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@Quasit - because "breath" looks like it should be pronounced "bree-TH" (brēᴛʜ) - the e and the a do a "when two vowels go walking the first does the talking" sort of thing. And "breathe" with the extra "e" at the end doesnt look like it would make a long vowel sound like e's normally would - because there is an "e" and an "a", so which is the long vowel? Instead it looks like it softens the "th" and makes it a (brĕth) sound. Also breathe looks like breadth so you get that brĕ sound again.

@clew - Fully get that. I try to limit my bandwidth and effort at organizing to one or MAYBE two things. Anything else that I do is NOT in a leadership position, hahahaha!

@harald - popular, here tied to the word "component"Popular component - Meaning widely adopted or found in many places. Note to be confused by the general adjective "popular" meaning widely liked. See definition three in screenshot.

@tinker mad world we live in

@DaveMWilburn @tinker that makes alot of sense. propaganda = weaponization of confirmation bias

@tinker I like your approach to normal users very much. I always stayed with Windows only because the Linux nerds I met spoke a very different language and were too arrogant to answer my "idiot's" questions.It took long and I had to search actively until I found very friendly people on Mastodon who were able to listen to what I need and who could explain Linux even for children. It was *these* people who gave me the courage to change!

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@tinker @signalapp If Molly is a third party app compatible with signal, what's stopping a different third party from just making a signal compatible app?

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So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?Yeah, that Persona.Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials......which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona......or be fired.https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI