I'd say that's good news, everyone!
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cell reception is spotty where I work and there's a guest WiFi option and they allow VPN. works Wi-Fi works for my use case.
for anyone not aware, if you're using the web based version of anything on a corporate/company device, assume all traffic can be intercepted by your admins. it's very easy to do and considered a requirement on some fields.
I tried but my google-fu failed me.
For fuckโs sake, are they here or not already?
They're not here. Full stop.
Aliens have never visited nor have they ever crash-landed on Earth.
The level of technological advancement required for interstellar travel is unfathomable to us and, frankly, naive of us to even consider whether they've "visited us" or not as we probably wouldn't even recognize them if they did. It would be the equivalent of humanity wondering if one of our car crashes might be discovered by ants. The answer is no. An entire ant colony could be staring directly at a car crash and they wouldn't even be aware that anything different is going on.
Einstein's theory of relativity tells us that any object with mass cannot reach the speed of light (required for interstellar travel) because it's mass would become infinite, requiring an infinite amount of energy to continue acceleration. This means one of two things:
- They have the technology to transform themselves into energy and beam across the universe (light has no mass so they can now travel at the speed of light).
- They have the technology to warp space-time, allowing them to travel between points in space-time (like the famous example we always see in movies where the scientists bends a sheet a paper and shoves a pen through for illustration).
The first option is highly unlikely as you could probably guess, a device would need to convert you to energy and then back into mass. This prevents you from traveling anywhere new.
The second option is also highly unlikely as you'd need a device (and energy) to BEND SPACE AND TIME.
Basically, if there will ever be aliens, it will probably be us. The universe is relatively young even at nearly 14 billion years and - at least based on our own evolutionary/historical timeline - it's completely possible we are the first species that have ever left our own planet. While there is very likely life scattered throughout the universe, but it doesn't mean they're smart or even capable of thought, let alone interstellar travel.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source? I mean, Molly has worked using Signal's servers for at least 5 years now and Signal's devs can see that people are using it and have the capacity to easily block them if they wanted to, so how are they not allowed but still allowed? Seems contradictory.
Yes they are allowed. The devs have nothing against third party clients as long as they're not abusing the network or pretending to be the official Signal app.
The issue you're referring to happened, I believe, around 2016 and it was specific to one developer who was using a similar app name and the lead Signal dev basically told them specifically to not use their network.
Almost every other Signal client since then even report to Signal's servers as a third party client - and the signal devs can see this in their logs - and nobody has been kicked/asked to stop anything since.
I also seem to recall the issue may have been 3rd party clients unintentionally abusing the network at the time, causing issues for other users, so I can see the frustration from a dev perspective to potentially be woken up at midnight for an issue/outage affecting your users, that is caused or at least made worse by clients that are pegging their servers.
If anyone has more background or corrections, please let me know so I can update/edit my statement.
Briar works completely offline as well as online and has Android apps. I believe iOS apps are coming soon, although unsure of the timeline. https://briarproject.org
The pros are that there's zero setup or "self-hosting" required. Just install the app and it works. From their site:
- Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums
- Messages are stored securely on your device, not in the cloud
Connect directly with nearby contacts - no Internet access required- Free and open source software
One of the main or even first rules for a lot of Mastodon is nobody is allowed say anything bad about
tansgenderorhomosexualityan will result in account delete or ban, that much censorship is a cult.
Lets rephrase that:
One of the main or even first rules for a lot of Mastodon is nobody is allowed say anything bad about
mexicansorblacksan will result in account delete or ban, that much censorship is a cult.
If you'd have said that in the 50's (had mastodon been around), it would have been clear to anyone that you're a racist. Read the room. The LGBTQ community is under attack for absolutely no reason other than ignorant people have drunk the kool-aide and think "the gays" have it out for them and their kids. Boo-hoo, so you can't be a jerk towards the current minorities, if you have something bad to say about someone's character, say it, don't be afraid, but why would you seek to speak bad about an entire group of people? Sounds sketch AF.
Do you have a link? I can't seem to find "GMaps VW".
Dead to me ๐โโ๏ธ