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@forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 1 day ago:
FOR REAL??
- Comment on Let's discuss... 2 days ago:
as an aspiring goth woman I hope I have the glint
- Comment on Let's discuss... 3 days ago:
I see you absolutely everywhere
- Comment on Let's discuss... 3 days ago:
love my goth envy homies fr
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
agree, hanging out on little websites and blogs is a lot of fun. one of my favorites is tilde.town, lots of cool little microblogs there
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
I’m so sad that I missed out on this era of the internet. I only got online in 2020, just horrible timing. all you older folk were so lucky
- Comment on Operation Epstein Fury 🇺🇸 1 week ago:
top 10 things I wish I could unsee
- Comment on anal + doggy = ultimate loophole🫶 1 week ago:
all clear, bible never said you can’t finger blast the homies a little
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 1 week ago:
some computer shops have scrap computers with 8GB of RAM 💀
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 1 week ago:
so, honestly i’m a bit lucky because i’m the family and friends tech person, so i really pushed them to get on Signal if they want to reach me reliably because it’s so much safer, and they trust me. I’ve given them practical demonstrations of end to end encryption, I also just kinda hold them hostage by only making myself super available on Signal. Also worth mention is that lots of my friends are queer or at risk in some way or another so they have lots of motivation to stay safe. I still do have to use RCS sometimes to get in touch with some family but that’s better than SMS which I avoid like the plague. that’s pretty much it
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 1 week ago:
it’s been so so nice having most of my friends and family (that want to talk to me) on Signal. it’s so unobtrusive and chill not to mention the peace of mind
- Comment on works every time 2 weeks ago:
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.
- Comment on the end 2 weeks ago:
ah yes the neckgina
- Comment on Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) 2 weeks ago:
Cory Doctorow being based and real once again
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
bunch of friends and I just stood up a matrix room on a friend’s server and moved over there. fuck discord
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 month ago:
I’m using Niagara in the free tier and I’m very happy with it. it’s snappy and good looking and I spend so little time hunting through my apps for the ones I need thanks to the favorites section on the home screen. good stuff
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 7 months ago:
oooh i love this! thank you! FOSS cooking is indeed based af
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 7 months ago:
gasp you mean to tell me you DON’T like 20 million videos playing over the top of the recipe that you’re trying to read while trying not to burn dinner? unbelievable.
smh these motherfuckers are so brazen
- Comment on Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Security Snag 8 months ago:
which is ironic considering Meshtastic is better than this shit tbh. VC just hard forked it and set it down the great path to enshittification
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 9 months ago:
shit is so fucking insane, hard to believe. not gonna help us trans folk with the whole “this is just a mental illness” look either, especially with the “correlation is causation” attitude running so rampant these days.
honestly I get popping off once in a while but the reasoning is poor in this case. they could have done something more actually effective with all those resources and shit, why this?? I mean, I totally get cultism - I spent 16 years in a cult. but ugh what a waste.
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 9 months ago:
can confirm, I’m running GrapheneOS right now with F-Droid and some extra repos as my only app store, it works fine for me. but I don’t use banking apps (web browsers do fine for that), and I’m using a de-Firebase-d version of Signal (Molly F-Droid) so no issues so far with no GMS and no SafetyNet.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet 9 months ago:
Cory absolutely cooks every single time without fail. I’m also a huge fan of how he really doesn’t budge on the point that corps are at fault for the enshitternet - I’ve followed him for years and that has always been his central point, or at least one of them. 10/10 writer and speaker too
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 9 months ago:
my tiny rural hometown in the middle of fucking nowhere southwest United States got 10Gbps fiber to every home in the town last year, and 1G fiber in 2021 as a result of Biden’s infrastructure bill. that fiber cost $45/month for 1Gbit with no data caps - before that, the best we could get was 50Mbit on rickety wireless service. Genuinely changed my life - being able to homelab (more) reliably got me into networking and pays my bills now. I hate how this new admin is so fucking myopic, or worse, malicious
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 9 months ago:
I’m not going to nitpick you on your politics since that’s not my strong suit. However, as someone who’s worked 4 years in rural networking and infrastructure as everything from tech support and customer service to engineering and field repair:
ISPs will never install 100G+ fiber circuits to cities 100+ miles from their nearest drop on a whim. They absolutely need a market that (1 needs internet and (2 can afford it. otherwise they’re gonna waste money if they can’t recoup the costs. the thing Trump is rolling back is the thing that guarantees that ISPs won’t kill themselves trying to make infrastructure work.
and yes, of course Spectrum and Comcast could do it and be fine, but because of our dear sweet “free market”, they don’t give a fuck about these small rural places because at their scale (read: monopoly) there’s no reason for them to. This means it’s the little guys - actual small business ISPs, that are gonna be pulling conduit and standing up switching and line cards and distribution backbones and applying for construction permits and FCC licenses for spectrum with the money that comes from programs like these
The little guys can’t do rural builds otherwise because it’s too cost prohibitive without a way for people to pay for the service - too risky.
The big guys won’t because they don’t give a fuck. And if they do complete a build, the service is fucking garbage because they literally leave the infrastructure to rot while saying they’ll be sure to send a tech to look at it, while paying that tech 5 pence and an “atta boy” to fix a rotting mess of cable that should have been decommissioned 20 years ago.
- Comment on A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself 9 months ago:
archive link for y’all: archive.is/kyjSg
- Comment on Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million 9 months ago:
Usenet and IRC are fucking awesome. I wish we could have kept them around - with some added TLS sure but the experience on modern machines is incredible and it sucks that it’s not still mainstream.
- Comment on Verizon is charging extra to limit spam calls and texts: Scam calls and texts have surged, yet Verizon continues to charge customers extra for essential protections. 9 months ago:
I’ve been very happy muting all my calls and instead only being notified by Signal and other encrypted messaging apps, easy fix!
- Comment on Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million 9 months ago:
see, some days I’m happy that I didn’t grow up on the Internet and on IRC, and some days (today) I’m sad that I missed these bits of internet history. God I love this so much
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 9 months ago:
you did not even read the article that you linked. if you had you wouldn’t be saying this.
Signal does not know who, when and where - they barely know when, and not even who or where.
also if you don’t agree with me, go and read the Signal codebase, and if you don’t like that, self host your own Signal server, or use your own encryption on top of it all.
Also that article is about chat backups, not the safety of your chats in transit or about the privacy of your social graphs on Signal. Nowhere does it mention anything about who, when, or where.
I agree that Signal isn’t the best most anonops dark web Tor anonymous hacktivist app or service but, it gives privacy to the masses, and spreading disinfo at a time when people desperately need encryption more than ever is shitty behavior imo.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
the only bottom surgery that should be allowed for oligarchs :3