I thought the same thing! Maybe there’s something about playing in a mask that affects mannerisms?

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I was not suggesting that the encryption was compromised. I was suggesting that signal is being targeted.

Likely, they are infiltrating Signal groups specifically. Not through breaking encryption, but still joining these groups BECAUSE of the encryption.

The fact that these groups are using private encrypted messages are what piques the interest of the FBI in the first place. Signal is just the most popular and thus the most likely target.

The warning signs are there

Wet Leg’s set was one of my favorites last year!

Here’s the link to the republished DOJ file. We’ll see how long it stays

If I understand it correctly, Microsoft sells discounted keys to organizations as part of their Volume Licensing for businesses.

Some places on the internet take advantage of that, and sell the keys individually.

A side topic, but this pulls to mind the gay rights movement in my lifetime. It always felt like an extension to the civil Rights movement. Which is all the more concerning with the current rhetoric around gender and sexuality.

This really hit home to me when I was a teenager and a colleague at work started talking about the famous demonstrations she attended. She was probably 60, but looked and acted 40, which made it especially jarring.

A similar thing happened when I visited the Martin Luther King Jr national museum in Atlanta. They have pictures and items scattered throughout, and as we were browsing, an older man was nearby excitedly talking about each of the people in the exhibit on a personal level. As it turned out, he was friends with all of them. It made it feel bizarre, because we walked into a history museum, and left with it feeling too recent to be history.

The final shock for me was when my mom casually mentioned that her elementary School was segregated! My siblings and I were shaken. She acted like it was something we should have already known, and maybe we should have already pieced that together when analyzing the time frames. The problem was that the Civil Rights movements in my mind were compartmentalized in the History section.

I’ve heard that name a few times this past year. I wonder how it compares to Powell-Peralta’s “Flight Decks”, Deluxe Distribution’s “DBX”, or Santa Cruz’s “VX”.

I went to Kape’s website, and it looks like their boards are a composite of foam and fiberglass, which is an entirely different direction than the epoxy glues for Flight Decks and VXs.

The price is similar enough that it might be worth a try. They are only charging $25 shipping to America.

Those flight decks look amazing, but my hucking days are over. So, razor tail and a general soggy feeling kill my decks before I ever do.

I grabbed a cheap mini logo deck (Christmas complete), and it skated… But after about a month it definitely felt like it’s price.

I had been grabbing Z-Flex completes. I initially snagged one just for the trucks because I like Aces. When they are on sale, a complete is $60 with Ace 144s. I was pleasantly surprised when the deck was stiff and poppy. With some better wheels and bearings, that setup was solid.

I grabbed a Tactics Blank the last time I needed grip and bearings because the sale price dropped the board down to $22. When I showed up to the park, my buddies could immediately hear the difference in pop.

My favorite so far has been Woodchuck laminates. It’s a Canadian company and the concave and pop have been amazing.

I honestly like the small, eclectic vibe better.

I don’t know what the number is, but I’ll arbitrarily say, anywhere under a quarter million is perfect.

I know the federation model provides a strength against the cascading list negatives that plague popular platforms, but I don’t doubt that with a large enough user base, exploits would certainly seep in, particularly with ease of AI bot manipulation and astroturfing.

It reminds me of the Linux saying “security through obscurity”.

You joke, but ruling with an iron fist in an academic sub is preferable. Requiring a bit of academic integrity in responses to questions is what makes a history sub valid. For instance, requiring all responses to provide sources should be a bare minimum.

The old place required “answers that are in-depth, comprehensive, well-sourced (academic), and written by knowledgeable contributors, prohibiting bigotry, speculation, links as answers, and current event discussions”, with a core principle to “provide high-quality historical information, not quick facts, focusing on expert-vetted responses that adhere to historical methodology and avoid modern political debates, even if framed around history.”

Being extremely judicious in the act of moderating is one of the aspects that allows academic subs to flourish.

I am currently finishing the Ellsworth translation of The Three Musketeers and it is phenomenal.

I believe I read the Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo years ago. For a book so long, it only felt like a couple hundred pages.

Both have kept me captivated, to the point that I searched lemmy to see if any similar books had been discussed. The Musketeers certainly feels more lighthearted and less consequential, but still difficult to put down.

If you have any suggestions for a next read, I’d love to hear suggestions!

Same bitrate, file size, and metadata (with my tags still included), along naming schemes and occasional misspellings.

Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900’s continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.

Holy smokes! I see his online persona so often that I forgot he had a pen name!

“No man ever steps in the same river twice”. Everything flows.

Similarly, impermanence is a fundamental aspect of reality, and fighting it ultimately results in feeling things are unsatisfactory in some way.

Here’s the author Jason Pargin riffing on the topic of nostalgia , and the key takeaways for him are that:

• Nostalgia is toxic because it is the intense grasping for something that is definitionally forever outside of your reach
• Nostalgia is a false rose-colored filter to view things through.

That said, I have a penchant for sentimentality, and fall victim to nostalgia at every given whim I get, especially when visiting my parents’ house where I grew up.

I love to allow myself to be transported to the viewpoint of my younger self, which I feel I have lost some connection to.

I often find I was stronger and more worthy than I gave myself credit for.

If only I could properly translate that into the current moment, it would remove a lot of self-doubt that holds me back from living with confident authenticity.

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