KryptKey is much easier than Kleopatra. It works as a keyboard and encrypts and decrypts on the fly. It’s a powerful local too that’s very usable. Kleopatra is great for people who can learn the OPSEC but it may not be great for have a quick back and forth text message discussion.

It’s better to use SXC to protect metadata or Signal (if they can’t get in) to protect metadata. Texts show who is chatting with who. PGP also has a more identifiable structure and they could ban PGP and then scan for it easily based on PGP headers. KryptKey is more censorship resistant because the outputs can’t be scanned for as easily since data can be encrypted with normal words.

I get the point but this post is more geared towards communities who could be targeted by ice and may/may not get a tip-off ice is in the area

The post is also geared towards a future in which trans people are rounded up for required mental health assesments, and since definitions of mental health disorders are so arbitrary and often have psuedoscientific reasons for their criteria, that would be scary for trans people.

Protesting is great, but the religious idiots outnumber the nonreligious idiots. I’m not sure signs and yelling will deprogram cult members.

Please stop saying sacreligious comments like this. It’s offensive to religious people.

Most people are attracted to others or not attracted to other based on visual information and pheromone information. Then secondarily, people become more or less attracted to someone based on personality.

So if your personality is not dominant and comes across as submissive or mild, that really probably has zero impact at all on the initial attraction of others.

Oh, that is a cool idea. AITA-Bot or Human edition

He may have made a calculation about this not based on money and can’t disclose it without altering the calculation.

Example:

Scenario 1: Tell Trump to fuck off for treatment of transgender people. Result: Trump using monopoly power to break up Facebook, truth social increases in power, no way to monitor hate groups effectively

Scenario 2: Pretend to agree with Trump and move hard right, monitor hate groups, come back slowly center in subtle ways, no rise in Truth Social users, ability to shape acceptance over time

Even with fuck you money, saying fuck you makes scenario 2 possible. Say what you want avout Zuckerberg, but he’s no idiot. If I as an indifferent person can do a simple decision tree example in 3 seconds in my head, imagine how much he analyzed such a big decision.

My point is Facebook sucks because they make it almost impossible for users to use Facebook without submitting to surveillance capitalism and ban people without giving them recourse in a mean shitty way. He must be aware of that and for allowing that, he sucks. And as a US company that is likely in bed with surveillance capitalism and the intelligence community, their “private” ways of verifying individuals is unlikely to be private, and they offer no alternative. So he sucks for that, but I’m not sure he specifically sucks for this reason. He’s even heavily implying strategic thinking is requiring him to do things he otherwise wouldn’t and can’t discuss it without altering the outcome.

Whether the end never justifies the means (same “we won’t vote for Kamala because of Gaza stance” mindset) is better ethically even if impractical is another debate.

i am so glad linux has gotten so much better

i missy clippy

it was the only good thing to ever come out of windows

I don’t know Langchain or Python (sadly)

windows box? ew were you using windows? why?

Hooray!

look everyone, i figured it out using various methods, i’m a programmer now

https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/the-erasure-of-luigi-mangione

even if you disagree with what he did, luigi is someone who was in horrible emotional pain due to an injury and was once someone who did code and contributed to the site. big tech erasing people from history because they can is disgusting and should be called out for what it is. luigi was not always injured, in horrible pain, and accused of a serious crime. just making it seem like he didn’t exist is pure sleaze and kowtowing to the elite corporate interests that absolutely hate how certain segments of society like him. it’s a great example of why big tech controlled by oligopolies and concentrated power is a horrible way for the public to interact with the internet. whether or not you support or condemn what he did, erasing people (albeit through “private” oligopolies) is similar to what the worst government censors did in very hash regimes.

I don’t know if that’s actually true. If I’m 5’2" and uncoordinated will I ever become a professional basketball player? I try to be honest with myself about my strengths and weaknesses. For me, just stopping windows was the victory.

i’m willing to try new things. how can i help?

Thank you! There are two different kinds of people in the world. There are those great at coding and those great at watching netflix and doing whip-its.

edit: actually this torrent downloads ubuntu-22.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso, which isn’t the latest LTS version (which is 24.01.1). It’s probably good enough, but part of the challenge in this was to always torrent the latest one.

does anyone know why ubuntu-latest.torrent would try to download 22 instead of 24 LTS?

Well when I asked DeepSeek, because you can see it thinking, you sort of see it trying to please the user and deal with the censors and political environment lurking in the background, it’s like instead of just thinking it has to sort of do this dance of politeness to not upset the censors. I even cut and pasted information from Wikipedia about it and it was like “no, I need official sources” so I cut and pasted the bibliography part from Wikipedia and it was like “the user is crazy and making up official sources” (jk). It said something else, but it was odd that when even when given overwhelming information, it seemed almost afraid to budge or purposely stupid. It seemed like “official sources” was the slang it used for government-approved information, just like “misinformation” in the US often meant during the Biden administration “not approved by the US administration.” (Although misinformation was sometimes applied to false things, people got banned on Facebook for saying the lab leak theory when saying anything other than “it came from a bat” was misinformation and they had said scientists had done genetic tests proving it came from the bat, gain-of-function covid lab next to the market be damned.)

you’re probably right

i’m trying to force a tool I have to do something it’s not capable of doing. I either have to abandon this or learn more bash scripting. It’s probably not something important enough to have a script for, it’s just surprising it can’t be done because it seems like such an easy task.

secretlyaddictedtodick

when i first started linuxing linux, i tried to read man man, but it was over 700 lines

my primary linux skills are whip-its and watching netflix. i’m sort of at the lower-skill end of the linux userbase. i don’t know if there’s any way to every change that, so why try?

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