Signal is trying to make its APK auto updating. This way they don’t have to wait for approval from Google to apply patches that might affect security.

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You have the same options you always had. Upgrade to Windows 11, switch to Apple, switch to *nix.

I just nuked windows off my last computer and went pure Linux.

If you must use windows, Notepad++ is the way to go.

I did that. Since I had everything backed up to my nextcloud, I just pulled the Debian USB out of my backpack and razed what was left. Rebuilt on the rubble.

The Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.

I don’t know. Having a family member with dual citizenship gives me a good comparison between the US and the UK. Both of our governments are getting very Orwellian.

I hope I am wrong, but we’re now essentially being run by an unelected oligarch. Authoritarian regimes like the US will see it and demand the same for here.

My government is now basically a fascist regime. Musk is going to see this and demand that Apple do the same.

Go to an electronics recycling center and get a retired thinkpad (or 5). Once they’re decommissioned by corporations, they wipe the drive and send them off to be recycled.

That only works until they find a leftist who is armed and fed up with their shit. Then they take the pine box challenge.

What’s a good VPN service? Is Proton still good?

Last I heard, torrents would leak your actual IP. Has that been fixed?

Apple is a US based company. For them to just roll over sets a bad precedent, especially for our fascists who are now running the show here.

What’s to stop the US government from going after the same services here? What’s about Tor or VPN services?

The authoritarians will smell blood in the water after this. Since the big player just gave up, who will stand in their way?

AI has already stolen everyone’s work. The internet is officially a free for all.

I’m not a liberal. I just call the rot where I see it, and suggest it be cut out. Where’s Mario’s brother when you need him?

Unfortunately. I’d love nothing more than to be able to move my family out of the US.

Powhatan should have 💀 them as they came ashore. That’s one thing I would fix with a time machine.

I second this ~a 13th great grandchild of Powhatan.

Republicans do, but they blame them on the wrong foreigners. The foreigners causing most of the problems are Musk, Murdoch, Ramaswami, and a few others.