Most people don’t even consider things like this. That’s why companies keep getting away with it. It’s not the customer’s fault.

Know what I like about coal? If some falls off the sleigh, it’s just another rock, not an explosion or dish soap advertising campaign.

All those other problems with coal? Still bad, but maybe not as bad as non renewable alternatives. Really annoying we didn’t go full steam ahead on sun and wind the moment they became possible.

I could. Presumably so could the others commenting on this post. But then what are we to do about the privacy or tech illiterate people we’ve carried to Signal over the years?

It’s easy to winge about just doing what you perceive as the optimal solution. It’s more difficult when you need to navigate the path to get there from where we are now.

Maybe they’re right. Steve Carell once took action to protect the future from God’s plan. Maybe we do too.

Ah see if only I had your genius those years back. I do still have that Blackberry, maybe I’ll get a new battery and set it up again.

I did this with a Blackberry a while ago, but it destroyed the battery after a year unfortunately.

Might be fine if the charging could be stopped and resumed at a lower point. Maybe even a dumb solution like one of those holiday light timers to only charge for a couple hours a day would work. Damn, I should have done that.

I’m unsure we are talking about the same comment. The misinformation is the claim the Gates foundation is continuing to fund Kurzgesagt, when that clearly isn’t the case. This incorrect information is veiled by beginning the statement with the truth of the 2015 grant.

Insofar as the reputational damage Kurzgesagt has incurred, I’m not sure there’s much meat on that bone. Sure, you might believe they have fallen from grace or some such, but as I pointed out in another comment here, we can’t just connect everything under the sun and say ‘group A is bad because groups B through Y are all next to one another and with group Z doing all those injustices, group A is complicit in those crimes’.

To me, the question of whether Kurzgesagt is a Gates mouthpiece is pretty cut and dry. A few reasons for this, but the most glaring is simply that the money didn’t keep coming, and it wasn’t much money to begin with. I wouldn’t be going out of my way to talk up my employer to clients if my last bonus was a decade ago and didn’t even cover my rent for the month I got it.

Thank you for linking that video and doing what you can to share these conflict free sources you hold in such esteem.

Sorry, I didn’t think the word ‘continued’ would have needed underlining for anyone that could read what I wrote.

Using a piece of factual information to prop up false information within the same sentence is how false narratives take hold.

They accepted, and continue to accept a great amount of money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

It’s interesting how any false narrative starts with a granule of truth.

Kurzgesagt was indeed provided $570,000 in 2015. That money was paid out across the following four years.

They have not continued to accept any amount of money from the Gates foundation.

I did a few searches and while I didn’t find that quote from Kurzgesagt’s CEO, I did find the contribution listed from a decade ago on the Gates foundation website. $570,000 paid out over four years. They also gave NPR $2,000,000 the next year.

Since I didn’t find the CEOs quote you’ve mentioned, I can only question the context around it. Would those videos not have been made because the Gates foundation specifically tied the funding to those videos being created? Or would they not have been made because Kurzgesagt didn’t have the money to do so otherwise?

Regardless, Kurzgesagt is a private company and if they wanted to conceal hidden agendas by corporate contributors, they would just keep quiet - not openly acknowledge that they made content with money given to them by some larger organisation.

If we’re going to denounce any group of people that are connected via Bacon’s Law to a disastrous corporate industry, the moral high ground will be unachievable for the entirety of our species.

If only pragmatism could prevail, perhaps the elected could do the good work they promise the electorate.

The people charged with coming to an agreement should lose their positions when they refuse to do their jobs.

Brought to you by the same people behind all those #cookingwithgas social trends.

The simplicity of the Slate interior is fantastic. They developed a screenless touch screen that you can rotate without even looking at them. I wish I were in the market for this type of vehicle.

According to the open letter those donations to Organic Maps were used for a personal holiday. Along with everything else in there, I’m not using it any longer.

Small shoe.

My perception of Proton was never that users would be kept safe from governments, but that users would be kept away from advertisers.

I’m glad to see this is a concern of someone else. I commented about customizable backups in another thread and it got a rather different response than what I’d expected.

My thought was that I’d like to be able to backup messages year by year and leave Signal to maintain the current year’s backup and disregard anything older. This way the backup file on the device would only take a few gigabytes instead of a few dozen. I had to stop sending media through Signal a while back just to keep the backup file from ballooning out of control, opting to send gallery links instead.

I suppose this could also be done by conversation thread, but having any level of control would be fine. As it is, backing up every conversation every day is a bit redundant. I’ve occasionally noticed a backup running when there was nothing new since the previous day’s backup. Options would be nice.

Is Signal equivalent in scale to iMessage or WhatsApp? Does it come preinstalled on devices as well? All three are tools, I agree, however one of these things is not like the others. The average toolbox will have Phillips and Robertson screwdrivers, but not a Torx type.

Signal takes at least a grain of interest to even get a user to install it, whereas iMessage is already there ready to go and that suits most people just fine. The question I asked was based on my incorrect assumption that centred in the Venn diagram of people whom bother to use Signal, read a technology forum, and look at an article about backups, there would also be an overlap with people that already had a backup solution in place.

Your Marlinspike comment notwithstanding, thank you for demonstrating that I was wrong. I should have remembered most people just want to drive a car, not concern themselves with how or why the wheels go round.

It does strike me as funny that some fixate on the ‘why bother’ question when viewing what amounts to be another person’s hobby.