Direct URL for those that don’t like amp: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article297294464.html

Time to start hanging anarchist flags in classrooms 😁

Fixed URL for those experiencing weird redirects or who don’t like amp:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/19/temecula-school-board-rescinds-parent-notification-flag-ban-policies/

Yes, we realised this after posting. Thank you for pointing it out!

Lol.

But also sighs at people who think they can be monogamous but can’t and should just accept the fact that they should be polyamorous etc

“Good luck babe.”

Cute Processing Unit

Uh, don’t say this kind of thing to us again. Thanks.

Time to start smashing cameras and teaching people how to be more private!

Thanks for sharing!

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Fair enough.

We were joking, in part, but yes this is a good point.

because it requires a phone number

Yes, fair criticism.

They’re based in the USA

Sure, but the way the protocol and servers work there is no metadata etc unlike Matrix and XMPP, so nothing to hand over.

contain proprietary blobs

This is probably true of the version from the play store, desktop and maybe iOS version. However the apk from Signal’s site on android might not, I am unsure.

Molly is the fork I’d recommend instead

Sadly Molly is only available on Android, so that leaves out iOS and Desktop users.

it runs local on your phone, and if deleted from the phone, your account is deleted too.

This is categorically false. The accounts exist on servers for both Matrix and XMPP and hold the messages for them, so no in fact no accounts etc get deleted if you delete the app. You actually have to delete the accounts from the app first.

Building? It has been around for a long time, especially to poc.

Oh dear, another thing to worry about.

We would not recommend Matrix, there are both many fascists on it and they didn’t fix a security vulnerability with their encryption for years that they knew about. Also if you must use Matrix don’t use fluffychat as it doesn’t have the encryption fix yet.

Signal is a better choice for privacy as everything is encrypted by default and it has both the audits and legal testing to prove its safety and code. Something which no other messenger we have seen can honestly say.

Thanks for letting us know!

Okay, how do we co-habitate or share finances when we’re both from different countries? This is confusing to us both.

Well, we are both from different countries so sharing finances for anything is difficult and we’re both relatively poor.

Well, we did look up on this page and it seemed to indicate requiring the marriage to be ‘consummated’ and other things we don’t do nor want to.