So it turns out Yoti has a Guardian Council, as well as an Ethics and Trust Committee, both intended to keep them on the rails: https://www.yoti.com/blog/doing-things-the-yoti-way-guardian-council-ethics-and-trust-committee

They are also a B Corp.

So either there’s a way to make them realise this is a gross (and unethical) mistake. Or it’s another proof that self-regulation by tech companies works as well as kids grading their own homework.

I don’t understand the point of iodé. Why use it ratherr thanthan CalyxOS, GrapheneOS or LineageOS?

I usually rather like Ars, but there’s something very weird and silly about applying the idea of borders, especially non natural ones, to flies.

“Your puny human constructs are nothing to me, flesh bags.”

This hardly feels like a useful comment. It’s implied from the context that change here is shorthand for desirable change.

And if we are being pedantic, you are also wrong: there will be unspecified change, changes in fact, which may be good, bad, neutral or irrelevant. Also not a very constructive point to add: we all know this.

Essentially (and as usual), there needs to be consequences.

No consequences, no change.

So yes, you are right.

This is absolutely trying to solve the problem from the wrong end.

My toddler is hitting other toddlers, so, et’s bind their arms? No, let’s understand why this is happening and help them understand and learn to manage their emotions.

I mean, yes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

No they won’t.

Let’s stop repeating this man’s grifts.

Calling it now: won’t work, not happening.

How successful was the whole seasteading thing? Yeah.

Half the trick of these rich bastards is to raise money from other rich bastards hoping to become even richer bastards from a good investment. The trick doesn’t require the thing you’re selling to work, even theoretically.

“Problematic”

What i want to know is what he person who put a line through the word shit here thought they were achieving?

It’s so entirely transparent and useless, what’s going through that person’s head?

And why does the journalist call it a religion? It’s a cult.

Or a for profit company, under German law.

I think you’re missing historical context. There are more options now, but when Signal came out (or became Signal, after TextSecure), it was the only tool to offer such strong cryptographic properties with its then novel double ratchet algorithm. Compared to OTR and, much worse, all the other crap that was not E2E encrypted at all, it was the first really credible option on a mass scale.

The crypto was reviewed by well-considered experts, and came out looking strong.

Telegram fought for years trying to say they were just as good and in fact better, which is entirely disingenuous considering it’s not an encrypted messaging app.

These things contributed to what you call the cult following. Which wouldn’t be negative (a cult film has a cult following) if not intended to mean “a cult like Scientology”.

OMEMO is probably good enough, but i wouldn’t assume it’s the same quality as the Signal protocol it’s based on (this analysis isn’t too positive: https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/)

I believe it’s electrical engineering. A safe trade (pun intended) for the foreseeable.

There’s no such thing as “side loading”, they literally made up that term some years back in a release of android tools (adb).

It’s just installing software.

Telegram is a social network masquerading as a messaging app, not a “secure messaging” app.

Some place in Rone when I was about 10 on a trip with my parents. Cut out of a massive rectangle, ate in the street, it was memorable.

Sounds like you’re in good hands. Enjoy the ride, plenty to learn and to feel good about understanding :)

You actually have a point, the guy is openly discussing ways to harm his kids and is in all evidence not a safe person for them to be with.