@inthehands Someone suggested in response to my thread that this might be badjacketing of ProtonMail to shepherd people to less secure things; that makes me wonder if ProtoMail itself wasn't an attack to steer people away from GPG.

@inthehands with things like Signal, the platform you're running it on may be the weakest link. Broadcom etc broadband processors are considered back doored even if you install a 3rd party Android fork and trust the 3rd party app store's apk.

@inthehands That doesn't give you privacy on who you are talking to (and also doesn't guard against disclosure after recipients have decrypted email from you) and the whole identity thing is bad as much as some people like key singing parties. But it isn't a black box, and doesn't attempt to do dodgy key escrow like stuff that ProtonMail does. So maybe I'll go put my public key in my profile or something again. "Move discussion elsewhere" is a good idea but it's also often observed that...

@inthehands Pardon the footnote, and in no way to meant to defend ProtonMail (I did a "fuck ProtonMail" post the other day), but LTS/SSL is great for protecting you from random baddies but not powerful state actors. We believe the NSA has the power to crack the popular recommended ECDSA curves used, and VeriSign has just signed certs for the FBI, which is a massive backdoor. I don't know if GPG/PGP's encryption has held up, but that was what we were using (and some people still do) for E2E email

Given Proton's CEO coming out as a right wing chud, I'd like to point at Proton's policy of immediately re-charging your credit card if you dispute any charge with them, how they promise free refunds if the service doesn't work for you but make it impossible to cancel, the snake oil of key escrow where they manage encryption keys for you, and having already thrown one environmental activist to the cops. Fuck Proton.

@ajroach42 This probably doesn't help much, but @foone was hacking on one of the Carmen Sandiego games recently and mentioned something about not needing to do a full reverse engineer because there's already a game editor for it out there. I can't find it (search got nerfed) but if you wanted a retro game that runs in emulation, kick her a few $$ and ask. Also a great person to follow if you aren't already

@Hunterrules0_o @SallyStrange @puppygirlhornypost2 @pteryx I hope all of this doesn't put you off of going to some museums, and seeing that they're not just collections of historic curios, and that porn/not porn is an absolutely abysmal, dark-age lens to look at the vast wealth of art, culture, technology, medicine, natural history, human history (cultural sexual labor divisions create fascinating functional spaces), etc, etc through, beside being completely fraught...

@Hunterrules0_o @SallyStrange @puppygirlhornypost2 @pteryx "Its a muesuem. it cant be ALL just educational stuff." This thread is amazing. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this... for better or worse. - someone who spent a heck of a lot of time at the campus Natural History Museum.

@futurebird The algorithm that made Google, that Google has since almost entirely abandoned, is called "maximum flow directed graph". Colloquially it became known as "google juice". It depends on having a trusted set of root nodes. In a way, it mirrored how academic citations work. Pls bring this back ya'll.