sadly obsidian isn’t foss. i still like it though.

and yeah with the recent bambulab controversy in the 3d printing community it was noticeable years earlier if you just paid attention. but paying attention takes active effort too. being a discerning consumer/user/creator is difficult.

that’s how terms of service work on the internet. companies alter the terms whenever and however they like, and often to the detriment of the end user. it’s technically not legal, but they do it anyway.

some camera companies sell their data to flock, who resells the data to cities and police

I think in business attribution is really difficult. Like figuring out why a click/purchase happened. It might be that these systems are so opaque and difficult to penetrate that nobody notices when hundreds of millions are missing. Or maybe the actual situation is a little different, like maybe real people do listen to AI music. I’ve heard a bit about that anyway. Though I’ve also heard about organized criminals combining affiliated artists and bot listens to launder money.

it’s not streaming anywhere that we know of yet

real graffiti can be really nice and expressive art

i think they mean patrick breyer from the german pirate party

militaries slaughtering civilians using very shaky justifications that only work because they have the bigger fist or a strong backer probably isn’t that unique, so you can’t exactly use extreme words like “only”, “worst”, “ever” about current happenings. the IDF is only some of the worst scum possible.

You need to verify your hypothesis if you want other people to build on it or everything will eventually crumble down like a house of cards.

mattermost is meant for big corporations or governments

they’re probably gonna remotely disable them or reclaim them before they ever end up in your hands

sponsorblock is included alongside a comment that you should support creators

i take a long time to properly think through consequences, and as a kid I couldn’t ever dare to try and truly feel what it would be like to shoot somebody. just because you may be different doesn’t mean everyone is. children are specifically known for their lack of foresight and increased impulsivity. one impulse can be enough for someone to go through a minutes-long process. minutes isn’t anywhere near the max that can appear.

yep

i don’t think you need to be a violent kid to accidentally shoot someone to death; that’s why guns are so insidious. it only takes a couple of simple actions at most to kill someone. it’s simple enough where people might not think about the consequences before killing somebody. it makes death easily accessible and not a very physical or straining task.

i also would generally refrain from calling an unknown kid who you just don’t know violent, or passing judgement on the father for looking a certain way. stereotypes might turn out true, but they also might not.

compromised servers are a known threat model, and not a threat in signal’s case

https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/

there are probably also a few other, more recent examples that i just can’t find. but the theory is the same, signal only knows a phone number in association with an account creation date and the last sent message date. everything else is encrypted. the signal protocol has been formally verified to be secure: https://cryspen.com/post/pqxdh/. signal all in all is a very competent messenger, and there’s a reason it’s being used by dissidents, journalists and activists, even if most of those people do not actually have the energy or skills to verify the internals. what does easily get you in trouble (assuming what you’re doing is troubling) is if you have a leaky contact. it’s not hard to just screenshot messages and then publish them elsewhere.

signal doesn’t know which phone numbers contact which other phone numbers

you don’t need to give your signal contacts your phone number, they won’t know it if you use signal usernames

oh I genuinely have no idea actually, I don’t do calls on desktop