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AI6YR Ben

OOPS

Wired: The Company Behind the Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats

A new analysis of TM Signal’s source code appears to show that the app sends users’ message logs in plaintext. At least one top Trump administration official used the app.

wired.com/story/tm-signal-tele

WIRED · The Signal Clone Mike Waltz Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User ChatsBy Lily Hay Newman
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The #Signal Clone Mike #Waltz Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User Chats

A new analysis of TM Signal's source code appears to show that the app sends users' message logs in #plaintext. At least one top #Trump administration official used the app.
#privacy #security #tmsignal

wired.com/story/tm-signal-tele

WIRED · The Signal Clone Mike Waltz Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User ChatsBy Lily Hay Newman
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Phil

Factors:
1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.

TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.

#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant

RE: https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0

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hairylarry

Dirt Simple Photo Gallery now has a companion program, Dirt Simple Web Pages. Think of it as no markup web pages, index.php reads title.txt and notes.txt, both plain text files with no code.

Dirt Simple Web Pages does text, hot links, images, and iframe embeds. It was easier to write than Dirt Simple Photo Gallery and Plain Text Blog but maybe that's because I'm using all the same tricks.

Here's my first text page.

deltaboogie.com/BX_Pics_Taken_

deltaboogie.comB/X Pics Taken At A Game Store
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Ellane

@techlifeweb Nice! Thank you! I've taken your Markdown calendar and popped a couple of versions on my blog: ellanew.com/2024-11-13-markdow

Continuous calendars are my new favourite thing—I've made a paper wall calendar after the same idea.

ellanew.com2025 Markdown Calendars - Ellane WMarkdown calendars aren't necessary in today's digital world, but they're a pretty cool old-school way of managing your time if plain text floats your boat.
#Markdown#calendar#calendar2025
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