Kahless tells us to give it all to keep from giving in or giving up. Stand tall, and let cynicism and despair crumble in the face of a true warrior's resolve.

@isilzha314 @evacide @danjones000 @eff @CNN That's not the point that Dan is making. Dan is saying that Signal's present infrastructure and architecture provide significant opportunities for a sufficiently funded and motivated adversary -- i.e., the NSA, or some other branch of the US government -- to monitor metadata about who is talking to whom. Signal may not explicitly collect that data and store it in a discoverable database, but that won't stop an adversary from gathering the metadata anyway. And the phone number requirement --which Signal *does* store and which *is* available to discovery-- is itself a very risky gambit when that adversary decides that anyone using Signal is a fair target.

And since [we kill people based on metadata](https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-we-kill-people-based-on-metadata) and a fascist coup is currently in progress in the United States, Signal's users (as well as the Signal Foundation itself) should be laser focused on eliminating those opportunities. Unfortunately, Signal has

* Recently indicated that it does not consider network-layer anonymity as within its scope: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117
* Has shown no interest in working with others (including myself) in the Free Software ecosystem to integrate such anonymity technology into its stack and make it a default for its users: https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-an-anonymizing-overlay-network/62670
* Has remained mum on the fediverse when the organization and its current president have been invited to previous conversations on this matter: https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/113946901827746517

Signal has an ethical responsibility to bring anonymity into scope.

#Signal #SignalMessenger @signalapp @Mer__edith

Now THIS is a #SuperbowlSundae !

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Superbowl #SuperBowlSunday #SuperbowlLIX #Sundaes #IceCream

I had a superb owl for tonight, courtesy of the British Trust for Ornithology but they're a bit shy...
#SuperbOwlSunday

A Great Horned owl takes flight in Florida, 7 February, 2025. Photo by Ali Xaidi.
#OwlsOfMastodon
#SuperbOwlSunday

Allow yourself to celebrate even the smallest of victories in the face of adversity. Don't snuff out a light because it is not bright enough. Nurture it, and fight to make it grow until the shadows retreat. Even the greatest beacons may be lit with the smallest spark.

98GiB of CDC datasets have been uploaded to Internet Archive, before they were taken down from CDC's website to comply with Trump's executive order:
https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets

This means that the @internetarchive will quickly become a target for the fascists currently running the US government.

Now would be a good time to start thinking how can we help protect it and help out.

Donating is the simplest thing we can do right this moment:
https://archive.org/donate

#CDC #InternetArchive

Awesome! In the US, a nationwide protest is organized for Wednesday.

Boost this because Trump deserves it.

https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300

Via @MontyRunner — thanks! ♥️

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/113945836475979928

Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: Project Stargate will be a $500.000.000.000 (500 billion USD) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you.

Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said:

“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.”

— Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [Source: Business Insider]

This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Applicant: Gap?

*interviewer pulls at the gap and makes the hole bigger to reveal a tunnel leading to the prison’s sewage system*

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Jesus: That was when I carried you.

Interviewer: *into intercom* Security.

Changing your Browser User-Agent shouldn't make your browsing experience faster on certain sites, yet it does, particularly with YouTube. If you're not using Chromium based browsers, YouTube will load slower on average on purpose.

YouTube artificially slows your experience if you're using browsers not based on Chromium, and is noticeable on browsers like Firefox or Floorp, but if you spoof your User-Agent to Chromium or variant of Chromium, YouTube loads faster.

#swasticars #ElonMusk #tesla

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.