I may well ſupport the uſe of archaic characters, but I ſtill cannot help reading thoſe as “pee steam” and “piss type”. :)

Back in the 80s, my dad worked with telephone testing equipment and had reason to bring home a DecTalk. I spent so much time fucking around with that thing. Typing things like “sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit” was so hilarious. I’d write entire scripts.

I guess the tech is to the point now where I could lose days to it now. lol.

Ahhhh, sometimes I forget the implications of me opening my big mouth in cases like this. lol. Well, I’m glad it was a positive experience. :) It’s something I need to remind myself constantly of as I am bad about getting sucked into responding to perceived rudeness with rudeness of my own - I definitely have RSD and it fucking sucks.

There’s a difference between trusting something written for general purpose use not to have harmful code vs. something written specifically for communications people want to keep private that would therefore be a target.

So either I felt I was making a valid point for consideration that I thought was valuable to make, or I’m a troll wasting everyone’s time.

I know what I am. And I’m starting not to care what you or others think. Go blindly and trust whatever you want, it’s no skin off my back. Frankly, I use Telegram because none of my comms are particularly sensitive, and I have no problem with that. I’d rather my private conversatiosn not be actively posted somewhere, but in the case of a breach, it wouldn’t be the end of my world. So I’ve no problem trusting Telegram thus far, personally, in my case.

Anyway, have a nice time. Understand my point or don’t.

You’d probably just call me out for “whataboutism” so you don’t have to answer try and justify your point

If you’re going to put words in my mouth, why should I bother? That especially seems unfair since I believe I answered your last reply in pretty damned good faith.

I was thinking OP was going for “chemicals bad”. Nestle is a good example. And frankly, the sugar cartel and corn… well maybe not corn cartel, but corporate farm certel perhaps has pushed so hard for corn subsidies that we put corn syrup (not inherently bad) in everything and push corn products and grow corn to burn in our cars…

I still think our food supply is generally safe - generally.

But anyway. Care to put any more words in my mouth?

It’d be hilarious if you could choose that as an option. I’d like to pick between a hundred different accents. lol

I couldn’t see anything there (but it sounds like some could) - anyone else has problems, try this one - it’s in the latter half: https://www.tiktok.com/@maya_maybee/video/7608347117161041183

Ah, man… I know it’s a screwup and it’s just hilarious.

You can take your rudeness and bugger off. I’m done with you.

Make all the accusations you want. You think you’re smart, but you are not.

If you are not auditing the source code, you are trusting those that are.

I did say

Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky.

I had Flint in mind.

It’s my understanding that the problems have been resolved.

Water problems like that are not widespread in the US.

Just a few examples which you could’ve trivially googled yourself

Pardon me blocking you, but you’ve been shitty in every single interaction we’ve had, so bugger off.

Just dig two blocks wide. It’s easy to stand so that you can look down and mine blocks under you - three down. Then look slightly up to the other block you’re standing on and mine those three plus three more. Then back down and six, then ahead and six… it’s easy to go down^[1] quickly, and then it’s safe. You’re always standing on a safe block.

If you’re finding out about things like that on your wedding night… well, that’s a choice.

Ideally, before you commit to spending the rest of your life with someone, you want to make sure you’re compatible. That includes sex. If the two people want different things and can’t fulfil each others’ desires or needs - sex or otherwise - that’s going to be a problem.

So none of that on your wedding night should be a surprise.

and frankly, speaking as someone who got married… we were really too tired to do anything anyway. We did for the sake of having done it, but it wasn’t a huge sexy thing. We had a bit of fun and took a damn nap. heh. (But we also weren’t very rich, so we’d done decorations and ‘catered’ our wedding, so we were both tired anyway, but it was still a nice day)

Precisely.

And it’s worth repeating here - the level of trust needed is affected by the nature of what you might lose if that trust is broken. For non-important things, trusting a third-party company is probably fine. If you’re in a country and being found out might mean you get put to death, though, the stakes are a bit higher.

Frankly, I have trouble believing that you don’t understand the difference here and are making your argument in good faith.

Let’s back up to what I replied to in the first place:

You don’t have to trust anybody

I even took the time to quote that, because it’s important.

Of course there are different levels of trust. But what you said is flatly wrong and misinformation, if you want to get technical about it. Arguing in bad faith? I beg your fucking pardon, friend.

Just becuase it’s less likely to find nefarious code in open source doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. There ahve been multiple cases of it found in open source code. Blindly trusting something because it’s open source or you host it on your own server is a very very false sense of security, especially in the context of the larger discussion, which came about in regard to what information is exposed by certain messaging clients.

It’s also a matter of the importance of what you’re doing.

I wrote a little CRUD app a while back to track me giving my cat medication. I sanitized inputs, but I left it open without a login on my server, just an obscure URL that didn’t get published anywhere. All you could do was click a button to indicate the cat had been medicated, or another button to delete the latest entry. That was plenty of security for that. If I was writing a banking app, I’d use a bit more.

So yes, in the same way as that, hosting something you use to chat with friends about whatever is one thing; trying to communicate secretly from a country where your comms might lead to being put to death is quite another. And in the latter case, it’s important to know that no matter what you use, unless you wrote it or read all the source code, you are trusting others with your life. Perhaps you feel comfortable doing that, but you should be aware of it.

So no, this is not a discussion in bad faith at all, it is valuable on multiple levels.

Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary. It’s also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.

Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of “chemicals”. Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but “poisoning you” is a bit much.

And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn’t unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.

The country run by pedos? Yep, that one’s a go as well.

Too distracted? Yeah, and that’s thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it’s all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it’s hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.

But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.

Do what you can, whatever that is.

Sure… and my point is that you have to trust those services that aren’t hosted in the USA. It’s a choice you have to make. I’m not judging either way, just pointing out because what I responded to in the comment to which I replied was:

The problem is that you just have to trust them

Which is true of open source unless you read the code and can verify nothing nefarious exists; which is true if you use a service in a country you trust; which is true no matter what you’re doing.

Not all entities are deserving of the same level of trust - some are more trustworthy than others - but you are still making a decision to trust someone unless you write the code yourself or verify the code yourself.^[1]

But again, you either read the source to confirm there’s nothing nefarious, or… you trust the programmers.

Which is not a problem, but it is a choice to trust. All I’m pointing out. :)

You don’t have to trust anybody when you run your own server,

You have to trust the people that wrote the code.

or you use a server that doesn’t collect information it has no business collecting.

Again, you’re trusting the authors of the code.

Which is fine, but it’s a choice to trust them.