Gam gam
SHE NEEDS TO ADAPT
The guy kinda sounds like a douche…
…
I mean, it has to be satire, they even said “iMessage” instead of text, meaning the guy super obsessed with privacy still uses an iPhone…
And still clearly uses it. Because that’s what the screenshot is from.
Are people taking that as an authentic conversation?
I overestimate people a lot, but I’m genuinely confused if I’m overestimating they hypothetical screenshot and people are dumb enough to be like that, or if I’m overestimating people who see it and can’t tell it’s an obvious joke…
It’s the eternal quesion
Yeah apparently you are (overestimating).
A guy named MK Ultra Victim posting obvious satire isn’t clear enough for a lot of Lemmy users, who’d rather pontificate against the parody.
Are people taking that as an authentic conversation?
no, but opsec people will genuinely act like this sometimes
I was curious enough to look at twitter…
That’s 100% a shit post account, absolutely nothing they post should be considered authentic:
I did chuckle at the one about “only negotiating with Dr Pepper himself” one tho.
But yeah, anybody that thought they were serious bit the onion
It’s a very thin line these days. It’s like trying to distinguish theonion vs nottheonion articles.
This one was satire, I googled the account name and nothing they post is serious
I’m not doubting there are people who care about privacy but don’t know anything about it. But the account who made the twitter post, was making fun of those people.
They just didn’t put “/s”
And when a screenshot strips all context, it’s really hard to tell. Which is why I actually went to twitter, it’s the only way to be sure.
People need to stop taking things presented in a vacuum with zero context, as whatever they first assume it to be.
(It’s a joke m8)
just using the word opsec with your mom when you aren’t a family of International spies is super cringe, imo
No, Gam Gam must adapt.
Dudes probably an SF technofascist.
She can have somebody help install a new app on her phone if she needs help. Sorry but statistically you probably voted to create the society that made this necessary, even if they were a Democrat they still probably voted in the primaries for corporate politicians who also push surveillance. It’s basic cause and effect
I can’t tell if you’re missing the joke or if I’m missing it right now. I’m Australian btw, so statistically, I voted in an Australian election.
No, no, everyone on the internet is from the USA AMERICA FUCK YEAH AMIRIGHT BROTHER!! 🦅🦅🦅 red vs blue, dems vs republicans AMIRIGHT!!!
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Right. Look, I want people moving to more independent services too, but I know that sometimes you have to meet people where they are. I keep Meta accounts because sometimes I need to see family pictures or engage with some random FB group.
You can work on getting people to try things and adapt without just going “Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all.”
“I only support a genocidal wannabe oligarch who actively uses his pet propaganda network to directly influence elections and policy across the globe in an effort to bring back feudalism because not doing so would be mildly inconvenient” isn’t exactly the hot take you think it is tbh.
If you kept using Facebook services after Cambridge Analytica then you are part of the problem, period.
Okay.
I mean, if they were somehow forcing them all to move the group chat, sure. That might be a valid argument then.
But as it is, it seems they simply left the group chat, and said “if you want me in it, move it to signal.”
That’s not forcing anyone to do anything. That’s setting a boundary. The people trying to pressure OOP into using software they don’t trust are the only ones trying to force anything.
Isn’t MK in this scenario doing the same thing? Trying to put pressure on their family to use a piece of software they don’t know and aren’t comfortable using?
I mean yeah, MK’s take is more informed, but sides are likely to see it as the other side trying to get them to cave.
Anyway. Rereading, “Signal is better opsec” when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.
I think they’re more saying they won’t participate in an imessage group chat. Which would ordinarily be fine. It’s only strange in this case because they’re still using imessage.
Anyway. Rereading, “Signal is better opsec” when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.
If palantir knows who’s bringing the stuffing, what else do they know about you and your family?
Tough, Lemmy, or kiss my ass.
No Reddit ever.
Username checks out
No…
No.
I’m tired of being consistently correct and it taking other people a decade to figure that out.
Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all.
I’m an introvert, I’ll be fine without you.
Also conceding ground just gives the powers of evil what they want. If more than one person in the group chat got insistent then that would be a lot more leverage. If the majority decide it was time to move the move has already happened and the ones who haven’t moved are the ones who are being obnoxious and sticking to a different app
Everything is horrible and awful, but trying to hold my own friends and family accountable for their own actions?
Well that’s just rude, unreasonable!
… It’s genuinely comical how hypocritical, how turbolib coded it is, to offer any defense whatsoever for a person to continue engaging in a harmful practice when the alternative already exists and works and takes maybe 90 seconds to switch over to, at literally no monetary cost.
Everyone is wrong and dumb, except the people in my immediate proximity, they’re just misunderstood!
Fucking spare me.
Oh… look how fine you are.
Yeah that’s right, I am that bitch.
Signal sucks, tho. Use Session instead. Or SimpleX. Or Delta Chat. Or Matrix…
Why?
