Well we either accept this, get a movement going where we give the AI millions of deliberately false SMS to ingest, or start using a better messaging solution. Not WhatsApp or Signal.
quokka
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Personally, I'll spin up a Mastodon (or similar) instance for my kid and his mates.
You mean apps that they'd really like you pass age verification by having MyGovDigitalSurveillanceDefinitelyNotTrackingYou app?
Yep. And meanwhile the kids will be chatting/abusing in Google Docs. Or IRC servers they spin up for free in AWS or whatever. Or, shock, SMS.
offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.
Yes, yes they do. But that is not justification for reading everyone's messages.
as with Signal, is not really about what you'll use, but what alternative gains traction and you can persuade your contacts to use. I hope one of the decentralised alternatives is able to rise to mainstream status.
a good chunk of that is about to become high-rise apartments. on wet riverbank. but would be a better place for the motor track part of the plans
At one point "brave" and "crypto" seemed to appear in the same sentence too often. Put me off Brave. Everything needs funding, but I don't want in on Ponzis.
I would never use anything Australia based. It's all gone to shit.
There's a few in Perth. They occasionally paste some laughable text in the local papers proclaiming that they are sole bodies and not beholden to taxation. Or some other bumph. It's odd that all sovshitness seems to come down to not paying taxes, while still using all the facilities that taxation provides.
It exists wherever they say it does surely?
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And Telstra can't sell everyone's encrypted messages if we can collectively move on from SMS.