Excellent. To be 100% accurate, the image would need a lot more Weyouns.

I agree about avoiding the sites entirely. That is the best approach.

I disagree about running Qubes and Whonix. It’s actually so easy - there’s no reason not to try it.

(Unless you’re in a country where using Tor is penalized.)

Icky corporate social media.

If you must use them, get Qubes running on a cheap laptop and dedicate a Whonix VM to each “service”. They won’t know where you are or what sites you visit. Stay off of the “feed”. Even then, assume they are acting against your interests.

The safest cheap option is to buy a used old laptop, and run it on a VM there. Using a VPN over someone else’s wifi.

What this analysis forgets is one simple fact:

Han shoots first.

(He still loses most matches but I think NX-01 would not win)

“everyone knows they’re being watched anyway”

With Google searches, this is just a statement of fact.

You literally don’t even know what Adnauseam is. Keep on owning yourself, it’s funny!

It sounds like your Signal is running fine, but your friend’s Signal has some sort of error or network block. Is your friend able to add other contacts?

Useless observation. Adnauseam and uBlock serve two different purposes. A user should only run one of the two at once.

Utter BS on their part. Time to go read books!

You want Absolum. It’s made by the same people who made SoR4, and it is excellent.

Is there a way to buy or sample this outside of Amazon?

It’s very unclear what you’re reacting to - the existence of Metroid Prime 4, the content of the reviews, something else?

Now I have to rewatch “Spock’s Brain”. Thanks.

Because the “them” in your sentence is a rapidly decreasing number of professionals. https://lemmy.zip/post/51501102

Signal is the best intersection of genuine security and ease-of-use that I’ve ever seen. No choosing a server, no making an account. Just install the app, get a confirmation SMS, and now you can communicate with future-proof encryption and authentication right away.

For more technical people, who aren’t going to be intimidated by things like making accounts and secure passwords and choosing servers, Signal is not the best. But when I need to communicate securely with non-technical people, it’s a wonderful quick go-to solution.

“a crafted archive can escape its intended extraction directory and write files to other locations on the system. When chained, this can escalate to full code execution under the same privileges as the user”

To be clear, you want Tom’s Hardware to downplay the severity of this situation?

It needs to be said. Because anonymity is only one part of privacy.

Security is another part - in messaging, this means that the message cannot be spied on in transit, and cannot be altered in transit.

Authenticity is another part - you need to know that the message came from who it claims to have come from, and not elsewhere.

Signal does not provide anonymity, basically. But it guarantees security and authenticity beyond doubt. And this is useful - you can exchange secure information with people using Signal, knowing that it’s not being spied on or altered, knowing that only the person you intend to see the data can see it, and knowing that they know that you sent it.

But yeah, if you want to send messages anonymously, other services are necessary.

So Signal doesn’t provide anonymity. Is that all you’re saying?

I’m guessing somewhere in the range of 18-30. How’d I do?