OppositeOfOxymoron

Just download Signal. Cross platform, verifably E2E, and verifiably no data collected by Open Whisper (as per their submission in a lawsuit). Also, one of the authors/architects of Signal occasionally trolls the companies that provide mobile spyware.

My electric car was manufactured ONCE. It’s powered by 99% green power (hydroelectric). It burns no gas/diesel, requires no oil changes. I intend on keeping it for 15+ years (my last vehicle got to 16 years before the electrical system fried).

It is better by literally every measure short of walking everywhere.

To add to this, self-hosting is also best when you minimize everything - limited service, with limited functionality, on dedicated hardware that doesn’t share access to your internal network or storage. Folks who use point-and-click apps to install a half dozen unauthenticated docker containers, all open to the internet, running on the same PC they store the only copy of their family photos and music/movie collection on… make me crazy.

Uh… So who is paying for that right now?

The whole point to Endpoint Protection is to quickly and easily send updates to block currently exploited vulnerabilities to the systems most likely to be affected. Adding a delay for in-house QA testing (and the associated costs) doesn’t make any sense.

Uh, between SolarWinds and XZ and the supply chain attacks being conducted by the NSA that were revealed by Snowden… They already know.

This meshes with the news that Boeing is run by accountants, not engineers, like it used to be.

Man, the total and complete lack of self awareness… It would be hilarious if it wasn’t tragic…

The document thief himself bitching about stolen documents getting leaked… Damn, you can’t dream this shit up on shrooms.

Yeah, I can read this both ways, but I’ll assume that since he’s a CEO, it’s the way that makes him sound like a flaming dickhole.

In other news, Piracy is still free.