BearOfaTime

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BearOfaTime,

Lol, wow. What kind of BS is that?

May have been useful, say 15 years ago. Even then machines were plenty powerful.

BearOfaTime,

It’s so odd so many people still believe the Warren Commission when another commission about 1973 ruled there were at least two shooters, one in front on the grassy knoll.

The first doctors to treat him documented an entrance wound at his trachea.

Why Even Your Local Grocery Store Wants Your Digital Data (www.youtube.com)

I honestly feel defeated right now, it feels like currently it’s impossible to truly stay private online unless one is willing to move to a cabin in the woods with no internet and you stop using tech all together and truly become a ghost and stay offline. Can someone help me feel like everything I am currently doing is...

BearOfaTime,

It’s interesting to me to see articles about this now, when the first rewards card I saw (every bit of 20 years ago) it was obvious why they would give you such steep discounts for using nothing more than a free card.

BearOfaTime,

Wow. Wtf Verizon?

Also, wtf psychopath? How did you think you wouldn’t get caught?

BearOfaTime,

Is that self-hosted software?

BearOfaTime,

Sounds like something I need to get… Off to github I go! (I assume)

BearOfaTime,

And I believe the folks at Beeper published their self-host on Github.

BearOfaTime,

Apple hasn’t shut down any other iMessage system, not the original bluebubbles.

BearOfaTime,

Wow, good for them!

BearOfaTime,

They haven’t blocked any other third party apps using iMessage.

I don’t really think they want to. It’s kind of like pirating - more people are using the service.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

IPhone users have a weird obsession with Blue bubbles. The rest of us find it childish and annoying. They refuse to use any messenger other than iMessage.

I have a friend, not currently on iPhone, who was having trouble with SMS (note that SMS has a known message failure rate of about 10%+). He refused to switch to another messaging app, doesn’t want to have multiple places to message from. 🤦‍♂️

This is the mindset of iMessage obsessors. Frankly I see it as pretty juvenile. They don’t want to put effort into solving a problem.

This same person always has dozens of notifications sitting in the notification shade. Stuff you just don’t need to see, that Android lets you silence. Or just app notifications. Well no wonder he doesn’t want another messenger, with that much garbage he wouldn’t know he got a new message.

BearOfaTime, (edited )
  1. Discord sucks
  2. If you can get my friends/family to switch to anything else I’m on board.

You act like we haven’t tried to get people to switch. Even Android users. People can’t be arsed to change because they don’t see the problem.

I’ve gotten 1 person to switch away from SMS to Telegram, because it has clients for every OS. That makes it convenient, and it can do a lot more.

BearOfaTime,

I’d be shocked if Apple’s leadership hasn’t contracted a hitman yet.

Hahahahaha

It’s definitely shining a light on the limitations of iMessage, especially how imperfect it’s encryption is, so yea, that’s the kind of thing that hits a little close to home.

BearOfaTime,

Really, it’s a lie that I’ve heard from people I know?

We have people of all ages in our family, and we hear the bubble issue, especially from younger folks.

Please tell me again how it’s a lie.

BearOfaTime,

Signal is more secure.

It’s nowhere near as convenient as Telegram, the clients on each OS are at best OK.

Show me conversation history when I login to Signal desktop. Oh, yea, it doesn’t do that. Is there even a web login?

From a typical user standpoint, Signal looks like text messaging, and that matters to them. And it’s not simple to manage.

Signal is coming along, and I look forward to when it’s mature enough that I can get people to use it (again). But they also made a massive mistake in dropping SMS support. That was my best tool to get people to switch. When they dropped SMS, those folks all left signal.

Librewolf but like... for chromium?

My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don’t change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?

Which items/products were you once able to get from local shops on a whim that you now more or less have to order online?

Sometimes I find myself shopping for things that I’d prefer to go out and get within the same day, but now I’d have to order and wait a few days to get…So I’m wondering what some of those things may be for you?

BearOfaTime,

Old spice has come back around… Haven’t you seen the commercials? 😁

BearOfaTime,

No, free market isn’t “supposed” to self regulate. That’s silliness. The only people who say that have no understanding of the concepts.

Regulation is required. Unfortunately with regulatory capture it’s not happening.

BearOfaTime,

If you login to another device with WhatsApp, does it show your chat history? If so, then the servers have your key.

I’ve never used any FB service, so I don’t know., and I don’t know anyone who uses WhatsApp.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Sounds like it transfers the ID Out-of-band, so that’s good, does the desktop get the chat history then? (It’s possible it pulls chat history from the phone).

Oh, I agree with the closed source issue. That makes it a no-sale for me.

BearOfaTime,

Sure they haven’t. 🤦‍♂️

I commend your optimism/open mind, I’ve just seen the abuse by anyone in a position of authority too many times.

And I mean any authority, middle management at companies, etc. Many people struggle to resist using whatever power they have (myself included).

BearOfaTime,

A large portion of Americans everyone too.

BearOfaTime,

Keep in mind that RCS is still SMS to anyone without Google Messages.

Also, the encryption in RCS is problematic - last time I read how it worked I wasn’t convinced it was as secure as advertised (I don’t recall why, but I think it’s because it’s not really E2E).

BearOfaTime,

Archive.is is your friend, and doesn’t give the offending website any clicks.

archive.is/VRzQN

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