This is kind of useless fear-mongering suited to no one’s threat model.

Are messages truly E2EE and they don’t share meta data? Yes? Then you’re fine. It needs a phone number for registration? OK, well buy a burner SIM card (you of course have several, right?) to register it if you’re that worried. Because if you’re already at a level where you’re THAT concerned about your phone number pinging for using a widely popular messaging app, then you have lost the game by even having a phone or sending messages to other humans who are the weakest link in the security chain anyway.

Considering that the Feds tried to make some government-compliant front end for Signal for idiot Hegseth to use to talk about national security stuff with the Vice President, I’d say that it’s probably fine for you to buy weed or whatever.

I know, the point is that you’re broadcasting over the radio that you’re encrypting the data over the one medium were it’s illegal to encrypt the data because the FCC thinks it’s still 1989 or whatever when it comes to amateur radio. So it’s not just that you’re doing something illegal, you’re using a registered call sign and a really loud, easily triangulatable signal to do it. It’s like putting a movie poster-sized sign on your fence that says “Rattlesnake venom for sale, inquire within.” It’s not a sustainable practice.

Ultimately, the amateur radio crowd needs to get this law 47 CFR 97.113 changed to allow an exception for encrypted internet over radio and allow for modern communications standards. Personally, I expect that it would only take one House Rep willing to score any sort of win with rural voters for this to work right now.

Encryption using IP over HAM is still illegal - you can’t access Lemmy because it’s an HTTPS site, because we live in the 21st century.

There’s no rules. Millennials are called that because they hit adulthood around 1999-2001ish. So all children in the 90s.

I’m saying they’re both somewhat right. Being correct about something subjective isn’t 100% black and white.

Twitter is going to give us full Dead Internet theory. The only real humans left on there see all the bots and can’t tell them apart because the people are idiots in the first place.

That being said, Bluesky seems to be 30% bots when I rarely get on it, and maybe I’m just not seeing the daily active users, but my spouse just stopped checking it because nothing punching her cortisol button was happening there.

You can have them pull a little carriage if you spend about 3 months training them to deal with the sound behind them and harness.

I have family that tried this because they “gOt a gUd dEaL!” on a wagon with car tires (part of their apocalypse prepping stuff) and ended up getting a mule because none of their 3 horses could stand the wagon.

I thought that was only the dragons fucking cars thing.

This is how I feel with just my spouse. Spotify absorbs so much ADD energy and immediate new music whiplash that I can’t help but be OK with it.

The alternative is to be up at 4:00am on Oct 13 ripping T-Swizzle MP3s from YT.

it all equals 3

Not saying there’s no benefits, I’m saying that it’s not all benefits. I’ve just seen horses do idiot things and almost kill themselves and spook and be the generally panicky prey animals that they are.

Plus, how the hell am I supposed to tie a free couch I found on the side of the road to the top of a horse and get that home?

Yeah, but that’s just rude to not let them stop. It’s more comfortable for them if the rider leans forward in the saddle (so I was taught growing up)

It’s clear none of you all have dealt with horses IRL.

If you shake a plastic bag at a car, it doesn’t spook and run over 4 kids and then crash into a wall. A car doesn’t randomly decide to eject you into the street. A car doesn’t stop to poop. I love horses, but c’mon.

There’s a slightly better balance with consistency for men’s clothes because styles and patterns don’t need to change as frequently.

That being said, it varies by brand and varies more when the brand is lower quality. Old Navy clothes might as well be sized “No way,” “I dunno,” “maybe, well, no,” and “Woah, way too big.” But something higher end like BR will be consistent with themselves on things like jeans that rarely change. All the people in some sweatshop in Bangladesh have the patterns down doing the same thing for years.

Earlier today I saw a farmer driving a station wagon full of sunflowers to the market. This was basically in my rearview mirror, except the old guy’s nose was red.

I thought they started shadow banning anyone talking about Lemmy at one point?

It’s like Gemini is Clippy if he transcended is original form.

This is the point, isn’t it?

Lock down their own ecosystem because they’re jealous of how Apple does it, so they can herd all users into their walled garden. Then close the gates behind them. There’s no easy way out, you can’t just wander back and forth anymore. You have to scale a wall in the dead of night and shed a tear as you look back and see everyone else having a lovely life, then set off into the dark forest of privacy on your own.

People hate friction in the first place. This is as much friction as they can realistically make on their own without triggering anti-trust cases and EU fines.

I dunno…

looks at pile of discarded lint rollers covered in saliva

Lightly used lint roller and wet tongue? Fuzzy and tacky but slippery. Unless you dry out your tongue first, then it’ll just stick in a weird and unsatisfying way.