Hey kids you like plain text files right?

Me, who grew up reading/referencing text files daily on gamefaqs for cheats, secrets/eggs, and walkthroughs when stuck on various games: Yeh.

X was worse for me last time I used it, which was admittedly a while back, but still. They might not be able to read message content but any server that federates with matrix.org leaks a fuck ton of metadata to them and people have been killed for metadata before. If Mossad is monitoring that metadata then that’s enough for me. It’s hard enough, I have people asking me about second passwords and all that. This is the type of people that use one password for everything and it’s hunter2, I love them but they aren’t all America’s Best. Delta Chat is spotty on the video/audio calls, but they’re working on it, and somehow they ring through on my phone where (due to my setting pull notifications polling every 300sec because GrapheneOS) on Element they wouldn’t notify me until too late.

+1 for Delta Chat, I’ve been loving it! Using it through Arcane Chat at the moment.

I’ve recently left Matrix behind for a few reasons.

• Element, the “best client,” is a buggy mess on android and a shitty electron app on PC.
• While I wasn’t using it due to a bug and awaiting an update, I learned that it started as an Amdocs project before being defunded and the lead dev went off to create The Matrix Foundation. Amdocs is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated America’s telcom networks long ago. Now, I’m not saying that means Mossad is tracking all the metadata that pours out of Matrix, but like, too close for comfort.
• Also it leaks metadata like a sieve.
• It’s too hard for the normals to use, yes I agree they should just get gud but they won’t, and it was hurting adoption (in my circle). What good is a messaging app without people to message?
• The public rooms’ CP issue makes it hard to convert people too, I had one friend asking what kind of app I made him install and scared he was gonna get arrested for a post someone made in the RaspberryPi room. Not a good look.

It is for these reasons I’ve migrated to Delta Chat (well, Arcane Chat but same same), and with the easy onboarding it has been easier to get normal people on it.

For sure all this, one note, rule 0 is

encounter one at the home of a friend or family member.

If you don’t know what to do (RE: these other four rules and how to operate that specific firearm) or are nervous, don’t goddamn touch it unless you have to. If it’s a safe situation and not something out of the ordinary like kids or burglars are around and the owner is dead, go get the owner of the gun or someone who is experienced enough to handle them safely.

That’s where the first part comes in.

Though he should have said “get at least two guns, you and your wife learn to use it, and carry one even at home for a while just in case.”

Idk I don’t know about & either (I know && but I’m guessing it’s different), but you can ctrl+z it, then use bg to run it in the background, then disown to divorce it from the terminal.

I’ll try firefox & when I get home and see what happens though, I’m assuming that’s what he meant.

Wait do the nuns bugger? Thought that was only the preists.

Tbf there’s that one tv show about that one island in canada or something that had buried treasure and a bunch of traps but then it turned out the treasure had already been found and they think a freed slave found it when he bought the island back in the day or something like that.

Admittedly I’ve only seen one episode, a friend who watched it filled in the details on where it went lol.

This feels like it’s supposed to be tongue in cheek, but it’s too close to reality tbh.

BEST reason, I miss my Zune so much, they ruled.

It literally was started by Chinese people in China as an insult to Xi specifically. It isn’t racist, it isn’t applied to all Chinese people, it isn’t even “because Pooh is yellow.” People saying it is racist are just looking for a way to shut down criticisms of Xi, and crying “that’s racist” often bypasses people’s critical thinking abilities and makes them just capitulate because “well I don’t want to be seen as racist and I’m not the race in question so I don’t have the authority to decide if it is or isn’t.”

Could it be used in a racist way by some racist person who doesn’t understand the context? Sure. Does that mean “the act of making fun of a specific despotic dictator by using a children’s character he happens to resemble” is racist? No.

Oh good yet another remake of a classic. Just what we needed, more remakes, we didn’t have enough of those.

Is there a version of $_ that works with mv? It just keeps renaming my files to “filedir,” I’m trying sort through a directory and move some files to another for keeping, be easier if I could do:

mv picture1.jpg /path/to/keepdirectory

then do something like

mv picture2.jpg $_

And so on. But with that I’d just be renaming all my photos “filedir” instead of moving them lol.

Yeah, pretty much. “Buffalo” sauce is literally average hot sauce (like Texas Pete, Tabasco, Louisiana, Crystal, etc, that style of cayanne-and-vinegar sauce) mixed with butter to cut the heat, it isn’t hot.

The cheese is less hot than the OG btw, and don’t even bother with the 2x hot in the red/black package. Don’t get me wrong, they are hot to me too, I just like it.

Yeah they deleted an acct of mine for inactivity, then when I replaced it they flagged the new one for manual review saying “this addr cannot send/receive emails until it is cleared, please email us at [support acct] using [the very acct that cannot send mail, ffs].” Like dude how can I email you from the email on your servers that you have blocked from sending email? How does that make sense to you?

Anyway I made a Disroot acct which is better for me because IMAP support. They flagged me for review too, but then approved TWO different emails without all that horse shit from Tuta. Their sign up site can be a bit confusing (in particular their “human check” just says “weak password” unless you hit the character count so just max that out, but as a result of this confusion I’m using a 64char long randomly generated pass so, yay) but other than that they’ve been great so far.

Well that depends on many things actually, this isn’t exactly true.

In the case of sites like reddit, it’s mostly through mail, meaning it would have to be mailed from an FFL to one near you where they do a background check. If it’s in person, that still depends on state laws, some allow it, some allow rifles but handguns must be NICS checked, in some states it must go through NICS.

Fun fact: in America most common brands of both honey AND maple syrup are just flavored high fructose corn syrup. It’s not like we don’t have the real stuff on the same shelf, but you have to pay attention to the labels or you might get some bullshit.

Not that I saw and that’s my biggest problem with it, email isn’t going anywhere. I can not use it to talk to my friends and family, sure, but I can’t get away from using it in conjunction with like, websites or some government things, etc.

Furthermore as far as chat apps go, there’s not really a perfect one either:

Signal’s phone number requirement (and maybe they fixed this part, but back when it had sms if someone deleted the app without deleting their profile first, my messages would still get sent to signal and since they don’t have the app installed anymore I lose contact with them, and there was no way to force it to use sms, happened with like 4 contacts). I think a couple other issues I can’t recall while shitting at work right now too.

Matrix was started at Amdocs which is sketchy as fuck and associated with mossad, all the apps suck, and it’s too hard for normals to use (I know, “get gud,” they won’t.) Leaks metadata like a seive, too.

Jabber is cool, but also not perfect, there’s issues with OMEMO implementations, and Conversations eats too much battery without play services. Still metadata too.

Delta Chat is what I’m trying now, but it’s PGP based. Absolutely love it other than that though. At least they’re attempting to reduce metadata but there’s still some by nature of needing to know sender/recipient.

If anyone has a better suggestion for chat apps, I’m all ears, but that still doesn’t solve the problem of email’s ubiquity, either. If this blogger proposed a solution, I missed it, but until there is one and it gets adopted this is just what it is.

Walmart “we’re noticing a large increase in theft of the products we’re trying to gouge people on, strange.”