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Ah yes I am in fact stupid. Sorry about that. My incorrect statement was based on half remembered information. They do try to avoid saying accident though. Here’s a random link I found on the subject: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/8995151/crash-not-accident

Signal is too darn secure. Much better to have one dude who probably knows how to use a crypto library build the whole thing over again with a coat of ActivityPub on top

pro tip: they still leave cookies, even when you "opt out". You're American, you don't have a right to not be tracked. Use Firefox Focus, purge your cookies regularly.

This is America and KOMO/Sinclair is an American company, serving American users. What "rights" do you think you are being tricked out of? You don't have a right to not be tracked.

Yeah that’s the problem here

You can also just lie about your current salary.

This isn’t really specific to federated software. The client can go offline but the server can’t. Same applies to all centralized services. The only place this really applies is for decentralized (as in, no central points) systems, and those tend to have a lot of special sauce to make other people being offline less painful

It’s down to 3.5k out, maybe this isn’t as big a deal. Most of QA seems back, and a small part of Magnolia is still out.

They’ll just sue them.

Yeah that claim seems fairly unsubstantiated by the rest of the article. It’s probably bullshit.