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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2020 13:55:23 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   I wish certain projects would stop deceiving people into believing they're somehow more private and more secure than other platforms. Any information posted publicly (even if the platform pretends it is private) can be obtained by others with some degree of effort. People should use the appropriate tool for the job, and developers should either make their tools function appropr…
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2020 14:33:04 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     And now that I've seen what Electron posted, let me add that it has nothing to do with someone having the "right" to scrape publicly posted data and everything to do with having the ability to do so. You can attach a Gig of legal boilerplate to each of your (public) posts, but if some "techbro" can easily grab those posts, don't be surprised when they use the data. I learned t…