you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
if bsky is supposed to be federated, then it does nothing, but as it is today with 99%+ of users on main instance, it only works as a recruitment tool for bsky
Sounds like all of your middle school classmates got your number and want you to get into their pyramid scheme of choice
a16z funds 1000+ strong phone farm and uses it for mass manufacturing tiktok ai influencers, security turns out to be not good enough https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
the usecase is spam:
The hacker also shared a list with me of more than 400 TikTok accounts Doublespeed operates. Around 200 of those were actively promoting products on TikTok, mostly without disclosing the posts were ads, according to 404 Media’s review of them. It’s not clear if the other 200 accounts ever promoted products or were being “warmed up,” as Doublespeed describes the process of making the accounts appear authentic before it starts promoting in order to avoid a ban.
I’ve seen TikTok accounts operated by Doublespeed promote language learning apps, dating apps, a Bible app, supplements, and a massager.
When, not if, element crashes (android or webapp or desktop, all do that), you get logged out and in order to access encrypted groups (dms are encrypted groups with 2 members) you need recovery key, or room keys (you can export them). If you have exchanged keys in person, then the first one recovers it too, the second doesn't
Matrix lacks some of discord features, but the point is encryption it provides
I get the same thing but within EU only for 30 PLN per month, on prepaid (7,3€/mo)
You can find cables (and some other things but mostly cables) made by them in about every electronics store
at least he didn't say he "fell on it" and it was totally an accident
Matrix is different and does different things, also you have to keep your security key written down and nobody's gonna help you if you get locked out of your account without it
in this economy?
this is name for wearer, nor the device
the death penalty for anything approach? yeah nah that would be war on drugs dialed to 11 and it sucked