Some things are worse, spammers, AI proponents who harrass you despite the clear community-wide dislike of the plagarism machine, fascist chuds trying to mainstream rascism, misogyny, and ableism.
Basically each new wave is another usenet September equivalent, and it feels like we're approaching the eternal september epoch as lemmy becomes more widely used. Soon we'll have to deal with state actor bot-nets if we aren't already.
This lawsuit makes me feel extremely validated in my fight with my ex about not letting our kid play roblox unsupervised. Same with letting them use tiktok/youtube.
Dont get me wrong, he's a sack of shit. The first 2 bullet points are monsterous.
But we shouldn't be critizing him over wanting to prevent public funds going to private schools. Its the objectively correct take, you dont need to mention it all when talking about how shitty he is.
Theres so many ways to check for that that don't require decompiling the app.
You can straight compare the downloaded binary with a locally compiled binary to see if they match.
You can check the hash of app. Changing some lines of code and getting the same hash is so unlikely to be effectively impossible.
If for some reason Signal decided to do what you claim, it'd destroy thier credibility, be caught almost immediately, and only work once before the whole project gets forked, and would be true of any alternative.
I was 21 and crashing out of college. I voted in my first presidential election, I was always left of my family politically, something about taking love thy neighbor seriously, but I was appalled anyone could vote for Sarah Palin or someone who didn't have the sense to not appoint Sarah Palin VP.
I arrived during the API debacle.
Some things are better, content and activity.
Some things are worse, spammers, AI proponents who harrass you despite the clear community-wide dislike of the plagarism machine, fascist chuds trying to mainstream rascism, misogyny, and ableism.
Basically each new wave is another usenet September equivalent, and it feels like we're approaching the eternal september epoch as lemmy becomes more widely used. Soon we'll have to deal with state actor bot-nets if we aren't already.