I think choosing a server, like in some ICQ clients, is not a complex modification.

Do not let this derail us.

Nothing is derailing you personally. Why are you repeating this to others?

Signal’s internal identifiers are, of course, not phone numbers. And you can download their server and host it without requiring phone numbers for registration. Just they simply can’t afford it, they need to prevent bots from registering and sending messages somehow. A group message is stored in Signal as many times as there are group members, for example.

People told you a few times to go look for yourself what Signal can give away. Its protocol descriptions are pretty understandable.

The whole bloody reason it’s always recommended is because it’s absolutely the best thing in terms of yes, encrypting metadata. It’s state of the art, level above that bullshit you’re thinking.

Unfortunately, that also means that hosting it takes lots of resources, which means they have to screen bots and mults somehow. Phone numbers are one way. Paid accounts are another.

The barrier is that only you and your friends would be using that Fignal or Xignal or whatever home installation, and for that practically, for ease of use, it’s simpler to host Matrix which even a complete idiot can do.

You should have visited Signal’s github page first, I dunno. Before talking. Made up a lot of stuff.

They do have proprietary code for that crypto wallet they have there, well hidden, and for, eh, phone number registration, but other than that module it’s all released, I think.

The server and the client applications are FOSS. You can host it for yourself, patching out the domain names and registration parts the way you like it more.

0. Yes, and in that time you would visit a website with your own IP address likely, likely over HTTP without SSL/TLS, likely with your vulnerable browser fingerprint. Point?

1. Privacy, not anonymity. Two completely different things.

2. Because the way Signal is built hosting it requires a lot of resources (storage especially), so they want spam prevention and fewer accounts per person.

A guy says he was a PoS among other things. I answer that. You answer me. There comes my reply we’re talking about. Doesn’t seem weird in the same thread.

I’m not a Windows user. Unix-likes are also too complex for most tasks.

And your tone evokes suspicion that you’ve switched to Linux not so long ago and think that brings authority. Nah. It’s just an OS. Its users are as qualified as Windows users. When you’ll be able to explain to me how an IP packet passes through the networking stack, or something like that, then maybe. At least how virtual memory works, or swapping, or syscalls, or process scheduling.

OK, admittedly I don’t remember shit of any of that.

Just - wanting something more minimal doesn’t mean I’m ignorant of Unices.

No it won’t. You already have things like Visual Basic and Tcl to replace routine. No amount of “prompt engineering” will be faster for a real routine tasks which are necessary to perform.

It does replace bullshit jobs. And jobs which bosses consider bullshit jobs. Thankfully the global economy is still kinda market-based, so it will compensate for the disturbance eventually, killing companies with such bosses.

Just very slowly and painfully.

There’s no single “capitalist system”. Marxists I’ve encountered loved to use the Duhem-Quine thesis, to support Marxist positioning of dialectics, and also to say the “real communism hasn’t been tried” in a smartass way. Well, the Duhem-Quine thesis works just as well for capitalism.

It’s very easy to explain to anybody who worked with computers, you have your actual program and the libraries you’ve used to hack it together. When something doesn’t work, it can be with your own logic or with that of the libraries. It’s hard to be certain which it is.

So - it’s just a new tool. It hurts us in new ways - 1) allows a machine to pretend to be human, 2) makes it even easier for a clueless human to appear understanding and to use tools which had a learning barrier, 3) introduces a Troyan horse which everybody considers necessary, because it’s the new shiny, 4) affects human magic thinking - talking to Elisa chatbot some people with mental conditions could believe things not true, now it’s become a bit more dangerous, 5) complicates any open information exchange and trustworthiness, so basically returns us to the age of rumors and trusted newspapers and just believing TV and radio, but with the social mechanisms of that old time atrophied.

I think it’s easy to see how some points of these 5 are at least partially addressed by “capitalism” whereas for most ideas of “socialism” they are deadly.

I never said you did.

Who’s deciding?

Compared to a machine good enough to run TIE Fighter and not more - they do. Should remove that difference.

There are plenty of situations where you can hit someone and then feel bad and apologize for that, which in my opinion do not make you a piece of shit.

Say, I have BAD, ASD, probably ADHD (with the previous two hard to tell, a lot of intersections really and comorbidity … long story). I do get emotional, sometimes with destructive results. Haven’t hit anyone in many years, but can easily imagine doing that.

I’m not talking about legally\illegally, I’m talking about rightfully\unrightfully , the difference is in under whose control the category line is.

John Lennon was a piece of shit.

Huh?

But you, casual BitTorrent, eDonkey (I like good old things) and such user, can’t.

It’s literally a law allowing people doing some business violate a right of others, or, looking at that from another side, making only people not working for some companies subject to a law …

What I mean - at some point in my stupid life I thought only individuals should ever be subjects of law. Where now the sides are the government and some individual, a representative (or a chain of people making decisions) of the government should be a side, not its entirety.

For everything happening a specific person, easy to determine, should be legally responsible. Or a group of people (say, a chain from top to this specific one in a hierarchy).

Because otherwise this happens, the differentiation between a person and a business and so on allows other differentiation kinds, and also a person having fewer rights than a business or some other organization. And it will always drift in that direction, because a group is stronger than an individual.

And in this specific case somebody would be able to sue the prime minister.

OK, it’s an utopia, similar to anarcho-capitalism, just in a different dimension, in that of responsibility.

That can be as cheap as Chromebook. Expenses at reliability are partially redeemed by no need for such complexity and computing power.

Most of the world outside of Europe and imperial Asia was communist or socialist tribes

Name one for this wild statement.

And they were doing pretty damn good at colonizing

That’s another aspect - building something and not getting overrun by those more considerate.

EL 7 is EL 7. But that time is over