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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I'm not dunking on Signal here (though there *are* some features and usability quirks I dislike). It's probably the best designed and implemented secure messaging platform *for general use* that we've got. I use and rely on Signal quite a bit myself.
But it's simply not designed for, or suitable for, classified national security communications.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
For the record:
- The *cryptography* in Signal is probably fine; a practical attack would be a big surprise.
- Signal lacks specific features required for classified systems, such as security labels, certified identities, revocation, etc.
- Signal runs on uncontrolled, insecure platforms connected to the Internet, rendering it unsuitable for classified even if it had the above features.
- Adding classified features to Signal would make it unusable for most purposes for which it's intended.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I'm starting to think that maybe the global economy is kind of complicated.
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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
If you say “universal healthcare” 3 times a guy in wraparound sunglasses appears to call you a marxist and then die of preventable disease in a chili’s parking lot
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kash-patel-removed-acting-atf-director-replaced-by-army-secretary-sources-say-2025-04-09/
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Happy confederate surrender day to all who celebrate! 🎉🎇🍾
The entire confederacy lasted around 4 years. That's half of an Obama administration! Obama was president for twice as long as that little racist tantrum, so I don't want to hear any talk about how it's your "heritage."
Abraham Lincoln called himself a "Moderate Republican." That means he didn't believe in slavery, but by his own words, was a proud white supremacist.
He called Ulysses S. Grant a "Radical Republican." Radical Republicans rejected white supremacy, and told Lincoln to his face that he was wrong.♥️👍🏿
Some people are racists. Some people are losers. Some people are both.
The racist confederates lost and surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th.
But Lincoln refused to listen to Grant and the Radical Republicans pleas to reject white supremacy after the civil war.
A painful mistake.
You have tariffs today, and are crying about the bond market, and are hoping you don't die of measles or polio, because too many Americans believe that they can control just enough racism.
It's 2025. "Radical leftists" is still the insult hurled at anti-racists. "Moderate" still means racism lite™️.
Mastodon Feed@mattblaze Funny story, I'm getting yelled at by people telling me that the cryptocurrency grift built into Signal is one of the *good* cryptocurrency grifts.
Mastodon FeedJust one more centralized service bro, just one more single-source unmodifiable app bro, just one more monolithic server farm operated in secret by a single corporation bro, this time we'll get it right bro...
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
If you were wondering how my day is going, I'm still being yelled at by Signal groupies who are mad at me for saying the app lacks special features for protecting classified information.
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
You can’t compare Donald Trump to Liz Truss, it’s lettuces and oranges.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell "stop the presses!" if a major story came in. But I'll bet that didn't actually happen very often.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.
The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".
The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.
All the pixels, none of the news, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520
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rayckeith@techhub.social ("Haderach C. Kwisatch") wrote:
https://youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?si=PBNlMjMKJYZAPvB5
#Murderbot — Official Trailer | #Apple TV+
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:
The #laserblasted Kickstarter is only $24 from the next stretch goal.
Despite being a Spite Book, my alpha readers tell me it's a solid novel.
I'd appreciate your support.
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rgarner ("Russell Garner") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
like with immature 10-year-olds, this is just random-destructo energy
“The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.”
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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:
He found visits to the countryside, and the cows in particular, helped calm him down. #grickledoodle #godzilla #country #cows #calm #mentalhealth #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #kaiju
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dginev@mathstodon.xyz ("Deyan Ginev") wrote:
arXiv is freshly hiring for 3 positions:
- Software Engineer
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Share and help us build a backbone of Open Science.
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Baa@fedi.absturztau.be (":meow: Baa :blobsheepsnuggle:") wrote:
I turn on my PC.
The local wildlife are immediately sterilised by the excessive output from my four exposed nuclear reactors running at a critically risky heat output.
The sound of 10,000 cooling fans deafens the city’s morning traffic as my warehouse of 500 parallel-chained AMD Razer Threadrippers bursts into life, forming the equivalent processing power of 2015 in one room.
Nearby, my cluster of Nvidia 5090 Test Cards begins to warp the local time continuum as they calculate answers man was never meant to know.
Very gently, I open Microsoft Teams.
Instantly, the already deafening noise of fans increases to a murderous wail as they try to keep my equipment at operating temperatures. A nuclear reactors’ fusion catches up with its cooling and explodes destroying the lives of millions. The floor begins to melt away as my processors over clocked ten-fold reach critical mass and descend directly into hell. My Nvidia cluster collapses into a singularity and begins to devour the planet.
Quickly now, I open a text chat, it’s a bit laggy.
The sheer struggle of loading some text destroys the remaining systems. Me and my equipment are deleted from reality by an unknown overseer.
Humanity is not ready for instant messaging
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
How about this: I will trade you all the LLM features for reliably functional and accessible scrollbars.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
old saying: “open carry is for people who want to play army but are too chickensh*t to enlist”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Dr. Attia declined multiple requests for comment. In an interview, Dr. Lyon criticized the recommendation, in part because she said it was based only on data from 25-year-old men. That’s not true; it was based on data from men and women ages 18 to 99.”
Americans are obsessed with protein, and have been for a long time
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The procedures at the children's hospital might be eye-wateringly expensive, but at least they validate parking.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Of all the lawless acts by the Trump administration in its first two and a half months, none are more frightening than its dumping of human beings who have not had their day in court into an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador — and then contending that no federal court has the authority to right these brazen wrongs.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘silly’ is not the half of it
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ugh… it apparently is a Windoze-only thing, and I honestly have no interest in ever putting WINE cruft on any machine again. I wish there were more ppl writing cross-platform code, but…
;^{
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jwz wrote:
Because of the ongoing fucktastrophe, the cries of "Use SIGNAL!" are constant and unavoidable. And I get it, it may be the least-bad option in a sea of terrible options. If, that is, you choose to ignore the advice of "don't use your phone for that shit" (the Stringer Bell Rule).
But out of curiosity, because I haven't been keeping up, has the Signal Corporation addressed: ...
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
We're podcasting on Saturday: all about social media.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/09/ftb-social-media/
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copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:
I heard #DictatorTrump will impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
My cancer drug substance, asciminib, which is the active ingredient in Scemblix, is manufactured at Novartis Pharma Schweizerhalle AG in Pratteln, Switzerland, while the drug product, Scemblix film-coated tablets, are manufactured at Novartis Pharma Stein AG in Stein, Switzerland.
It costs about $22,000 bucks for a 30 day supply.
Tariffs on the EU & now tariffs on pharmaceuticals will increase my copays!
Motherfucking Trump🤬