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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
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- on Signal will finally let you register without a phone number, for a price in c/technology@piefed.social · 17 Sep 2026
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on Signal will finally let you register without a phone number, for a price in c/technology@piefed.social · 17 Sep 2026
I suppose you'd be buying some kind of generated token that doesn't correspond to your account ID in any way, then doing some fancy math to prove to the Signal servers that you have such a token without revealing which one it is, while at the same time preventing the same token being used more than once. Given that there's no need to tie it to any real-world attributes of the user (i.e. this is not like "age verification") it seems like this should be possible, but I'm curious about the details.
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on Signal will finally let you register without a phone number, for a price in c/technology@piefed.social · 17 Sep 2026
Can someone (such as Signal itself) please explain how the "anonymous" payment is supposed to work? Concisely but in sufficient detail to understand the principle I mean, without just saying "zero knowledge" and doing a bunch of hand waving when you get to the complicated part.
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on Digital rights advocates urge EU to step in and save encryption from Canada's Bill C-22 in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026
Can the EU really save Canada from itself? I sure hope somebody can.
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on EU’s ability to defend against invasion remains in doubt, finds official report in c/europe@feddit.org · 3 Sep 2026
Major nation-states remain amazingly eager to gear up for World War 3, finds every international arms dealer.
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on Yes, no AI is now a feature - the Document Foundation in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3 Sep 2026
You'd think that "no AI" would be an easy feature to implement, and it's much in demand. Strange that it seems to be beyond the abilities of so many software developers.
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on Where anime and manga are actually set, and the spots I am still missing in c/anime@ani.social · 26 Aug 2026
Surprisingly little anime is set in Siberia.
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on Meloni made migrant 'returns' popular in the EU. Now it's backfiring on her. in c/europe@feddit.org · 25 Aug 2026
Perhaps she didn't make it clear enough that the idea was "send them back to where they belong, unless that happens to be Italy in which case send them somewhere else."
Not exactly it seems, but we can read there about something which is apparently related to it in some way. If I ever manage to figure out which 3 of the 58 pages of mathematics paper it would take to explain the basic flow of the protocol, maybe it will become clear.