First of all I just want to say that I completely agree with all of the technical things you talked about in his question but I think you kind of miss his question.

OP doesn’t wanna be on SS7 (the thing that gives you your phone number), neither do I. I’ve just come to the conclusion that when it comes to infrastructure and paying for your goods SS7 is the only realistic option I have.

There is no distributed communication network anyone can just connect to. And the dream of leaving WiFi access points open for free (or for some kinda crypto-pay, e.g SkyNet) is just a dream, individuals have to invest in it and nobody wants to or take responsibility for it.

Here are some rules:

1. Somebody* has to build the radios and computers that our phones connect to and has to build them all over the world (*doesn’t have to be an individual, could be a company or government)
2. You gotta pay to use it (whether it’s with a billing account where they have your full name and house address, or crypto)
3. It’s gotta be the easiest option

If we can come with a solution that fits these rules we can do away with the SS7 cellular protocol and have a truly anonymous network.

Can we get one with impedance?

Ned mor branrot plz

Forget neovim, try using ED

Id pay to watch that

Aren’t some wolves also persistent hunters?

Guys how often do you think the US sells guns to terrorists to try to gain some intel about them?

Good to hear that I didn’t invent the “pro the mother’s life” opinion first, I’ve just never heard anyone else articulate it out loud

My mother works in HR, she told me a story I didn’t retain too much of, long story short someone she’s interviewing thought the job was for a higher salary because they saw a freebooted job post.

I think some recruiting firm (that probably shares an office with IRS scammers) posted my mother’s job post with a higher salary so they could offer that candidate to my mother.

Just to have the frame of reference, is there at least 1 on these wilderness camps that isn’t a pedo operated blood bath?

Isn’t threads.net activitypub?

I mean if it’s just a private server for just the people he knows then I don’t get why this would be a concern, but if it is to mitigate family drama then rocket chat definitely has end-to-end encryption https://docs.rocket.chat/use-rocket.chat/workspace-administration/settings/e2e-encryption

Rocket chat is like slack but FOSS… haven’t tried it myself but it could be something

How expensive can “reputable” be. I got danhab99.xyz for like ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯ $20/year?? Who cares

Suppose they learned from calling siri an Ai

I know carnivores plants are plants, but I never really thought of a venus flytrap’s flower.

I’d like better multicolumn support in general… I like using my android tablet but the UI components are huge

Now consider that you remember it. You don’t need to check, you remember the things that made that memory funny.

I’m only 25 and it feels like so many of the things I have are just memories. It feels like my life is slowly coming to a close and I don’t know if the future is even there.

And you know what the worst part is? I don’t really remember much anyways.

My 20 year old cat died and all I can do is remember him and look at pictures. I don’t want to have to remember things just to keep them… I’m just not reliable enough.

Unless someone wants to disagree with me

All the code is opensource and no one has ever raised a privacy alarm in a merged pull request. There’s nothing to fear