OMEMO (Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0384) used AES-128-GCM, but later versions (0.4.0) moved to AES-256-CBC + HMAC-SHA-256, aligning more closely with Signal's approach. However, a recent change in the OMEMO specification (Version 0.7.0) introduced the truncation of the HMAC-SHA-256 authentication tag to 128 bits, which weakens the security. Also contact lists are stored in plain text, as is the information concerning whom the messages are address to and from. But at least unlike Signal it can be self-hosted and if you're using a server which you own/trust for both sender and receiver, that mitigates the issue somewhat. However again, as I said, the cross-platform client-side support is a dumpster fire which makes it nearly impossible to get regular people to use it.
> metadata leakage is no better or worse than delta chat
Fair enough. But again, it doesn't require a cellphone number, and it can be self-hosted.
None that I have much direct experience with, because not enough geek/privacy-conscious friends willing to use them. However at face value, Threema, SimpleX, DeltaChat ... none of those have any requirement to provide personally identifying information.
I would ideally include XMPP+OMEMO too, but the client-side cross-platform support is absolute garbage, and the crypto is quite outdated. Also it only protects the message content, not the metadata. But at least it's been around forever, is based on open standards, and has formed the backbone of many other chat platforms over it's history. So still worth an honourable mention, even if not a recommendation.
This explains why when I'm around Xtians it's basically just a countdown until one of them says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." or similar shit. In an ideal world, I'd have a pyre in the backyard to burn them at the stake every time I heard that. I could run an power plant off the thermal energy and go off-grid.
Damn! I just checked and turns out there're currently 112 international retards who want to see the shit I post. Dafuq?? I can only guess that about 100 are fed bots...
I don't think that's really changed a whole lot personally. Apart from the odd village cunning men/women in places were that's the time honoured tradition, the English Pagan witch phenomenon was always mainly centred around private covens where the members wanted to stay under the radar to avoid persecution and only disclosed their spiritual practice to other practitioners. Since Gardner it's more out in the open and a lot more solitaires (mainly thanks to Cunningham), but many folks still prefer to stay out of public view. In my own lineage people pride themselves on being "hidden children" of the Gods. That's the tradition. Unless making money off it as a psychic reader, or herbalist or such like, then there's little reason to advertise. Even a herbalist doesn't have to identify as a priest/witch to do the job effectively.
Notwithstanding that there are countless other types of folk healer/magician among groups like the Pennsylvania Dutch (braucherei, hexerei), Appalachians/Ozarks/Bayou (treaters, etc), Eastern European people (molfar, etc), or African Diaspora, etc where their craft is often heavily synchronised with Christinanity (which itself provides some protection from persecution) and almost entirely unrelated to Traditional Wicca/Witchcraft from the British Isles. For Pagans though it's generally better/safer to keep things under your hat and only deal with people who intentionally seek you out and pass vetting. Otherwise it's just a huge can of worms that's more often than not, unworthy of the asinine bullshit involved. Seeking public attention has more to do with LARP'ing and flossing the ego than it does anything practically related to the craft itself.
The word "fae" and "faerie/fairy" actually comes originally from the Latin word "fate", referring to the 3 Fates, which are spin offs on the Moirai and various other IndoEuropean personifications of time. So .. technically the Irish culturally appropriated it from the Romans... 😜
My personal favourite personifications are the Norns, because their names are cool. Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld (literally: happened, happening, and "should" happen ... 3 very happening babes).
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⚡Lord of Misrule⚡Canadian politicians are delusional if they think that retaliatory tariffs are doing to have any effect. The trade relationship between USA and Canada is completely asymmetrical. The US have no significant dependency on trade with Canada which can't be replaced with US goods. The only serious exception to that is electricity which we supply to the northern US states and then for bazaar reasons then later buy back at more expensive rates. In fact we do that with a lot of things we supply to the USA, which is frankly retarded.
Nor is Trump likely to see the error of his ways and reverse course on the tariffs. It's not his personality type. He's a narcissist. There's zero chance he'll ever admit being wrong even when he clearly is. In my view the best course of action would be to take this opportunity to wean the Canadian economy off of it's dependence on the USA, and then eliminate all trade with the USA 100% until they fucking smarten up or elect someone with more a respectful and cooperative attitude. And we should start doing that immediately with our energy supplies.
Ezra Levant (Revel News) was the Canadian equivalent of this, which makes it very ironic that he was so on board with the Truckers protest. In every other protest in history that he's covered he's been first up to vilify the protesters with every smear and trick in the book.
You mean the Truckers? I dunno. I thought the bouncy castle was kinda based. The grandstanding and infighting by protest `leaders` was nothing new though. But just like every other protest I've been aware/part of, the way the MSM covered it was absolutely backwards compared to the reality on the ground. After seeing that enough times you just realise that the politicians and MSM are 100% lying pieces of shit who have no desire to listen to their constituents (at least those who aren't big corporate lobbyists able to pay bribes).
Even if you're a sovereign unceded first nation who never had a treaty with "Canada Inc.", they will vilify you as terrorists and send the RCMP and private merc's to oust you from your own land.
All while crying "Russian invasion!!" out the other side of their mouth.
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