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> Easy

vbezhenar, this is your grandmother. I just got an email from you with a bunch of gobbledygook and I can't read it. /s

If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.


> If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.

E2E encryption is one click away in Telegram. I've yet to find anyone turn it on. Most people just do not care about encryption. The whole encryption story is pulled into mainstream by crypto-enthusiasts IMO.


I used to always use GPG, had my keys listed on keybase, which cross references my social media and websites to validate they're me. And there already is the first problem, how do you get and trust a public key? Key servers are chock full of fake keys. Just search Linus Torvalds on there...

But even then, the sheer amount of people who'd complain and wonder what the block of base64 data was at the bottom of the e-mail, or the strange attachments I'd have (including signing other attachments) was too much to have to deal with. For the once in a million people who ever looked at key signing...


I use GnuPG daily and mandate that everyone in our organization do the same. As part of the onboarding process, I have a doc explaining how to install GnuPG, generate keys and how to share their public key in a specific place in our network.

Once you force people to do it, it is not terrible once they get the hang of it.


I'm just a little bit older, and have to work a little longer due to some personal things.

But, as it stands today, I rarely touch any tech outside of work. Heck, I seldom ever bring my cell phone outside the home.

I long for the day, I can close my laptop lid and not open it again.


I have visited this here and there for the past 20+ years.

https://www.cloudman.com


The real joke is the "Obama Phone" meme from back in the day, is from the Lifeline project that was started by Reagan.

It's funny to see how all the history has been scrubbed from the Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_pro...


> To put that in perspective

Star Wars debuted 37 years after World War II

Star Wars debuted 49 years from now

(Now I feel really old)


The iPhone launched 7 years after 2000

The iPhone launched 19 years from now



https://keys.lol is just as fun.


Can I finally find a cosmoline packed Jeep in the original crate for $50? /s

I wish I had jumped on those offers back when they were in the back of Boys Life, Popular Mechanics, and SOF magazines back in the day.


No doubt. I found a Fellow Ode cheap, and upgraded to the Gen 2 burrs. My coffee went from a little better than 2 am truck stop coffee, to something better than you can get at a cafe.

I am using a Breville precision brewer, but would love to upgrade to a Moccamaster one day.


The last time I built my own GPS network, I used a sextant, a watch set to UTC and nautical tables to determine where the orbiting bodies were.


Harrison time pieces were indeed the cutting edge GPS technology of its day. That and moon watching.

Nowadays we have GPS and Pulsar / Quasar watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome...


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