And if they ask you to unlock it, you just say no and it all goes fine?

Point taken, with my apologies, no offense intended to anyone but him in my post.

Patel is still an idiot.

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Funny how we’re going to switch from his people praising him and everything he says and does as proofs of his genius to claiming that this hero suffered from a mental disease “near the end”, and we shouldn’t criticize him for that, that would be unfair, cruel, immoral. The line from genius to mentally-ill will continuously move to include everything they want to keep and exclude everything that’s too unpopular. Timeline won’t matter at all.

After all, he didn’t think they would kill HIS brother. Only others brothers, moms, dads, kids,…

Now you only need to find a few high profile GOP members going to see young women (or men, actually…) their wives never heard of, and Flock will be severely restricted within one week.

First, phone makers need a strong market signal that a significant number of people do give a damn about security and privacy.

When “everyone” is on Whatsapp/Facebook/X/etc., it’s hard to believe!

Clearly a killing feature everyone craves… ??

No it’s not. He can rush it through before the election. No political benefit for him, he can’t get reelected.

So now you can wonder why he wants it so bad.

I dream of a hack that puts Fock’s CEO whereabout at all time using Flock cameras.

I rent a server instead of hosting at home. But it includes a XMPP server. That down would be more problematic to me.

We had a competitor in Canada, way before Marketplace: Kijiji.

It is not nearly dead yet, but if you want to avoid Meta at all cost, be ready to miss a good 80–90% of buyers and sellers (estimate provided by the Royal Institute of Guessworking).

That means there are things you’ll never find even if they are sold. And things you’ll never sell even if there are people looking for them.

The main difference between them is marketplace is embedded in FB app. You can search FB and find offers. That’s it. That’s how it won.

For most people, FB is just convenient: all in one app. Why install another? With another registration. Another site to browse. etc.

Building a competitor… easier said than done!

Show them this

https://gizmodo.com/trump-admin-closes-investigation-into-alleged-backdoor-for-whatsapp-report-2000751760

It’s E2E but there’s a 3rd E. And they send material to subcons for AI labelling, so most likely low wages countries with sketchy checks.

You’re talking about that?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

They refuse to federate, and the code does not include any federation mechanism. But it sure looks liberated enough to me.

Same as what it took to have it take the whole market: a better alternative and enough advertisement for a critical mass of people to migrate at once, so that they stay active there.

Then the rest will flock more or less progressively.

It took thousands of years for humans to build the first car, and now they make them in just a few years. Should you avoid them?

No, because we simply learnt how to make them faster. Same goes for microbe isolation.

The flu vaccine is different every single year. It’s been used for decades.

As for the coverage time, how many billions of people data do you need before you decide they are statistically significant??

Even if you’re the last unvaccinated on Earth, there is still a chance that you’re also the only person in the world who’ll have a strong reaction. We’ll put a stat out there: 1/10,000,000,000 chance of bad reaction.

So my personal standard “lets wait 2 decades” isn’t even that big, because average is 4 decades.

After a few weeks, there is 0 trace of the vaccine in your body. 0. For mRNA vaccines, it’s even faster: a few days at most.

I don’t know that in detail and I didn’t research it.

So you admit your previous statement was baseless?

In my country this virus wasn’t such an overwhelming question of life and death as it was in US, apparently.

US was yet again a “special” place. The issue with Covid were:

• A high number of people requiring intensive care coming all at once and saturating the healthcare network. That was the dominant factor to mandate confinements: make sure we don’t have everyone exposed at once, because if that happens, you run out of ventilators, and you have to decide who will die among your next patients, knowing you could most likely have saved them, and no guarantee the one you picked will actually survive…
• Lethality for people who would otherwise have a “normal” life (i.e.: not specially in a bad health, not having bad habits, etc.). The number may not be that high, but it was statistically significant. -Even higher lethality for vulnerable groups. -Long Covid: some people infected have heavy symptoms years after the infection. It’s still poorly diagnosed. They can be almost continuously exhausted, have no more taste senses, and other issues.

I don’t personally know anyone who was even sure they had it or died from it.

Not because you don’t see an apocalypic scene Hollywood-style does it mean it’s not doing severe damages in the background.

From this thread I get it that it was some kind of plague in US where literally everybody were dying left and right from this virus.

I don’t know how you read that. I certainly don’t. And I don’t live in the US either.

because the virus itself isn’t even scary enough.

Good for you you didn’t die from it or got a long Covid. I know a nurse who had countless cases of people routed to the ICU, for tubing and everything, and most of the time, they were asking for the vaccine now, because it hurts so much. Unfortunately, at that stage, that’s too late: tube, pain, months to recover completely.

it’s just more reasonable to question the vaccine in absence of longer timeframes of data

It’s hardly a matter of longer timeframe, for any vaccine. For the safety part, It’s a matter of how many people got the shot for whom we have follow-up info on potential reactions, and for the efficiency, indeed, it’s longer. In the case of Covid, exposure was so high that the data could be collected very fast.

I expect scary enough virus to be observable empirically and socially, not only in numbers given from above.

As said above: not because you can’t see it… But any ICU would have showed you.

What do you know about the regular way? What corner was cut for the Covid-19 vaccine?

That’s crazy talking! We have other solutions: banning polls, cheating polls, outright faking polls. There is no alternative here!

Besides, at this stage, if he was to ask what he could do to make things right, he would get a range of answers from “resign” to “kill yourself in the most painful way you can”.

In this particular case, you don’t trust your gov, your countries scientists, the rest of the world’s scientist corpus. But a bench of folks on Internet with 0 medical background telling you the vaccine is dangerous and the Covid-19 is not that much, that’s clearly something you should take in account.

“We’ve waited 100 years, and ALL people who took the vaccine 100 years ago are dead! If that’s not a clue…”