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Submission + - How Signal's CEO Remembers SignalGate: 'No Fucking Way' (wired.com)

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.

...In fact, Signal’s user numbers grew by leaps and bounds, both in the US and around the world. It’s growth that, Whittaker thinks, is coming at a time when “people are feeling in a much deeper, much more personal way why privacy might be important.”

Comment Re:The problem with swatting is not the callers (Score 1) 110

by echo123 (#65628170) Attached to: 'Swatting' Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating

The main problem with swatting is not the people making the calls.

The underlying problem is the police can be wielded like a weapon that is likely to get someone killed.

If the police were trigger happy thugs, desperate to play soldier with military surplus toys while being almost completely immune from consequences, then there would be no swatting.

"but the swatters are guilty of attempted murder"

sure, but the real problem is the police are a ready tool of murder.

...but also it is very much probable that *much* of the swatting originates from nation states that will us harm. This is text book motivated mayhem for these entities.

I am currently too fatigued to provide citations.

Comment The US is not a stable energy investment (Score 3, Informative) 44

by echo123 (#65627200) Attached to: Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years

We have a lot of options for power these days. There is no excuse to move from coal or gas. We have been doing so in many nations, and its time we complete the project.

They're just waiting for the tax breaks and subsidies they need to be able to make it financially viable, like Mitsubishi's recent withdrawal from the wind projects it had been involved in -- citing an inability to make the projects economically viable, even at strike prices of $140 to $200 per MWh.

Last week the Trump administration cancelled a half billion dollar project off the coasts of Rhode Island and Connecticut that's 80% complete and was scheduled to go online next Spring. He's similarly cancelled two other large East Coast wind projects that were well underway.

Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that’s nearly complete

Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects

Wind Power in Crisis After Trump’s Move, It’s the Planet, Stupid! -- Belinda Waymouth interview

Comment TRX is a realistic alternative gym (Score 1, Interesting) 77

It has been my experience that a simple TRX unit can replace a whole lotta gym. But even TRX units are overpriced. Look at Decathlon's own.

Just search YouTube to learn how to use it.

There's advantages and disadvantages to everything. Paying for and cancelling gym memberships suck.

Comment Re: The AI is not the problem (Score 1) 93

I totally committed to the free Dutch course and I liked it until I grew to hate it due to meaningless, endless repetition I perceived only as existing to up-sell the paid version to me. While DuoLingo states language learning is their mission and I appreciate their need to be profitable, (or become a non-profit), I canceled out of frustration due to wasting sooo much time and energy time on inanely repetitive lessons. The phrase, "een wafel is beter dan drie boterham", will trigger me due to said repetition and my desire for sanity and peace.

Comment Re:It won't last (Score 0) 33

by echo123 (#65594492) Attached to: OpenAI's GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use

its a whole new ballgame for developers. For one thing, I don't get stuck like before on technical problems even after googling with determination for a lengthy amount of time.

You mean it's a whole new ballgame for grossly incompetent developers, like yourself, who can't handle technical problems simple enough for a stochastic parrot to handle, even given unfettered access to the internet.

If AI makes you a better developer, you shouldn't be a developer.

So you've never swung for the fences and struck out. Cool. You must be awesome.

Comment Re:It won't last (Score 2) 33

by echo123 (#65594206) Attached to: OpenAI's GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use

I've said it before but it's going to become increasingly difficult to get the training data.

Your concern is a non-issue for open-source developers, because of all of the code and documentation online at places like Github, etc. At least that's been my experience for quite a while now. Technically speaking, its a whole new ballgame for developers. For one thing, I don't get stuck like before on technical problems even after googling with determination for a lengthy amount of time.

Comment nerdvittles + BulkVS rock! (Score 1) 55

by echo123 (#65566152) Attached to: Engineer Restores Pay Phones For Free Public Use

This will be abused in a nanosecond and then he'll claim he doesn't understand why people are so terrible.

NPR isn't exactly news for tech nerds, so some technical details might be light. The article seems to address everything is a volunteer effort for the community, including refurbishing old pay phones while it doesn't address the cost of using the PSTN network, (or internet connection).

I just came here to say I was forced to leave my prior PSTN provider a year or two ago so I switched to BulkVS and I can see why this particular tech nerd doesn't mind something like a Netflix subscription cost to support and volunteer for his community.

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