Almost a million dollars, jesus. The US is a truly disgusting country.

Why are people downvoting this? Are they just now learning US socdems support their empire and imperial troops?

There are no pacts between lions and men.

Its kind of a bug; although the API for search can take in all those sort types, it actually can only use a few of them, so TopWeek gets turned into TopAll. This is because when searching for All types, many of them have no concept of TopWeek, like a search for users.

In lemmy 1.0 I’d like to fix this by showing a specific set of filters and sorts for the given searchable item type: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3995

You can’t simply say “we must assume” as evidence.

Okay yeah you definitely didn’t read it. Large sections in that doc just before that are on phone number identifiers, NSLs, and 5-eyes countries, the US goverment pushing signal in privacy spaces… literally the reasons why signal isn’t trustworthy. Unless you can tell me what an NSL is, then I’ll assume you didn’t read it.

While there may be other US government requests they are not alllwed to disclose, they were legally required to provide the same information to the courts, and we can see what they provided.

Did you ignore the large section on NSLs? These come with a gag order, meaning its illegal for signal to notify their users about them being spied on.

In fact, they implemented “Sealed sender” in 2018 where they are not able to see who the message is being sent to.

This is a “just trust me” from signal, since neither of us have access to their centralized DB, but you also ignored two paragraphs down, where it showed that with message timestamps and recipient information, this would be trivial to find the real sender of a message, regardless of sealed sender. Again, actually open source software can’t say “just trust me” like signal can, we actually have to show code to prove it, and let people run that code in a private manner.

And sure, while the US government funds Signal, you know who else endorses it? Edward fucking Snowden. If anyone knows about secure messaging, it’s the man that physically removes the microphone and camera from his phones before using them.

Elon musk and jack dorsey also endorse signal. An endorsement means nothing, especially for centralized software based in a 5-eyes country.

Read the linked doc, because it’s clear you didn’t.

Signal is a centralized, US-based service which requires your phone number (thus your real identity, IE name and address), has social networking graphs of everyone you talk to, and must forward that information to the US government when asked, as well as (by law) not tell you that they’ve been asked to do so. During the Obama era, 60 NSLs were issued for this private information every single day.

People overlook its privacy concerns for the same reason they do with apple: it has a shiny interface and is easy to use, and makes people very attached to it. Behind all that, is a surveillance network that its creators have explicitly said they do not want it to be able to run in a decentralized, private manner.

It has a long history of privacy offenses below (such as refusing to publish its server’s source code for years, its reliance on other US tech services (amazon, google), US-government funding, and a US-defense-tank friendly administration) which get ignored or shouted down by many of those above. See the article below.

Why not signal.

Pretty much any alternative is better, as long as its not hosted in a five-eyes country, and especially if it doesn’t require phone numbers or real identities like signal does.

I personally have been using SimpleX for friends and real life contacts, and Matrix for larger more anonymous group chats.

This is pretty sad. Oneplus phones, tablets, and watches have like double the battery of samsung / apple, at 1/3rd of the cost. Hopefully OPPO will make another branding for europe at least, because the EU still does allow chinese smartphones to be sold there. The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.

Xiaomi, vivo, and oppo(oneplus’s parent company) are growing pretty rapidly in market share at least.

Same for me, + limewire and IRC channels, then torrents. There was a golden age in the 2000s where you’d see new albums and movies get released before they even came out, and in relatively good quality too.

This is anecdotal, but everyone I meet born after 2000 has no idea what torrents are, or how to share media, and many of them are paying for like 3 streaming services. They have no idea all this stuff is available for free without much effort, and with better quality.

Only new. It’s your inboxes rss feed.

It’s not just having a “command economy”, it’s in whose interest the economy is being commanded for. The PRC went through an intense anti-colonial / communist revolution to disempower the feudalists and reactionaries, and capture the state to bring it under a worker-peasant control.

If western nations want to repeat the success of the PRC, they need to repeat China’s steps from 1949. They would each need to go through violent revolutions to capture the state and overthrow bourgeois democracy. Otherwise, capitalists will still hold power, and their economies will be commanded to suit capitalist interests.

Cool article, I wasn’t on any of these private trackers, but I remember them getting shut down.

Competent vs incompetent managers of empire.

We don’t allow vibe-coding for lemmy, see here.

I’m reminded of a quote from from this talk by Eric X Li on the PRC’s civil service organization department: “Neither George W Bush, nor Barack Obama, would have been able to become even a small county manager in China.”

It’s quite possible that in the future, ai bros will rediscover “thinking”:

I don’t know what this means, you’ll have to use the search to find content.

I know this is mostly a joke, but its also incredibly dangerous. Just use an explicit tool like bfg

One way you can do this is via RSS feeds. Go to the /inbox page on all your accounts, and add it to an RSS reader. You’ll then get notifications for new items (at least as often as your RSS sync frequency).

Its also especially rich considering the US state has access to even disabled nest door cameras, which amazon is happy to give them.

Even someone who is completely sinophobic, would have to concede that the PRC, even if it wanted to, could not send police to your door.