You can build a GUI around that and many desktop environments do just that. All desktops use a config files or registries deep down, not all of them have an options menu. You drop a lifelong windows user in i3 and they will burnout within minutes trying to move a window and will quit thinking that they are stupid.

Any WM that relies on keyboard shortcuts as the default has no future on mass market. Also when most people use tiling features in other deskops the most common split for productivity is 1/2 + 1/2 or maybe 1/2 + 1/4+1/4. Pure tiling VMs are overkill in most cases and more splits you have the smaller they get. Something like Niri might be the sweet spot, since for it 50/50 splitting is the default and doesn’t go too heavy on the keybinds and with good shell can somewhat work even without them.

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MPV. I like the minimalism. and everything I need is under the hood in MPV.

They arranged a vote that required absolute majority just before summer break. devious and calculated.

fat chance, but we can pray. Despite this move being illegal as fuck.

They don’t say how large the device was that watered that 5m² of farmland.

I don’t say it’s impossible. It’s just not worth it 90% of the people, especially for beginners.

Never self host email. It’s way too much of a pain.

The point is that they could. We are discussing honeypots here. They don’t advertise the fact if they are.

Be the phone numbers hashed/encrypted or not they will still get your ip. They are not routing anybody’s messages otherwise. Phone number is just more directly tied to a personal details, unless it’s a burner, but with burners you lose the account if you need to log in. Also you can set your phone number public, so it probably can be seen by the signal servers at some point. And what about discovery through phone number and like the actual sending of the signal confirmation code? How is any that suppose to work if the servers don’t know your actual phone number? And your anonymity trick only works if everybody you talk to does it, which they don’t. If they want to profile you they can profile you directly or through the people you talk with. If the people you are trying to hide from don’t care about getting message logs and just association with some group is punishable or can lead to punishment or death then tough luck.

And you miss the main point. practically speaking you cant self host a signal server, therefore you can’t trust it fully (in a way ‘fully’ matters anyway). if you do it’s unsupported and not recommended and you probably need a custom client to access it. That added with it being under American jurisdictions, and Signal starting as a spook project should really set off alarm bells.

Most people only use vpn providers for streaming location hopping, torrenting, p*rn and on public networks. For day to day 24/7 use you are just trusting your VPN provider not to spy on your traffic instead of your ISP.

Signal I think. I don’t mean that the end2end algorithm or messaging itself are itself unsafe, the algo has been shown to be secure. This is what people usually rebuke this with, with the reminder of Signal’s OSS nature.

The issue the servers and the social networking data that can be harvested. The server code only partially exists in public and we just have to trust that that is actually what is running on whatever AWS server without tampering and self hosting is nearly impossible in practice if technically possible and nobody does it. The social network data (who talks to who) is more valuable than the actual messages logs, which give a massive, but mainly useless datasets. Until LLMs, like 10-15 years ago they were basically impossible to parse for any useful info without using large quantities of eye pairs. Basically if you are an organizer, criminal, government, part of a hunted opposition, you will leak the whole core group structure of your org with attached phone numbers. Whoever with that data can then target their devices and persons with other means. Plus it’s literally built on top of CIA money. I think signal is totally safe and adequate for friends and family type of use, but not much else, but then all in all so is whatsapp, mostly since signal and Whattsapp share the same end to end algorithm.

Do we all need new gpus for decoding if this comes the new norm?

Those Yankee sanctions really keep backfiring, don’t they?

The sand that Taiwan uses to make it’s silicon wafers mostly comes from China

Manus is an AI company btw. One of those who tries to make the mythical AGI.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0v0gr2yz7o

More important question is how you’ll fight it? Protest nicely? I seriously see no other option beside popular counter assassination campaign.

The federal government is no longer the largest spender in R&D: It funded about 40% of basic research in 2022, while the business sector performed roughly 78% of U.S. R&D. While not a problem in itself, industry has simultaneously withdrawn from open scientific publication over the past four decades, shifting from research toward development. The result is a shrinking pool of openly shared scientific knowledge precisely as public investment in it also contracts.

In US research spending has pretty much served to manufacture monopolies and patents for wallstreet and if they land onto something major, they can then proceed to collect royalties from the world for next X decades. You generally can’t patent a new law of nature or something, so of course they shift away from basic research. Too bad the engineering and other sciences need that groundwork too.

The “Do nothing. Win” meme is in actuality a reference to Daoist concept of “wu wei”, which is translated something like ‘non-action’, ‘effortless action’ or ‘action without forcing it’. You just stay in your lane, keep going and victories big and small fall onto your lap. America is the one who is blundering around and supplying China easy wins.

Another “Do nothing. Win” moment