For some reason my household fibre connection is about ten times faster up than down. It’s like an anti-ADSL.

It’s a thread about comparing Signal to Telegram of all things

The relevance is that it’s not some unaligned security professional talking in the article, it’s literally the guy that runs Signal having a pop at his competition.

See this is why I’m reluctant to start listing them because I don’t want to get dragged into an interminable discussion about how hacks like https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices.html?m=1 somehow “don’t count” because it was the user’s fault, or https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242-Twilio-Incident-What-Signal-Users-Need-to-Know doesn’t count because it didn’t include chat messages.

The irony is I very carefully chose my words when I said “Signal-related hack” instead of “Signal hack” because I knew fanbois would show up to argue that anything short of a central database leak isn’t really a hack.

Either they’re all ironic [] or none of them are ironic

Textbook false dichotomy, and not how I read it at all. Setup->Punchline is the most basic joke format in existence. The whole point of a setup is you have to be on board with it before getting sideswiped by the punchline.

I predict yet another Signal-related hack within the month.

If Jeff Bezos decided he was going to try persuading the Republican Party to have those little libraries declared illegal and for the police to be mobilised to confiscate them, would you put his chances at above 10%, or below?

If libraries didn’t already exist, there’s not a chance in hell anyone would be allowed to create one. It would be regarded as an insane communist act of mass theft, and anyone attempting it would be sued to oblivion.

By extension, if we allow public libraries to get shut down, we are never getting them back.

…and, without any sense of introspection whatsoever, doubling down instead.

“Is it possible I’ve completely missed the point? No, it must be everybody else here who’s wrong!”

Spin

Yup. Price comparison extensions have been around for decades already.

Somehow it’s still set in the present day, present time.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

me too, it’s a slightly awkwardly constructed sentence.

One of the many many shitty things companies have managed to do with review culture is make it be about the bottom rung employee instead of the company or their overall product. They actually found a way to feed extra off the resentment people hold for them by kicking downwards even harder.

Magritte would like a word

yes but actually no. There’s a hidden pull cord under the bottom mat of the “map pocket” that you have to remove, along with whatever else you were storing in there at the time. That’s assuming the cord hasn’t fallen out of reach inside the door or otherwise become inaccessible during an accident, of course.

The owner’s manual section on “how to open the door if there’s no power” spans 4 pages (viewed on mobile) and has 3 diagrams to illustrate the steps.

(incidentally, opening the frunk with no power is a separate page with ten steps and begins, “To open the powered frunk when Cybertruck has no power, you need a power source that provides between 9V and 16.5V”… it’s like they’re trying to be shit.)

Newish account to promote loops

Probably, but it seems to be an open-source fediverse community project with no VC backing, so I don’t begrudge them it. Like, how else do you get fediverse projects seen if not in a fediverse discussion community, you want them to just buy Google ads instead?

Zionists these days have become a parody of themselves.

A significant part of Jesus’ teachings is “don’t claim to speak on behalf of God”. Whoever made this meme is a blasphemer.

Presumably at their request, or at least their approval, since it doesn’t seem to be a thing in any other country. Most products in the US are imported, don’t pass the buck. “Iran forced it on us” goes against absolutely everything else we know about US consumers.