Consider that your the french intelligence services and you need to setup secure communication for the french government.

• Would you use signal out of the box? Clearly not.
• Would you copy signal and setup your own servers and clients, same source, different end-points? Probably not.

If you said yes to either of the above, what if you were not a ally of the US, maybe Russia, China, DPRK… Does that change your answer?

What capabilities does the runner of a centralized service have?

• See all traffic
• Can block traffic
• Can slow traffic
• Can record all traffic
• Timing analysis of metadata

Does this mean Signal is a bad product? No not at all. But it does mean its very well positioned for intelligence harvesting. Add in storing private encryption keys in the cloud SVR relying on intel SGX security… and well… you get everything even decrypted messages.

The US controls Signal, the US controls Intel - Thus the US can get any code they want signed into SGX enclaves, thus the enclaves are pointless if your threat model includes the US as a adversary

Does this mean the protocol should be thrown away? No. Does this mean Signal shouldn’t be used (depends on use case)? No. Signal has value, but its not the ultimate form of privacy and security.

I support projects like Briar because there is till much improvement needed in this space.

Notice: I’m not telling others to “educate yourself”, if I didn’t want to talk to people I wouldn’t be here, or I’d link to the proper discussion. I dislike people who come to social places and act antisocially

• low quality sleep
• missing nutrition
• lack of sunlight
• lack of social interaction
• lack of cardiovascular exercise
• excessive sugar
• excessive inflammation

If any of these are a factor, they could be related to a mental health issue. are you doing all the foundational things? If not, Try that first!

My personal bias, is that nutrition, is the leading cause of modern maladies, including mood issues.

People can certainly use distractions, excitement, to focus on other things. But if alone time with your thoughts is scary, you really need to make sure you’re hitting all of the basics

Depends, are you having problems with your mental health?

If you’re just pursuing new and exciting things, that’s great! But I don’t think you have to justify it through the lens of mental health

You’re letting perfection be the enemy of progress. No there is not a cure-all for depression, because there are many reasons for depression not a single one.

The foundations of health, are what people recommend, because if any of them are out of balance they could lead to mood disorders.

• low quality sleep
• missing nutrition
• lack of sunlight
• lack of social interaction
• lack of cardiovascular exercise
• excessive sugar
• excessive inflammation

If any of these are a factor, they could be related to depression. So the general advice is generally good, hey are you doing all the foundational things? If not, Try that first!

My personal bias, is that nutrition, is the leading cause of modern maladies, including mood issues. So for people who only have the energy to fix one thing, it would recommend fixing their nutrition

Exercise, even just walking, helps with mood

Nutrition has a HUGE impact on the brain and mood. Try to reduce/eliminate sugar consumption

Sleep quality

Sunlight exposure

Social touch points with people in real life

I’ve been using this mouse for almost a year now. No complaints.

Yeah… that is how big empires fall I suppose. complacency

I always thought it was a choice for tdw and heat concerns. Intel tends to run a bit cooler (used to)

We see the convergence of computer and cell phone everyday

Ruddy complexion

Yeah it’s like appealing to authority and social pressure all in one. We already discussed it. Bah.

“friends” watching you stream your game and then soundboard game triggers into voice chat.

Whenever anybody on the internet tells you to educate yourself, but refuses to provide the information they allude to, they’re lying. They know they’re lying.

Signal has issues, like SVR… which are worth discussing on their own without this weird vague eliteism

The number of times Ive said fuck it and just not slept…

the factory must grow!

I JUST left a sauna and I’m reading Lemmy while cooking off. It would be super dangerous to be locked into a sauna. When you hit your limit, you need to cool down, it’s critical. Human bodies are dynamic, so one day you could just be low on electrolytes, or have a mild flu, and you’re limit is much lower than you’re used to.

Factorio will challenge all of your mental capabilities

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption/

Tldr veracrypt

It’s a automated test to see if you will log in to Google or if you walk away.

This is why it’s so inconsistent… It’s only sometimes, it changes if you change browsers or vpn endpoints. They make money from logged out users, so they are testing to see if they can push users into logging in without losing money.

You can just post your XMR address on your profiles and people can just donate directly to your address.

in general the giving block lets some charities receive crypto