Ah yes, that’s exactly what I said.

That’s all well and good, but can we talk about proper use of this meme template?

Whew. OK man. Have a nice day.

Wow what a dodge. It doesn’t matter the extent of the trauma or whether it’s the worst trauma they have had. You are minding your own business, have done nothing wrong, then the cops show up with a random accusation and “need” to put you in cuffs while they determine if you are a threat. Comply or violence. It’s not right.

And I’m saying, even if they are polite, they are polite because I comply. If I don’t really want to be in handcuffs right then - doesn’t matter. If I’ve got an important appointment or was about to leave to pick up my child from school before police arrived to “make sure I’m not a threat” - doesn’t matter.

Your options at that point, even as someone who has done nothing wrong are comply, or expect violence. THAT is inherently traumatic.

I don’t disagree with you about this specific case, I was reacting to your “people put too much stock in being cuffed.” Removing another person’s bodily autonomy under direct threat of violence is just another day for police, but for the rest of us it’s a pretty fucking traumatic thing to be on the other end of.

Perhaps if you don’t understand what police officers go through, I could see it.

I understand they can pick a different job if it’s too much for them, and that they knew what the job entailed when they picked the career in the first place.

I always felt like people put too much stock into being handcuffed or not

Too much stock? Your bodily autonomy is being removed, under overt threat of further violence if you resist. It’s humiliating if seen in that condition because of assumptions people make. For someone who has done nothing wrong why the fuck wouldn’t they be indignant?

I’ve been handcuffed before, In a similar but not nearly as severe circumstance.

Me too, and I knew that they at least had a reason to think I was up to no good (I was not), it’s not the same as literally minding your own business in your own home and having them barge in. Not really apples to apples to this situation here.

That bump in 2020 is kind of interesting. The reason seems obvious, but correlation does not equal causation and all that. It does make me wonder if a big chunk of people claiming to be unaffilated are doing so because they think it’s the correct answer to give, not because it’s actually true. (My theory being that the pandemic made them decide they better stop denying Jesus for awhile or whatever)

Telegram is the most realistic alternative to breaking Meta’s monopoly. You might like Signal very much, but nobody uses it and the user experience is horrible.

Joke’s on you, I use nothing by Meta, nor Signal, nor telegram. My comment had nothing whatsoever to do with what I like or not.

This will likely change after Durov’s arrest, but it was nice while it lasted.

Why use a tool that relies on the goodwill of the operator to secure your privacy? It’s foolish in the first place.

The operator of that tool tomorrow may not be the operator of today, and the operator of today can become compromised by blackmail, legally compelled (see OP), physically compelled, etc to break that trust.

ANYONE who understood how telegram works and also felt it was a tool for privacy doesn’t really understand privacy in the digital age.

Quoting @[email protected] :

Other encrypted platforms: we have no data so we can’t turn over data

Telegram: we collect it all. No you can’t know who is posting child abuse content

And frankly, if they have knowledge of who is sharing CSAM, it’s entirely ethical for them to be compelled to share it.

But what about when it’s who is questioning their sexuality or gender? Or who is organizing a protest in a country that puts down protests and dissent violently? Or… Or… Or… There are so many examples where privacy IS important AND ethical, but in zero of those does it make sense to rely on the goodwill of the operator to safeguard that privacy.

Dear cops: Oh now we worry about unchecked power and lack of oversight in the deployment of surveillance technology? Please. May as well join the surveillance dystopia with the rest of us, you helped usher it in. Tell me again about your robot dogs and your Stingray devices why don’t you.

There is no big plan to weaken encryption or anything.

This may not be a symptom of such a plan, but there very much is such a plan.

Exportation of PGP and similar “strong encryption” in the 90s was considered as exporting munitions by the DoD.

it was not until almost two decades later that the US began to move some of the most common encryption technologies off the Munitions List. Without these changes, it would have been virtually impossible to secure commercial transactions online, stifling the then-nascent internet economy.

More recently you can take your pick.

Governments DO NOT like people having encryption that isn’t backdoored. CSAM is literally the “but won’t someone think of the children” justification they use, and while the goals may be admirable in this case, the potential harm of succeeding in their quest to ban consumer-accessible strong encryption seems pretty obvious to me.

As a bonus - anyone remember Truecrypt?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/rhodium-enterprises-bitcoin-usd-loan-bankruptcy

https://www.csoonline.com/article/547356/microsoft-subnet-encryption-canary-or-insecure-app-truecrypt-warning-says-use-microsoft-s-bitlocker.html

Stupidity doesn’t adequately explain the number of times they have done this. I’m surprised it’s even a headline anymore.

stockholm syndrome

I don’t really get why you couldn’t pick one of your other installed kernels and boot that, but you seem pretty intent on blaming arch and I don’t feel like trying to troubleshoot it, so that’s that I guess.

Sorry you’ve had such a rough go, just remember your experience isn’t everyone’s experience.

Fresh packages all the time without any hassle or snaps/flatpak/appimages, and theoretically never needs to be reinstalled. What’s not to love.

OP was pretty fucking snarky though, ngl. Some of us enjoy using arch based distros without being walking memes, and far more people complain about people talking about arch than actually talk about arch these days.

Or your distros repositories? I just think OP calling this “average” sends a bad message - I didn’t compile much stuff from source in 2007, and I don’t now either.

Super happy to be that Linux guy sitting by myself with no one to bother me while I’m getting things done.

Finally a reference to arch btw that I can not roll my eyes at. Should be a sticky post.