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Trying to post on fedi with poor signal is torture. The only good experience is with an email gateway like the DeltaChat bridge. Why don't apps default to the concept of an outbox and background sending ?
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The pain isnt going away soon


> European Union officials said Friday that Europeans can expect oil and gas prices to remain above what they were before the Iran war for at least until the end of 2027, with prices of other goods also following an upward trajectory
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@nprofile1q...

> This concerns use cases where deleting messages actually getting removed in timely manner is of high importance and recovery of the deleted messages could lead to grave consequences.

> TL;DR: If you don't care about deleted messages being actually deleted you don't need to worry.

But this is the main selling point of Signal's Perfect Forward Secrecy that everyone says is so important and nobody should use a messenger without it...

PFS isn't really about security in the normal sense, it's about the data transmitted being ephemeral and irrecoverable through cryptographic guarantees. That's why DeltaChat's upcoming implementation will not use the PFS terminology but will be called "reliable deletion".

So now we have another case of Signal's PFS being broken: first through the iOS notification database not being cleared properly, now through MacOS not actually removing the deleted messages from the database.

I think people need to stop trusting Signal's word and start demanding detailed proof that their security promises hold up on every platform.
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> US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment Thursday at a House committee markup hearing that would prohibit any recipient of federal highway funding from using automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling—a sweeping restriction that, if adopted, would bring an immediate end to state and local ALPR programs across the United States.

this will die in darkness
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here's an example of an LLM running on my own computer analyzing an image. This is what it came up with in 29 seconds:


This image is a popular internet meme that combines the movie "Inception" (2010) with the video game "Minecraft."

Here is a breakdown of what is happening in the image:

The Characters: The man on the left is Leonardo DiCaprio, playing the character Cobb in Inception. The pixelated character on the right is "Steve," the default character skin in Minecraft.
The Scene: It is based on a famous scene from Inception where Cobb explains the concept of "dream sharing." The original dialogue is usually "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling" followed by "You need to go deeper."
The Joke:
Panel 1: The Minecraft player says, "I have found lots of obsidian. But no diamond yet." In the game, Obsidian is found near the bottom of the world (near bedrock), but Diamonds are found even deeper underground.
Panel 2: The Minecraft character delivers the punchline using the famous movie quote: "You need to go deeper." This implies he needs to mine further down to find the diamonds.
Panel 3: DiCaprio reacts with a look of mild exasperation or resignation, playing along with the absurd situation.

Jezza™ · 5d
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@Jezza™ @nprofile1q... yeah it probably is pesticides but who knows

and the lunch meat? probably nitrates and shit

so basically: it's not the REAL food that's the problem, it's just the shit we sell in the USA because of the contaminates and preservatives

WHEEEEEEEEEEE
Jezza™ · 5d
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