It is an option, but not a particularly good one seeing as it’s run by amazon. I personally use Signal just because it’s popular, but Wire seems equally good, and I’m glad they exist to provide competition.

You can daisy chain displayport, as long as you have the bandwidth for it. I think the real issue is not how many monitors, but just how many pixels you’re trying to drive. Since secondary monitors are typically 1080p, the whole collection of them should be the same as a 4k main monitor.

Are you talking about business email or personal email. For myself, I use mailbox.org, which is based in Germany (relatively good in the modern world). They also provide encryption at rest by pgp if you request it, which isn’t nothing I guess.

Interesting that this happens in Ireland, which is known for capitulating to big tech (because they’re a tax haven). Almost like this is not actually about restricting the ability of big tech to cause damage.

This exists in Canada, and it’s called jmp.chat. They use jabber, rather than simpleX, but they will optionally provide a server, which you could then bridge to your own server without needing port forwarding or anything like that.

They do take payments in monero, but for some reason you can’t create an account with only monero unless you contact support first…and they don’t do support by email, only phone/sms and jabber. There are public jabber servers, so it should be entirely possible, just inconvenient. They also take payment by mail, which I think includes cash.

I’m not sure the logistics of using jmp.chat outside of Canada, but I know it is somewhat possible to do in the US. Of course, there’s nothing forcing you to actually be in the same area as the service, but people who live in the same area as you might question the +1 phone number, and might get charged more by their provider.

Does it count as 5 squares away if its 4 in one direction and 3 perpendicular to that?

I think the difference is, your phone is encrypted. In order to access any of the data, an attacker has to brute force your password (unless you left it powered on and it hasn’t run out of battery yet), which means a clear security boundary that had to be broken.

Of course, banning circumvention is clearly bad in lots of other contexts (DMCA), but I think that a phone dropped in an emergency is a pretty good case. There’s maybe even an argument than an unencrypted drive should be protected in that context, though I’m not sure it’s my position.

Aren’t AI tools supposed to be bad with adversarial examples? Someone could make an app that generates an image which (independently) appears to be you and also appears to be old enough.

I’m glad they at least tried to make an alternative to the stupid AI estimation. Even if this is hardly any better. I wonder if a VISA Debit card would pass muster, or do they have those in the UK.

Of course, the primary harm of kids not being able to use social media is also pretty significant—but there’s only so much you can do when you’re actually breaking the law. Except switch to dread, I guess.