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longitudinal93··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
Unfortunately Matrix hasn't yet implemented any PQ encryption so you are subject to store and harvest attacks.
longitudinal93··on FSF announces Librephone project
Just tether through your shit phone
longitudinal93··on FSF announces Librephone project
I recently added a second phone for secure comms (Graphene). The biggest hassle turned out to be moving data between them. For that I settled on running my own Matrix server.
longitudinal93··on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
10 edits in 24 hours. Been that way for ages.
longitudinal93··on Signal threatens to leave Europe if Chat Control is accepted
Won't that get blocked too? In any event Signal is already quantum-safe and open source and audited.
longitudinal93··on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains
Putting it into a public blockchain prevents it from being altered after the fact.
longitudinal93··on South Korea deploys hologram police officer
But it does have transit police roving randomly throughout the system
longitudinal93··on Could AI Make a Scorsese Movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky Discuss
https://archive.ph/VUg5X
longitudinal93··on EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
My last Bitcoin transaction cost me $0.20 and took 30 minutes vs. $30 and 4 days with probing questions for a commensurate value wire .
longitudinal93··on I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
Most of the functionality is available in NextCloud which is open source and self-hostable.
longitudinal93··on Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS
Not an issue if they get rid of income tax.
longitudinal93··on Grok3 Launch [video]
You can read the whole thread through nitter:

https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

longitudinal93··on RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services
mRNA vaccines. As someone who suffers from permanent heart damage after my first (and only) dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine I have some sympathy for this course of action.
longitudinal93··on FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding
You can filter by "flac" on radio-browser:

https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcoun...

longitudinal93··on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think
It seems it's almost time to standardize an e-bottom bracket so that motors can be interchangeable
longitudinal93··on Apple and Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok
Can be done for the protection of mental health.
longitudinal93··on US officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack
I told all my contacts (including family) not to bother calling me unless it's over Signal, almost ten years ago. It has really cut a lot of crap from my life.
longitudinal93··on Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues as Depreciation Costs Mount
https://pi-hole.net/
longitudinal93··on Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)
A few native birds have developed novel strategies for dealing with them. The jabiru will repreatedly drag them through water until they've released all their poison before consuming them, and the native magpie has learned to flip them on their backs and eat them through their stomachs.
longitudinal93··on Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
Absolutely. Been travelling with a SD and Xreal Airs for the past 2 years. Fantastic for gaming and video consumption.
longitudinal93··on Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene
I take u/MeteorMarc to be saying with the current rush to build and power data centres and the additional greenhouses gases released thereby, any slowdown in this will be helpful in our attempts to address climate change.

In this case you could almost look at it as climate change solving itself!

longitudinal93··on Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal
https://www.ionos.ca/digitalguide/server/configuration/docke...
longitudinal93··on YouTube's war on ad blockers continues, now making ads unskippable
There's Peertube

https://joinpeertube.org/

longitudinal93··on Molly: An Independent Signal Fork
I'm guessing they've replaced the integrated Mobilcoin wallet with a Mondeo wallet. My preference would be Bitcoin Lightning but to eachvtheir own.
longitudinal93··on Framework Laptop 16, six months later
And of course you can easily replace the keyboard and trackpad yourself for about $100.
longitudinal93··on Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules
I expect Julian Arrange to get a substantial award.
longitudinal93··on Big Oil and Big Corn Form Alliance to Challenge Pro-EV Policies
This is part of the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future". Worth a read.
longitudinal93··on TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough
Aka Jevon's Paradox. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
longitudinal93··on So, how do you get music for your self-hosted server?
If you have a Deezer account you can use download lossless FLACs using various free apps.
longitudinal93··on Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive – Creating a custom high-resolution display
Then why don't you do that? It's an open ecosystem. Start a company to create those (and more).
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