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>Signal hates users who aren't total normies.

No it's the other way around. Signal is explicitly designed for normies, which is why so many people use it. I doubt they sat around and thought of ways to screw certain users.

>Just as they could easily offer a Google free version

Easily? There's no easy in maintaining and releasing two different versions of your app, especially for a small non-profit.

Comment · 1 day ago
Indeed, the army reserve center down the road has a Mortuary Affairs company. This kind of thing is what they are responsible for.
Comment · 3 days ago
The NEXT satellites also do space based ADS-B and AIS tracking. They packed an impressive variety of side businesses into the current satellites.
Comment · 7 days ago
>Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.

Having tuned in myself with a SDR, it isn't that quiet. There's pretty steady rate of messages.

Comment · 7 days ago
You're assuming natural selection selects for not flipping over, when in reality, it selects for the winner of the shell flipping contest as presumably without intervention, the flipped tortoise does not breed, while the winning tortoise does (or at least still has the opportunity to)
Comment · 8 days ago
I am more interested in the long term trend. Do we burn through the low hanging fruit at some point or is this the new normal?
Comment · 9 days ago
If they actually operated in a disinterested way, sure, but how many different forms of advertising do you see the lotto being promoted in? Doesn't seem disinterested to me.
Comment · 9 days ago
The anti AI scraping on this site doesn't work that well. I'm being served non-sense text about buttplugs. I'm human, I swear.
Comment · 9 days ago
>Will these copyright enforcers now go after Google for 8.8.8.8? Cloudflare for 1.1.1.1?

they already have.

Comment · 15 days ago
Comment · 16 days ago
Gemini in android auto just refuses to place calls for you now for "safety" but will also have an extended argument with you about that at the same time.
Comment · 19 days ago

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