tallship<p>## Two Dixie Cups and a piece of string</p><p>### Oh my goodness\!</p><p>Okay first of all, I use <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/matrix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Matrix</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/jabber" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jabber</a> - <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/xmpp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XMPP</a> w/ <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/omemo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OMEMO</a>, primarily.</p><p>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 <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> address for myself too as a contact point.</p><p>Most often, if you ask me for my <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#email</a> address I'll give you my Matrix address.</p><p>If someone wants to email me then I figure they can get that from my <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/pgp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PGP</a> fingerprint or <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/keyoxide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Keyoxide</a>.</p><p>If they don't know what a <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/keyserver" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keyserver</a> is or where any of them are located then I just figure they're to dumb to use email.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Beginning in the later eighties I think, and then the nineties they called us <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/bofh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BOFH</a>. 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. <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/superfreakygeeks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SuperFreakyGeeks</a>, having already, back then, forgotten more than you or I will ever know.</p><p>They called me <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/whizkid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Whizkid</a>, coz I was learning shit that they were never gonna bother with - they're gonna retire soon in Mexico with boats, babes, and beers.</p><p>But I digress. I do that.</p><p>### Back to secure communications...</p><p>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?</p><p>Well I guess she's still got me in her contacts lolz. Fuckin' bitch.</p><p>### Ummm... Yeah I'll pass.</p><p>I actually only use Signal with people who already have my <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/did" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DID</a> (phone number) anyway.</p><p>Recently, a colleague flew a cray cray route to Thailand, via <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/lax" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAX</a> to <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/nyc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYC</a>, then <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/qatar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Qatar</a>. Signal works on jetliner's <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/wifi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WiFi</a> too, and isn't dependant on cellular services.</p><p>Good choice, but I'm still wondering why his "safety number" changed after he departed #New_York and before arriving in <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/thailand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thailand</a> - he neither reinstalled nor switched to a new device. But that's another matter.</p><p>Sounds a little cloak & dagger fishy to me.</p><p>Anyway, I hadn't actually used <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/signal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signal</a> in a while, and left it muted for a few months.</p><p>To my surprise... #Stories! Yay! Stories!</p><p>Wait, what are Stories? You mean like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/youtube" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> or <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/instaspam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstaSPAM</a>? And I'm assuming like they have in <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/whaaaasup" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Whaaaasup</a> (never used it, never will)?</p><p>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.</p><p>Until now.</p><p>Without further adieu, I defer to <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://ps.s10y.eu/@how" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@how</a></span> , one of our more prominently distinguished members in the Fediverse community, for his novel, clever, and appropriate recommendation:</p><p><a href="https://ps.s10y.eu/@how/109308591992363124" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ps.s10y.eu/@how/109308591992363124</a></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/communications" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communications</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/tag/shenanigans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shenanigans</a></p><p>⛵</p><p>.</p>