I'm not sure if Wire has new management but I just recently learned they've gone fully open source, are working on federation, and are using an RFC-specified tree-based efficient group chat encryption algorithm. RCS is eventually meant to adopt the same algorithm.

Folks using Telegram Groups (which are unencrypted, actually) might have a look. Yeah, somebody needs to run a server if you don't want intelligence agencies to provide one for you.

I uninstalled Wire years ago when they wouldn't take privacy seriously (yeah, I filed a bug) but it seems like a second look is warranted.

Still hard to believe that small bills last anywhere close to coins. I regularly see Loonies (1 dollar coin) from when they were introduced in 1987, meanwhile the paper currency has changed a couple of times and then likewise with the plastic currency. Most of the changes were for counterfeiting protection.
Meanwhile the coin has changed from coated nickel to coated stainless steel.
Armoured car companies seem fine with $1 and $2 coins.
The vending machines were set up a long time ago for $1 coins and American $1 coins are compatible with Loonies in those machines, both nickel and stainless steel Loonies.
I used to hate looking at my wallet, seeing a bunch of bills and then counting them and realizing they were mostly ones.

It's how we did it in Canada. Didn't take long for $1 bills to vanish from circulation.
Did the same some years later with the $2 bill.
IIRC, 1987 for the $1 and 1996 for the $2.
I'll also note that our $1 coins are compatible for vending machines and such.

Here in Canada, when we got rid of the penny, some stores advertised that they would always round down. Didn't last before going to regular rounding and I've never heard of a business that always rounds up.
Can't remember if there is a law about it or just guidelines.
Anyways, few pay in cash today and for plastic, it is still rounded to the nearest cent.

Exactly.

Imagine all the flip-phone hipsters being denied boarding.

No shade, it's probably better for your overall wellbeing to use a flip phone.

And the hipsters have Leica 35mm mechanical cameras if the need arises.

> it's also in the user, as he got a mail during his stay

People check email on vacation?

What an odd thing to demand.

Would the $20 ONN sticks from Walmart work better for you?

I have an puck-style device of theirs which is just an Amtel SoC with GoogleTV Android on it. Probably doesn't get updates but then you don't let them have unfettered access to the Internet either.

I've sideloaded Jellyfin, SmarTube-Next, etc.

I used to have a half dozen Fire sticks and have removed all but one, in a kid's bedroom. They haven't banned Jellyfin ... yet... but aren't they dropping Android as well?

And when did America finally shutdown its re-education camps? I believe you called them boarding schools.
Here in Canada, the last were shutdown in the 1990's and they involved a lot of abuse, including sexual and was all based on race and the goal was cultural genocide on those pesky natives.

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

> It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal.

Put something fake in your robots.txt and block the IP that accesses the fake URL.

AI people: "oh, that's where all the good stuff is!"

They impound vehicles here for excessive speeding, IIRC 40km/h over, still see people excessively speeding. The problem, as you said, is the odds of getting caught are low enough that people still speed excessively even with the higher fines, and the cost of impoundment, which adds up.

They impound cars for excessive speeding (IIRC, 40km/h over) here, never heard a politician even talk about less penalties for speeding. Higher speed limits yes.

Spotify offers lossless... I recently enabled it.

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And they recently had a big strike here in Canada to change that to getting paid when they start the job. People were very supportive of the flight attendants strike as well once they realized that these people were working for free before the plane took off.
The advantage of unions and labour rights.

Just goes to show that a religious upbringing creates mass murderers. Perhaps something to do with the beatings given to their kids to install obedience.