## Two Dixie Cups and a piece of string
### Oh my goodness!
Okay first of all, I use
#Matrix and
#Jabber -
#XMPP w/
#OMEMO, primarily.
I typically don't even regularly give out my email address nowadays, and more and more over the past four years or so, find myself publishing a
#Fediverse address for myself too as a contact point.
Most often, if you ask me for my
#email address I'll give you my Matrix address.
If someone wants to email me then I figure they can get that from my
#PGP fingerprint or
#Keyoxide.
If they don't know what a
#keyserver is or where any of them are located then I just figure they're to dumb to use email.
Yes. As a technologist, I'm at times, rather arrogant, opinionated, discriminatory, and condescending... But only sometimes. The rest of the time I'm patient, attentive, empathetic, and accommodating.
Basically, if i know you don't know shit I'm a nice guy, yet if you pretend to be an all that jazz hipster know it all, then it's quite likely you'll find that I'm pretty much a full on dikhed. Spelled just like that too.
Beginning in the later eighties I think, and then the nineties they called us
#BOFH. That's an acronym for someone who might already have forgotten more than you will ever know. I knew a few old Mainframe engineers with Honeywell and IBM when I was a young programmer - those guys were Gods and could tell you how many wraps of copper to make around a toroid if you had an emergency and needed to make an in the field replacement of your memory - Gods.
#SuperFreakyGeeks, having already, back then, forgotten more than you or I will ever know.
They called me
#Whizkid, coz I was learning shit that they were never gonna bother with - they're gonna retire soon in Mexico with boats, babes, and beers.
But I digress. I do that.
### Back to secure communications...
When it comes to Signal, I know a lot of you really like it. I have little use for it. It bleeds my DID and farms everyone's contact databases - "bing! Ex stalker bitch girlfriend just joined Signal. Say hello!" What the fuck?
Well I guess she's still got me in her contacts lolz. Fuckin' bitch.
### Ummm... Yeah I'll pass.
I actually only use Signal with people who already have my
#DID (phone number) anyway.
Recently, a colleague flew a cray cray route to Thailand, via
#LAX to
#NYC, then
#Qatar. Signal works on a jetliner's
#WiFi too, and isn't dependant on cellular services.
Good choice, but I'm still wondering why his "safety number" changed after he departed
#New_York and before arriving in
#Thailand - he neither reinstalled nor switched to a new device. But that's another matter.
Sounds a little cloak & dagger fishy to me.
Anyway, I hadn't actually used
#Signal in a while, and left it muted for a few months.
To my surprise...
#Stories! Yay! Stories!
Wait, what are Stories? You mean like
#YouTube or
#InstaSPAM? And I'm assuming like they have in
#Whaaaasup (never used it, never will)?
Ummm... I just tucked that little nugget of, I guess, good news away, not really knowing even how to process news of the introduction of such a useless fucking feature.
Until now.
Without further adieu, I defer to
@how , one of our more prominently distinguished members in the Fediverse community, for his novel, clever, and appropriate recommendation:
RT: https://ps.s10y.eu/users/how/statuses/109308591992363124
. Who needs simplicity when you can have a Byzantine key repository maintained by a single guy named Konstantin? 
