🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

“gomenasai”

GO MEN? Cheering on men while in a women’s compartment? YOU SICKO

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lysergic

I joke about “lysdexic” so often my brain read that as “dyslexia” at first. heh

Word.

We just moved from Williamsburg down into Newport News (both in Hampton Roads). Whilc Williamsburg has a surprising amount of stuff for its size - it’s a tourist town so that helps - still, the sheer increase in the amount of cuisines available to us down here is amazing. I’m having to limit our eating out due to budget needs, but there’s so much I want to try, and so much I’ve been wanting access to forever. lol.

We apparently have a couple of places (one that just opened) that are copies of one of the styles of bodega from NYC where they basically take a somewhat limited set of ingredients and combine them as many ways as they can, giving you like breakfast foods of all sorts, heroes, halal platters, sometimes fried seafood and other stuff. But they also do things like sell Boar’s Head sliced deli meat that they use on the sandwiches - it’s actually cheaper than I can get from the grocery stores.

And yeah - Sun and Moon deli in Newport News - you can find their menu if you wanna drool. Their lamb-over-rice is so tender, and everything is seasoned amazingly - the rice has some seasoning I can’t place but is delicious, and the “white sauce” and “red sauce” they put - the white is some sort of tzatziki in style, and the red is a tomato based smooth salsa but with some sort of middle eastern spices… oh man, I’ve had two since we’ve moved here and I so want to order another one right now! lol

I hope you can get your lamb and ziki soon. :)

Hmm. I think I’m on board to play around with this.

Just had a lamb-over-rice bowl a couple of days ago - it had lettuce, tomato, cucumber with tzatziki and hot sauce all over, which makes me think the tzatziki and hot sauce would be a really tasty combo on this bacon-tomato-cucumber sammie. Of course, for that matter, putting lamb with or without the bacon would also be tasty, but we really do start to get away from the core concept at that point. heh

Sweet. I’ve been a tiny enthusiast of Markdown for almost 20 years. It’s just a great format.

I host a forum for a gaming community and it uses BBcode, which was… not completely terrible for the time, but ever since I used markdown, I’ve always hated it. heh. Markdown is just simple and easy to remember, and it’s easy to use. It quickly becomes second nature.

Wow, weight shaming. Nice.^[1]

There’s a difference between trusting something written for general purpose use not to have harmful code vs. something written specifically for communications people want to keep private that would therefore be a target.

So either I felt I was making a valid point for consideration that I thought was valuable to make, or I’m a troll wasting everyone’s time.

I know what I am. And I’m starting not to care what you or others think. Go blindly and trust whatever you want, it’s no skin off my back. Frankly, I use Telegram because none of my comms are particularly sensitive, and I have no problem with that. I’d rather my private conversatiosn not be actively posted somewhere, but in the case of a breach, it wouldn’t be the end of my world. So I’ve no problem trusting Telegram thus far, personally, in my case.

Anyway, have a nice time. Understand my point or don’t.

You can take your rudeness and bugger off. I’m done with you.

Make all the accusations you want. You think you’re smart, but you are not.

If you are not auditing the source code, you are trusting those that are.

Precisely.

And it’s worth repeating here - the level of trust needed is affected by the nature of what you might lose if that trust is broken. For non-important things, trusting a third-party company is probably fine. If you’re in a country and being found out might mean you get put to death, though, the stakes are a bit higher.

Frankly, I have trouble believing that you don’t understand the difference here and are making your argument in good faith.

Let’s back up to what I replied to in the first place:

You don’t have to trust anybody

I even took the time to quote that, because it’s important.

Of course there are different levels of trust. But what you said is flatly wrong and misinformation, if you want to get technical about it. Arguing in bad faith? I beg your fucking pardon, friend.

Just becuase it’s less likely to find nefarious code in open source doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. There ahve been multiple cases of it found in open source code. Blindly trusting something because it’s open source or you host it on your own server is a very very false sense of security, especially in the context of the larger discussion, which came about in regard to what information is exposed by certain messaging clients.

It’s also a matter of the importance of what you’re doing.

I wrote a little CRUD app a while back to track me giving my cat medication. I sanitized inputs, but I left it open without a login on my server, just an obscure URL that didn’t get published anywhere. All you could do was click a button to indicate the cat had been medicated, or another button to delete the latest entry. That was plenty of security for that. If I was writing a banking app, I’d use a bit more.

So yes, in the same way as that, hosting something you use to chat with friends about whatever is one thing; trying to communicate secretly from a country where your comms might lead to being put to death is quite another. And in the latter case, it’s important to know that no matter what you use, unless you wrote it or read all the source code, you are trusting others with your life. Perhaps you feel comfortable doing that, but you should be aware of it.

So no, this is not a discussion in bad faith at all, it is valuable on multiple levels.

Sure… and my point is that you have to trust those services that aren’t hosted in the USA. It’s a choice you have to make. I’m not judging either way, just pointing out because what I responded to in the comment to which I replied was:

The problem is that you just have to trust them

Which is true of open source unless you read the code and can verify nothing nefarious exists; which is true if you use a service in a country you trust; which is true no matter what you’re doing.

Not all entities are deserving of the same level of trust - some are more trustworthy than others - but you are still making a decision to trust someone unless you write the code yourself or verify the code yourself.^[1]

But again, you either read the source to confirm there’s nothing nefarious, or… you trust the programmers.

Which is not a problem, but it is a choice to trust. All I’m pointing out. :)

You don’t have to trust anybody when you run your own server,

You have to trust the people that wrote the code.

or you use a server that doesn’t collect information it has no business collecting.

Again, you’re trusting the authors of the code.

Which is fine, but it’s a choice to trust them.

And that is the problem with anything you don’t write yourself. And for anything you do write yourself: Are you smarter than the three-letter agencies?

I haven’t seen a lot of the more recent years stuff - for a long time I hadn’t realized they were still making stuff occasionally. I need to go find a collection so I can catch up…

Aww, damn. :(

Boo this timeline. :(

Depends. How high are you?

;-)

Would explain why there were that many reindeer, though. lol