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GNU Taler is not your enemy. It may not solve every problem you’d like it to, but its adoption by the masses would be a vast improvement in privacy compared to the current state of commerce in every country where it has the slightest chance of happening any time soon.

Doesn’t seem likely to me, but it’s a good thought.

I am talking about being bigoted against “rednecks” who are mostly no more racist than everyone else. I grew up in redneck territory and support those who reclaim it as a label of pride.

Whatever you call the kind of bigotry your comment represents it’s no better. Thank you for reminding us all that it’s still around.

If all of civilisation collapses into ruin, at least we will have the consolation that “tipping” will be abolished along with everything else.

Having read the actual description of the protocol, such as it is, I should add in the interest of fairness that those "30 generated porn credits” do get you 30 new key pairs each month. They are issued directly by the central authority which knows exactly who they’re issuing them to, and the public key is presented directly to web sites you visit. But they promise not to track how you use them.

That it’s so absurd and poorly designed is reassuring in a way. It’s difficult to imagine anyone using this.

Does Xfce count as light? It’s got plenty of features. Should fit in 4gb well enough though.

If I’m not mistaken you were talking about how things work “on my phone” but I suppose you had in mind that the principle would apply to desktop as well.

In practice it does somewhat come down to how well containerized and locked-down the environment is, so I think the difference does matter. Android for instance sucks in very many ways, but it’s somewhat reliable in usually keeping apps from interfering with each other. There are a few desktops that try to do that, but they’re still not too popular I think. Desktop users are used to having full control of everything. Seems to me the pervasive compartmentalization of everything (it wouldn’t be sufficient for the purposes we’re talking about to put only Signal in a secure container) is accepted as necessary on mobile devices mostly because so many of the apps are terrible.

If you have root, intercepting all the user’s keystrokes is trivial.

You did but it says “desktop” right in the page title.

I left r/canada even before I left reddit. The final straw was when I saw links to a report from Citizen Lab, a very respectable Canadian research group at U of T, about a foreign government interfering in Canadian affairs, getting deleted for not being “relevant to Canada.”

Huh. I would’ve thought most desktop users just leave it running all day long like I do. Obviously there is the disk encryption passphrase at boot, adding another one for signal would in my case be redundant.

But the point is not only how easy it is to enter a passphrase, but also how much security that actually gains you. I don’t think it does much on the typical desktop, be it windows or linux, where there are so many ways to escalate or persist privilege for anyone that has user-level access.

Needing to enter a secure passphrase each time you want to use signal in exchange for one more fragile layer of defence for that one part of your data in a scenario that would normally mean you’ve already lost unless you’re running a super-secure compartmentalized operating system like qubes or something is probably not worth it for most people.

Alternative headline: Someone has a feature request for Signal which would be of interest to a few people with very specific security needs.

la zone Chamouchouane est d’une superficie d’environ 5 000 km2 et se démarque par la qualité et l’ampleur de son potentiel éolien.

Yeah, that’d be where it came from. Anyway I was just trying to mentally compare the size of a wind farm to the size of a typical hydro reservoir. Conclusion: They’re both pretty big.

Is that normal now? The ones pictured in the article and all of those I’ve personally seen are more closely spaced. But guess they’ve been getting bigger over time and it would be on-brand for Hydro Québec to go for extra large ones with a few kilometers between them.

… just looking at numbers from around the web it seems like even the largest turbines around don’t normally require that much area. 5000km² seems like roughly an order of magnitude more space than might be expected. I imagine it’s probably the total area of the region they’ll be built somewhere inside of.

5,000 sq. km 400 new turbines

Okay cbc, how do those numbers add up?

I think about that sort of thing every time I upload any image at all, just out of inherent paranoia. A profile pic would most likely be one of the first things people check if for some reason they wanted to find other accounts you might have.

I don’t think “data brokers” are quite at the level of sophistication where they’re automatically doing that to everyone, but with AI they’ll probably get there soon.