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[–] Kobo 1 points 5 hours ago

Missed a good opportunity for a $5 Wrench decryption joke

[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I gotta keep forcing myself to remember that it's April 1st. I'd be careful though. Not everyone can understand satire.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

In my experience, Sarcasm and Satire appear to have cultural hooks that prevent them from translating well online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Honestly I always forget. I've never really participated so headlines like this just seems like bad takes to me lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

🤣 I was like what the fuck is this trash till I saw your comment.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There are good April's fools jokes and there is this. Some things you just don't joke about.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Exactly! We don't need the tyrants thinking this

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

I hate April's fools

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

This is a shitty April 1st joke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

This better be an April Fools joke

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I don't understand how people can stand living without being able to see in their neighbours' homes. What if they're dissing you or worse, don't even care you exist?

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This travesty of justice cannot stand! I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

All well and good, but realistically any backdoor can be exploited by unfriendly as well as friendly actors.

Also does this mean government agency communication would also be unencrypted or just Joe schmoe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Just us Schmoes. Governments get all the encryption and no backdoors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I thought the gov wrote this, just a joke huh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

so boring...

[–] Steamymoomilk 5 points 2 days ago

I love the satire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago