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3·9 months agoSo they could have replaced it with, like, email verification or something, but they instead stuck to the design that lets governments identify all users?
<Insert rampant and unfounded speculation about FBI compromise here>
83·9 months agoEquality is when everyone dies in the Trump Wars
Pretty sure you still need a phone number for an account, though - the usernames are just for sharing your contact with other people.
Most peoples’ phone numbers are easily linked to their identity. Which means the government knows who’s using Signal.
Usernames are definitely an improvement, but this is a fundamental limitation in Signal’s design.
One use case could be mass protests/uprisings, where you have a lot of people congregated in a small area. An increasingly popular strategy among governments these days is to just shut down the entire internet in an agitated region. Bluetooth could keep information flowing between people with only mutual contacts, as they move in and out of range.
Consider Briar.
Uses Tor. Works directly over Bluetooth/WiFi if the internet is censored or shut down. Decentralized, no accounts. No phone number required.
Of all the options available, I feel like this one is the best suited to current threats (oppressive governments with all-encompassing surveillance, and the willingness to destroy critical institutions and infrastructure).
The app is super barebones right now - feels like SMS - but it works. Main downside is that both participants have to be online at the same time (maybe group chats can work around this?), since there’s no servers.
1·9 months agoAlgorithms, mate. Algorithms…
Except that they probably don’t think that.
However, they might think that a professor exposing himself to his students is an abuse of power and sexual harassment, due to the local cultural consensus around what that specific action means, and the unequal relationship between teacher and student.
Good! In a culture that worships cops and “thought leaders”, this is two steps up from meekly accepting whatever powerful people say.
Now it’s time for:
(3) Acting on your ethical convictions towards specific goals, and learning to work with people who share them, even when their motivations or values are different.P.S. As others here have stated, (1) and (2) are not contradictory. If morality is constructed, then we all construct our own. Unless you actually WANT to be an amoral bastard.
91·9 months agosteal your food, then toss you table scraps
2·9 months agobut would it be on fire if it was a good car 🤔
consider: train🚆
train: go zoom 🚄
train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don’t forget the enbies dummy 💁
train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️⚧️
5·9 months ago✨ watching my life pass me by 💫
1·10 months agoJust like my history with my mental illness affects a small populace. Why should the world have to bend to my problems?
Because you matter, and your problems matter >:3
I know it can be hard to feel that way, but the way I see it is - after everything they’ve taken from us, we can’t let them take our self-worth! Most cis people and most abled people I know aren’t ashamed to expect the world to work for them; we don’t get points for expecting nothing for ourselves.
I would never expect the intolerable, ignorant, racist, or cruel people to bend their beliefs for me. Its a waste of my energy to want that.
I don’t expect them to do that. I don’t need them to do that either. I need them to shut up and fuck off. You know, the exact same thing they want the people they oppress to do >:3
As for it being a waste of your energy… that’s your call, but personally, I wouldn’t be able to keep going if I couldn’t imagine a world where the bigots consistently lose. I haven’t yet “found my tribe” with people who understand and accept me, and it’s not likely to happen in the near future; so the hope that a better world is possible, and that I could help build it, is basically all I have left - and yet, it’s been enough to get me this far. Who knows, maybe it’ll do something for you.
Especially because you shouldn’t give a fuck about how people perceive you. You should be whoever you are and not care about labels.
Unfortunately we are social creatures with a need for acceptance and belonging. We can survive without those things, but it isn’t really living. Take it from someone who spent most of their life living like a hermit.
Having someone recognize your gender is one of the most basic kinds of acceptance. Social interactions tend to feel pretty hollow and superficial when you know that the other person doesn’t know/care who you really are. (Again, ask me how I know 🙂)
Hi, Centrist! I’m Offended!
352·10 months agoHyprland’s community has a history of toxicity: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
But it’s like the world keeps shifting the goalposts with every success, if that makes sense… Rediscovered myself only to open my eyes and be faced with the dumpster fire. 28 Days Later’s opening feels relatable, waking up from a coma and into an apocalypse. I keep feeling that I’m being thrown into different types of “deep ends,” over and over again…
Sigh… yeah, that’s relatable. I am trying to train myself to accept the world as it is, without overemphasizing my own (and other people’s) emotional reactions to them - keeping things in perspective, basically.
