It’s not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.

College / university in many countries.

In the US at least, its become such a parasitic industry, with tuition fees rising exponentially and far exceeding wage rates and job availability, that it accounts for a large portion of most people’s personal debt.

With so many applicants for so few jobs, a college degree is the new highschool diploma / “minimum requirement” for nearly every job now. 1 / 4 US adults have student loan debt, with an average of 40k in student loans.. Nothing is putting the brakes on degree inflation, tuition, or the student loan industry.

The US federal government also makes a killing off of student loan interest fees, most of which is going to the MIC and Israel.

They’ve made the product they’re selling you (a degree), both required, and extremely expensive; the ultimate goal of any parasitic industry. Its a dream for state and private colleges, the US government and its military, and a nightmare for people either without a job, or chained to their desks for fear of losing their job and getting further behind on loan payments.

All about eve

Signal DOES have my phone number but they can’t tell my government anything other than yes I use Signal yes I connected to it today

This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension, as well as those of everyone you communicate with.

They’re also subject to national security letters, meaning the US state can get that info without a warrant.

Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.

The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.

The full picture is that Signal has the most important piece of information you can give anyone online: your phone number (which means your real name and current address). Also that they’re hosted in the US and have close links to the US defense industry.

People are not as stupid as these large centralized sites like signal keep telling you they are. Ppl figured out how to make accounts on different services, forums, and platforms since the internet began. It is no more difficult to make a matrix account, or install simpleX than it is anything else. My partner and I figured out simplex within 10 minutes.

none of this information ever leaves your client device, so

The phone number you gave to signal to sign up never left your device? Do you truly believe that?

When you send a message through signal, do you actually think “nothing” left your device?

These are all “trust me bro” claims.

Give me ssh access to their server so I can verify that this “sealed sender” is working correctly and not using the info you already gave them. We would demand this transparency of open source messengers, so why not signal?

when it doesn’t know who sent any message

They have your phone number. You gave it to them when you signed up.

which group chats you’re in

Signal wouldn’t know how to route messages if it didn’t store this info.

Signal stores, and has access to, no message metadata.

Phone numbers are the most important metadata you can give them, far more important than message content. It means your real identity / name and address. With phone numbers you can build social networking graphs: who talked to who, and when.

To be convinced of this, take a look at the client source code, and compile the app yourself.

Client source code is irrelevant here. Signal is a centralized service, you can’t verify what their US-based server is actually running (although they did go a full year without publishing any server updates at one point, until they received a lot of backlash for it).

None of this information ever leaves your phone without being encrypted or otherwise masked.

You gave them your phone number / real identity when you signed up. The most important piece of info they could possibly give them, you already did.

PRODUCT PITCH: Hey everyone, I have a great idea for a secure / private messaging service.

It’s hosted in the US, subject to its pervasive spying laws including national security letters.

Also I need all your phone numbers.

Also no you can’t host this yourself, I run the only server.

Everyone who uses signal and supports it, is falling for this pitch.

Why not signal?

Signal clients implement the Pond protocol. As a result, Signals servers know who a message is for (obviously, how else do you get the message) but cannot know who it is FROM.

Give me ssh access to signal’s centralized US-hosted server so I can verify this (IE that their centralized DB doesn’t store).

Otherwise this is a “trust me bro” claim, considering they have the phone numbers of everyone who signed up, and are the routing service for the messages you send.

Yes, specifically NATO operations, not necessarily ones that NATO members took part in.

A civilian means a non-combatant.

Rule 1… do they think it’s racist to be against NATO now lol. Probably including “anti-white” in their definition of bigotry.

Nice, the top link is a good list, although it feels like there are a lot of interventions are missing.

I’ve also heard the estimates for total casualties of the US/NATO war on Iraq to be ~1M people, but that could be including other deaths related from the infrastructure collapse caused by the war.

Almost entirely overlapping, especially since many of NATO’s ops are in Africa, when it’s focus is supposed to be limited to Europe.

Incredible things are happening with termux.

No probs. Why not, do they have you blocked, or did piefed code in a Cowbee filter 🤣

This is the right answer. The PRC doesn’t let US surveillance giants operate within their country like most other countries naively do.

NoWayKnowHow - The firewall is good actually

You can curate your own feed: use the block button for any communities you don’t want to see.

As for why there’s a lot of politics on lemmy: The west’s leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.