Most americans, the majority of whom don’t live in the US, dislike the usurpation of that term. There’s a longer history starting in the late 1800s of US politicians using “america”, “greater america”, to coincide with its imperial ambitions in Latin america and the carribean.

The USA even had a time when it had more people in its colonies living outside its contiguous borders, than it did inside.

There’s a lot on this in the book, how to hide an empire.

Usonian also works.

Zebra or giraffe. Not to ride, just to go on walks with.

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Some albums I like that are synthwave / vaporwave adjacent.

• The Weeknd - Dawn FM
• Saint Pepsi - Hit vibes
• Blank Banshee - Blank Banshee 0
• Burial - Untrue
• Unkle - psyence fiction
• Anything by massive attack
• DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
• Deltron 3030

I’m 99% sure its sarcasm.

They look neat, but way too powerful and expensive, and not big enough. I want a whiteboard size e-ink display with a processor like a potato for like <100 USD

Yep, I’ve coded remotely for many years now.

I used to use vim, but now helix, as my main rust and javascript/typescript IDE. So I mainly use termux+ssh .

Unfortunately for android dev you pretty much have to run android studio, so I use an android VNC client for that.

Cheap large e-ink android screen. Doesn’t need to do anything other than be a consistent, always on display with a long battery life.

I haven’t used a laptop for many years now, I mostly code from an android tablet, into a remote machine. You can find ones with great battery life and keyboards.

Post the video coward.

There are far better privacy alternatives to both: matrix, xmpp, simplex all work well and don’t require phone numbers or US-based hosting.

Behind those usernames, are phone numbers (meaning real identities) stored in signal’s database.

But they don’t have to know who the message comes from, hence why the sealed sender technique works.

Anyone who’s worked with centralized databases can tell you that even if they did add something like that, with message timestamps, it’d be trivial to find the real sender of a message. You have no proof that they even use that, because the server is centralized, and closed source. Again, if their response is “just trust us”, then its not secure.

If you don’t know what an NSL is, then you definitely shouldn’t be speaking about privacy.

The server is supposedly open source, but they did anger the open source community a few years back, by going a whole year without posting any code updates. Either way that’s not reliable, because signal isn’t self-hostable, so you have no idea what code the server is running. Never rely on someone saying “just trust us.”

They have your phone number (meaning your full identity, and even current address), and as the primary identifier, it means they have message timestamps and social graphs.

Its impossible to verify what code their server is running. Or that they delete their logs, because they say they do? You should never rely on someone saying “just trust us”. Truly secure systems have much harder verifiability tests to pass.

On by default, and just works.

There was also no proof that a ton of US companies were spying on their users, until the global surveillance disclosures. Crypto AG ran a honeypot that spied on communications between world leaders for > 40 years until it got exposed.

They have to. They can’t route your messages otherwise.