Biggest criticism of signal is requiring a phone number imo
Looks like Gam Gam is becoming a liability.
Wife and kids had no problem; they hate people listening to their chats. A couple of slightly paranoid friends came along.
You want to sell it? Tell them all those creepy ads that know too much about them are from Apple/Android chat apps that can listen.
Just leave Gam Gam behind. She neither understands nor cares what happens in a group chat. Gam Gam is just happy to eat turkey.
She’s the smartest of them all
At this point it’s completely reasonable to say that if somebody can’t get with the program then they’re going to need to communicate through an intermediary who does understand basic computer security. Social pressure is the only way that we’re going to get normal people to get on with the program so we need to make them feel like they’re the ones being annoying for refusing good security
She’s gonna die soon anyway. Why are we wasting money feeding it? (I have a lot of trauma around my grandparents, can you tell?)
You will not have many friends with that opinion, but I understand, what you mean. I wonder how I will react at that age; if I want to be dead or if I want to enjoy every bit of family fun I can have.
If you ignore the ethical part, if you die, a biochemical process stops, the organic matter starts to decompose. Your “soul” will be gone and lost forever. So why feeding it with more experiences? A difficult, yet very interesting topic from a philosophical point of view.
When I was born both my grandfathers were either dead or a stroke made them nearly incommunicable. So I only had my grandmothers.
One infantalized me my entire upbringing. If I ever had to stay with her she would treat me like a small child even though I was between 8-13 years old. Forcing me to bed early, giving me little amounts of food, etc. Basically treating me like a house cat instead of her grandchild. My other grandmother tried to literally kidnap me from my parents, accusing my mother (who is a god damn angel to me and one of the best human beings I know) of being unable to raise me properly and that the ‘church’ would raise me better than she could.
I’m nearly 40. Only one grandmother still clings to life. I’ve hardly spoken to her in nearly 20 years.
Would be better if Signal hadn’t removed fucking SMS from their app
Completely irrelevant since this is obviously Apple users who never had this feature in the first place.
Wtf is a Gam Gam
It’s a village in Azerbaijan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gam-Gam
A grand mother
I get where your mom is coming from, but if the 92 year old gamgams all over the rest of the world can use WhatsApp, your gamgam can use Signal with the right direction and patience. People don’t give enough credit to the elderly. They’re very capable, but just might need a little extra help to get there.
Logically someone had to set them up on WhatsApp. People of that age are the ones who struggle to understand that you have to connect your computer to the internet to use the browser, that you have to click double click the big blue E, that you have to turn the computer on before you can use it. Grandma just needs some tech support help
Adapt or die
At 92 it’s more of an “and”.
Fair. Humans have a really shitty, hard to repair design. How the fuck do you replace old pumps (hearts) when the immune system keeps attacking them? Not to mention the aging CPU.
Sadly the right to repair movement has been slow to work for humans. You really need to stick with the proprietary OEM parts, but MomCo refuses to provide them as “impossible”. There is some hope in bio 3D printed replacements reusing the cellular DRM recovered from a specific unit though.
A jailbreak to resolve the DRM and closed-ecosystem issues is always supposedly 10 or so years away, but like economically feasible fusion I am not sure I’d count on it any time soon.
She needs to adapt lmao
Fucking gam gam. Get with it
Gram gram survived the depression.
Someone who is 92 in 2026 was born about 1934. The Great Depression persisted (in the U.S. at least) until about 1940. So she definitely survived some early childhood years during the Depression.
But goddamn are we getting close to the point where the surviving elders are way way more likely to not have been around during the Depression than to have been.
My whole family is on signal. How did I get them there? I didn’t. Didn’t even talk about it. They just popped up, one by one, over the years. Unfortunately we don’t celebrate thanksgiving :(
You are so lucky.
Never too late for a new tradition!
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My grandparents refused to get ANY cell phone for the longest time, and then just a Breaking Bag flip phone after smart phones already came out. Don’t know if they’re still alive as I lost contact with them as my dad was somehow a bigger narcissist than his mother yet couldn’t beat her at her own game, so I lost my family, obviously. Now my dad bitches about AI and posts about the weather six days a week on Facebook. He’s takes the sabbath off of the excruciating social media demands of his two followers, me and my other profile when I was a woman for a few years for counterintelligence purposes. I like AI as a research tool, but I would never date one. I guess I’m a prejudiced pedophile. They don’t even make AI’s for me! But my dad has like an aneurism if you suggest that he’s going to regret blocking me from his life when we get to Heaven and I introduce my mother to that eighteen year old he jumped on two months after she died. But you know about the restaurant at the end of the universe and how I will not be locked in there with you, but y’all are going to be locked in there with me! Hang on, my predictive text just told me to masturbate again. Sigh…I hate working with the CIA…shitty dental…
