I think generating and sharing sexually explicit images of a person without their consent is abuse.

That’s distinct from generating an image that looks like CSAM without the involvement of any real child. While I find that disturbing, I’m morally uncomfortable criminalizing an act that has no victim.

If it was all of Europe, I’d agree. That explanation seems improbable for just two countries.

I’m content if my shoe cost is under $10/month. You’re just over a tenth that. It would be hard to get the number lower and still have reasonable comfort and protection from the shoes.

That would be interesting to find out.

How long before people abuse the text feature?

Well there’s my surprising fact of the day.

Looks like it’s just one officer, but it seems like they could do outreach and intelligence sharing without someone permanently stationed there.

Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel’s actions. A politician’s position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they’re seeking doesn’t usually influence my vote.

But Cuomo tried very hard to turn it into a referendum on Mamdani’s views on Israel and Palestine—and the media establishment took the bait.

It’s weird this is an issue in a mayoral campaign in the USA. The role has no foreign policy authority whatsoever, and Palestine/Israel is 5700 miles from NYC.

tHeRe ArE nO gAs ChAmBeRs! (yet)

Oh but there are.

Unsolicited photography tip: your phone camera’s sensor is 4:3. Setting the aspect ratio to anything else crops the image and can make fitting subjects that aren’t tall and skinny in the frame difficult.

This is true even if the phone calls a different aspect ratio “full”.

It had been the norm for phones, then Android came along and a much more PC-like level of capability became the norm for phones. SafetyNet didn’t show up until five years later and it didn’t get significant negative press.

It’s weird this didn’t get more pushback on mobile. Even the mainstream press was critical when Microsoft proposed it for PCs.

What happened to old Internet Forums?

Some of them still exist; some of them shut down. It’s not just a matter of Reddit siphoning off all the users (though that’s a factor), but that administering and moderating forums is a lot of work without a lot of reward. In addition to the baseline effort being significant, a changing landscape including reduced organic search traffic, more spam, and increased legal liability in some jurisdictions has reduced the number of people who want to attempt it.

banned for not adhering to Left Wing orthodoxy

Reddit has many problems, but in my experience this is not one of them. Of course you’re very likely to be banned if you bring politics into a community that isn’t about politics.

I don’t think vindictiveness is a major factor. This is about power.

Trump is trying to grab as much power to deport people as he can. He will fight every challenge to it until the legal options are exhausted. He will attack the legitimacy of the courts when he loses. He cares about the precedent and saving face with his base, not Garcia himself.

a mid tier graphics card?

GPU inflation is getting silly when 1000€ is just mid-tier.

I’m sure there are several I would consider fine for me.

I’m skeptical that they can be fine for someone who doesn’t know what federation means, isn’t especially upset that a handful of megacorporations control most human communication, and already finds the fact that I’m asking them to use anything different from what they’re used to annoying. XMPP has more things for the end user to think about than Signal does even if a client is very polished.

SMS works perfectly well for sending https://signal.org/install

Huawei was forced to offer non-Google Android due to USA sanctions. I don’t know whether that has created difficulties for them in the Chinese market, but a quick search shows a significant decline in market share in Europe.

I do think Amazon launching an Android phone in 2014 without Google’s ecosystem is the main reason Google launched SafetyNet. Of course the Fire Phone failed because it wasn’t very good and Amazon didn’t iterate, but I imagine Google didn’t want them or anyone else to try again.

Sometimes people make things that are useful to Google or find bugs for them. It has no meaningful cost to them as long as non-Google Android isn’t appealing to mainstream users.

That’s a risk, and a reason I’d like to see something federated succeed in this space. Unfortunately neither Matrix nor XMPP has managed to achieve quite the level of UX necessary for mainstream adoption, nor have the average person’s tech skills and comfort level improved.

Signal’s status as a well-funded nonprofit gives me hope that the current situation is reasonably stable.