Thinkpads are not what they once were. I finally gave up on them, moved over to a Framework, and haven’t regretted it.

Depends on the type of stuffing. On a small, soft one like that, it’s generally fine. Larger stiffer stuffed animals may have a styrofoam core, in which case it depends on the strength of the vacuum pump.

“Demand” was apparently too strong a word. Reading the actual quotes in TFA, they “urge”, “call on”, and “call for” Israel to allow others to mitigate Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. They did get as far as "condemn"ing the murder of journalists, but that’s all.

They request, not demand, and there is no mention of evea slap on the wrist as a consequence when Israel decides to ignore it. The mass murder and starvation of Gazans is much too far along for this kind of toothless statement.

Except that I didn’t accuse you of clickbaiting - I pointed out that the style was similar and has unfortunate consequences. Because the headlines we’re used to reading are so pervasively clickbait, it’s an easy trap to fall into because that’s how we’re used to seeing things titled.

Edit: On rereading my comment - yeah, that did come off pretty confrontational. Signal gets a lot of bad-faith criticism from people pushing alternatives that are provably less secure, so it’s a knee-jerk reaction for me at this point. In my defense, there’s a reason the more confrontational statements were in a “tinfoil hat” tag - it was meant to make clear they were not literal accusations.

Not in TFA, but in anather article it linked to:

Abbott called a second special session, which began immediately after the adjournment of the first one.

Her statement - in an Irish paper, talking more about Ireland than the UK, seems to support your assumption.

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If we take your TLDR at face value, then the result is in no way specific to Signal. Threema, Session, Matrix, Briar, RocketChat, and any other messenger (including the closed source ones) would be equally affected. For that matter, so would Keybase, any encrypted e-mail provider you access from your phone, your VPN (personal or paid) … everything.

Given that, singling out Signal in the post title is clickbaity at best. If I’m putting on my <tinfoilhat> it could be seen as an attempt to drive people to less secure options by scaremongering the one that provides the most protection.

But if we make the assumptions you suggest, why stop there? An undisclosed vulnerability needn’t be limited to stock Android - any fork is potentially vulnerable. And why aren’t they calling for LUKS backdoors? Or the elimination of VPNs? Or … </tinfoilhat>

The reality is that there is another axis to security this type of all-or-nothing aproach to security ignores - how interested are they in you as a target. When that is factored in, the conclusion is that the use of encryption as secure as possible wherever possible helps everyone, because:

1. Most approaches to retrieving that data take time and effort to apply. The governments have vast resources, but not unlimited, so they pick their targets based on priority. More people using encryption helps with this.
2. The more often they use a backdoor or vulnerability, the more likely they are to be caught at it. So they will probably save it for higher priority targets. More people using encryption helps with this.
3. High priority targets remain vulnerable to the hammer attack. With governments, this more often looks like terrorism charges, tax audits, obvious surveillance for intimidation, etc. In extreme cases though, everything up to and including disappearing and assassination are on the table. This one encryption doesn’t help with.

TLDR: Even if true (big if), this type of scaremongering is unhelpful at best, and probably counterproductive. Name checking the most secure option when the threat model applies to any possible messenger is clickbaity and definitely counterproductive.

I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.

It’s just as clear it is impossible to veer right enough to scrape a single vote off the republican ticket. The left will criticize, but veer left and at least some will hold their noses and (protest sign in hand) vote anyway.

No, the church supporters take a tax deduction that leads to everyone still footing the bill.

I’ve seen them used more often as rolling papers.

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Don’t forget increased back pain.

Having gone this far off topic, though, may as well continue.

I personally have trouble with the writing (or possibly translating) style used in Kantian ethics, so what I know comes second-hand. Since Jeremy Bentham’s argument is Utilitarian rather than directly in the Kantian tradition, I’m curious whether you’ve looked into Christine Korsgaard’s work. She’s a modern philosopher who sticks to Kant’s moral framework but reaches a different conclusion regarding the moral position of animals in their own right.

Florisboard is great. I think it was the ability to switch $ for € that got me on it initally, but the symbol input is pretty nice too.

If Newsom would stop going hard right, I’d love it more.

I think you mean their listener’s license. Wow, that takes me back.

“Ukraina”, in addition to being the name of the country in both Ukrainian and Russian, is also a Russian word that means “borderland”. Because of that, many Ukrainians take issue with referring to it as “the” Ukraine (and doubly so without capitalization). Doing so is seen as ignoring their existence as an independent nation and reducing it to a geographic region defined by its function as a buffer between Russia and Europe.

The loophole is that while you own the car, you only license the software that allows it to run. They didn’t take the car away, “just” terminated the license 🤬