What I also love about Signal is that under the hood, it's all the wants and wishes of PGP email from 30 years ago, but without all the difficult email client and lock/key handshakes required of PGP back in the day.
It just works smoothly like every other messaging app, but that one is the most safe. If you dig into it, you can get your checksums and keys and shit, but it doesn't expose it to every user in order to start adopting it.
I love nerdy stuff with good UX, and Signal has it.
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The funny thing is the first person (that didn't work in digital security) that insisted we only use Signal to talk was my therapist when I first met her 5-6 years ago. I asked her why and she said she didn't want doctor/patient messages to ever be readable by health insurance companies at any point in the future. I obliged.
It's good to know years later, every message we've ever sent was end to end encrypted and not logged anywhere on anyone's servers.
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I published a friend's very basic guide for gov't workers on how to use Signal for their personal messaging and why it's a good idea: https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-guide-to-using-signal-for-government-workers/
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Musk’s first order of business being the illegal shutdown of the agency that gave post-apartheid aid to South Africa is so obvious an editor would strike it from a story for being way too predictable for readers.
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"they can't even say cockpit anymore, and that's why it crashed!"
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I know "DEI" is now a buzzword for everything the right hates but I know it mostly from workplace training, so when people go out of their way to blame everything on it, it sounds even more ridiculous.
Imagine a plane crashed and the president within a couple hours suggested it went down due to all the sexual harassment workshops at the pentagon.
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Shopify is a big Canadian company and employer and Shopify also kinda fuels the whole dropshipping-stuff-from-far-away-to-america industry. I wonder how on earth they weather tariffs.
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Here’s the invoice number. That’s an uppercase I not a 1 or a 7 or an uppercase T at the start.
Fastrak developers, you can make this so much easier for people with easier, shorter, more clear numbering and actual working QR codes.
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I crossed the bay bridge and they sent me an automated bill. Currently I can't pay it because:
Once again I'm begging anyone who operates a public service that they try using their own service once a week.
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I kind of wish Pixelfed would play up its strengths more and differentiate itself from other Mastodon services. I really like it there and want to see it blossom, but it's a little weird when I have two federation accounts and people wonder which one they should follow.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/pixelfed-should-be-designed-like-a-lightly-gated-garden/
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I've had a cold/cough for a week and today I got prescription strength Sudafed like we had in stores in the 1990s, and my god does it work wonders draining my sinuses and letting me breathe freely for the first time in days.
Bummer it's used for making speed, it seems to work wonders as described.
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Tariffs go into effect tomorrow? I wonder if they’ll last even half a Scaramucci.
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an editor changed my header titled “Lessons learned” to “Learnings”
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I’m honestly wondering how they took 911 calls and turned them into sales leads. How does Servpro get access to 911 call logs? Are there public feeds of 911 requests?
Moral of the story: Servpro is a disgusting company that uses invasive sales tactics and should be avoided.
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4hrs after the local fire department left our house, a pushy salesman from Servpro was at our door dropping pamphlets and trying to get hired.
Do these fuckers listen to police scanners? Then send out reps?
What a disgusting business model, trying to seem deeply caring while aggressively chasing customers
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Around 9am someone knocks on our door. A guy says he’s from a fire company and my spouse thought it was an alarm company rep. I say “but we don’t have an alarm company account.”
We realize it’s an ambulance chaser from a disaster cleanup company…
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Earlier this week our house smoke alarm went off in the night, we awoke to smell something burning, so we called 911 to get it double-checked by the fire department. In the end, it wasn’t a live fire and everything was ok, just issues with our HVAC
But here’s the weird part…
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Once every few years I’m surprised after reading something when I realize— holy shit— I wrote this. It’s a surprise because I barely recognize the whiny crank who wrote it.
I think it’s healthy to be embarrassed by the version of yourself from five years ago and their garbage opinions. I’m glad to know I’ve lightened up and moved on.
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It took me 4-5 minutes to give my contact details and a summary of what was wrong but the whole time I felt insulted that I'm talking to a robot and they didn't admit it upfront.
It's like people saying if they ever found out a good friend was using AI to write emails to them, they'd break off the friendship because why are you wasting everyone's time with a bullshit generator?
It's a shit job, sure, automate it, but warn us and give us an out. A webform would have been so much faster for me.
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last night our heater freaked out at 3am and I called a local HVAC company's emergency 24hr line. Usually you get a random person from far away taking a message for the company but this time I could tell is it was an AI voice on the call. Sounded almost human, but lacked natural variation.
The real company called me back at 8am.
All they had to do was say "this is a computerized call, go to our website and fill out the emergency form" and I would have hung up and saved my time.
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