I have ordered a “medium” many times, they understand sensible sizes too.

they’re probably colder than your torso, likely not colder than cold extremities

warming up your hands like that usually works

type “LMAO”, show her the phone with a dead serious face and leave

How else are they supposed to pester you with notifications?

Those fractions are barely readable and I’m not even dyslexic

same rotten practices as John Deere and other manufactures, now disguised as “the risk to patient safety is too high.”

you know what else is high risk? Not repairing machines because it’s unaffordable.

then proceeds to ramble for 10 minutes

these people don’t need a call, they need a rubber duck

and you’d think that after many years there wouldn’t be so many suicidal spiders anymore

it would have been better if it was a smile; he looked a bit too angry while talking “about his heart”

I wasn’t. Like a WhatsApp integration, I think using SMS defeats the purpose of Signal. My phone can handle SMS just fine, I don’t need that feature. But when you take a feature away, you only hear about people who used and liked it to there’s a clear bias to think there was a huge backlash.

I haven’t seen numbers to support the alleged “mass exodus” that happened when they removed it.

People that do use signal value privacy or just want to get away from predatory companies

Once interoperability breaks this, what’s going to be the reason for people to use it?

There’s a good chance Signal will have even less users than it does today if that happens, because the few users who care will leave.

Everybody uses WhatsApp.

and there needs to be a reason for people to switch; what’s that then?

hmm this gives me all colors (from ls and grep)

/usr/bin/ls -l --color=always | /usr/bin/grep --color=always a

(I’m using their full paths because I usually alias ls and grep to eza and rg respectively)

There’s a export CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 you can try to avoid repeating --color=always, but that didn’t work for me with ls and grep specifically.

Edit: there’s also a FORCE_COLOR=1 that is popular, but again, neither ls nor grep seem to care.

telegram doesn’t even do e2ee by default

why would anybody move to Signal if they can’t talk to anybody?

why would anybody move to Signal if it’s no different in terms of privacy anymore? That’d be the consequence of interoperability.

I doubt it would lead to more signal-to-signal chats. With interoperability, they would be handing off their data to Meta, at which point users will just keep using WhatsApp as most are today.

If getting away from Meta and other for-profit companies is no more, what will be the selling point of Signal?

Federating would mean handing off chat metadata to Meta and other for-profit companies in the future.

I don’t see how anyone excited to use Signal would like that. It very much defeats the purpose of using Signal.

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yes, and developers are civilians.

yes, very much

if your only argument is the nationality of the people involved, it’s a bad one.

Sure, now why would that be a factor for choosing a software or not.

You didn’t choose the country you were born in anymore than they did.