sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

cancelling a *month to month* sim in germany, out of contract, requires that you cancel the line on the web, then *call* during *business hours*, *within 10 days*, to actually cancel - the thing you do on the web is only a 'notice of cancellation'.

the mobile carriers in germany are pigfuckers.

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com that's a strawman argument and you know it.

as usual in the US, the people committing mass murder aren't going to jail, but the guy who exposed the mass murder system is:

https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1377643945296023552

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com everyone reasonable has cut funds to FSF, it will be good when everyone who thinks rms should ever be let out of the MIT basement has to go get a job in some other industry

ugh amaroq doesn't linkify the retweeter's name so i can't go and click them and unfollow the idiot jackass retweeting "it's just the flu, bro" content into my feed.

this is as bad as twitter

the thing that bothers me about executive fiat lawmaking is not so much the rules being dictated (such as the president making my wrist braces suddenly illegal, despite congress passing no law related to it, and wouldn't). it's the fact that to make law like that, you have to fundamentally disrespect the concept of the rule of law. you have to become a dictator.

biden is such a terrible piece of shit. :(

@rysiek @ted @gytis @h3artbl33d @PINE64

then you know both developers and end-users have the right to use their servers regardless of client software

@rysiek @rune @h3artbl33d @ted they're using trademark laws as intended. if you fork the signal-client codebase, you can't (and shouldn't!) use the word or name "signal" anywhere. you should name your fork something else entirely.

@rune @ted @rysiek @h3artbl33d it really doesn't matter if they discourage it or don't like it. the GPL says developers are free to fork the code. the service TOS says users are authorized to use the service. AFAIK there are no cases where an authorized user of a service is only authorized using certain software - they're authorized for the *service*. google.com can't say you're not allowed to use non-chrome browsers.

@rysiek @ted @gytis @h3artbl33d @PINE64 example: bob forks signal-client, is not a signal user. permitted under GPL. alice, a signal user, downloads the fork and uses it. permitted under the service's TOS.

signal is going to have to make their client nonfree if they want to prevent people from connecting to their service with modified ones.

@rysiek @ted @gytis @h3artbl33d @PINE64 you are conflating the developer releasing a fork with the end user using the server. there is nothing in the tos that says i can't use a modified client, and technically there is no way to prevent me.

@rysiek @ted @gytis @h3artbl33d @PINE64 they can't block it without making their official client nonfree, as a fork would be indistinguishable to the server.

@rune @ted @rysiek @h3artbl33d show me where in the signal terms of service it says this please.

@ted @rysiek @h3artbl33d ignore upstream hostility, fork the code. signal is GPL, the right to fork is explicitly permitted by them in the license.

@ted @gytis @rysiek @h3artbl33d @PINE64 signal's policy is irrelevant. the client is GPL. you can fork it and talk to signal servers just like you can fork chromium and talk to google servers.

@newt @clacke @Moon schneier is a regulatory bootlicker, sadly. he should know better than to be surprised by a cypherpunk doing cypherpunk things.

ITT: people who think Signal isn't already used constantly for sending cryptocurrency addresses around

i'm surprised that people are surprised that an extremely effective and famous cypherpunk is behaving in cypherpunk ways (specifically using cryptography and privacy to bypass legacy state prerogatives). schneier should know better.