if you use a google pixel with grapheneos, you can have multiple profiles that work similar enough to having multiple phones, with apps in each profile only being able to see what’s happening in that one profile, and if you close a profile every app in that profile is stopped completely

I occasionally pray to aliens and I’ve never been in any kind of crash

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

jesus christ

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

i use the web version and it works just as well, while also benefiting from not being a native program that can steal more data than just a tab in your browser

i know someone with geographic tongue for whom even just a little bit too much pepper physically hurts and burns on her tongue.

perpepsingly

no. jensen huang was born in taiwan and spent part of his childhood there but nvidia was all american right from the start

It’s a very usable browser and vivaldi explicitly do no AI, unlike firefox. I get that firefox is the only serious cross platform competitor to chromium, but mozilla really does consistently shoot itself in the foot. it’s like they’re masochistic.

edit: vivaldi also actually seems to have a vision and design goals, which firefox sort of lacks.

don’t believe companies when they tell you they don’t want all the money on the planet by any means possible

In my childhood in Germany kids didn’t need to be picked up or dropped off, we either walked or took public transit (not dedicated school buses either). As far as I can tell that’s still the case where I live. It’s a very different urban design that facilitates it, and it results in more human lives in my opinion.

as funny as this comment is, do console wars really need to exist? does brand loyalty and basing your identity on the products you consume need to exist?

my brainstem tells me it’s time for anxiety

to be fair the dough is supposed to stay in the can where it’s safe from predators.

i think the rich have seen the avocado toast problem for a long time. that’s why they sell you avocado toast, because clearly it’s making you poor and they have too much of it.

to be fair the bible says just about everything about everything and you can interpret it in every possible and contradictory way