You don't "blame" the holy spirit. That means she's saying one of the incarnations of God wanted her to do it. That's like saying God is a Nazi.

I think they are starting to write this way, because there's huge numbers of Americans who do not even know what the Holocaust is and that it happened let alone the basic facts about it. It's shocking when you read the recent polls which demonstrate the levels of ignorance we are dealing with around this.

Edit:

I'm surprised that people don't know about the ignorance of the Holocaust. Here is some reading for our collective edification.

• Kovac, Adam. "Almost half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust, AJC survey says." Forward, 2023. https://forward.com/fast-forward/533204/ajc-poll-holocaust-knowledge-americans/
• O'Kane, Caitlin. "Survey finds 'shocking and saddening' lack of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z." CBS News, 2020. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-lack-of-awareness-millennials-gen-z/
• "Most Americans lack some basic knowledge about Holocaust — poll." The Times of Israel, 2023. https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-americans-lack-some-basic-knowledge-about-holocaust-poll/
• "What Americans Know About the Holocaust." Pew Research Center, 2020. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-about-the-holocaust/

It might seem unbelievable to see how ignorant people are of the Holocaust, but what you and I find common sense and basic facts of history which we all know are unfortunately not generally known to be basic facts of history and we do not all know these facts. Less and less of us know these facts.

It's alarming and it's good that publishers are writing to state basic facts for an ignorant readership. Because of this we shouldn't see this style of informative writing as a fault but rather as a boon to ignorant readership.

But they do sync. They just don't keep messaging history, which is, as you say, by design. Signal doesn't keep copies of your messages so they cannot give you old message history if you connect your account to a new device.

🤔😔🤷🤷🤦

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.

The contract with Alphabet-owned Google is worth about $60 million per year, according to one of the sources.

The deal underscores how Reddit, which is preparing for a high-profile stock market launch, is seeking to generate new revenue amid fierce competition for advertising dollars from the likes of TikTok and Meta Platform's Facebook.

The sources were not authorized to speak to media and declined to be identified.

Reddit and Google declined to comment. Bloomberg previously reported Reddit's content deal without naming the buyer.

Last year, Reddit said it would charge companies for access to its application programming interface (API) - the means by which it distributes its content. The agreement with Google is its first reported deal with a big AI company.

San Francisco-based Reddit, which has been looking at a stock float for more than three years, is preparing to make its initial public offering filing this week, which would detail its financials for the first time to potential IPO investors. The filing could be available as early as Thursday, two of the sources said.

The company, which was valued at about $10 billion in a funding round in 2021, is seeking to sell about 10% of its shares in the offering, Reuters has previously reported.

Reddit's stock market launch would mark the first IPO of a major social media company since Pinterest floated its shares in 2019.

Makers of AI models have been busy clinching deals with content owners in recent months, aiming to diversify their training data beyond large scrapes of the internet. That practice is rife with potential copyright issues as many content creators have alleged that their content was used without permission.

Founded in 2005 by web developer Steve Huffman and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, Reddit is known for its manifold niche discussion groups, some of which boast tens of millions of members.

Reporting by Anna Tong in San Francisco, Echo Wang in New York and Martin Coulter in London; Additional reporting by Jeffrey Dastin; Editing by Anirban Sen, Krystal Hu and Edwina Gibbs

In a podcast I listen to where tech people discuss security topics they finally got to something related to AI, hesitated, snickered, said "Artificial Intelligence I guess is what I have to say now instead of Machine Learning" then both the host and the guest started just belting out laughs for a while before continuing.

Survey research is hard -- especially when you are a student learning to do it.

They want you to do just that: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866 That link has instructions on how to sign up.

Privacy Friendly QR-Code Scanner by the research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) at Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They make a bunch of simple privacy respecting apps.

All it does is display the text of the QR code for you so you can copy investigate it.

Out of fear of losing access to my accounts I've been moving them out of Gmail as the central point of control. I suggest other people do this too.

Sorry, Snapz, we're discontinuing steaks to keep our restaurant stock value going up.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220717224306/https://github.com/bdr99/pymazda
• https://web.archive.org/web/20221119232837/https://github.com/bdr99/node-mymazda

If you make copies, make a torrent file and share that as well.

They removed this support, because it was misleading users who thought they were getting E2EE when using it as an SMS client.

Wow this is great I am surprised to see people talking about this (let alone even being aware of it).

Really refreshing to not have it to be a contest to follow random dogmas.

Lemmy is refreshingly smarter than I was used to seeing on Reddit.

And let's be honest about who this is paying: Alphabet's 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Adversarial tech, like adblockers, is good. We should use it. If people want users to not want to use it, they should change the product so that we don't want to use it.

It's not illegal for me to use an ad blocker and it should never become illegal.

Oh yeah if you read the scifi written during that time it's just a big male fantasy of easy access to loose women.

I agree with you. Email is flawed and not appropriate for modern communication.

If you want the messages to be written in letter-like format, then you can write them that way. No need to make it chatty if you don't want to communicate that way.

Email shares far too much metadata and should be used just for account-updates, account-control (password reset, MFA, and so on), etc.

Otherwise I just push everyone to Signal, since it's normie-friendly and already using quantum-safe encryption.

--

To the OP's question: yes, I trust Proton. They can't access my data if they wanted to. They're a lot better than competing companies.

Check out some of the steps they've been taking to improve OpenPGP and go down to "Upcoming improvements" to see their future plans: https://proton.me/blog/openpgp-crypto-refresh

And, remember, they are more than just an email company: https://proton.me/blog

What's the best method to mass edit my comments?

Speaking of this, what parts of the fediverse have added the option to block training generative AI to their respective robots.txt?

https://blog.google/technology/ai/an-update-on-web-publisher-controls/ https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/medium-hints-at-a-nascent-media-coalition-to-block-ai-crawlers/

It looks like there's a handful of these lines you'd have to add to robots.txt

Is there anywhere that keeps a comprehensive list of these?

There's so much FUD about Signal it's ridiculous. I'm starting to believe those glowie memes are true it's just the "lol like I'd ever trust Signal!!!" folks who I think might be the glowies. 🫣🫣🫣 ::: spoiler spoiler (No I don't actually believe they're glowies lol). :::