The US was actually headed this way, starting with spam phone centers… Then the head of the FCC was replaced.

Could be a coincidence. Could be open naked class warfare by billionaires against the rest of us. Hard to say which, for sure.

That hasn’t been my experience. My portion of the settlement is usually about $100.00. it’s insulting, but it still spends.

Oh yes. If any of my friends or colleagues ever emails me “Hi (name)!” they’re going to be very confused, because I habitually block all incoming e-mail that starts that way.

Otherwise it’s off to the shitty website.

I’ve been promised that AI will fix all the shitty websites, soon.

Me too. Is this the line for the unhealthy dynamic? Haha.

I guess I actually have had some friends like that - folks with access to tools or a boat or just a really helpful skill that they freely shared. They’re the best. I do try to pay it forward.

Christine is a delight!

I particularly enjoyed this one: https://social.coop/@cwebber/114621541135409435

The big issue I see here isn’t the proposed solution, it’s the public image of doing something the tech bro billionaires are pushing hard right now.

It looks a bit like choosing the other side of the class war from their contributors.

Wikipedia, in particular, may not be able to afford that negatvie image, right now.

I could welcome this kind of tool later, but their timing sucks.

How much do you want to bet on the overlap being small?

A bigger question is how much does Wikiemedia Foundation want to bet that their top donors and contributors aren’t in this thread…

Edit: Moving my unrelated ramblings to a separate comment.

So you got all your friends, family and coworkers and acquaintances using Signal?

Only the ones I like.

Joking aside, yes. I’ve found that just letting a friend or relative ask exploratory “how bad can WhatsApp be?” questions for about five minutes gets them to start the switch to Signal.

I can’t take any credit, Meta decided to lean in hard on spying on people.

I’m so quick to install a custom ROM, I forgot the Meta spyware comes pre-installed on many phones. Ugh.

If it’s a Pixel anyway, GrapheneOS has a few nice security and privacy features that LineageOS doesn’t have (yet?).

I think both are pretty great and much better than most alternates.

For all we know…

This isn’t something we need to speculate about. The vulnerability histories of popular closed and open source tools are both part of public data sets.

Looking into that data, the thing that stands out is that certain proprietary software vendors have terrible security track records, and open source tools from very small teams may be a mixed bag.

Well, now I’m excited for this.

I was quietly hopeful, since Peacemaker is so great, and James Gunn is a huge comics nerd in all of the best ways.

But including Guy Gardener and Mr. Terrific is a power play. There’s so many things this could be, and all of them sound fun.

Edit: Oh shit, that’s Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardener?! Perfect casting. Is this real? That sounds too good to be true…

Edit 2: Yes. Nathan Fillion is playing Guy Gardener

Perfect casting.

That update though: “… completely removed…”

I assume this is because someone at Meta realized this was a huge breach of trust, and likely quite illegal.

Edit: I read somewhere that they’re just being cautious about Google Play terms of service. That feels worse.

Marvel did an event in 2002, where every active title produces a full text free issue. The event was called Nuff Said. That link also contains a full list of issues.

The official reason was Songbird’s powers went into overdrive and sucked all the sound up for a day, as seen in (and just before) Thunderbolts #59.

Also, while looking for that, I found this, which is interesting and has a few not mentioned here yet: https://comicbook.com/comics/news/the-10-best-silent-issues-in-comics-marvel-hawkeye/

There used to be a fan edit version of Farscape edited down to a few key minutes per episode, and it was surprisingly good.

(And surprising how many minutes of each episode could be cut without any meaningful loss…)

I did not.

It’s not hard to implement.

Oh sweet summer child.

When has X under Musk had anything happen to doubt their encryption?

Musk routinely hires young unqualified technicians, and abused, laid off, or otherwise alienated much of the top talent at Twitter, in the name of cost savings.

There’s plenty of other stories out there of Musk’s ego interfering with his staff’s ability to do their jobs properly.

Most recently, the new DOGE has suffered substantial security lapses, associated with under-hiring and under-provisioning against cyber security threats, under Musk’s leadership.

Even before Twitter was aquired, Twitter had an embarrassing memorable history with public figures suffering from security incidents caused by Twitter’s own staff, training, technology or processes. This was arguably not a huge problem for an almost fully public messaging platform, but could be disasterous for anyone relying on this new E2EE solution, if it is incorrectly implemented.

The talent needed to correctly implement secure end to end encryption is rare, on a good day, for a good employer with a strong history of loyalty to their staff. X arguably has little to none of that going for it, today.

There’s very little reason to assume that X, under Musk’s current leadership, has correctly securely implemented end-to-end encryption, and there are reasonable reasons for people to fear that E2EE developed at X may have serious security flaws.

Oh, that’s cool! And yeah, sounds kind of cursed, too.