Ex-mil, ex-sec, ex-treme, & ex-plosive.
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Ditching Windows as it has become spyware and adware.
Flipping to Linux.

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  • @Vanilla_PuddinFudge

    Yes…
    … but that’s OK.

    Lemme explain…

    A Signal user will commonly have the client app installed on their mobile device.

    They may also have a second client on a laptop that syncs the same data.

    If the user goes on holiday for a week but leaves their laptop behind, it won’t be synced to the laptop.

    On return from holiday, the laptop client uses its decryption keys to retrieve the last week’s worth of messages.

    I *think* Signal can do this (retrieve cached messages from the Signal servers) for up to 14 days.

    That said, the entire Signal cache is encrypted on their servers, and one’s messages are fully E2EE and retrievable only by the user.

    (However, one weakness of Signal is that a desktop or laptop client’s cache is stored unencrypted. To secure these, one needs to use full disk encryption at the OS level or higher.)

    @DarkCloud


  • @sunzu2

    “Under FISA order, signal would provide logs.”

    How would Signal do this? Logs of what?

    Corresponding parties? Messages? They don’t have them.

    They’d have to rewrite their backend code to obtain them, and changes would also need to be made to the Signal client apps.

    It would not matter if the FISA Court ordered that logs be produced in secret by Signal. Any such logs could not be obtained without significant changes to the way Signal works. Users would know.

    Yes, Signal does have some shortcomings, but these are acceptable in most ‘use cases’ for most threat models.

    Signal is best used as a private, E2EE alternative to SMS. Only a fool would use it for the *most sensitive* of communications. (Like, you know, discussing an impending military strike…)

    We all know of the alternatives, including (but not limited to) SimpleX, Session, Briar, Element etc.

    @maniacalmanicmania @9tr6gyp3 @signalapp











  • @spiffmeister

    Oh, increasing the dingo population (by any method) would, as you say, definitely impact the roo population. No question!

    But the *location* of that roo population matters and affects whether any cull makes economic sense.

    I was a spotter and offsider for a few pro roo shooters over a few seasons.

    Culling roos usually only makes sense when it benefits the farmer AND value can be extracted from the roos.

    Most culls I’ve seen were in cattle country that was still ‘close to town’, usually within 1-2 hrs’ drive. (I’m sure that culls also occur down in sheep country, too.)

    Primary producers rarely look upon dingos favourably, and there’d be little support for increasing them.

    The ‘predator-prey’ ‘boom/bust’ cycles are still common, but generally where the station’s size is measured in 1000’s of sq. kms. In the ‘back of beyond’, diesel alone costs much more than can be made from any culled roos.

    Edit: check out the dingo fence…
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo/_Fence


  • @spiffmeister

    Kangaroo populations will naturally go through “boom and bust” cycles as the amount of available feed and water varies tremendously. (Aussies often forget that this is the world’s driest continent.)

    Mass deaths within local kangaroo populations will always occur due to drought. That’s nature, and it’s a bad way to die

    Having ‘extra’ dingos manage the ‘roo population’ would mean they’d suffer a similar fate, just delayed by a few months, if that.

    When the 'roo population fell to low numbers, the dingos would turn on whatever is available… including, as you say, livestock.

    It’s a complex problem, and there are no easy answers.

    However, which is worse? Letting 'roos die horrible mass deaths from inevitable droughts, or controlling their numbers via managed culls, and then tapping into that resource? Most, but not all, kangaroos that are culled will die an instant death.

    In fact, for those of us who eat meat, we should avoid beef, lamb, and pork. Kangaroo is FAR more sustainable from an environmental perspective…
    … even if Skippy is on our National Coat of Arms.

    @Davriellelouna


  • @Taleya

    I’ve not moved the goal posts.

    This thread relates to ‘working with children’ and policies regarding background checks of those who do.

    One toot read, in part, “Statistically women are the outlier offenders, around 5% or less for known sexual abuse.”

    You replied, “Statistically, women are more likely to just straight up kill kids so there goes your harm mitigation theory.”

    I asked for more information regarding your “statistics” and you provided a report related to ‘filicide’ in the context of ‘domestic violence’. This is outside the scope of any “working with children” checks.

    You wrote, “The original claims were not restricted to childcare…”

    I haven’t moved the goal posts at all.

    This isn’t a game. I am genuinely interested if you know of any statistical evidence that women, in a capacity for which they require a “working with children” background check, “are more likely to just straight up kill kids”.