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  • They have good cause to believe you’re a Signal user, so they get a judge to authorize a subpoena based on your phone number, and Signal complies - and, yes, all they’re doing is confirming to the FBI that you have an account with them.

    Literally all they need to do is have their own phone with Signal installed, and then create an address book listing with the Suspects phone number on it.
    Next time Signal syncs, it will pop up “Suspect is on Signal!”.
    Subpoena-ing the Signal Foundation is not required.

    But it proves nothing, and if you are in a jurisdiction where the police can demand your phone or you are stupid enough to hand it over when they can’t, that’s not on Signal.





  • The OTHER thing that could cause stuttering is if it needs to be transcoding and that transcode is happening slower than realtime (unlikely to be happening here).

    You’d look in the logs for a transcode log for this sort of thing:

    frame=  408 fps= 82 q=37.0 size=N/A time=00:00:15.51 bitrate=N/A speed= 3.1x  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c875.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c876.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c877.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c878.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c879.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8710.mp4' for writing  
    frame=  796 fps=145 q=30.0 size=N/A time=00:00:31.65 bitrate=N/A speed=5.75x  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8711.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8712.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8713.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8714.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8715.mp4' for writing  
    frame= 1189 fps=198 q=20.0 size=N/A time=00:00:48.04 bitrate=N/A speed=8.01x
    

    if the speed drops below 1.0x, you’ll stutter.


  • I can’t think of a standalone gui app that does this (and a simple google search didn’t find one).
    If you have a gui desktop (gnome,kde,xfce,lxqt,enlightenment,budgie…) it will have a built in function in it’s settings to do this, or leverage one of the parent ones (ie budgie is based on gnome, lxqt on kde).
    If your custom environment is pared down to the point where you don’t have an equivalent to gnome-system-tools and don’t want to install it, you might have to just use date at the command line.








  • In a rapidly churning startup phase, where new releases can and do come out constantly to meet production requirements, this one size fits all mentality is impractical.

    If you refuse to whitelist the deployment directory, you will be taking 2am calls to whitelist the emergency releases.

    No it can’t wait until Monday at 9am, no there will not be a staged roll out and multiple rounds of testing.

    I am more than willing to have a chat; you, me and the CEO.



  • I agree and use Signal myself.
    But people like the extra features of WhatsApp like desktop/web clients with seamless history sync and all the other little things that WhatsApp provides.
    The average Joe doesn’t even think about security or privacy, they just know that the results of using WhatsApp are superior than using SMS.
    iMessage is a non starter everywhere out of the US, it just doesn’t have the market penetration.
    As an Australian, no one I know (many of whom own iPhones) talk about the blue-green bubble stuff.
    They recognise where the fault lies and simply don’t use the app.