The best way I’ve found do this is, unfortunately, meditation (I know, they were right, god fucking damn it). But seriously, I’ve found it really helpful. Moreover, consider that meditation is a coping mechanism developed by people who lived in much shittier times than ours; Gautama Buddha is traditionally presented as having developed his teachings in response to suddenly becoming aware of horrific things, which is the exact thing that many of us have been going through for the past few years.
Here are some resources that have helped me:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/bd811e54438e39c709895c8a85a99e32
In this vein, there’s a poem I want to share, from Kyle Tran Myhre’s latest book. He doesn’t seem to have posted it anywhere online, so I will just paste it, in a collapsible, below (pls don’t sue me Kyle :3):
Hen March Fights On
In those wild early days, Hen March found herself surrounded by doubt. Some of that doubt was her own: bright blue lightning coursing through the larger cloud of other people’s doubt—their cynicism, their fatalism, their valid critique. The cloud, gray and formless, hung in the air outside Hen March’s always-open window. Sometimes that cloud spoke.
Sometimes, its voice was a hissing whisper like acid melting through glass. You’re never going to make it, you know. You never belonged here in the first place.
Other times, its voice was a soft murmur like rain. It’s okay that you’re going to fail. It doesn’t really matter. Nothing matters.
Still other times, its voice was clear, confident and enunciative, an inspiring roar. Let’s think about this rationally: what you aim to do simply won’t work. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t a hundred other things you could do. Why don’t you just go ahead and do those things!
Hen March listens to all the voices, because “just don’t listen to them” isn’t any kind of serious advice. She decides that if they were going to yap away at her anyway, she may as well get to know them.
The hissing whisper is afraid, always looking over her shoulder, waiting for something undefined—but bad—to happen. Hen March holds her hand, waits with her, and says this is also happening.
The soft murmur is tired, just so very tired. Hen March lets her nap on her shoulder, and says, it is okay to rest.
The inspiring roar is also afraid, underneath her bluster. She is bursting with ideas and possibilities but doesn’t know how to hold them. Hen March stays up late laughing and arguing with her. At one point, she says, we have time.
By taking the time to get to know her doubts, Hen March makes friends of them. Many years later, asked by a storyteller how she was able to keep fighting against such overwhelming odds, she remembers:
My doubts were always with me. When I got to know them, I was able to understand them as pieces of myself.
And the thing about me is I’m just a person. So no matter how cynical I felt, I was always able to remind myself that to surrender to cynicism is really to surrender to arrogance.
“Oh, I feel pessimistic, and I’m such a genius that I must be right!” Bah. Our fears, our doubts—they’re valid. But you don’t fight them; you don’t “beat” them. You try to understand them.
You try to be humble enough to remember that our personal doubts aren’t bigger than our collective power. They’re louder, sometimes, sure. But not bigger.
Finally, just a personal note before I log off and get back to the grind - I feel you, I really do. I remember being at the absolute end of my rope before; it was exhausting, and it hurts to know that you’re there. I sincerely hope you feel better <3
No one should feel like this.
Yes. So bear witness. Write. Make art. Document what you’re going through.
Do it for yourself, at least.
I say this with experience: you will forget the intensity, the gravity of what you’re feeling. The coping mechanisms you’ve developed and mindset you’ve cultivated will stay, like muscle memory (so better cultivate healthy ones!). But when you go back to the stuff you made back then, you will be overwhelmed - both by how much worse it was than you remember, and how much stronger you are than you thought to have survived it.
(Also - writing can be really helpful for sorting through feelings and working things out.)
The owner should release the source code / configuration, in whatever state it’s in, before things escalate further. It’d suck for all their work to go down the drain. I’m sure there’d be people willing to adopt the project and host instances.
If you agree and you have Tumblr, would you consider asking them anonymously?
https://blog.archive.today/ask