What are your thoughts on NovaCustom?

Lenovo X1 Carbon for mainstream. NovaCustom for small business.

No, it gives usernames in addition to phone numbers. They refuse to remove the phone number requirement. How else could they help the feds identify your account?

Omg thank you. On Lineage, its under Buttons -> Volume Buttons -> Control Playback

See, this is the benefit of stem cells. I was able to cut off my face a few years back and now I have several copies of it that I grew and surgically attached to my doubles.

I will as soon as its added to the main fdroid repo

Wire is the best for security (it literally won’t let you send messages unencrypted), cost (its free), privacy (no phone number required), and usability for the masses (Foss client on all the platforms, messages sync between each client like you’d expect)

I haven’t found anything that checks all those boxes other than Wire (though I do wish we had other options that came close)

https://Wire.com

Fortunately we have folks like Freedom of the Press Foundation, who provide trainings to journalists

It doesn’t exist. The devs said they won’t make clients sync by design. And that means I will never use SimpleX because its a required feature for me (and most other people).

I don’t think you need AI for this problem

How do you turn that off? Its so fucking frustrating when I’m really digging what I’m listening to, so crank up the volume – only to have it skip to the next track!!

Ive searched the app settings and can’t find how to disable this. Its maddening!

You could also add telemetry. If >50% of your users all skip in the same spot, its an ad break

This doesn’t affect non-profit companies, who legally cannot have anyone who takes profits away from the company.

For profit companies should be illegal

I mean, usually when I download podcasts there’s just 5 or so ads that get injected over-and-over. I don’t think it would be too complicated to have some software recognizes the length of an ad, and that it occurs >2x in a file, and then just mark that section as “ad” and auto skip over it

Lol OK. Every US company has to legally provide their private keys (or a subordinate CA) to the US government if asked, due to NSL laws. We have examples of the US doing this historically, only because some companies broke the law and spoke out publicly.

So go ahead and remove all CAs issued from US companies. Verisign, cloudflare, akamai, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.

Now 80% of the Internet is broke.

DigiCert isn’t the only one. There’s a bunch of others. Just google “Mozilla CA removed” or “google CA removed”

Here’s a couple more examples, but this sort of thing happens all the time, because X.509 is just a terrible design that breaks https

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/cyber-mercenary-groups-shouldnt-be-trusted-your-browser-or-anywhere-else

IVPN, AirVPN, cryptostorm

So does Wire. The reason Wire is better than Signal and Telegram is privacy.

The reason Wire is better than SimpleX is usability. Namely, it has clients on all platforms, and the messages sync between all those devices.

There is such a thing as credibility. You can extend trust to others that have credibility. For example, security audits from companies that are credible. Or, you use an app because a trustworthy techie friend of yours says they’re safe.

But a prerequisite in all these cases is going to be FOSS code and client side encrypt.

Are you mad? The phone number tells you what phone company to call. In most countries, that tells them your name and government ID.

The phone number is the thing that tells them everything about you.