That’s the thing. I already have almost a dozen original and remake Commodore 64s. Also Plus/4, C128, and so on. I don’t know who the target market of the new Commodore is, but it doesn’t feel like its me.

Come on Commodore, I want a retro computer with new Herdware in it. Not some crippled linux phone.

No, its extremely unlikely.

I think we turned a corner in 2014-2015.

That’s when Facebook really started embracing making people angry on purpose to keep them engaged. We aren’t just that bad, some of the most used social networks have been actively bringing out the worst in us for over a decade now.

That’s very unlikely. These romance/pig butchering scammers operate from outside the USA and have no interest in attracting the kind of attention such an attack would bring.

Planning the trip is almost certainly to build trust and make the relationship seem real. All with the goal that the target willingly gives the scammer the money. If he goes to Los Angeles after she cancels, there will be no driver to pick him up.

What should we expect next?

Likely she will cancel the trip at the last second and claim to have a work or family emergency. Then she will need money.

Or shortly before the trip she will share an investment opportunity and offer him to join her in it. It will turn out to be fake.

Or both.

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Yeah and why doesn’t anyone worry about quicksand anymore?!

I have worked for one truly amazing leader in my time. He earned my complete 100% trust and commitment. I don’t think its possible to fully get the value a leader can bring to a team until you have a really good (or great) one.

haha maybe so!

Could that be a bit of a hasty reduction to make based on one post in a shitpost comm?

wait are you saying this is a shitpost

Could be because OP is a known linux hater who likes to stir up arguments about it

As users, do you feel secure with the use of blockchain to protect your privacy?

Who wants to tell them?

I don’t know but I suspect that first getting to know a community and then making an effort to keep your posts on topic will go a long way to help.

Is a professional audit the only thing that counts, or does open-sourcing the code so people can poke at it move the needle at all on its own?

To me, open sourcing the code is a move in the right direction but it doesn’t make up for a professional review of your encryption system.

The thing about encryption is that there are many subtle ways to get something wrong, even when just implementing it with a well known and trusted library. I took a deep dive course on Designing Secure Encryption for Practical Use and while I learned a ton from it, the main take away for me was that I shouldn’t do it if its intended for serious use. At least not without expert reviewers.

Regarding XMPP, it’s architecture is like email. Anyone can stand up their own server and your User ID looks like an email address: user@chatserver.org. Like email, you can send messages to anyone on any server if you know their ID. Phone numbers are simply never involved.

Honestly, I wouldn’t even consider using it unless it were reviewed by a professional cryptographer. There are already battletested options that don’t require a phone number or sharing info with a company. For that, I like XMPP with a client that uses OMEMO for encryption.

nice try fbi

WTF are you ranting about? I’m a web user. As I’ve never owned a device which had a web browser but not a calculator, I’m simply asking why would I want a calculator in my web browser?

Whether or not you are a full stack web developer, I’m confident you can understand this simple concept.