Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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Psalm 34:7
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Isaiah 5:20 - whoa to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! https://www.bible.com/bible/59/isa.5.20
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Saturday Poem...Christine E. Black Ode to the Young Doctor in Gaza...And other poems
https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/23/ode-to-the-young-doctor-in-gaza/
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966)
https://youtu.be/yHKl0euhZI0?si=aBvLEV5nryLIcE2K
Man May Devise His Plans, But God Is Ultimately In Control
https://harbingersdaily.com/man-may-devise-his-plans-but-god-is-ultimately-in-control/
Worst Of Babylon Bee...Sunday Edition
Jesus Calls On Followers To Eat Filet-O-Fish Sandwiches For 40 Days To Prepare For His Crucifixion
https://babylonbee.com/news/jesus-calls-on-followers-to-eat-filet-o-fish-sandwiches-for-40-days-to-prepare-for-his-crucifixion
After Years of Debate, Theologians Now Agree That Lying To Your Dentist About Flossing Is Not A Sin
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-years-of-debate-theologians-now-agree-that-lying-to-your-dentist-about-flossing-is-not-a-sin
Man Holds Off On Reading Bible So As Not To Ruin Suspense Of 'Passion Of The Christ' Sequel
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-holds-off-on-reading-bible-so-as-not-to-ruin-suspense-of-passion-of-the-christ-sequel
Heaven Confirms Resurrected Bodies Of The Saints Will Be In The Style Of Studio Ghibli
https://babylonbee.com/news/god-confirms-our-heavenly-bodies-will-be-in-the-style-of-studio-ghibli
Apostle Paul Called In For Sensitivity Training Again
https://babylonbee.com/news/apostle-paul-called-in-for-sensitivity-training-again
Sometimes I wonder what Bee would write about the effects of God's omnipresence and omniscience.
C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (March 29th)
"I called Him, but He gave me no answer." — Song of Songs 5:6
Prayer sometimes tarrieth, like a petitioner at the gate, until the King cometh forth to fill her bosom with the blessings which she seeketh. The Lord, when He hath given great faith, has been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered His servants' voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky. They have knocked at the golden gate, but it has remained immovable, as though it were rusted upon its hinges. Like Jeremiah, they have cried, "Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through." Thus have true saints continued long in patient waiting without reply, not because their prayers were not vehement, nor because they were unaccepted, but because it so pleased Him who is a Sovereign, and who gives according to His own pleasure. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! Beggars must not be choosers either as to time, place, or form. But we must be careful not to take delays in prayer for denials: God's long-dated bills will be punctually honoured; we must not suffer Satan to shake our confidence in the God of truth by pointing to our unanswered prayers. Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers-they are not blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King's archives. This is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded. Tried believer, thy Lord hath a tear-bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which thy holy groanings are numbered. By-and-by, thy suit shall prevail. Canst thou not be content to wait a little? Will not thy Lord's time be better than thy time? By-and-by He will comfortably appear, to thy soul's joy, and make thee put away the sackcloth and ashes of long waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition.
A Song: https://youtu.be/OPI7Iw0Tfc0?feature=shared
"A Song:"
Amen
A cool nature experience --- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZpA3SUpyY
(Dolphins all around while hydro flying)
Hear me out 🗣👂
Why would the Biden admin approve Signal for use in government?
The Signal Technology Foundation is a non-profit organization which developes a secure messaging application called 'Signal'. It's verifiably open source, resistant to post-quantum attacks, and cryptographically-isolated from whichever server infrastructure it runs upon, meaning it doesn't need to trust the server it uses. However, it costs the Signal Foundation more than $50m/yr to run their own servers. Why do they insist on running their own servers? From whom do they get the money? How do they sustain the money? Who gets the money? What are they going to do with the money? Maybe a nothing burger, but it's good to think outside the bun. Their foundation is governed by people of the san-fransissy type.
They could have an agenda.
The current CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, is also on the advisory board of the Signal Foundation... and the Doge team just yanked USAID funding to NPR a day after the Signalgate stuff started. Things that make you go Hmmmmm.
This begs the next few questions, does Signal have government backchannels in case of a global emergency? Was the intention so that the bad guys could orchestrate their crimes in complete secrecy during a supposed internet blackout event? Is Signal offered for the general public to use so it mixes in the good people with the bad, making it harder to spot the bad guys? Or do they really care about our privacy?
I believe the app is stellar. I believe Signalgate is a whitehat initiative to spread awareness of it. I switched to Signal back in 2021 when my provider was filtering a link to the frontline doctors on my phone's text messaging app. Who knows, maybe during a potential blackout event Signal will be the only secure protocol available.
Can you run signal on your own server and use the app to connect to that server? (Or, rebuild a modified app to connect to your server instead?)
Yes. There is one developer doing just that with his fork of Signal called Molly. The Molly app currently uses the official Signal servers, but his mission is to have his own servers running in parallel to the official server. There is also another guy who is implementing the Signal protocol for direct messaging on his social media platform called 'X'.
People often think that the mere mention of open source means that the software system in question is 100% secure and tamper proof. In reality the litmus test is whether you can stand the entire system built from source and installed yourself. From your answer, Signal is not there yet.
So I would say that until we are able to build and run signal entirely on our own servers, using the official signal app must be considered "insecure"
That is exactly the response I was expecting. The entire Trump admin uses Signal.
Not sure what you are trying to say here. What exactly do you think I don't understand? My observation is based purely on what you conceded - that Signal is not a true FOSS.
From the front page of Molly that you linked:
One proprietary blob is sufficient to render the power of open source worthless and add hooks into the system.
You underestimate the critical thinking in Trump supporters. Especially Q supporters. We have lived through all the 4D chess games where is comes to leaks and we understand that nothing is leaked unless it was meant to be leaked.
This means we have to assume that the actual mode of communication between Trump officials is not made public. Signal (as it currently stands) being a controlled opposition fits perfectly with this Q worldview.
The amount of shilling for Signal amongst the Paytriot community is quite amazing.
Signal and Paytriot in the same sentence, that's a good one. It's free. The code is verifiable and anyone can audit it. You can look at the code to see how proprietary blobs affect the other code. Open source is a good thing. Don't we want our voting systems and financials to be more transparent? Fortunately they will be. I hate to say this and it's nothing personal but I searched web analytics data and largely conservative boomer-age individuals don't use things like Signal due to being technically stubborn, but they use WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger instead because it is pre-installed on their Samsung phone. I don't even know why Signal the app itself is being blamed when it was a Trump staffer who invited the leaker into the chat. Why do a lot of boomers always resort to the strawman fallacy? Btw, I don't know your real age. You could be 25 for all I know, but your stance on Signal gives me a very big hint.
You clearly don't understand code and thats why you keep steering the conversation back to "boomers" and "conservatives". Nice try though. But we are flooded by shills all day and we can sniff one out a mile away.
bump
Not everyone missed your point. Things need to change significantly going forward - in so many areas/businesses/etc. Off the top of my head just a few - media (video, print, even cable TV control), government-politics, healthcare, technology (including your points of contention), education, financial, entertainment, food production and distribution, etcetera.
Thanks for your bump as I missed it the first time around.
Testing embedded Q drops:
u/#q55
got it! u/#q56
(I had an “=“ after the “q”).
https://rumble.com/v6rewo2-the-insane-mental-decline-of-the-democrats-lefties-are-not-ok.html
This is pretty funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