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And Telstra can’t sell everyone’s encrypted messages if we can collectively move on from SMS.

Well we either accept this, get a movement going where we give the AI millions of deliberately false SMS to ingest, or start using a better messaging solution. Not WhatsApp or Signal.

Personally, I’ll spin up a Mastodon (or similar) instance for my kid and his mates.

You mean apps that they’d really like you pass age verification by having MyGovDigitalSurveillanceDefinitelyNotTrackingYou app?

Yep. And meanwhile the kids will be chatting/abusing in Google Docs. Or IRC servers they spin up for free in AWS or whatever. Or, shock, SMS.

offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.

Yes, yes they do. But that is not justification for reading everyone’s messages.

as with Signal, is not really about what you’ll use, but what alternative gains traction and you can persuade your contacts to use. I hope one of the decentralised alternatives is able to rise to mainstream status.

At one point “brave” and “crypto” seemed to appear in the same sentence too often. Put me off Brave. Everything needs funding, but I don’t want in on Ponzis.

I would never use anything Australia based. It’s all gone to shit.

There’s a few in Perth. They occasionally paste some laughable text in the local papers proclaiming that they are sole bodies and not beholden to taxation. Or some other bumph. It’s odd that all sovshitness seems to come down to not paying taxes, while still using all the facilities that taxation provides.

It exists wherever they say it does surely?

I believe she was in state housing. Classic sovshit shitfuckery.

No love for the FuriLabs project?

Depending on your appetite for such an experience you could look at PinePhone or FuriPhone or some of the other “linux” ones.

hopefully those bodies are treating such a questionnaire with the respect it deserves

It’ll need a 1.5GB “drivers” download every week, a subscription to just keep running, forget all its network settings monthly, need an “app” to set it up, and if you don’t play a game they like it’ll just brick itself?

Ferrari are terrorists?

This is a pretty good rundown of how fucked it is https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a And now why there’s more interest in “restoring” IMEIs to compatible, but blocked, handsets than there was a year ago.

The problem was that some handsets (including ones sold by the networks as “4G”) would drop to 3G for 000. Even same models on different firmware behaved differently. So the regulator said to ban any the networks weren’t 100% sure were compatible. With 30(?) days’ notice. And the online IMEI checker is incomplete/useless too. So now the only realistic place for average consumers to buy known-compatible handsets is from the network operators. At their prices, with their software.

My sister, with great intentions, bought a lot of gifts for us from Temu. They’re all of “instant landfill” quality. Not unexpected. Nothing quite so dangerous as that jumper though.

Her grandmother must be feeling awful