Oh well if Dessalines says so it must be true

I’ve been using it for years, very few problems

My partners midwife googled stuff in front of us and parroted the AI summary back to us when we asked if a specific drug was okay for pregnant people

The new bimmers are ugly as sin.

I say that as someone who loved his e90

It sounds like it basically is a lynching

Means that murdering someone for talking bad about dear leader in some parts of the US is defacto legal

You went to a school where they had no controls over what you could and couldn’t access?

My school was blocking harmful content on their computers when i was there in the mid to late 2000s.

When i got home i had something called CyberSitter on my computer in my room that sent logs of all my internet usage as reports to my dad.

It took me until 16 when i went out and bought my own computer with my own money before i had “unfettered” access to the internet.

Were these tools impenetrable fortresses? no, of course not. but they were a damn sight better than the ISP level blocks and legislating the “good” companies out of existence that the UK (and others) Government is currently engaged in.

Not that any of this is really about “protecting kids” anyway

I’m not, but I also don’t live there

So they can still fuck off.

Also I have free healthcare and consumer protection laws

As an iPod owner, I wish I got a zune

My local pub is older than your “empire”

gotta be honest, i wasn’t a huge fan

I was thinking of RCS security apparently, but was mainly talking about what’s theoretically possible.

There’s nothing stopping someone creating a E2E encrypted SMS app. The medium doesn’t matter, only the data. You could have end to end encrypted carrier pigeons if you want.

Yep, you lock with the public key and unlock with the private.

You can’t unlock with the public, it’s one way only

don’t they also receive the public keys and can then also decrypt the messages??

A public key is used to encrypt a message, you need the private key to decrypt.

That’s why you have public key servers. it doesn’t matter who has the public key, all they can do with it is encrypt information that only the private key holder can decrypt.

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced I don’t understand how any encryption works because the intended recipient needs the key to decrypt it

The way it was explained to me that finally made it click was so:

Imagine you have a lockable box (public key) and a key (private key), the box is empty so you give it to your friend. it doesn’t matter if anyone sees the open box because there’s nothing in it. your friend puts something private for you in the box and locks it. People see the box as he’s bringing it to you but they can’t see what’s in the box because neither him nor the people watching have the key to the box; only you do. once it gets to you you can open the box with your key

It’s not misinformation. SMS can have end to end encryption if the messages exchanged between two people in a conversation are encrypted.

It’s an add on, in much the way PGP encryption works for email. the first handshake is unencrypted and includes each participants public keys, after that you can have it automatically encrypt each message

you can configure some phones to encrypt all sms messages.

It’s a bit like PGP email though in that, despite it working, no one seems to use it

it’s the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE’S ID

Tell him there’s a big different between checking an ID and making copies of one

There was a big exodus to signal for a while a couple years ago when meta were fucking with their whatsapp privacy policy, similar to the exodus from reddit to lemmy.

Having your infrastructure on a cloud provider allows you to keep your costs in line with your current amount of users, if you have a big influx you can immediately scale up to accommodate them, and then when that spike in users dies off as they invariably do you can scale back down instead of being left with a load of hardware you’ve just bought for your new users (that have since fucked off) and now aren’t using

F.A.B

I think that’s what @ArmchairAce1944 was getting at

You have to obey the law of whatever country you are currently occupying.

They’re not “occupying” or even operating here. all the servers have been in Texas since 2008. The British gov are attempting to legislate feature implementations for companies that aren’t operating in britain. it’s ridiculous.