Hello,
Apparently, Facebook has decided they are a better source of
information than the Brittish Medical Journal and has flagged an
article of theirs as poisonous missinformation. Well, not Facebook
itself, but one of these fact-checking agencies everybody is following these days.
More information at
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80
(This was pointed out to me by jrmu at IRCNow)
Apparently, Facebook has decided they are a better source of information than the Brittish Medical Journal and has flagged an article of theirs as poisonous missinformation. Well, not Facebook itself, but one of these fact-checking agencies everybody is following these days.
More information at
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80
(This was pointed out to me by jrmu at IRCNow)
Hello Arelor!
18 Dec 21 08:29, you wrote to all:
Hello,
Apparently, Facebook has decided they are a better source of information than the Brittish Medical Journal and has flagged an article of theirs as poisonous missinformation. Well, not Facebook itself, but one of these fact-checking agencies everybody is following these days.
More information at
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80
(This was pointed out to me by jrmu at IRCNow)
Time to exit that sinking pile of poop. It is just a home to wild conspiracy teories these days
TheCivvie
Apparently, Facebook has decided they are a better
source of information than the Brittish Medical Journal
[...]
Time to exit that sinking pile of poop. It is just a home
to wild conspiracy teories these days
I used to have a Facebook account when I was trying to
promote my books over there.
Soon I realized Facebook was taking more from me than it
was giving me. By that I mean it was taking time, effort
and sucking my dignity dry slowly, but it was offering
nothing that IRC wasn't. Therefore I piped my Facebook
account into /dev/null
Re: The Brittish Medical Journal is flagged as a fake news blog site
By: TheCivvie to Arelor on Sat Dec 18 2021 04:30 pm
Hello Arelor!
18 Dec 21 08:29, you wrote to all:
Hello,an
Apparently, Facebook has decided they are a better source of
information than the Brittish Medical Journal and has flagged
Time to exit that sinking pile of poop. It is just a home to wild
conspiracy teories these days
TheCivvie
I used to have a Facebook account when I was trying to promote my
books over there.
Soon I realized Facebook was taking more from me than it was giving
me. By that I mean it was taking time, effort and sucking my dignity
dry slowly, but it was offering nothing that IRC wasn't. Therefore I
piped my Facebook account into /dev/null
I take a "holiday" every so often from it and dont miss it. It is more to ke in contact with family that I do so, although recently I have started insist on Signal or Threema for updates
TheCivvie
I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger. They
keep their Facebooks but if they want to find me online
they are going to have to play with my rules.
I am not even a hardcore Signal fan. It is just the best
thing they are going to be able to use.
Arelor wrote to TheCivvie <=-
I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger. They keep their Facebooks but if they want to find me online they are going to have to play with my rules.
It might be time, with family all in one place, to move to
a better messaging platform. My family is 25% Android and
75% Apple, so I'd like to get a cross-platform video and
secure messaging app going.
Hello Arelor!
** On Monday 20.12.21 - 18:20, Arelor wrote to TheCivvie:
I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger. They
keep their Facebooks but if they want to find me online
they are going to have to play with my rules.
I am not even a hardcore Signal fan. It is just the best
thing they are going to be able to use.
And they wouldn't even try email? Session/Deltachat interfaces
look the same on smartphones.
--
../|ug
Arelor wrote to TheCivvie <=-
I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger. They keep their Facebooks
if they want to find me online they are going to have to play with my rules.
Ah, Christmastime - time to update grandma's laptop, check the modem, do all of th
family IT stuff.
It might be time, with family all in one place, to move to a better messaging platform. My family is 25% Android and 75% Apple, so I'd like to get a cross-platform video and secure messaging app going.
... Always the first steps
It might be time, with family all in one place, to move to a better messaging platform. My family is 25% Android and 75% Apple, so I'd like to get a cross-platform video and secure messaging app going.
I am not even a hardcore Signal fan. It is just the best
thing they are going to be able to use.
And they wouldn't even try email? Session/Deltachat interfaces
look the same on smartphones.
My family makes extensive use of email, but email is for
something else.
Also, I was talking about Signal, not Session :-)
I won't use my main email accoutns on a smartphone because
I don't trust smartphones.Most of my email accounts I
consider to deserve a high level of security because they
are used for registering to web services, banking services
and the like. I don't think consumer-grade smartphone
operating systems are safe enough for managing such things.
For starters, I don't trust the vendors. The security of
the whole stack is leaky and it shows (you may configure a
certain proxy for the system, only for some applicaiton to
ignore it and try to connect by its own means, for
example). And the whole thing gets EOLed before poor people
like us discards the hardware which means we are likely to
end up running unsuported systems. So, not a great deal for
DeltaChat doesn't seem to have that problem (EOL, unsupported,
etc..) Everything is self-contained using one's own existing
email servers.
DeltaChat doesn't seem to have that problem (EOL,
unsupported, etc..) Everything is self-contained using
one's own existing email servers.
Well, what I mean is that you may end up running a
supported, secure version of DeltaChat on a phone with an
obsolete, insecure baseband. Or an obsolete, insecure
Android version.
Or a supported, insecure Android version (after all, Google
has root access to your phone if you have any Google
Service enabled).
If I have to give DeltaChat the password for one of my
email accounts, then Android may access the email
credentials. I find it unaceptable because email accounts
are used for many non-communication critical activities -
such as password recovery for online banking.
Iç'd work if I used DeltaChat with an email account which
I used for nothing important. For example, an email account
created specifically for using DeltaChat over it. I would
not consider it safe, but damage would be contained in case
of compromise.
The rooting part sounds confusing. Can't you change the root
credentials so that only you have access?
I take a "holiday" every so often from it and dont miss it. It is
more to ke in contact with family that I do so, although recently I
have started insist on Signal or Threema for updates
TheCivvie
I have migrated my family over to Signal Messenger. They keep their Facebooks but if they want to find me online they are going to have to play with my rules.
I am not even a hardcore Signal fan. It is just the best thing they
are going to be able to use.
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