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It does not proxy through your phone. After the initial setup, you can switch off your phone and the desktop client will work just fine.

> if you newly join Signal, every Signal user in your address book will be notified

No. People who have your number in their address book will be notified.

I work in academia in a STEM field. I've never seen or heard of a reviewer asking for access to the raw data used to produce a paper. Reviewers typically operate under the assumption that you're not trying to deliberately mislead them about how you collected and evaluated your data (and I think they have to, at least with how the system currently works).

What often happens is that, although the time they get to spend on a single paper is limited, reviewers still come up with important criticisms that end up leading to substantial changes (sometimes multiple rounds of them) or even an outright rejection.

Weird, I don't remember ever seeing that and I don't have a last name set. Can't you just "confirm" it not to include a last name?

That's been fixed a few months ago. The setting now sticks until you manually change it back or your contact replies with a Signal message.

In the context of this talk, APN means "Apple Push Network", I think. The concern is that even if the service doesn't ask for a phone number directly, it does still have an APN or GCM/FCM push token. Through the push provider, that token can probably be linked to the user's phone number.

> With unlocked smartphones, it is possible to remove the SIM card, clear any APN settings and access WiFi.

If you're willing to do all that, I suppose getting some free VoIP number for registering with Signal (e.g. through Textnow) won't be too much of a hassle?

Two small corrections: Signal-Android's backup works with a passphrase only (no QR codes involved) and does not cause safety number changes on restore.

Thanks for the link. I found the article to be pretty convincing until I decided to check out the WaPo article the author references in this paragraph:

> Pyrethroid insecticides are supposedly low in toxicity to mammals and birds, but as the Washington Post has reported, it turns out they are highly toxic to most insects, including beneficial insects like honeybees; in fact they are considered far more harmful to bees than any neonic.

In the linked WaPo article, though, the only mention of "Pyrethroid" is this:

> Since the E.U. moratorium went into effect in 2014, farmers in England have struggled with increased pest pressure, Carreck said. Many have turned to pyrethroid pesticides, which have unknown consequences on bees and other beneficial insects. Pywell emphasized that if the E.U. continues the moratorium, we need to investigate what alternative pesticides are doing to bees.

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Sure. Messaging via Signal (or via any other modern mobile messaging app) is designed to be asynchronous and doesn't require all participants of a chat to be online at the same time.

> It seems Nadim (the author of this paper) took it really badly when we called him out for intentionally spreading fake news this weekend.

Is this seriously your official response to this paper? Is this an official company account?