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  • Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?

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  • this is bullshit designed to respond to increasing use of simplexchat and other platforms

    and they still want to tie it to payment (so a credit card) so they can track people

    and they are implementing it only after many years

    a complex captcha that takes 10 minutes to solve would work just as well as payment, but they aren't doing it, and it certainly leaves me wondering if they are a honeypot. i can't prove it, but it's really suspicious it's taken so long to possibly roll out something that may require a credit card

  • Tesseract Ban Award Medallion

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  • I am on the list and am mortified! I am not an extremist and believe in free speech and liberty and normal voting processes. My views mostly align with Northern European liberal political view. How the fucking hell am I on this horrible list? What in the fuck did I do? Fuck these assholes in all their holes for saying this shit about me. I am nice!

    There's also no way, that I know of, to get off this fucking shitcunt list. What the fuck do I need to do to not be on this list?

  • Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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  • I can't believe Microslop would do something like this to its loyal customers!

  • Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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  • A US organization can be required by law to lie when they are contacted by the government under extreme penalties if they don't do as they are told. There is no proof that Signal is really posting their real demands. They could be actually required to post everything except certain demands marked secret.

  • Prediction vs Reality

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  • You know what would help this situation?

    AI

    Lots and lots of AI.

    Also more religion.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • If she's going for maximum damage, I am surprised this person doesn't just announce when she's found a big exploit, and then just sell it to up to 10 people, and then announce in very vague terms what the exploits are. (Like, "just sold exploit for windows defender" or "just sold way to hack into bitlocker").

    It seems like the vagueness of such things would make corporations more worried about being hacked and Microsoft could only guess as to what specific code was hacked, costing them greater resources.

    Yes, it would be illegal, and therefore I hope she doesn't do that and recommend against it. But I am just surprised, given the level of anger, that she has been approaching things in a way that is so easy to patch.

    Is her approach more damaging the way she's actually doing it?

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • This is extremely unfair to MicroSlop.

  • Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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  • Yes, Signal is completely unusable unless you're using a phone with a closed source operating system with Signal linked to the phone number.

    Even if they are creating a Linux version, I don't trust them at this point and think they are likely creating this as a hacking vector. It took them too damn long to do this, and they have never let people with higher threat models register without a number. The whole thing is sus.

  • Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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  • Or use SimpleX Chat in a terminal instead desperately using some third party github repo to try to access something that tries to identify you based on numbers and hardware identifiers.

  • Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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  • They will also likely require a captcha done using webview, exposing many hardware identifiers to Google.

    They will once again claim this is to protect against spammers and not to track people.

    Signal is obviously a honeypot, as it never would have taken this long to release a desktop App not linked to a phone if it weren't a honeypot, and they still are requiring a phone number. Any "privacy" company that adopts real privacy features only after huge pushback from the privacy community years later is likely a honeypot. Look at "tuta," which a former government worker testified under oath is a honeypot: no accepting of Monero ever. Finally, when called a honeypot, they make a deal with a third party to accept Monero.

    Signal is probably releasing this because whoever owns the honeypot wants to link desktops to phone numbers, allowing the desktops to be hacked with something like Pegasus as well.

    Does anyone remember that accidental LinkedIn post showing all the Apps that one company was able to hack? And it showed WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc... And it was always based on a phone? And this photo was accidentally posted online before being scrubbed? I forget the details on it and if anyone remembers, please post about it to jog my memory. Well, now perhaps that group wants to hack laptops too.

    I don't believe this is anything other than more bullshit. It wouldn't surprise me if they also blocked VOIP for registration. Fuck Signal.

  • Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI

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  • There are so many speech restrictions and humans rights violations in China that scare the hell out of me, but then I see rulings like this and their progress on robotics and tech and I think "Well, they are doing something right..." I hope one day there is more free speech for people in China who deserve to be able to say what they want.

    It's a great ruling because companies that would normally favor efficiency and profit increases are in a better position to take these existing workers and utilize them in different ways than just have everyone fired en masse and then somehow the market will sort it out. Even under classical economic theories, governments are supposed to regulate externalities and AI displacing workers too rapidly could be considered a type of externality.

  • Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

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  • I tried to read this using Tor Browser and I can't:

    Failed to verify your browser Code 99 Vercel Security Checkpoint

    Thanks Vercel Security Checkpoint! You've saved the Internet yet again!

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • That's the real question: is coding protected speech?

    Tornado cash started this. A fucking github repo was criminalized for just being code that wasn't executed. This is what happens from not fighting that.

    If we can criminalize code or legislate what code is allowed and what code isn't, than computer code is not protected speech. And that's a horrible situation.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • I disagree with all of you. Now that our benevolent theocratic autocratic overlords have decided to track everything we say and do and escape is impossible, I completely support their brave new dystopian agenda. All hail the wonderful leaders!

  • What unethical life hack would you recommend to others?

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  • Do you live in an area with poor people and lots of shoplifting? Do you work in grocery store security surveillance? Do you work as a 711 clerk? Is this an area of expertise or are you just guessing?

  • What unethical life hack would you recommend to others?

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  • It increases the noise to signal ratio in their attempts to look for food thieves.

  • Debian Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws

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  • I sadly don't know what this means! Oh, you mean Debian blacklisted Russian contributors but didn't rebuild the code and kept using it?

  • What unethical life hack would you recommend to others?

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  • When shopping, I like to make it seem extremely likely I am stealing to help poor people who actually need to steal to survive.

    For example, when picking up a soda, I furtively look to my left and right to make sure no one is looking and crouch my head down. I pick up things and make it seem like I may be putting it in a pocket at times before putting it back. When security guards say hi, I don't make eye contact or reply back and put my head down as if hiding.

    I never actually steal and haven't ever shoplifted anything.

    I have been kicked out stores many times for abnormal behavior, but never while stealing.

  • Debian Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws

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  • The problem isn't the specific nature of the rule: having an api call in the background that can broadcast a user's age range (if it isn't a clearly identifiable marker) makes sense.

    The problem is that if the government is able to tell open source developers "YOU MUST INSERT THIS CODE OR ELSE!!!" then what's next?

    Will in 5 years they require Persona in order to install an Operating System to combat terrorism?

    Will in 7 years they require a closed source module created by the government to be running at all times and the kernel must check to make sure if the closed source module is running?

    Part of open source software is creativity, freedom, and freedom of speech. Some software is created because developers like creating things.

    I hope Debian fights back against this on first amendment grounds. Great code is not that different from a great work of art, there is unique creativity in something elegantly coded that functions well, and telling developers they can't code how they want is the path toward totalitarianism.

    It's one thing to force this into Microslop and Android and iOS because those are large profitable companies who don't actually care as long as they make money. It's another thing to force FOSS developers who develop for free because of the love of software and great code that they must change their code in a certain way.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    someone @lemmy.today

    Is there an alternative to Stack Overflow?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are protestors in Iran aware of Briar? Would using Briar to communicate via bluetooth be a viable option with the country's current jamming technology?

    briarproject.org