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DahGangalang

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To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. (mullvad.net)

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop...

DahGangalang ,

Upvoting for admitting you were wrong in your edit.

I wish more of the internet acted that way.

DahGangalang ,

...so are they going to tell us what the 90+ apps are?

DahGangalang ,

Whoa whoa whoa, this is definitely for distilling water.

I would never consider distilling anything illegal with this pinkey promise

DahGangalang ,

Please, only plebes go for the pallet.

If you really want to maximize your per berry savings, then you need to buy the dockside warehouse package.

DahGangalang ,

Probably the Columbia University protests. I expect this means someone was arrested for having a bike lock (which can be used as a bludgeon).

DahGangalang ,

This also sounds like a reasonable explanation.

DahGangalang ,

This also sounds like a reasonable explanation.

DahGangalang ,

Wow, I think that is an instant winner for the annual "most dogshit excuse for cops to do a thing" award.

DahGangalang ,

Don't want to tell you what to post/not post, but can we at least get an NSFW marker here?

DahGangalang ,

You're right, none need to go.....

....but most people are too tech illiterate to even know there's an option outside windows. Hell, I dated a girl who though windows was the operating system on apple devices (she used the term windows and operating system interchangeably)

DahGangalang ,

Sounds like facebook Meta isn't seriously considering interoperation with the existing Signal network, which is a weight off my chest.

DahGangalang ,

Right, but with Signal being an open source project, it seems that anyone could (pending license-ability) build an app to interact with the main Signal network. It's my understanding there's a few apps on F-Droid that let you do that already.

Thus, Facebook should be able to (at least in theory) build compatibility for the Signal network into their existing messengers.

Is there any part of that I'm missing?

DahGangalang ,

I suppose the part I seem to be missing: what's to stop Facebook from setting up a "Signal Server" that then hosts those users on Whatsapp/Messenger?

From there, what happens if Facebook then attempt to integrate those servers into the existing Signal network?

I'm really not sure how information is shared between servers on Signal and am curious if there's not something at a purely technical level to stop that from happening. I'd imagine there's some keys that need to be passed around for handling en/decryption which I think is what you're alluding to, but I want to be clear that that's what you mean.

DahGangalang ,

This is a beautiful block of information and I super appreciate you for having drafted it.

DahGangalang ,

Damn, that sounds like some real valuable one of a kind kinda merch he's hocking.

DahGangalang ,

So other commenters have opinions that I think are rational, but the part that I think is key that they're missing: Tenant Unions.

I have some (in my opinion) tyrannical yet lazy land lords/property managers at my current apt, and have attempted to form a tenant union. Apparently no one agrees with my level of disgust at our treatment, so I've kind of wiffed at the effort.

Which is to say that it takes real work, but it can be done and there are resources for you, but that's the first step: don't go alone.

DahGangalang ,

A nice bumpy trolley ride

DahGangalang , (edited )

This is more feel than empirical data, but Netflix feels like they've gotten markedly better over the last 2-3 months.

I get the subscription as part of a membership on some other things, but would not have paid for the service the way it's gone over the last ~2 years. That said after seeing the recent improvements, if my access to Netflix was cut off tomorrow, I'd probably shell out for the lowest non-ad tier of service.

However, mad respect for the people out there keeping the P2P/torrenting communities alive.

Edit: spelling errors

DahGangalang , (edited )

While not the newest content, it recently caused me to find and finally watch the classics Boyz in the Hood and Training Day, and this weekend I intend to watch Vice. It was also because of Netflix that I first found the new Puss in Boots movie, Blue-Eye Samurai, and Delicious in Dungeon (I generally loathe anime so those last two are fairly significant).

I think Inside Job and Narcos are Netflix only content? I thoroghly enjoyed both of those (and totally understand why people hate them for canceling Inside Job). My wife enjoyed/enjoys (she's doing a full rewatch ATM) of Orange is the New Black. The two of us also just finished binging Kim's Convenience.

They also just added some other big name content that were (I think?) Exclusive content on other platforms - specifically thinking Dune, Whiplash, and Joker.

Between discovery and availability, Netflix adds value to my life in my opinion.

100% respect for people who disagree and have contrary opinions and/or are outraged at their handling of exclusive content (ngl, I'm not happy with them canceling Inside Job). But it's good enough for me to keep around - that, and my wife is super NOT technically inclined, and I've yet to find a solution outside of a standard streaming deal (read as: anything involving sailing the high seas) that meshes with her willingness to work with it.

Edit: Spelling is hard.

DahGangalang ,

Wow, yeah def a typo there. Thanks for catching that for me.

DahGangalang ,

I know Lemmy is supposed to be a "post-karma" ecosystem, but I'm happy to provide the additional upvotes and apparent activity.

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