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As more data becomes available

Then we can start doing more with it

And as we do more with it

That that creates more data




As others have said, it depends on the city but probably yes.

For example, in San Mateo, California, it would be an offense under title 11 of the Municipal Code:

11.12.050 EXCESSIVE ACCELERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

It is unlawful for any person operating a motor vehicle within the City to so accelerate the same as to cause audible noise by tire friction on pavement or to cause the tires of said vehicle to leave skid marks upon the pavement, except when such acceleration is reasonably necessary to avoid a collision. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a public offense.




They have to know who the message needs to go to, granted. But they don’t have to know who the message comes from, hence why the sealed sender technique works. The recipient verifies the message via the keys that are exchanged if they have been communicating with that correspondent before or else it is a new message request.

So I don’t see how they can build social graphs if they don’t know who the sender if all messages are, they can only plot recipients which is not enough.

  1. You need to identify yourself to receive your messages, and you send and receive messages from the same IP address, and there are typically not many if any other Signal users sharing the same IP address. So, the cryptography of “sealed sender” is just for show - the metadata privacy remains dependent on them keeping their promise not to correlate your receiving identity with the identities of the people you’re sending to. If you assume that they’ll keep that promise, then the sealed sender cryptography provides no benefit; if they don’t keep the promise, sealed sender doesn’t really help. They outsource the keeping of their promises to Amazon, btw (a major intelligence contractor).

  2. Just in case sealed sender was actually making it inconvenient for the server to know who is talking to who… Signal silently falls back to “unsealed sender” messages if server returns 401 when trying to send “sealed sender” messages, which the server actually does sometimes. As the current lead dev of Signal-for-Android explains: “Sealed sender is not a guarantee, but rather a best-effort sort of thing” so “I don’t think notifying the user of a unsealed send fallback is necessary”.

Given the above, don’t you think the fact that they’ve actually gone to the trouble of building sealed sender at all, which causes many people to espouse the belief you just did (that their cryptographic design renders them incapable of learning the social graph, not to mention learning which edges in the graph are most active, and when) puts them rather squarely in doth protest too much territory? 🤔


i bet you’re going to love to hate this wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_painting 😂

because it’s stupid.

you were bamboozled

presumably you find value in some things that some other people think are stupid too; it’s OK


In finder you cannot cut files

I thought you could when I last used it, back when it was called Mac OS X, so I just searched and TIL they removed cmd-X for files in 2015, but, you actually can still cut files; it’s just another hidden keyboard shortcut now: after you copy a file with cmd-C you can retroactively make it a cut when pasting by typing cmd-option-V instead of cmd-V. Intuitive, no?



knife + fork + stacked slices, as Donald Trump was called out for on *The Daily Show* 17 years ago

screenshot of youtube video of a 2008 episode of the daily show, showing donald trump eating a stack of two slices of NY pizza using a knife and fork. jon stewart looks dismayed, and there is a subtitle saying "Mother f... and you stack your slices, Donald?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Aa6ncIk70


why bother opening a pathway in the first place

i’ve never had an IG account myself, but i think your mistake is in assuming that someone accepting your follow request on a restricted IG account is an indicator of desire for chatting with strangers. accepting your follow request might just mean they glanced at your profile and assessed that you aren’t a spammer or bot, not that they want to chat with you.

perhaps just need to find out somewhere in the real world where I could bond more easily with real people?

for sure that is a good idea 😂

but there are also many places online where it is much more reasonable to assume people are interested in chatting with strangers.


“Sorry, I got to return this video”

2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn’t widely aware of them until 2014.

How about “John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term” ?


Google accounts are pretty hard to bot

If you do a quick search you can find sites selling google accounts in bulk at prices ranging from a few cents to a couple dollars a piece, depending on the account attributes. I guess SMS-verified accounts with a US phone number costing over a dollar might constitute “hard to bot”, but spammers don’t need one of those to comment on youtube.



it’s getting deleted 19 minutes after posting, ok?



Your spam report about this post did arrive in the report queue here at lemmy.ml, and I (a lemmy.ml admin) then deleted the post. (Thanks for flagging it!)

Unfortunately, the post removal doesn’t appear to have federated (yet?) to your instance - the post is still here. I believe this is an intermittent failure mode.

I’m now deleting this post, per asklemmy rule 3 (use !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml for support questions).


please use /c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml for general support questions (or for this one you could also ask in one of the selfhosted communities.)

i’m deleting this per asklemmy rule 3.


i’m deleting this per asklemmy rule 3; please post support requests to /c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml


The Lemmy software is intended to be somewhat censorship resistant, but that does not mean that lemmy.ml is a “free speech platform”.

Like most instances, lemmy.ml has rules (they’re in the sidebar on the front page) and we regularly delete posts and comments which violate them.

That instance you’re talking about is intended to be a “free speech zone”, which in modern internet parlance is a synonym for “nazi bar”. One of the two admins of that instance says explicitly: “racism, bigotry, sexism is allowed".

Most Lemmy users don’t want to see that kind of content, so, most Lemmy instances have defederated them.

I hope this answers your question!