Yes it uses your phone number. You now have the option to use a username though.

Personally, while I totally understand the criticism, this is not an attack vector I am concerned with. I want a private messenger that hides the content and metadata of my messages from ad companies, spying neighbors, and the government. Signal does all of this.

Thats bullshit. From what I gather these pagers went out a long time ago, and Isntreal has no way of knowing who is around them when they explode.

Out of the (I’m going to guess) 10,000 people maimed, dismembered, or injured in these two terrorists attacks, how many of them were innocent children and complete bystanders? Isntreal might not be targeting noncombatants, but its sure as fuck killing them, maiming them, and just generally ruining their lives. And its that indiscretion and complete lack of concern that is morally repugnant.

Fuck Isreal.

Ah, I always assumed it didn’t actually do anything. That would be a very 4chan thing to say; “download this widget to totally pwn the man” and it doesn’t even do anything haha.

Oh man I forgot about LOIC haha. Did that actually do anything?

No, you get spam because the email protocol doesn’t stop spam. You could create a new email address but then you have to give that to everyone who might not appreciate yet another contact method they have to remember for you.

I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure DeltaChat uses PGP, which leaks all of your metadata to your email provider, ISP, and governments. It isnt private but is secure.

These days the best thing you can do is use Signal.

Cool concept but really sucks if you’re the only recipient using DeltaChat. Plus it comes with all the privacy drawbacks of email. And I get tons and tons of spam so anything I actually care about is quickly buried.

Nice

One summer when I was a teenager, my friends and I decided to take a road trip to the next town over. We packed up my old beat-up car and set off, eager for a day of adventure and mischief. As we cruised down the highway, windows down and music blaring, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of freedom and excitement. Little did I know that our carefree jaunt would take an unexpected turn in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

You know, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Helix; if it gets more people using modal editors then I’m all for it. Personally though, I haven’t seen a convincing reason to leave Vim yet.

The biggest reason though is that my editor works literally everywhere. Even without my custom vimrc, vanilla vim is hugely powerful, and to have that on every random server I need to access is a gamechanger for me. Even if all you have is Vi, you still have a very capable editor available.

I mean uh… Crushed by a boulder! Which on Lemmy means you’ll be downvoted into oblivion until they run you off the instance haha.

I think different people enjoy different social media types. I don’t really “get” microblogging either but there’s no denying its hugely popular.

:h pry

You can pry Vim from my cold dead hands.

Yeah bro its totally a peace symbol bro. No way just wear it around town and anyone that assumes you’re a Nazi is a total mouth breather lol.

I definitely did, and thats what made leaving so hard. I trusted the people around me, and they were telling me all kinds of things, so of course it is true. The indoctrination starts before critical thinking develops, so its just built into the firmware of your brain, you know?

What a fuckin weirdo

This is my story too. Leaving Christianity behind has been an amazing and humbling experience.

Claude 3 nailed it on the first try

How does it compare to logseq? Are there backrefs and queries?

In terms of precision, I’m pretty sure LIGO is the most accurate measuring device ever created, and its not even close.

IIRC it can measure fluctuations in spacetime half the width of a proton at the distance of the diameter of our solar system.

It also hasn’t found magic energy crystals or whatever, but I’m just typing.