it from us.”

West: Plaguing the mental health of the world for decades with social media manipulation.

This guy: Why isn’t the fediverse bigger

Signal doesn’t run in a vacuum. It’s main distribution platforms are app stores from Google and Apple. And most people are going to use stock smartphones from these two companies to sign up to Signal. But with them being under the same US jurisdiction, matching the two identities isn’t that far-fetched.

The parent companies of both OS platforms are well known to funnel data and notifications to the US government. It too had no evidence to support it, until they admitted it. There’s a setting for it now, but the person you’re talking to might not be doing the same, so it’s still out for profiling.

Other thing, they vehemently oppose F-Droid because “f-droid security flaws” bs, even though they can literally host their own repo for it without anyone else building their app. They would control every aspect of supply chain, but they didn’t.

Besides that, they make it very inconvenient to get it from elsewhere, even though they did the bare minimum to provide a standalone installer, after an outcry. And with those stripped down installers, you have to deal with inconsistent notifications, because no apple/google. And they never ever gave unified push a look. I wonder why? Are they a small indie company with just a couple of devs?

Signal protocol may be “secure”, but it’s only a part of a bigger picture.

It’s forced reliance on phone numbers, privacy averted platforms and unwillingness to work with opensource platforms and standards that lets it become decentralized and out of the hands of authoritarian government, leaves a lot to be desired.

Facebook’s whatsapp also uses the signal protocol, but would you call it private or secure after all that zuck has shown to do? Signal creator literally helped them implement it too. I wouldn’t touch a Facebook product with a 10 feet pole.

And now he’s helping them again encrypt Meta AI, whatever that means. Why is he working with one of the worst offenders of privacy?

If that doesn’t tell you these things are concerning, you do you.

https://lemmy.ml/post/48427945

Everytime bitcoin crashes, I visit some bitcoin forums and subreddit for funsies.

And the dramatics never disappoint.

The question is why is politics such a mess that we are here in the first place?

The problem with “choosing the lesser evil” led to the “evil” gaining acceptance and more foot hold, as they shift ever closer to being downright evil.

There was a fork, it was called braver. I think it got sued and then shut down? Not too sure.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=EQm0k1QobZU

Why are a multitude of poor options better than a few good options?

People make do with what they have.

It would be ideal if everyone had access to the “best” options, so a single approach makes sense, but we don’t live in an ideal world.

But first, they’ll have to discuss with their corporate sponsors on how mean their hand waving should look.

Carefully! It’s a Nokia.

Quiet, as in everyone’s looking but doing nothing. Just hand waving at the most.

No one is afraid

You’re giving people way too much credit.

Some people are just always hateful and afraid someone will do what they did to others.

“We don’t know how things got worse out of a sudden. We didn’t try anything and we’re all out of options. Must blame someone else for all our problems we created.”

is the motto

“Vibe build it”

How long did it take to get to this step?

They’re only doing it because they’re not able/not trying to hide all the abhorrent atrocities anymore.

Remember when every western mainstream news and social media was actively trying to censor, downplay and deny their actions? Pepperidge farm remembers

Rolling releases work well until they don’t. Let the voluntary beta testers be as smug as they want to be. They are part of the Linux ecosystem who test and report bugs for fixing before they hit other distros.

They might have some performance benefits and if problems arise, there are ways to snapshot back to a working state, recover and many will be knowledgeable to fix some bugs themselves, but ask yourselves, do you actually want to go through all that?

Debian is perfectly fine for what it does.

What is he going to do if he ruins the lives of 100 million people with guns?

Nothing.

The people are going to wave their hands in disagreement, act high and mighty, say they’re tired and let the rich ass-fuck them again.

In fact, there’ll be significant number of people who’ll think he deserves a trillion dollars and defend his actions and lies as good business strategy.

We are making side loading harder because scammers are using “these” tactics to install malware on your devices.

It’s totally fine when we use the same tactics to install malware on your device.

China and Russia does something evil:

Unacceptable. Think of Human rights, Morals, Empathy, Kindness.

West does the same or worse:

Meh, it’s just human nature to be evil

Could you people be any more hypocrite?