the rizzler

this happens unsurprisingly often. the NSA calls it LOVEINT

as a sidenote i just noticed i posted the dessalines essay twice in this thread so i’ll say just for the record i still like signal. the security of the messaging protocol is, according to every cryptographer i’ve read on the topic, the gold standard in the field. it just makes me uncomfortable that a service, especially one centralized around amazon aws, is demanding my phone number. means they can tie my government name to my social graph

i don’t agree with everything in that essay but the OTF-CIA connection gives me good reason not to read anything they say. not that everything they fund is bad but everything they say is untrustworthy.

maybe more importantly though, is briar android-only? no desktop app?

i don’t want to make you do my googling for me but if you have anything else just on-hand i’d love to read it. i can’t trust the open tech fund because of its ties to the cia (see this paragraph by dessalines) but i’ll definitely look into briar

do you know of any good in-depth analyses of its security? every time i decide on a new chat app someone has to point out something that totally ruins it lol

unfortunately not. matrix is probably a no because of this thread. i hear a lot of people saying briar is good but idk anything about it

crazy that no one’s posted the dessalines article yet https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

EDIT: just to have it here in case anyone even cares, i put my thoughts on the essay later on in the thread

nvm, just found this and this

well there’s about a thousand reasons not to use synapse anyway

what’s wrong with matrix

and yet they all have the same donors and the same lobbyists

europe, despite its efforts to keep up appearances, has been lieutenants of the american empire since bretton woods. they reap the benefits of american empire and in return they never question or undermine it

the people get a choice between a few candidates, all of whom are preapproved in the major parties by the donors, who aren’t really of “the people” in any meaningful sense of the word

this is very true but i gotta defend my object-oriented languages here (real object-oriented, not c+±style object-oriented). there’s a lot of way cooler stuff you can do with ruby or groovy or smalltalk that you just can’t do with rust, for example. objects aren’t special cases, the entire system is supposed to be implementable in itself. obviously the machine code itself can’t be objects but the good languages do their best to mask that.

this is true if you’re analyzing people who have already wholeheartedly and consciously accepted the ruling ideology. but when they haven’t, it kind of doesn’t apply. propaganda can entice people to disregard their rationality when they materially benefit from believing it. but it doesn’t mean rationality plays no part in it.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

was that comment written in 1996

however, a post about the inner workings of figma, a technology company, is tech.

do you think that the political decisions of tech companies aren’t intimately tied to the tech itself? you are lucky to have a corner of the globe where you are able to ignore politics. unless you’re on your deathbed right now, that won’t last.

if the price is close to the amount of cash i have on me then i might. usually sales tax is around 7-10% so if i’m in a place where it’s higher that gets annoying.

like i guess but linux has such high enterprise usage already that idk what it brings to the table for the free software people. if they didn’t have their own bespoke DE maybe that, but as far as i can tell the only thing chromeos brings that the enterprise guys don’t is consumer hardware support