Christopher Lee?

Just because you struggle to have a normal relationship, doesnt mean we all can’t.

No.

We have been exploring techniques to further reduce the amount of information that is accessible to the service, and the latest beta release includes changes designed to move Signal incrementally closer to the goal of hiding another piece of metadata: who is messaging whom.

They haven’t hidden it yet. It’s a goal.

Are you going to actually tell us what they took down or just give links to a cesspool?

They are referring to message metadata.

Even if they don’t show the content of messages, if they can show that phone number A is sending messages and getting replies to number B then that’s all the government needs.

https://signal.org/legal/

For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where we have or use facilities, service providers or partners.

They store metadata, which is distinct from encrypted data.

Are you saying sealed sender is a lie?

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

When you send a traditional piece of physical mail, the outside of the package typically includes the address of both the sender and the recipient. The same basic components are present in a Signal message. The service can’t “see into” the encrypted package contents, but it uses the information written on the outside of the package to facilitate asynchronous message delivery between users.

They have a list of encrypted messages, who it’s from and who it’s to, based upon the sealed sender description. If you are using phone numbers then you are not anonymous, and a TLA agency can search known bad numbers even if Signal does not try to build that graph.

Yeah, it’s an interesting difference.

There was a lot of pop culture references in IT Crowd, all the music posters, the retro computers, etc. but the cast didn’t even acknowledge it.

Completely agree, I was trying to avoid the “well actually” response.

I’ve had a number of items get held by FedEx (or whoever) because of import duties over the years and I’ve had to pay the delivery company to get it released.

This is a well worn path, and kudos to this one to warn you that new tarrifs are in place, the customer would be subject to them, and giving them an option to decline it.

Import duties are not always part of the agreement.

They didn’t change the rules, there is now a charge by the government on it getting delivered, not by the company.

And Gnome is probably not for you.

They make a desktop which is opinionated, and in some ways pushes things forwards. For example it is nice to not have to always deal with the awful Start button metaphor.

On the others it can be a constraint. Only wanting to support the modern icon tray lead to years of having to use an extension for all the software that didn’t.

And that’s fine. That’s why we have KDE and XFCE.

I personally much prefer the Gnome flow which gets out my way, and find KDE to feel much more archaic. I don’t want docks and bars, I don’t want the desktop to be more than a place to hold my applications.

The only solution is mainline support.

If it’s not mainline then there isn’t effective support.

What do you mean “centered”? The top bar is top, and the clock is centered.

Ha, you think that the backups even arrive to replace/repair? They’ll break down in transit!

That would be amazing. Cybertruck cops? They’ll be letting everyone go when the trucks breaks down.

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Thats fine if it works for you.

My comment on all of this was purely that Bitwarden password was a single point of failure. Now we can shift that single point of failure somewhere else!

I’m not sure what the solution is.

Find a new single point of failure?

And we have that too.

We are talking about standard sockets, they all have off switches on the socket.

You have a switch for your electrical sockets by your door? What a weird place to put them all.

We have our light switches by the door. Much more useful.

I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse

We used to have one, and it was great.

RIP Boxee.

Go on, I dare you 🤣