I’m replying to your statement. You proposed Signal as a point of comparison, so those are the apps to compare. They’re both less than perfect if your only metric is anonymity, but their shortcomings are very different, and the shortcomings of Signal are fundamentally de-anonymising whereas Matrix is just metadata rich. But you can set your own client string, your username, your avatar, it’s all information you inputted (either as a user or app developer). With Signal, the data that’s shared is all controlled by Signal.

I’m not defending Matrix. If the design decisions of Matrix aren’t what you want, then there’s room to ask for or build an alternative. If Matrix or discourse around Matrix is misleading about what is shared then that’s a good thing to highlight.

What I meant with my reply was to contrast it with Signal and communicate that Signal isn’t a valid alternative. It’s not the same class of service. Matrix exists to facilitate chatting with friends and Signal exists to conduct surveillance on you and your friends.

You don’t have to choose between these two trade-offs. I’m not saying a third system can’t be better. But any third system wasn’t being evaluated in the thread I replied to.

Those are absolutely trade-offs. Do you want the app to positively ID you and tie you to your passport, or do you want the app to broadcast your set name and set identity strings to those you opt in to share it with?

The BBC wrote a story that hurt them

The BBC’s editorial line is that humans are worthless, and that genocide is forgivable.

Reporting did not reinforce their world view

Any decent human should share the world view that genocide is a pressing matter.

They expected the BBC to be perfect and inevitable failures to meet that standard lead to disappointment

No one expects it to be perfect, but failure to meet expected standards means it’s unworthy of existing.

They found the style of reporting annoying

It’s laughable that you can use words like “annoying” when defending an organisation championing for genocide. Their reporting isn’t annoying, it’s psychopathic and sickening.

Perhaps some reporters were annoying

Criminals. Enemies of mankind. Monsters. Some of their reporters are monsters.

A cynic might think that something deeper is going on, for example, a systematic campaign to erode trust in the BBC.

Perhaps this is a natural and uncoordinated response to the BBCs systematic campaign to make people value some human lives over others?

For me it, with all its failings, is one of the best public broadcasting organisations in the world.

I take it you regularly come across reporting from the others and find them wanting?

Poor guys had no choice but to join the murder barge. If only MS-13 were hiring they wouldn’t have to suffer so much with their conscience 😢

Why do you say that? How does it relate to the article?

Sorry, extremists in quotes? Is it the editorial line of rfi that Navalny was not an extremist?

Why is it uncountable?

Chasing them out of Iraq is not the same as chasing them back home. Chasing them back home would mean that Iraq goes on to invade the USA, which I don’t find likely. I’m not disagreeing that the USA are terrorists.

It wins by default because the best anyone else can hope for is for the USA to leave. The nations they attack can’t really chase them back home. You need a different military for invasion vs defense. Plus whoever the USA just retreated from is going to be battered and financially precarious after their defensive war. In theory, someone could invade them. The USA is optimised for invasion, so if they can’t win wars of conquest they’d lose even harder when defending. But is anyone going to be in a state where they can risk testing that after being attacked?

Then there’s the non-military aspect. Naïvely it might seem that the USA’s goal is a military victory. Achieving their stated goal. Or perhaps subjugating the target. But in reality, the USA obeys people who optimise for their individual gain, not the nation’s gain.

For the citizenry, and therefore the nation, it’s bad if the USA has all their war equipment destroyed and has to buy a whole new arsenal at ridiculous inflated prices. But for everyone who is contracted to make that stuff and gets to eat the profit of the inflated price, it’s great. The more stuff they use up or lose, the more they’ll need to replace. And since it’s paid for by the state, it just means that wealth is being moved from workers to owners. Those owners then share their profits with politicians, who see no negative consequence from starting “unwinnable” wars.

The terms hetero and homo refer to gender, not sex. So nothing has changed and whatever attracted you to him is what attracted you. If that’s gender-expression, and that gender expression has changed, and you’re no longer attracted, then hetero is the term for that. If it was, but you were attracted to his masculinity, then homo is appropriate. If you were attracted to his feminity, but also like his masculinity, then bi is appropriate and if his gender never played a part then pan is appropriate.

