Capitalism can't be reformed into something good/worthwhile. That's why its state was allowed to pass anti-trust laws. Even if companies are "broken up", it's just a legal restructuring. The system still profits, controls, etc. It's political theater, not any kind of real change.

[image: 3e682d45-3362-4256-8627-112416472d75.webp] Pfft hahahaha

Fair enough. Unfortunately, that only covers around 5% of Android users in the US.

You're using a messaging app that was built with the express intent of being private and encrypted. Yes. You're asking why you can't have a right to privacy when you use your real name as your display handle in order to hide your phone number. I didn't ask anything. I stated it definitively. If you then use personal details as your screen name, you can't get mad at the app for not hiding your personal details. I've already explained this. I am not mad. I am telling you why it's a bad product for activism. Chatting with your friends and clients isn't what this app is for. That's...exactly what it's for. And I don't know where you got the idea that it's not. It's absurd. Certainly Snowden never said anything of the sort. Signal themselves never said anything of the sort. There are other apps for that. Of course there are. They're varying degrees of not private, secure, or easy to use.

Agreed - the end of the article does state compiling untrusted repos is effectively the same as running an untrusted executable, and you should treat it with the same caution (especially if its malware or gaming cheat adjacent)

the package managers for linux that i know of are great because you can easily control everything they do