I think so. It’s top-tier adventure storytelling. The sequels are also great.

As far as good storytelling, some of my favs are:

• The count of monte cristo
• The arabian nights
• 100 years of solitude
• The silmarillion
• A confederacy of dunces
• The three musketeers

I have a very long ranked list, but there’s a few.

Extremely sad. Why couldn’t people just ask for context in a polite way, instead of bringing over all those aggressive twitterisms, and assuming the poster was “doing it for the engagement”.

A xiaomi pad 5 pro, with an external keyboard. I switched to coding remotely a few years ago, so its nice to have a portable device with like 12 hours of battery life.

Obsidian

I code from an android tablet, by ssh’ing into a linux server running arch linux for development. I used vim+plugins for years, but now helix as it supports rust and typescript well.

I code nearly exclusively over termux+ssh.

This is hugely useful, thx. Libretube and Newpipe have become almost worthless lately due to google’s crackdowns.

meta af. Kinda like how liberapay funds itself with its own model.

Anyone who has worked with centralized databases can tell you how useless that is. With message recipients and timestamps, its trivial to find the real sender.

Give me your phone number. I’ll quickly be able to find out where you live.

Anyone who has any experience with centralized databases, would be able to tell you how useless sealed sender is. With message recipients and timestamps, it’d be trivial to discover who the senders are.

Also, signal has always had a cozy relationship with the US (radio free asia was it’s initial funder) . After yasha levine posted an article critical of signal a few years back, RFA even tried to do damage control at a privacy conference on signal s behalf:

Libby Liu, president of Radio Free Asia stated:

Our primary interest is to make sure the extended OTF network and the Internet Freedom community are not spooked by the [Yasha Levine’s] article (no pun intended). Fortunately all the major players in the community are together in Valencia this week - and report out from there indicates they remain comfortable with OTF/RFA.

These are high-up US government employees trying to further spread signal.

You can read more about this here.

Spell check? If you mean smartphone keyboards, then yes, the non-foss ones are keyloggers. One of my side-projects is a privacy-oriented keyboard, but there are many out there that don’t require network calls to google or apple.

For sure. I’m convinced signal is supported mainly for the same reason’s apple products are: it’s got a shiny user interface and it’s simple to use. That let’s them overlook all the privacy dangers behind the curtain.

A gigantic US-based service based on phone-number(meaning real identity) identifiers.

This is the same Meredith Whittaker doing interviews with US defense-department aligned sites like LawFare.

Why are all these big tech sites like wired so interested in pushing signal anyway?

Does the EFF have access to signal’s server? Where they store all the phone numbers and messages for its users?

One I didn’t see mentioned yet: reservoir dogs.

Alternatively, you could write

• “Someone help me I’m trapped in here!”
• “Nuclear attack scenarios”
• “You put this disk here to save your life, do not ignore”

Why would the capitalists let you vote away their wealth or power? What incentive do they have to do that?

That’s defeatism.

No, it’s a historical reality that voting is not an effective method to undo class society. Even the ancient greeks knew (before the Marxists rediscovered this and dealt their own death blows to representative government in the 1800s) that voting in an aristocracy is nothing more than theatre, because only the rich and entrenched families have the resources to fund campaigns, and get themselves elected (or appoint political puppets to do their bidding).

Political power is a reflex of economic power, and the rich will not allow you to use the system they control, to undo it.

single ant cannot destroy a tree. It’s the work of countless ants that achieve that.

Many socialist / communist parties did just that, and they weren’t deluded enough to try to accomplish it via voting in a system controlled by the ruling classes.

Same.