I have in my life met two people who used signal. They did it because I suggested it. They are both senior cybersec folks.

No? There’s a pretty good reason every criminal used telegram. I’ve never seen any attempts at combatting anonymity much less censorship.

Likely TG got unbanned in Russia for cooperating with LEOs there, but while awful, that doesn’t really matter if you’re a westerner, even Ukrainian armed forces used it, and for the average substance enjoyer it was still much safer to use than any Five Eyes app due to its intentional highly decentralised complexity, and unlike Signal it actually works and is pleasant to use. Now they are straight up handing data over to British cops.

No, I have literally never heard of Haveno-reto. Most people back around the shutdown were just saying everyone should use atomic swaps. Thanks for the heads up.

Dream come true. Finally some good news for us substance enjoyers. With localmonero gone and TG selling out to the glowies, it’s good to see not all is lost.

The funko pop star wars nintendo pronoun screamers are to the political right what Alex Jones is to Ronald Reagan

This. Hell you can generate literally endless wallpapers for free.

Damn. Big shame. GPL violations are far too fucking common.

Yes exactly, but which parties? Who actually violated the GPLof Duckstation?

Which GPL violations is he referring to?

Tangas don’t have to be wide in the sides, there are many without and I’d honestly find them more comfortable than strings to work out in, but with both the main issue I’d get worried about is anything rubbing or chafing, especially with cardio but I don’t do cardio so YMMV 🤷‍♀️

I’d say so, but it really depends on the style of the thong you’re comparing to. Some thongs also have less whale taling than others, (they can sit very low).

Why not just get some leggings that ride a bit higher so you don’t have to worry about it? When I’m just casual or going for max comfort or working out I always just wear leggings way high and then cover any tummy bulge unpleasantness with a loose tank top.

🎶Jane Fonda on the screen today,

Convinced the liberals - it’s okay!

So let’s get dressed and dance away the night,

While they kill kill kill kill kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight~🎶

Bruh 💀

A natural next step is to make a Steam Deck Mini of some sort once the compat is good enough for at least a hundred games or so.

Oh no I totally understand that I’m privileged as all hell.

That said I also learned a helluva lot more outside of my degree during said degree and after.

Formal teaching is really like YouTube and it’s meant to introduce you to what you don’t know more than anything, and as I said that’s a good thing as an introduction, but the vast majority of content is written, and you learn far more from it.

I have a BSc in CompSci and an MSc in Cybersec & Dig. Forensics and I’m actively employed as a mid level engineer in the field on a fully employer-sponsored Skilled Worker Visa, doing everything from vulnerability management and triage to GRC for ISO27001 to advising product and engineering teams on implementation details for best practices and compliance for a multinational org to DR&BC tabletops etc etc. I think this counts as IT.

Perhaps even more impressively though: I use Vim btw (to program in C).

I am not necessarily trying to brag very much, only to establish my own perspective, I don’t consider myself particularly talented or intelligent or successful - otherwise I’d have gone into research, but I am currently (and kinda always) studying to improve my skills and stay up to date.

Just recently I decided to take a look into pentesting to learn the l33t side of things more as my education only ever briefly touched on it, I started in August as something to keep my brain sane during studies for the settlement visa (Life in the UK) test, and I’ve made it to Hacker Rank on HackTheBox a week ago or so. I think I watched a grand total of one Ippsec video, the rest of everything I read.

I don’t know where you got the “game show hosts” from my comment, and I’m not aware of this if it exists as some broader trend. I don’t see YouTube shorts it’s all long blocked for me since release haha.

Yes YT tutorials and whatnot are good, but they are only good as broad introductions to a topic, personal opinions, or a particular historical narrative (Dr.Chuck on C’s history for instance). Those are few good nuggets between an endless sea of scams selling you a course or some other grift.

At a certain point you should start going a bit more in depth and reading - actively engaging with the material, move beyond simply knowing or purely copying and pasting terminal commands and understand why things work the way they do.

You don’t become an electrical engineer or something by watching electroboom, you learn what it’s about yes, but the rest you learn by reading and making, even basic arduino/breadboard projects will teach you more.

The best thing about YouTube is how good it is as background noise.

This is the way. Let those content creators sucking up your time be the background noise they were always meant to be.

Or just call them Content creators, recognize they don’t really produce value for anyone but YT’s grab on the attention economy and start living in the real world.

Show women/men sounds like a 70s porno “medical” exploitation film

Bruh that dude is a CONTENT CREATOR, not a filmmaker 😂🤣🤣

His internet videos are colourful animations meant to serve ads while capturing attention and summarizing Wikipedia articles giving some thoughts on them, and I love them, but it’s called content for a reason.