Because privacy is a spectrum, and it makes a good stepping off point for the people that still use text messages and social media chat clients to stay in touch. I can’t convince half of my nerd friends to leave Discord for literally anything less shit, but I can convince even my tech-averse mother to use Signal instead of FaceTime.

A few answers say “they aren’t private by design,” but don’t really go into the “why.” There’s the obvious “it’s an electronic tracking device, duh” reason, but there’s also a more nuanced reason:

Airtags are able to be picked up almost anywhere because they connect to the nearest bluetooth-enabled Apple device, and then send location info across the internet to you. Without this functionality (the ability of any and every Apple device to locate it), they wouldn’t have any way to send their location back to the owner.

Your best “privacy respecting” alternatives are something that uses meshtastic (and hoping there’s enough repeaters near you), something that uses cellular data and GPS (which is about as privacy-respecting as Airtags are), or just a key finder/beeper (which only works within a small radius)

This article was more constructive (suggesting alternatives) than destructive (leveraging critiques), but it did link to several critiques/vulnerabilities with OpenPGP.

Unfortunately, half are about implementation issues (granted, it’s made more difficult to implement something correctly when it’s as convoluted and all-encompassing as PGP)—which are hopefully not applicable to Delta due to their 3rd party, applied cryptography audit—and the rest are obsolesced by the 2024 updates to the standard—RFC 9580, the so-called “crypto-refresh.”

Do you have any critiques that address the current state of the PGP protocol’s security?

Oh, for sure. All it takes is me looking at an Awk one-liner to make my headspin. Give me a simple “for each line in $FILE, reformat MM/dd/yyyy as dd/MM/yyyy” instead of… whatever that looks like in Awk.

The hardware of a computer is not designed to handle natural language parsing. Techbros with just enough knowledge to be dangerous will say it’s a matter of complex-enough software, but it’s more that human brains are not Von Neumann machines

rtorrent!

I didn’t know where he was from, nor had I heard about him until the outrage machine hyped him up. I just assumed he was an immigrant based on the outrage, but I guess that’s asking too much of the racist who can be fooled into liking Kid Rock.

The worse the product is, the more desperate they get to shove it in your face. Good products don’t need to pay others to pretend it’s good, you just find out via word-of-mouth or free trials

Reputable news source “GLOBAL FACTZ”

I couldn’t find any criticiques of OpenPGP aside from LibrePGP’s. Do you have sources I could look into?

I think it’s Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm just saying “never eating, ahh, again” with the same cadence as “life, ahh, finds a way”

Linux From Scratch or be doomed to be an eternal noob.

Then it’s writing your own kernel. Then your own bootloader. Then your own UEFI.

But if I’m not able to update constantly, how else will I get the dopamine hits from watching the numbers go up?

I dont want to wait a year to update my apps

Why? Are they not working as-is?

Debian generally doesn’t use PPAs, that’s an Ubuntu thing. What’s your beef with apt?

so I enabled the boot menu in the VM settings, entered it and reset the secure boot settings.

In BIOS/UEFI? What settings does this affect/what changes does this make?

If it’s your computer that you bought and legally own, tell them where they can install their Winblows 11. (The nice way to say this is to tell them to requisition you a computer or think of an alternative, because you are not going to use a personal device for company business anyway)

If it’s their computer that they own, grin and bare it.

no, I would never, and you can’t prove I did. And it’s not my fault. And it’s not that big of a deal anyway. And it’s too late to do anything about it now.

Chomsky after the leaks: “I’m an old, old man, and I’m so sickly and weary and probably on my last legs cough, cough” (looks around nervously to see if anyone’s buying it)

I read Frankenstein 4 times in school: once in senior year of high school, then thrice in freshmen year of college – for the intro english class in my first semester, for an honors class about monster fiction that same semester, and for a class on gothic fiction that took care of my other core credit the second semester.

I have read that book in 4 different ways with countless different perspectives being share, and I can say

I didn’t truly appreciate it the first time, it definitely requires multiple readings