@nixCraft Non-AMP link (don't give Google any more leverage!)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116896640823481735

Exactly this. Though at the same time, _anything_ that helps break the Google monopoly on search is a good thing at this point.

@x_cli @khm @kunev @mcc I'm going to trust cryptographers on this one:
https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/

Also, if they routinely lied about what metadata they had, they would literally go to jail. So maybe they're not lying? I also don't know which subcontractors you're talking about.

@khm @kunev @mcc Signal, for all of its flaws (and I definitely count centralized among those flaws, along with requiring a phone number), is a good app. It largely works, protects my information, doesn't collect shit, is open source, and takes on the big guys with way less funding. Maybe let's not shit on the one messaging app to take on vastly shittier alternatives and actually *succeed* (to some extent) with normies?

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@khm @kunev @mcc That's not really fair considering the costs that Session paid (they got rid of PFS, for example) and Session is...about to die in < 90 days.

Signal, meanwhile, literally has the gold standard of encryption and is designed so that we largely don't have to trust the server.

Federation is nice because of the properties it brings, but it also has trade-offs. Sometimes, those trade-offs don't always make sense or the benefits are overridden by the costs.

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@AngelaScholder @aral I hope you have never, ever made a typo in your life. Especially when you're under tons of stress and dealing with life-threatening shit.

Context matters here, holy shit.

@mason Has anything meaningfully changed since this analysis by @soatok? https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/

@glitzersachen @timnitGebru No, it historically is (hence January 6 2021 was a huge deal).

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn @elfin Yo. Anti-caste Brahmin here.

STFU and stop advocating for ICE to come after Indians, holy shit. I don't care if they're the most virulently casteist Brahmins on the planet (I know a bunch), *no one* should be subjected to ICE's horrors.

Discrepancy is real, but that means we fight to ensure others aren't treated horribly.

People are literally *dying* in ICE custody. STFU.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn @elfin To put it bluntly, I don't want *anyone* being picked up by ICE, no matter how shitty their paperwork. I believe immigration irregularities used to be a *civil* (not criminal) violation before the DHS was created. So yeah, saying you wish ICE would go after *anyone*, no matter how much you despise them or their views, is a shitty take.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn @elfin
> But yeah I have yet to hear of them picking up any Indians in Redmond. Shame really...

Please tell me how I'm supposed to read this any way *other than* I wish ICE would pick up (read: throw in detention camps) Indians living in Redmond.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn I 100% guarantee that if ICE did a sweep and saw me, they would come after me. Even though I was born here and brought up here. Why? Because I'm brown and have a "funny name".

I get that you want to pretend as though this recent stuff is ICE messing up their job, but I *guarantee* you they've been terrorizing black and brown people ever since they were created. That *is* their job.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn If your problem is that ICE isn't "doing their job properly", I'm sorry but we're not on the same side. ICE *is* doing their job - their job is to brutalize and terrorize non-white people who look like they could be foreign. And they've been doing that since day *ONE*. Pretending as though them not going after Indians is them not doing their job properly is just...wrong.

@skinnylatte @index Dietary prefs (vegan) is def top of the list for me! Esp b/c I don't have enough cultural context to make inferences like I can in India.

@skinnylatte https://jmp.chat

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115227429617220798

Exactly. Dems are feckless, GOP is fascist. Such a wonderful political system we have.

@lindsey @skinnylatte might have suggestions?

@jwilker @scifi @bookstodon Only if DRM-free.

Signal is one of the most important anticapitalist tools we have right now. It's FLOSS, free to use, privacy-preserving, and run by a (real - looking at you Mozilla) nonprofit. But that doesn't reduce the bills Signal has to pay to make the service work: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

I know several people here have issues with Signal's centralized nature, but it's the gold standard in encrypted messaging for a reason. Go donate if you can - we all deserve privacy.

'Science' is not neutral because 'science' is conducted by humans and humans have biases, period. The good thing about science is *not* that it's neutral but that it provides a mechanism for accountability.

As long as you have humans in the equation (and *yes*, that includes humans training AIs, motherfuckers), there *will* be bias. There *will* be narrative selection. And y'all should think a *lot* before unquestioningly using it to shut down trans and nb requests for inclusivity.