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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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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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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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.
Whatever man. Signal is good.