how much air conditioning do you have? if you take public transport, is it air-conditioned?

oh lol. I’m a bit thick sometimes

yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.

the richest most convincing liar usually wins and my vote doesn’t really matter… but it’s all I can do so 🤷‍♂️

ha. well I’m not evil, I care, and I haven’t lifted a finger. why? cause the way it works here is money. if u want to do something, no matter how good or evil, you need a lot of money…

I use Lemmy because there’s a good ad free app (jerboa)

for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa

https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa

it’s also available on the play store

it also means don’t risk everything you have for a somewhat opaque promise of something better

hilarious. tx for sharing. updating to include the latest OS airlines tht constantly push ads or ai would be nice

so I found it interesting and checked it out. the protocol is all well and good but the problem is social. I’m simply not going to send people my delta chat Id and ask them to message me there instead if they have delta chat installed. I had the same problem with session messenger.

when I meet someone irl I’m trading phone numbers. not asking if they have app X installed.

this might be useful for open source projects where you can use ur delta chat id instead of ur email. but it’s not something I would use unless it’s a requirement to join some community I wanted to.

the problem signal solves by tieing accounts to your phone number is contact discovery. thanks to user IDs you no longer have to share your phone number with people u want to chat with, and can only share your user id

plus signal guarantees the metadata is encrypted. is the same true for delta chat?

for WhatsApp the founders quit over privacy concerns, and made signal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

there’s also a nice (long) article by propublica from a few years ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

there’s also session

https://getsession.org/

unfortunately privacy and usability are inversely related. session is private. I loved it. but I had no one to chat with 😃

I had no idea if any of my contacts were on session or not.

you need a phone number to make an account. but you can chat with others without divulging your phone number

is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?

if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic

lol. so I told my mom im deleting Whatsapp. if she wants to keep in touch with me she can install signal, or pay for international texts and calls.

she installed signal 😃

musk reminds me of the rich James bond villains

I don’t even know what to say. it’s like from the movies…

just leave them. i thought I would miss some of my communities. but I don’t at all… and the toxic right wing propaganda doesn’t make the front page ever.

api changes breaking my ad free client (reddit is fun) got me to leave. never going back

lol no. if commiting genocide doesn’t bother you, then people calling you names won’t either.

he might even brag about it

oh lol. been there done that. finally learnt it’s never worth your time to try and change someone’s beliefs.