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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Could taking a bath in burning gasoline be dangerous?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

let's find out in this article!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you submerge completely you'd be okay for a few seconds, as the fire is only on the surface.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But then you'd be submerged in gasoline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Not for long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm curious how long a bathtub full of gasoline would take to burn up completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Unless your bathtub is in an empty parking lot, I don't suggest any scientific endeavors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They recommend telegram as a privacy friendly alternative to WhatsApp? Isn't this wrong? There is no E2EE by default or in groups...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Don't rush the boomers, they barely gotten to know whatsapp and vaguely heard of telegram, you are scaring them with your funny words

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I honestly wouldn't send private content over WhatsApp or telegram.

If the private photos you are talking about are of sexual nature I would advise against taking them in the first place. While the laws are improving around them to make distribution punishable( in some places ), you honestly can't tell what will happen once you send it.

People can take screenshots, save it, take a picture with a different device, .... Sure, some apps prevent it, but they can't block external devices.

Even if the receiver saves the picture in a personal cloud archive he can still get hacked and lose it. Or somebody finds them on his device that he sent in for repair.

If you do decide to send sexual private images. Make sure you're not identifiable ( face, tattoo, ... ). If itnxould be anyone and it leaks, it still sucks. But at least nobody really knows it is you.

I have no idea what software I'd use. But definitely not something owned by meta or Microsoft/google/Amazon. I have reasonable faith in signal. And I suppose running your own matrix server works. While you can't control what they do with it once received, you can at least be sure it's scrubbed off your server.

While the person you're sending them to totally wouldn't do it right now. Always assume people are petty and will do it once you get in a big argument. Or sometimes we all have bad judgement calls and people are assholes.

If the kind of photos you're talking about are non-sexual but just family photos and the like. I'd share the photos through a photo library. Like a photoprism you manage.

Note: I'm not judging. Just be careful who you send which pictures.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not. Use signal messenger or session messenger instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Use a p2p messenger like briar. no servers in between and e2ee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Session is better because of the proxies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No. Signal is the only private messaging app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Session? Session messenger?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually session is great too 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Session comes with its own anonymity network...you sometimes need a VPN to access it, but still.

And even though there's no quantum encryption on it yet. Whoever would try to use a quantum computer to break in would still need to use it for quite awhile on hundreds of different servers each processing thousands of different people's traffic at any time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Not the only one.

Threema is decent, too. Crypto is comparable, and allows signups without email or phone number. It's a paid app, though, but anonymous purchase options are available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What about SinpleX Chat? Briar?