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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
You can play Bloodborne via an emulator.
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That’s actually some very interesting discussion down there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Again, that’s not some theoretical topic. They can block most VPNs, they do so in China, Russia, Iran. And there are no riots on the streets, their corporate overlords don’t do anything against it. One of the reasons is that they do allow ipsec for corporate clients. Are you a corporate client? Do you use ipsec for vpn? Are there riots on the streets for this censorship instance?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not some theoretical topic, it’s the reality for China, Russia, Iran. They do block commonly used VPN protocols, so people now use VPN with obfuscations. Some work, some doesn’t, some stop working as time goes. So when people say “Ha-ha, I’ll just use VPN”, it will help you for some time but the trend is they will make it a problem for you, better start preparing before it happened.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What vpn obfuscations do you use? Because you know they’ll block vpn next.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

None of this has anything to do with Signal itself, which is as secure as it gets.

Didn’t I say that at the start of my questions? What’s your point?

server would catch and reject it if it’s fingerprints don’t match the previously known good copy, or a public version

If I understand you correctly, you mean that Signal app checks itself and sends the result to the server that can then deny access to it? Is that what Signal does and what makes it difficult to spoof this fingerprint?

I don’t think you answered any of my questions though since they weren’t about Signal.

Now you’re just coming up with weird things to justify the paranoia

I’m just asking questions about security I don’t know answers to, I’m not stating that’s how things are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What if the malicious actor is not Signal but Google or the hardware manufacturer?

Can we check that the encryption key generated by the device is not stored somewhere on the device? Same for the OS.

Can we check that the app running in memory is the same that is available for reproducible build checks?

Can we check that your and my apps at the moment are the same as the one security researchers tested?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
More likely they just send the encryption key to the server after it’s generated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Should you not also trust your device hardware, it’s os and the market you got the app from?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The code can be okay but it’s delivery method(aka Google), the OS(aka Google) or the hardware can be compromised.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

likely many other people who are more skilled at auditing cryptographic code than I am

Maybe but that doesn’t mean you have the same app they do, Google may have different apks for people who could check it and for those who won’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

If it’s false

How would we know?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Signal has reproducible builds and here’s the instruction how to check it on Android github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/…/README.md
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The only games that don’t run nowadays I think are the ones that require installing kernel malware so you might reconsider playing them regardless of your OS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It was made default for rm command in 2006.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the important questions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The dog is King Charles for those wondering.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a valid reason to not sanction the US. However no sanctions against other countries invading their neighbours suggest that just the Russian case is special.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why? I mean if a gun could help you in that situation, some other non lethal stuff could have also been enough. At least those are enough for people not in the US facing similar situations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There are plenty self defence tools apart from guns.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
KCD2 is not an indie game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There’s whole industry to solve this problem and yet there are many millions affected each year meaning it’s not even close to being solved. Maybe quite the other way around judging how companies like Google recently said it’s a big problem for them.

The dude above says it themselves: you need to be smart to not fall for some malware(which they are wrong about, there many examples of smart people falling to phishing). Luckily LLMs are perfectly smart and never do stupid shit, right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There’s nothing evil in Steam monopoly. Their evil thing is gambling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Adventurers…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s also much harder to become a middle class in those countries.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is it free in grey countries?
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It seems you fly a lot. Are you a pilot?..
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not arguing for or against PETA, just pointing out that your lettuce comment should be addressed to PETV.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
PETA = People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t even need to pay them, this service is free.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Why the heck is everything stripped to them

You need some CDN to hide your server IP from DDOS. Cloudflare is the only free one. AWS and Azure are the big ones with many additional services and seemed pretty reliable. So here’s 95% of the Internet probably.