Bonus when you disable software flow control: In addition to Ctrl+r to reverse search through commands, you can search forward via Ctrl+s

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Yeah, I’m confused by this video (which is from nearly a year ago, btw). It looks like a gnome shell overview more than anything.

Pretty good privacy. It’s an unexciting name for a public/private key encryption program.

I believe WhatsApp uses the same protocol (or at least the same crypto algorithms), though I’m not sure if they were involved in its development.

Good point on the metadata. Signal has the “sealed sender” thing, which (I think) helps with the metadata problem somewhat.

As the other commenter mentioned, your best bet is being selective about which services you use to communicate.

Unencrypted (plain text) is the worst, since data is easy for a third party to sniff (think of it as a wiretap). For example, HTTP and SMS are unencrypted.

Encrypted is a good start, since third parties can’t sniff your traffic, but the server handling your communications can usually see everything that passes through it. For example, HTTPS is an SSL-encrypted variant of HTTP, and services like Facebook messenger are encrypted, but Facebook can still see all of your messages, since it’s stored on their servers.

End to End Encrypted (E2EE) is the golden standard. Only the endpoints (i.e. you and your friend) can see the content of your messages, and all traffic is encrypted in a way that even the server cannot view it. Signal is end to end encrypted, as are many other modern messaging platforms (WhatsApp is E2EE in theory, as is Google Meet, but we can’t verify this ourselves).

Well, not the highest one. This was a state supreme court, fortunately.

I’m using droidify and couldn’t find signal in there either.

Well good thing I finally realized it wasn’t enabled and set my environment variables to enable it.

As an aside, is digital ID a gating factor in us bring forced to digital currency? Stores are already refusing cash, so we’re practically digital already.

I tend to disagree with a lot of Californian politics, but hot damn are their pro consumer laws the best. Can’t wait for 2026.

Maybe I misinterpreted your original comment. Are you suggesting a that the taxes increase by 10% of the going rate (e.g. 5% -> 5.5%?), or the taxes increase by 10% of the property value (e.g. 5% -> 15%)?

If it’s the latter, then that makes more sense. That would be unsustainable for a landlord, because no way in hell can someone pull an extra 50k out of their ass each year on a 500k home.

> Rent increases to compensate for tax hike

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DDG’s bangs actually use the site’s own search feature though, rather than narrowing the search engine’s results to a given site.

Accidental turbo-dementia

I’ve run plain ol’ openbox without a desktop environment on top of it, and it’s quite nice. IIRC I also had a standalone status bar application, but I can’t remember which one I used.

There are a couple utility programs (obconf and obkey?) that help to configure everything comfortably.

Why not? If you feed the entirety of a given IP (say, every frame in every Star Wars film or show), you could train an AI to produce imagery derived exclusively from copyrighted material.

Based, mostly

You’d be surprised how inept some people can be. Back when I worked in defense, we heard a story about a guy who, while preparing to exfiltrate sensitive data, named the file “data_to_exfiltrate.zip”. What a moron.