No my concern is that if I add a stranger, using an account name rather than my phone number, but I have my real name in my profile (which I set so that people I know will know who's messaging them), will the stranger I add also get my real name?

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Dowzh? I am pretty sure that's the pronunciation that won out and I insist it's the wrong pronunciation because why would a dog say such a ridiculous word?

That is crazy

Oh how are they pronouncing it? I always think it's like those Venetian guys

I remember your PIN. I remember everyone’s PIN.

I just can’t remember who’s is who’s.

dances
falls down
gets up
poses dramatically

Tada!

Yes!! I asked this at a company town hall.

"Does it impact us in any way that Doggy has taken over the United States Digital Service?"

I'm still insisting, "The meme is pronounced DOG-E. Like Doggy. Like how a dog would spell doggy. It's a good meme for a good doggy."

Goes hand in hand with the ai. I mean, someone has to pay to keep all those servers available to… consults notes set the thermostat on your bed?

I think it shows your name and profile picture, but not your phone number.

Correct; it’s actually best to think of the name field as “displayname”. If that’s not what you want you can change it.

Interestingly, it also doesn’t reveal your username, and allows you to change usernames without losing already existing chats. So a trick I’ve used is to change my username to something random, give it to someone in order to establish a conversation then change my username back. Now I have a conversation where neither of us can see the phone # or username of the other.

I think if they have your phone number in their contacts, Signal will add that to the Signal contact, and so someone can find your phone number by adding every phone number to their contacts

Yes, but I handle this by not allowing signal to access my contacts. It’s worth checking out your various ai and assistant settings on your phone as well but that’s a bit of another topic.

Edit: I just realized in the final paragraph the concern was other people finding out you were on signal by them giving signal access to their contact book. As I understand it, if you were trying to hide that you have a signal account from people who would have your phone number this would be genuine concern. Personally I don’t use my primary phone number for signal which makes this a non-issue. If you don’t want your normal contacts knowing you use signal then you should get a second number and register signal to it instead.

I think it shows your name and profile picture, but not your phone number. Importantly, it requires you add someone, or willingly join a group.

I think if they have your phone number in their contacts, Signal will add that to the Signal contact, and so someone can find your phone number by adding every phone number to their contacts. But I'm not certain about that.

More: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests

Hands too small to hold a phone comfortably

Hands too big to use a pop socket

Hands just right for when I accidentally broke the pop socket, turning the thing into a small knob that makes my phone easier to hold

<:°) hwee hee hee hee hoo

oh i’m way better at clowning

anyway to cope i often tell myself at least no matter what they do they can’t take my vagina from me

The reprieve of my life is the fact that you can make this post by employing an arcane series of hand gestures to communicate using magical devices created through the collective efforts of billions of efforts of human activity

Good post, I appreciated it just as you appreciated your light bulbs

It's all so fucking absurd!

Please imagine a version of yourself from 2015. You're chatting with them.

Were they on Reddit? What did they think of Bitcoin? What about the shiba inu memes? "Wow, such post"? Were they aware of Elon Musk? Did they think he was the cool space billionaire? Did they think Trump's presidential run was just so funny?

Now please imagine telling them "Under Elon Musk plays a Himmler to President Trump's Hitler as he leads a hostile takeover of the entire United States federal government under the new DOGE agency."

Can someone please clown with me? This is so absurd. This is all so absurd. I fantasize about finding out this is all a wild fever dream.

President Trump was a clown. Elon Musk was a stupid Redditor idol. Doge was a tired meme about a cute dog. Hillary Clinton was going to be President.

No American has thought before they spoke in basically a century but maybe under pressure we'll actually learn, Lol

sounds like silicon valley rubes are paying for it though. congratulations to them for extracting money from morons

the subscription part is killing me lmao

and we still aren't sure why it displays properties of both a wave and a particle

yea! one of my faves

Very pertinent and well written, thanks for posting!

keep it that way

Anything good you're doing is probably illegal, so only talk about it if you have to.

Even if it’s not illegal loose operational security can compromise the whole point of your action. Some things need saying out loud, somethings need to be kept quiet. Think before you speak, and if in doubt, shut the fuck up.

Public sites like this one are archived by the feds - and everyone else. Discord works with cops. A dozen or more companies know every place your phone has physically been used since you got it, and will sell this information for virtual peanuts to anyone who asks for it. VPNs have been caught logging ips. Your data is not safe, and in a time of fascism, that means you are not safe.

Communication may be critical to our success in the upcoming years, but it can just easily be our undoing. Learn to secure your phone, disable biometrics and use end to end encrypted messaging. Don’t take your daily phone to sensitive locations, and be prepared to wipe and abandon any device you do carry with you.

And seriously, like OP says, practice just not talking about some things.