Used by a bunch of NATO armies isn’t the same as promoted by or made by. It just means they trust Element not to share their secrets. And that blog post is without merit. The author discredits Matrix because it has support for unencrypted messaging. That’s not a negative, it’s just a nice feature for when it’s appropriate. Whereas Signal’s major drawback of requiring your government ID and that you only use their servers is actually grounds to discredit a platform. Your post is the crossed arms furry avatar equivalent of “I drew you as the soyjack”. The article has no substance on the cryptographic integrity of Matrix, because there’s nothing to criticise there.

Signal is USA government approved. Definitely don’t trust it. Use Matrix.

It only knows what you tell it. Just use it like any other website, and follow the same rules you do for all websites, which is to think about what you’re sharing, and only share what you’re okay with them knowing.

Facebook is for local things, so it’ll have to know where you live and who you are. So a VPN is kinda pointless. If you engage with three groups that are in the same village, you’re probably someone from that village, you know.

You also don’t need to clean cookies, because closing the browser clears the cookies, that’s what private browsing is for. But even without private browsing, you should have a global sensible cookie policy that only accepted cookies from whitelisted sites, and for those sites, doesn’t allow them to see cookies they didn’t give you.

On the last point: The most sensible and important thing to worry about here is fingerprinting. Using a different device for every service is an effective way to combat that. It’s not very practical, but specifically using your work phone that you use for other local services, to me makes a lot of sense.

a similar number of Hamas fighters have been killed during that period, the sources said

Now call me conspiratorial if you want, but I think this messaging is actually a sneaky lie to explain why they’ve killed a quarter million civilians and somewhere around zero combatants.

I’m really underwhelmed by 32B Qwen DeepSeek R1. Both in its reasoning and knowledge. Still haven’t needed to or tested it at maths, so maybe that’s where it really shines.

Friendship ended with Nazi company. Now the Nazi country is my best friend.

Show me where the ICC charged Biden

The USA says they will kill everyone who works at the ICC if they charge Biden. I imagine you’re no fan of the ISIL caliph, but you wouldn’t tell him to his face. Biden laps his kill-count during his morning coffee.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

There’s an ongoing genocide and nobody is fighting it or even condemning it, bar a few weak powers like Yemen, DPRK, South Africa.

The EU countries had a chance to cleanly decouple from the USA and mostly continue being neocolonialist and subsidised in the same ways, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Probably could’ve corrected it with the correct diplomacy or just looking the other way. Now the integration with the USA has been strengthened and all the messaging needs to be slowly undone and pivoted if we don’t want to sink together. And even then no one will be able to trust us. Trust matters more for financial and service industries than it does for manufacturing economies.

Maybe USA in their stupidity will try to cut us loose, and we can be forced into a miraculous late pivot just in time. Israel’s genocide crusade was a perfect excuse to aggressively decouple, since by Oct 2023 it was obvious USA lost. But we didn’t take it, getting to be Nazi’s again was too nice a treat I guess. So it’s perfectly possible USA starts exploiting us worse, and we just decide to cope with a lowered vassal tier status rather than actually clawing back some sovereignty. And the obvious result of that of course is more allies and members will want their own sovereignty enforced, and will break with or be pushed out of the EU-unity, which will make the remaining partners even weaker.

You know China can just buy your data, right? It’s easier than entering a monopoly and beating the dominant player.

The user’s library of apps are Windows apps. And Windows does support Linux programs. There are versions of Windows that don’t technically have it enabled by default, but it’s easy to install support. It has a built in command “wsl --install”, and a button in the store and start-menu. And for most users who get a pre-configured image from IT or their laptop manufacturer it’s pre-installed.

I really don’t get this community’s insistence on getting people to use Linux no matter how much destruction they bring. Steam games on Linux are not what anyone has in mind when they say Linux doesn’t have games. Because Linux isn’t binary compatibility, it’s libre software.

In my circles, if someone says “Linux such and such”, we assume they might be referring to their FreeBSD computer as well. Here it seems Linux is more likely to refer to Android. Emulating a sketchy Windows game doesn’t make Linux the better platform for games. The Windows games are always going to be best on Windows, and now your Linux computer has malware on it.

Israel is the poster-child of Rules Based Order. Rules Based Order isn’t international law, it’s the west’s stand-in for, allusion to, international law. So they can’t be held to account when violating international law, and can accuse others of breaking the rules when they haven’t broken international law.

Almost as scummy as the concept of a YouTuber using affiliate links.

It’s completely open to Microsoft and the NSA for sure.

I don’t think it’s “Trump” thing, but the USA will probably start arresting people for the media they consume if a rapidly growing and sufficiently large portion of their citizenry spread and consume messaging they disagree with. It’ll be a side-effect of losing the narrative war. I don’t foresee it happening in the next 4 years.

I don’t see the point in publicising it. From a PR perspective, “Posted illegal content using a platform frequented by terrorists” is less likely to meet resistance than “Commented🔻on Instagram”. In fact, USA propaganda is already full of vagueties about people’s online behaviour today. Usually in the form of reporting on foreign (enemy) policing as “Helpless teen (19) arrested (fined) for Tweet (Bomb-threat to head of state)”.

I agree with you, but to be fair, people don’t really choose an email provider. They chose gmail, because anything else is disallowed by everyone’s anti-spam measures.

Where’s the contradiction? “Putin” is fighting Azov. Or they were, until Azov retreated behind conscripts.

(Russia’s stated goals from the day of the invasion https://www.rt.com/russia/550466-putin-ukraine-opeartion-goals/ (Demilitarising Ukraine was the priority with denazifying as a secondary goal))

Look at this fascist bleeding.

Pretty sure that’s a taxi.