I do not foresee HN implementing ActivityPub regardless of a poll outcome. If Daniel and team were look at a poll result it would be a poll built into HN which requires a bit more karma to create. External polls are easier to game. [1] HN already gets too much spam on a daily basis. ActivityPub would amplify that and the the gateway/API itself would likely get shadow-banned the same day in my opinion.
If internet companies can not protect people then it is probably time to forcefully and permanently take them offline in addition to any data-center that facilitates this behavior via eminent domain and military action.
In my opinion, people in positions of power try to make prophecies about themselves so they can make them come true. I believe this is driven by ego.
It is also entirely possible that religious verses or prophecies may be part of a world building plan by churches and "prophets, seers, oracles" give subtle hints to the plan to give it the appearance of divine intervention or a "higher power" is somehow involved to get people on board. This method could theoretically keep a plan in action long after the planners are deceased.
We barely got people to take the Covid vaccine, so I think a human-centric conspiracy is too generous to human nature, to say the least. The divine question remains compelling to me still. AI is just too phenomenal to not think something bigger is occurring.
Well that's an entirely different topic. People made intelligent decisions to not put experimental gene therapy drugs into their system. Too many people know what if the government screws up there is no recourse and the government gave the drug companies full immunity which was a major red flag to many. The vaccine injury rates have proven to be very high. I for one am glad I skipped all of that. Most of HN is fully on board with that hot mess and others outside of this bubble are noticing. I do not even participate in the blue in the face arguments for or against it.
No worries, I would never notice. I use uBlock formatting to make votes invisible. I can predict when people would do that but such things would never hold me back.
Adding that private self hosted forums can permit uploads of encrypted files, encrypted with a pre-shared secret or a secret shared over a private self hosted Mumble voice chat server.
Email encryption for most people is sufficient even if the metadata is exposed. One can simply state in their email encryption "Bing Bing Bong" or "Why did you not put the trash out?" which might mean to the recipient :: "check the second SFTP server" or "let the cat outside" or "Jump on my private Mumble chat server" or "Get on my private self hosted IRC server". The email message need not be encrypted for that matter.
The intended payload can be in an header-less encrypted file on a throw-away SFTP server in the tmpfs ram disk.
I have never considered metadata a part of the term E2EE. It has always been about the message contents.
I understand that metadata is valuable information for spies/governments and that encrypting or hiding it is valuable for privacy. But if you use that definition, there are almost no E2EE protocols on the planet in use.
First and foremost, any protocol that uses Apple or Google push notifications is giving metadata to those organizations. Even Whatsapp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram private messages, all of that leaks metadata but the contents of messages are hidden from the provider.
I know, right? I admit that is mostly for people on Linux desktops. People on smart phones are 100% monitored regardless of encryption or fake E2EE that platforms pinky promise is really E2EE like Signal. Shame on Moxie, he knows better.
Ovaltine has a crapload of sugar. Don't drink that horse piss.
I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
I do not hesitate to drop a domain that acts suspicious into uBlock Origin -> My Filters:
||somedomain.tld$
Never gets another packet from me. I use local Brick & Mortar businesses for as many things as I can. The businesses on the internet have jumped the shark.
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
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