Signal gets me all the privacy I need. I don’t care if they know my phone number uses Signal, I don’t use it as anonymous chat, I use it with friends and family.
As others in this post have said, Signal handles privacy perfectly fine, it does not provide anonymity.

Unlike several other users here, I actually view Signal’s contact discoverability as a feature, not a security flaw. All it means is if someone I know installs Signal, they can easily send me a message without a complicated back and forth through some other medium.

Signal is actually good, still, but there are even better alternatives.

… Would you care to list some of these alternatives and how they are better?

Every alternative I’ve looked at has some major drawbacks that would prevent me from getting any of my friends to move. Having to selfhost my own chat service isn’t really a positive in my mind due to the maintenance required and the higher possibility of outages.

The audits determined they don’t have any user information to provide. You can see this in previous government requests where the only thing provided was a timestamp of last connection to the network.

The government already has access to every phone number in existence. They can already track every phone to figure out who attended a protest or whatever. Filtering down to “all phone numbers who’ve ever connected to Signal” doesn’t exactly narrow anything down. They don’t have any metadata about who you were chatting with.

The critical part is that the electrons moving consumes energy from the incoming light, reducing the heat being generated while current is flowing. A disconnected solar panel will heat up a bit more than a connected one, but the difference in Watts per area is low enough the panel can just dissipate the extra unused heat to the surrounding air without any issues (unless you’re in the desert, maybe it’s possible they could overheat there, but this would likely be an issue even when generating power).

Modern solar panels are only about 20% efficient, so the panel would only heat up an extra 20% if disconnected in direct sun

I’m just not sure. It seems contradictory to me, since the manufacturer of a physical device is also “a person or entity that controls the operating system”. Unless they sell the hardware with no OS installed? This exemption doesn’t seem to mean anything.

With how they’ve defined “App Store”, basically any product that can download applications is affected by this, including devices that don’t even have the concept of a user account. I’m a little unclear still on what’s required of an entirely offline OS.

Is a mobile phone not a “physical device”? An operating system always has to run on physical hardware, so does this just invalidate the entire thing?

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“Office” is completely removed from https://www.office.com/ The only place “Office” can still be found is in the urls. It’s called “Microsoft 365” now.

Edit: My mistake, “Office Home 2024” is still a thing you can buy apparently, but it’s not the full package and isn’t being updated. I’m pretty sure Libreoffice is a full replacement for “Office Home”

The sort of information they could gather from a site like this would be a list of license plates that somebody is worried about being tracked. I can think of several government organizations who would love that sort of information right now.

It’s a sort of Streisand effect

For data leaks, haveibeenpwned only requires your email, and they send you a notification if it ever shows up. They don’t actually check passwords.

Unfortunately there’s no secondary info linked with a license plate that makes doing this sort of notification private without just downloading the full database locally.

I’ll be honest, I have more concerns about this site potentially logging my license plate than I do of someone having already looked it up.

It’s a little like if haveibeenpwned asked you for your password to check if it’s been leaked.

I don’t think File Explorer on Windows uses fork() to copy files? If it does, that’s insane. I don’t think git calls fork per-file or anything either, does it?

I fully blame this on NTFS being terrible with metadata and small files. I’m sure everyone’s tried copying/moving/deleting a big folder with 1000s of small files before and the transfer rate goes to nearly 0…

On the bright side, you’re getting paid to wait around ( /s because I know the feeling, and it’s just slow enough you can’t step away and do something else)

Have you heard of the concepts of Internet bandwidth and compression? This article isn’t talking about poor quality microphones or cameras. You could have the best camera and microphone in the world, but it won’t do you any good on dial-up, low speed “broadband”, or unreliable connection to the Internet.

I think the random review site I looked at had some wrong data, a different one comfirms there’s no manual exposure. If OP could get your hands on one to try before buying, that’d be ideal, but might be unlikely to find in a local shop considering the age of these models.

I definitely agree, RAW seems like the most useful upgrade out of the things listed (with full manual focus being a bonus)

From what I can see, the TG-4 has manual exposure. I don’t know why it wouldn’t… even my phone has it, and TG-4 is the newer camera.

I think the biggest difference will be the RAW output. I’ve found it useful to be able to go in after and fix white balance or slightly shift the exposure, which you can’t do with the JPEGs.

The autofocus on both seems to have plenty of options for picking what to focus on. I’ve got a full manual mode on my camera, but I often just use the point tracking autofocus to pick out what I want in focus.

To me, the term evokes a feeling of an unmaintained mechanical machine that isn’t running right. Considering it seems to be meant as a derogatory term towards LLMs, I understand how it came about, though personally I can’t get over the similarity to “clunker” which is often used endearingly to refer to an old vehicle. I wish we had a term that was more associated with digital systems.

This has been one of my worries when I set up my NAS as encrypted. I ended up going through the recovery process a few times before storing any real data, since I wanted to be sure I could get myself back in if the OS drive failed or something gets corrupted and I have to unlock it from a live USB.