Interesting use. I wonder how safe it is long term, but assume the ultrasonic energy is probably kept low enough that it (presumably) won’t lyse cells. I still wonder how it will affect proteins structures, etc or if it will lead to leaking through membranes of cellular structures.

It reminds me of histotripsy, which was approved for cancer therapy a few years ago. Cool ideas and it seems like the uses of ultrasonication are finally making their way outside of laboratories.

Orgs in my town have seen this first-hand. People are out here learning secure comm practices the hard way.

It doesn’t work like a centralized server for connecting contacts. You use a unique link per device to initiate the original connection with others at a distance or you can use QR codes in-person.

The link just tells briar where to route the messages and looks like:

briar://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (50 char alphanumeric key)

So there’s no way to impersonate someone directly. If you made two contacts and they use the same username, I suppose you could mistake them, but their contact connection keys will not be the same.

Hopefully that makes sense, if you look in the app or their site, it’s probably explained clearer.

Probably Briar. Encrypted, P2P, and doesn’t require anything but a username and password to sign up. Pretty sure that username doesn’t need to be unique, it’s just what people will see you as in messages.

Downside is it’s only Android, so many people are left out.

Unfortunately, this is a barbell of silence. Privacy won’t hold up to our expectations unless it is cone shaped.

I 100% started doing this years ago and work is far less stressful. Temper their expectations, because it’s rare for any boss or company to treat you fairly and honestly.

Only due to collective interests and a shallow understanding of each. When you really get down to it, Marxism and anarchism are opposites.

• Historical materialism vs rejection of this (idealism)

• Society is built upon what came before vs society is built anew

• Centralization vs decentralization

• Organization at a large scale (collective ownership of the means of production organized across the whole economy) vs organization at a small scale (isolated, individual, and direct ownership of the means of production with collective collaboration)

Sure, both agree that they want a stateless society, but communists and anarchists don’t even agree on what the state is, meaning that while they can be strategic allies, their ultimate goals and approaches are completely different and opposed.

The phrasing was weird, but this guy was born in Egypt and the statue was taken from Egypt. This isn’t a matter of private property, he’s commenting on how the UK exploited Egypt.

Sure, race and nationality are social constructs and genetics don’t support the divisions we make along phenotypic lines, however, you can’t just hope to solve racism and colonialism by saying they are gone and meaningless. If you say they no longer exist, that doesn’t erase the impacts racism and colonialism have had on a people.

In essence, it’s like punching someone repeatedly until they are bloody, stealing the money from their wallet to buy yourself a house, and then saying, “why can’t we forget our differences and just be friends?” Is everything alright? Is it ok that you now have a home and the other person is destitute because you stole their money? Does it make it any better if it was your parents or grandparents who did this and now you’ve inherited the house?

Just claiming it’s a social construct and wiping your hands of the issue does not fix the problem. And that metaphor I made does not even encompass the entire issue! Reality is more along the lines of: now that you own this house, you enforce policies that continually raise the price of housing and put a tax on people who don’t own a house. The exploitation many people have suffered at the hands of racism and colonialism never stopped, it just changed it’s form.