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Can Biden be replaced as Democrat nominee? Who could replace him?
  • You clearly didn’t read what I wrote, but you sure took the time to start talking some more.

    The only reason to blindly insist on Biden as the only possible nominee, a bad-mouth someone who discusses an alternative approach, is if you want Trump to win.

  • Can Biden be replaced as Democrat nominee? Who could replace him?
  • The only reason to vote for Biden at this point is anti-Trump and Blue No Matter Who. Those still apply to anyone else that the DNC puts forward, as a base score, with any actual merits, charisma, or vigor adding to that. This should have been an easy decision six months ago and doing-nothing-and-hoping-for-the-best doesn’t seem to be making the prospects any better.

  • Undecided voter focus group disappointed in Biden's debate performance
  • No, the immediate problem is that we know that people make decisions based on a vibe and who orates better and (out of all of the qualified people in the country) we still hang our hat (and the future of the country) on a poor orator with a bad vibe. It’s 2016 all over again and it seems like nobody’s learned a thing.

    This shouldn’t be a hard race at all. Why are we insisting on handicapping ourselves like this?

  • This is our best look yet at RCS working on an iPhone
  • E2EE is not part of the standard and only exists as a proprietary Google extension, using Google’s servers. Implying that implementing RCS would get everyone cross-platform E2EE is misinformation.

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    Biden says he will stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if it launches major invasion of Rafah | CNN Politics
  • So many weasel words in this declaration, from “major” invasion to stopping the supply of “the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah.”

    Next we hear that what’s happening now is only a minor invasion, but they’ve halted the supply of US catapults and siege engines just to be on the safe side.

  • [Video] Robocop: ED-209 boardroom presentation scene (1987)
  • This actually looks like an improvement in policing overall.

    • Shooting an unarmed man isn’t any worse than what we have today and to be fair the guy actually had a gun and not a phone or something.

    • More impressively, it shoots him dozens of times and every bullet connects with the intended target. Not even the window behind him breaks. Cops these days dump their magazines without any regard to the surroundings and hit bystanders or just lose most of the bullets somewhere down range.

    This scene may not be dystopian after all.

  • Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024
  • On my phone, so links may come later. It’s hard to find solid documentation on it, since their encryption extension is proprietary, but it’s been referenced as being based on the Signal Protocol. The Signal Protocol, or every implementation of it that I’ve seen, uses a central “trusted” repository of public keys to tell message originators query to encrypt the message to. For Signal, and I assume Google RCS, that central repository is Google. The protocol doesn’t allow for federation, so any system that is interoperable with Google RCS will rely on Google as the trusted authority.

    The private key part I’m much less sure of, since both the Signal and Google RCS clients are closed source. Signal makes you jump through hoops to add a new client, involving one of your currently installed clients. This suggests that Signal isn’t in possession of your private keys. On the other hand, all you need to set up a new Google client is your account password. This suggests that either your keys are held by Google (perhaps encrypted by your account password) or that new keys can be added without needing explicit involvement from current keys.

    Of course this is all speculation because the implementations aren’t available for inspection.

  • Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024
  • So is this going to be standard RCS, which has no encryption and the telcos need to support, or the Googlified version that does E2E encryption but requires storing keys on Google’s servers?

    RCS has interoperability issues itself and Google hasn’t been making the situation better.

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