Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the link
BearOfaTime
joined 1 year ago
Yet Another Call Blocker has worked brilliantly for me, for years how. This stuff doesn't even show up in my call log.
Wow, rolling art.
Those are pretty bright patterns in my book. More of the usual BS.
More like jingoistic, which is rather tiresome anymore. "Nazi" today is a virtually meaningless pejorative, and my dead grandparents are rolling in their graves having escaped real Nazis.
Russians are now Nazis?
Someone needs to read more history, and out down the Book of Pejoratives
XMPP/Jabber has whatever interface you choose (determined by the client you use), and does voice pretty darn well.
I'm currently using Jmp.chat as a SIM/data provider, and they provide an XMPP account via Snikket. I can connect to that account with pretty much any XMPP/Jabber client.
To me, XMPP/Jabber is the most flexible, because it's a protocol, and you choose which parts you want. And you can choose which clients you use. I have 2 clients on my phone and one on my laptop. They all work fine with the same account, with messages showing up at all simultaneously. One client (Snikket) has multiple accounts in it. The thing is XMPP/Jabber as a protocol is like SMTP - it's a standard, so all clients can communicate with each other, if they support the same features (eg OMEMO encryption, which is popular now).
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Teleguard, it's from the folks at SwissCows. They claim E2E, and from the way you connect devices, and that you can't recover an account from them, I tend to believe it. Though I haven't seen a third party evaluation (I belive they're closed source, unfortunately). So do with that what you will.
Simplex Chat, self hostable, they claim it's very secure. I've used it some, the phone app is a bit heavy on ram use.
There are numerous others out there.
Wait, you remember your dreams?
No, it's an ale! 🤣
(I'll see myself out)
For sure.
Stuff can be kept secret, it's just difficult, and is usually accomplished via all sorts of obfuscation.
Like doing something layered deep within something else, making it appear to be a day-to-event (hiding materiel in containers labeled as something else, making it weigh and move normally, then having military deliver it as usual, because who would think these drums of fuel are actually heavy water, or something like that).
The moon landings were live. Quite a bit harder, I'd think.
And the old saying "three people can keep a secret, if 2 are dead" comes to mind. The number of people who would know, just in astronauts, tells me someone would've squealed.
There was a movie in the 1980's that used this premise, but the astronauts weren't supposed to know (I think), or were only told pretty late. Capricorn One (with OJ Simpson if memory serves). Not a great movie, hell, not even good, just an interesting concept.
Not really a new problem.
Hearst papers were lying about mine strikes in the 1800's, because they had a vested interest. (Blazing Saddles, while being a comedy, nails it).
Though I agree it's risen to new heights, where an even higher percentage of "content" is garbage.