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How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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Signal

Signal supports a manual backup and restore option. Basically, messages are not backed up to any cloud storage, and Signal cannot access them.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp can optionally back up the contents of chats to either a Google Account on Android, or iCloud on iPhone, and you have a choice to back up with or without end-to-end encryption.

iMessage

[iMessage] backups... are not end-to-end encrypted by default. This is a loophole we’ve routinely demanded Apple close.

The good news is that with the release of the Advanced Data Protection feature, you can optionally turn on end-to-end encryption for almost everything stored in iCloud, including those backups (unless you’re in the U.K.).

Google Messages

You can optionally back up Google Messages to a Google Account, and as long as you have a passcode or lock screen password, the backup of the text of those conversations is end-to-end encrypted.

No badges. no uniforms. Just manilla folder, walkie talkie, vibes and racism. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Just curious, why?

Are we expecting the original to get deleted?

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inKONBINI, a narrative focused third-person convenience store simulator set in the 90s, releases a demo on Steam. (store.steampowered.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29165490

Steam store page

Authors who do multiculture fiction well? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In our world.

I would consider Wheel of Time as an example of fantasy with reskinned real world cultures.

Andor is essentially a landlocked version of England, having a "Lion Throne" and ruled by a queen. Cairhien and Mayene bear similarities to France (Cairhien has the Sun Throne; Mayener names are reminiscent of French). Arad Doman resembles Arabic countries and Iran. (source: TV Tropes)

It's well-written, but by nature of being fantasy, it sidesteps the challenge of writing meaningful interactions between real world communities.

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Authors who do multiculture fiction well? (sh.itjust.works)
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The authors who manage to clear the low bar of incorporating characters/communities from diverse cultures into their fiction without cultural appropriation/stereotyping/racism... who are they and how do they do it?

I know many writers sidestep the difficulty altogether, either by creating a fictional universe with cultural proxies (fantasy stories/video games with Chinese, Japanese, and Russian analogues, I'm looking at you) or by writing in the distant future where the cultures have blended into new ones with flavors of the past (sci-fi does this a lot).

I've seen so very few authors do it well, but I do believe it's both possible and worth doing.

Backend 🤝 Frontend in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If they actually made that work... respect.

Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet - Ars Technica in c/[email protected]
Drama Queen Volume 2 Cover in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The first few chapters seemed like someone took all their antisemitic conspiracy theory / murder fantasies and model-swapped aliens for Jews.

I can't unsee it, and I wish I could suspension-of-disbelief harder, because I was initially really interested in the premise.

Edit: Maybe xenophobic / immigrants is more apt.

Liberals: “Stalin was a brutal dictator!” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It looks you're coming at this in bad faith, so I'll ignore you.

For anyone else reading, the CIA version basically revises "brutal dictator" to "brutal 'captain of a team'."

Liberals: “Stalin was a brutal dictator!” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

OP's saying that neoliberals and the CIA were/are contradicting each other, not that Stalin was a good guy.