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  • It’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy.

    You don’t have to, though? 1) The E2EE Signal protocol is well-audited to be robust. 2) The app itself is FOSS, and there are a lot of eyes on it. 3) The server code is FOSS. Even if they’re lying about what code they use, it doesn’t matter because it’s E2EE. 4) If you think Signal might be bait-and-switching by building from different source code, you’d be provably wrong. They have reproducible builds, so were they to actually try this, it would be like sending up a flare to the entire security community. 5) Literally every single time OWS has been subpoenaed, the only information they’ve been able to provide is extremely basic metadata like server connection times.

    You have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m sorry. There’s functionally less “trust” here than any messaging application on the planet. The network effect remark is at least valid and can be debated (although I personally have zero friends who use Telegram and at least several who use Signal). This one is just so, so wrong that it’s not even up for debate.





  • It’s not a show. It’s from a 2003 movie called The Room, and I’ve been posting a meme every day for every single line of dialogue from the movie. It’s commonly seen as “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”. Even though every scene could probably be its own separate lecture on what not to do when making a movie, the film is so fascinatingly multilayered in its terribleness and done so, so earnestly out of a desire to make a serious, dark, generation-defining indie drama that it’s wrapped around to, in my opinion, becoming one of the greatest movies of all time.

    I can’t recommend it enough, but be aware that there are four sex scenes, so it’s not something you necessarily sit down to watch with coworkers. Still, though, it is more fun if you watch it with friends. It’s gained a cult following where it’s still shown in some indie theaters today, and people will crowd the theater to perform rituals like throwing plastic spoons at the screen at certain points.