smegforbrains

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[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My first theory was that it was just Naomi Watts' character's masturbation fantasy laid out on film. I still have to watch it a second time to confirm though ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco. Just thinking about it makes me want to read this masterpiece again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

When people in conversations tell me they've got nothing to hide, I routinely ask them for their bank details.

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

Why does Signal need my phone number?

Signal is subject to National Security Letters in the U.S.

Signal received funding from Radio Free Asia owned by the U.S. Agency for Global Media with ties to the CIA.

They seem to have a history of needing quite some time to release the server source code.

Here are some articles to read about Signal:

https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8974

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

This the dystopia we chose for ourselves.

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If you'd like to have a laugh, I very much recommend Pink Fohawk. It's a shadowrun actual play podcast, with an emphasis on fun.

https://pinkfohawk.podbean.com/

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We should be aware that signal might not be the promised lands. It was created by a CIA affiliate. It's also suspectible to National Security Letters from the U.S., requiring it to disclose information about its users.

A viable alternative might be France based Olvid. But I haven't done much research on them.

Sources:

[โ€“] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently it feels like a reverse Golgafrincham situation. We got rid of the useless third by jumping ship. Let's convince them we got swallowed by an enormous mutant Star-Goat ๐Ÿคฉ https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham

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