That being said, the other person doesn’t really define your label. Just call yourself what you like. It’s completely okay to like someone for one set of reasons, and then stay with them because you grew closer and found a bunch of other reasons, and are now in love and have a life together.

The US likely didn’t intentionally bomb a school

They accidentally bombed 600 schools in under a month? https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/us-israeli-attacks-damage-over-85-000-civilian-sites-in-iran-red-crescent-chief-says/3878434

And they accidentally bombed the school that just so happened to be over-represented by the children of navy officers they threatened the day before?

Doubtful. The task of running an LLM and playing a video game is the same, so it just comes down to which has more customers. A lot of people spend many hours playing video games. There might be more LLM users, but they use the LLM for a few seconds a day, as opposed to an hour or more.

That being said, they’re both non-issues compared to beef production, which involves torturing cows. This activism should be directed there, then you can move down the target list once factory farming is outlawed.

At least they missed.

But 10 is less than 250, isn’t it? By geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml’s figure, that’s £2.50 per Muslim vs £833.33 per Jew. From just the numbers, it does seem like Jews are a higher priority.

There isn’t a 1-step perfect solution as far as I know. You can use Tor in combination with other technologies, and it’ll likely help you avoid a lot of surveillance, just not specifically the NSA. (Also keep in mind anyone/commercial actors can run Tor nodes with the intention of spying on Tor users. You need a lot of nodes to catch anyone, but I wouldn’t assume it never happens).

The main thing is to own your software and hardware, and disconnect what you don’t own from the internet. If you can’t meet those conditions, then it’s impossible no matter how vigilant and knowledgable you are.

My recommendations is to play your computer games on an offline computer via GOG purchases, or if you want Steam games, then just give up on securing that device. Have two networks. Have your secure computers for your general online tasks and chatting, and have the unsecure computer for interacting with DRM and services that lose a lot of functionality if the surveillance vectors are blocked.

Bad attempts at hardening often don’t work, and have the adverse effect of making you more unique for fingerprinting. It might be worth foregoing some hardening advice if you can think of workarounds the hostile actor might use, which you don’t know how to counter-act.

The security of Tor is built on the assumption that one actor owning a majority of the nodes is improbable to the point of being written off as a non-concern. The tool has always been run and maintained by the USA government. When they opened access to the public, they owned the majority of the nodes, and with the amount of compute available to the NSA (look up the size of their official data-centres, add in their hacked bot-farms), it’s almost certain they still do. If it wasn’t their plan to always have supremacy, they aren’t doing their job. The purpose of Tor is to hide traffic from USA’s enemies. A few tens of thousands of private users is just reducing their power bill and painting targets on their own backs, not successfully hiding from the NSA.

Smug Reddit-level takes left and right in this thread. The kid successfully hacked a website, you can assume he knows what he’s doing better than you and followed all the best practices short of not using Windows. They didn’t get his account from his Edge credential store. He probably used some Firefox-derivative. Tor browser if he was stupid. He probably “hardened” Windows every way he could think of, again, short of disconnecting from the internet. Windows simply does a good job of spying on you, that’s all it is.

There are even people in the thread recommending running Windows games on Linux as a way to avoid this surveillance. If you put Microsoft Flight Sim on your Linux computer, then that’s now a Windows computer. Microsoft owns that computer, same as the Windows one. If you install Nvidia drivers, Nvidia owns that computer, and the USA can ask Nvidia for your accounts and whereabouts instead of Microsoft. If you put Steam on your Linux computer, that’s now Steam’s computer and the USA can ask Steam.

There is no “safe” amount of malware.

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Open source is awesome

On an article about using closed-source AI to change the look of closed source software.

Netanyahu is his employee. So it’s like saying Hitler isn’t as bad as Himmler.