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It's always really cool to see something that can be hosted from your phone, including presumably an old one that's been in a drawer for years until now. Especially because hosting through Tor has some little conveniences out of the box, like "how do I access this anywhere that has the Internet" or "how do I keep from registering or exposing my IP address".

I'll admit it probably needs an audit before I take it too seriously, but so far so good.

Thanks, this is the information I was looking for.

And on top of that, you have to provide extra documents to Google to do it.

there is evidence

Citation needed

May I have some context? Too far outside of Linux to recognize who these people are (and usually assume "libre" usually means "good")

You never had a standard for accepting evidence? Why did you even ask then?

You asked for evidence.

List out the evidence you accept.

Articles are getting too redundant thanks to what I'd bet is AI. Not even sure if this one is reading past a couple sentences, which basically repeat what other people have said but slower.

You'd be better off reading this tweet that the author referenced but failed to link.

As Proton put it on [Twitter]:
OpenAI says it runs locally and doesn't build an index. Local execution isn't the same as local processing. The moment ChatGPT summarises a thread or drafts a reply using a hosted model, that content leaves the machine.

Here's a glance at how poor the writing is. Compare this section

“This is no different from email, SMS, Slack or Teams”
It is.
Think Signal, not SMS.
SMS, ordinary email, Slack and Teams don’t provide the same promise of privacy as iMessage, Signal, or Proton, where the service is designed so the provider itself can’t read the end to end encrypted message content.

To this section:

Why iMessage is different
Think Signal, not SMS.
Some people think of Apple Messages as ordinary text messaging, but it’s one application supporting 3 different messaging services: regular SMS, end to end encrypted iMessage and, more recently, RCS.

It's the same thing, said slowly, and said twice. For no reason.

Man who complains about stalkers (via article) funds stalker technology.

Man afraid of government overreach funds police buildout. From the cops:

“These are very heavily used tools in the law enforcement toolkit, so it’s good to add more to our belt.”

I don't understand how anybody who's annoyed with spam would be satisfied with that answer either. I'd want to know which shop it was, and how to avoid them.

https://zuckmail.vercel.app/t/harvard-dumb-fucks

You know you were looking for it

Funnily enough, Microsoft built WSL so developers could use Linux without leaving Windows. Instead, it turned a growing number of Windows PCs into functional Linux development machines, with Windows serving as little more than the launcher.

Does this suggest that more Ubuntu users are developers than typical non-technical people (or that they're about to be)? We need to pump up those numbers on average peoples' computers

This is a phenomenon that is easy to demonstrate with monitor apps for airtags, pervert glasses, and even Tesla automobiles (yes, they constantly send out a Bluetooth signal your phone can pick up).