Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Even with AI summaries vigorously suppressed, Google Search honestly does a pretty good job at "do what I mean" sometimes..

I just typed "silk road italian guy" and got what I was looking for: links to stuff about Marco Polo, which is the name that for some brain-fart reason wasn't coming to mind.

Somebody mentioned Douglas Adams over on Bluesky, and before the day was out found I had to re-watch the South Bank Show episode about him for the first time in many years.

It completely holds up, still brilliant, a lesser-known and absolutely worthy part of the DNA canon. There's no credit given for the original writing present in it, but it seems pretty obviously his own.

@EugeneMcParland

@koppenho

ChatGPT actually has permalinks; "Shared links" they call it. I can't wait to start seeing them used as citations in Wikipedia.

Dismantled the clothes dryer yesterday evening to replace worn-out bearings, and it occurred to me that perhaps I should paint Tibetan prayer wheel symbols on the drum. It'd be useful to accrue merit and purify thought whilst drying clothes.

Happy Fourth, everybody

https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4

I stopped using my Chevron credit card out of sheer distaste for the company, and after two years of that they cancelled it. Well and good. But my (until then perfect) credit rating was promptly reduced. What a stupid way of life we've created for ourselves.

@bruces In Britain they exsanguinate themselves and then walk across the street to the park, like civilized people.

@gcvsa @w7voa

Oh, c'mon, what's wrong with "In Trump We Trust"?

@Fife4Europe i'm baffled that they still have sales to slump. What idiot is still buying a Tesla?

@metalmartin666 @meduza_en

If the experience of previous NK troops on the Ukrainian front is anything to go by, it's not a good way to do anything but radicalize NK troops against the Russians.

@Techmeme @1br0wn
Now why can't he hold his wedding there? That'd impress his bride and guests much more than a Renaissance Italian city full of angry protestors in a sinking archipelago

@merleeperle.bsky.social
You seem like a self-promoter, looking to make a name with things you don't understand. Good luck with that.

If someone hasn't gone through the William Gibson canon and registered all the business names like "Lado-Aacheson" and "Ono-Sendai" I'll be deeply disillusioned. I mean talk about free brand equity: your Culture ship names can't touch that.

@Linux

I don't think this conversation is going to be constructive, I can only hope that third parties reading it understand that you're recommending tradeoffs that you haven't --- and I'm sorry if this is rude -- competently evaluated. The alternatives you've suggested exist under a different jurisdiction, and that seems to be your sole basis for recommending them. I don't have time to go into all of the ways in which that's spectacularly insufficient.

I would suggest to anyone still following this conversation to take the advice of recognized independent and not-for-profit privacy experts.

@Linux

You don't seem to be aware what "end-to-end" refers to.

If I may suggest: learn first, then evangelize. Otherwise you may end up misinforming people rather than informing them. End-to-end encryption is a well-understood and widely documented topic, and you should not find researching it difficult. I'm not going to attempt to replicate that in the form of a reply, for lots of good reasons, some of which should be obvious.

Here's a primer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: it starts out basic and then goes into considerable detail. (Also, near the start there's a link to their page about Signal.)

https://ssd.eff.org/module/deep-dive-end-end-encryption-how-do-public-key-encryption-systems-work.

The crucial concept is in the first paragraph:

"End-to-end encryption tools make messages unreadable to eavesdroppers on the network, as well as to service providers themselves."

@Linux

I repeat. End-to-end. Open source server code is practically irrelevant, as it is not provably possible to independently verify that the servers are really running it.

The end-to-end trust model makes that, of necessity, irrelevant. That is the entire point of it.

@Linux

Can you explain why, if signal has true end-to-end encryption, independently verified through open source, and is never in possession of your data or metadata, why it matters which country the company is based in?