This isn’t even remotely strange, all it requires is precoordinated motion. All it takes is synchronized clocks and you can orchestrate any kind of change in pattern moving faster than light, but it’s nothing but an optic illusion because it’s not self-propagating at light speed.

They made the prices so insane that most 3rd party apps couldn’t justify the higher subscription price

They didn’t even evacuate their bases in advance! They didn’t even install air defenses at them! They did nothing whatsoever to prepare! They just assumed instant success!

No he didn’t follow a plan. The plans said things like Iran would counter attack and try to close the strait. Trump and his team didn’t even look at the plans. They went with Netanyahu’s suggestion

The biggest clue to that bombing is them admitting they asked AI for targets and it delivered outdated info

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare

Trump went to war without a plan, the lack of plans didn’t stop him

Remember the touch panel on the back and the games that used it?

Causing shrapnel to fly a bit is one way to get those numbers without deaths, but even then you have a high risk of many serious injuries, these aren’t controlled explosions

He needs to end in a humiliating self inflicted way. Falling off the stairs or something.

AFAICT they probably won’t be advertising it as a general distro because they want some control of it (broad hardware compatibility is hard) but they do want other OEMs to use it and contribute patches to make it work on their hardware, which is easier on Linux if the distro is simply available to test on other hardware freely and patches can be upstreamed via the Linux kernel for drivers, etc

Tldr the public release will probably be full of disclaimers and oriented to PC makers

Via USB, your options are extra software on the PC or jailbreaking the phone to install a kernel module. (edit: that kernel module would be the UVC one, seems like some phones ship it already)

The easiest solution is streaming the image over the network.

If you’re connected by USB then Android phones support ethernet over USB adapters, so you can make the computer present a network connection over the USB cable (internet sharing over USB) for more stable streaming.

https://github.com/darusc/VCamdroid

https://droidcam.app/

Seems to update every 15min?

It does use deniable encryption, but that stops working as a defense the second they take your phone and copy all logs from your device.

And large group chats relies on how well you can vet participants more than it relies on encryption itself, and if they’re too large they may as well not be encrypted.

They changed that. You can make yourself undiscoverable by just the number now

At that point you can rely on nothing but Tor or I2P

Nothing else hides metadata better than Signal, without involving large networks of independent nodes that participate in Sybil resistant routing. The only thing that gets close is threshold schemes where you still need multiple independent entities running servers.

What evidence do you have that Signal collects anything? Traffic logs from the app or something?

Here in Sweden we have that too, and we just got new machines in many of the bigger stores which sorts for you. You open the lid and there’s an angled wheel with indents which pulls up the bottles and cans you pour in from your bags, and they end up on a conveyor belt for scanning and sorting. While not magically fast, it really does help when people have a ton of bottles and cans

Might also be that fewer are posting about strong disagreements here and mostly have minor ones. Not unlikely when there’s already strong selection effects in who chooses to come here.

Probably because they got slashdotted

Try the Archive.org mirror

Not a fan of the marketing speak on that page, as a cryptography nerd there’s a lot of questionable stuff.

SAS authentication is stone cold dead in the LLM age. P2P with friends is trivially trackable by the ISP and can easily map who knows who. ECDSA isn’t “industry leading”, that would be EdDSA or something based on Risetto, or a pq algorithm like ML-DSA

Yes you can cite the other party’s past statements. They might not always mean as much as you hoped for the current court case, unless you can show it was a consistent position of your counterparty even recently, or in particular if they gave you reason to believe that was their position.

“their lawyer said X in one of many arguments in court” is often not that strong