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  • They are referring to message metadata.

    Even if they don’t show the content of messages, if they can show that phone number A is sending messages and getting replies to number B then that’s all the government needs.

    https://signal.org/legal/

    For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where we have or use facilities, service providers or partners.

    They store metadata, which is distinct from encrypted data.

    Are you saying sealed sender is a lie?

    https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

    When you send a traditional piece of physical mail, the outside of the package typically includes the address of both the sender and the recipient. The same basic components are present in a Signal message. The service can’t “see into” the encrypted package contents, but it uses the information written on the outside of the package to facilitate asynchronous message delivery between users.

    They have a list of encrypted messages, who it’s from and who it’s to, based upon the sealed sender description. If you are using phone numbers then you are not anonymous, and a TLA agency can search known bad numbers even if Signal does not try to build that graph.




  • Think? I have one, and I’ve had it for just over two years.

    It’s a portable PC with joysticks for it’s primary input.

    Even the sales page refers to it being a portable PC and only “console-like”.

    https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

    Powerful, portable PC gaming, designed for comfort and a console-like user experience.

    It provides a KDE desktop out of the box. It’s not locked down, there is nothing console about it except in vague appearance because it comes with joysticks. If it lets my write my own code (which it does) and run them (which it does) then it is a general purpose computer.

    Ergonomically I would plug in a keyboard rather than write Python on the touchscreen, but I would do that with a desktop too.

    It’s okay that your wrong. It’s obvious that you’ve never used one, or really understand what it is. Which is a general purpose computing device.



  • You do know it is one click to the desktop, right?

    It just starts the machine in big picture mode but is doesn’t require you to crash steam to access the rest of the OS. It’s just starting with a controller friendly interface because the primary purpose is gaming but they don’t hide Linux from you.

    You can use general purpose one to only run one app 99% of the time, but it’s a general purpose personal computer you’re using.

    So they are running Linux? Because you don’t need to hack/root/magic keypress to access other applications.


  • That sounds like the majority of users. I’m trying to think of how many times I needed to “use Linux”.

    I interact with Firefox, IntelliJ, and a few other applications and IntelliJ hides all of the CLI so I don’t have to know git, and I don’t have to know where my files are.

    My mother wouldn’t know how to install a driver in Windows, or even how to navigate to a file in Explorer. Does that mean she isn’t a Windows user?

    I think you are being overly pessimistic about what counts as a user.


  • I’ve used MacOS for about 20 years, and it’s a shit show. But…

    Where are your files?

    They are in my user folder, same as every other OS. I can see them all in Finder. Root is hidden, but that’s options “tick box to display disks”.

    What is happening at full screen

    So what you would consider maximise is “move to new dedicated virtual desktop”, but you can also cmd+click maximise, drag to the top to traditional maximise or left/right for half screen.

    I will say macs are great when you get used it, especially if you use keyboard shortcuts.

    I’d say the opposite. How do I move this window to the next desktop using shortcut keys? You have to display desktops and then drag or to the desktop you want. No real shortcut for a basic feature.

    Emoji picker also seems to be broken, so when adding something on a chat I have to navigate with keyboard because clicking on the emoji I want works about 50% of the time, they rest of the time it just closes the window.



  • And Gnome is probably not for you.

    They make a desktop which is opinionated, and in some ways pushes things forwards. For example it is nice to not have to always deal with the awful Start button metaphor.

    On the others it can be a constraint. Only wanting to support the modern icon tray lead to years of having to use an extension for all the software that didn’t.

    And that’s fine. That’s why we have KDE and XFCE.

    I personally much prefer the Gnome flow which gets out my way, and find KDE to feel much more archaic. I don’t want docks and bars, I don’t want the desktop to be more than a place to hold my applications.