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  • They are referring to message metadata.

    Even if they don’t show the content of messages, if they can show that phone number A is sending messages and getting replies to number B then that’s all the government needs.

    https://signal.org/legal/

    For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where we have or use facilities, service providers or partners.

    They store metadata, which is distinct from encrypted data.

    Are you saying sealed sender is a lie?

    https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

    When you send a traditional piece of physical mail, the outside of the package typically includes the address of both the sender and the recipient. The same basic components are present in a Signal message. The service can’t “see into” the encrypted package contents, but it uses the information written on the outside of the package to facilitate asynchronous message delivery between users.

    They have a list of encrypted messages, who it’s from and who it’s to, based upon the sealed sender description. If you are using phone numbers then you are not anonymous, and a TLA agency can search known bad numbers even if Signal does not try to build that graph.







  • If the driver is no longer using a dedicated piece of encoding hardware thats shit, but using the Vulkan logic then surely the quality would be essentially guaranteed by it being Vulkan conformant?

    The hardware wouldn’t support b-frames in this scenario, and wouldn’t matter because your just using the standard matrixes to encode the stream and if it didn’t work then surely games would also be broken.

    Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒








  • On a related tangent, because I see that this is mostly discussed to death, I dont get why Americans decided to merge other unrelated words.

    For example, being exhausted and the rubber circle that cars and bikes use to roll smoothly are the same word in American English whereas we (UK) use different spellings.

    Tire - Being exhausted

    Tyre - Round rubber wheel thing