> Much more important is reach and standover height, since those can’t easily be changed.
I try, buy and build quite a lot of bikes (6 this year). Reach has never been very helpful for me. Seat tube angles differ quite a lot and the position of the bottom bracket on the x axis does not affect me that much. Effective top tube and stack is what I look for.
Being a long legged person, standover has never been an issue. I can straddle most any bike. Stack is important because that gives me a hint if I can get the saddle and handlebars on the same height without crazy stem solutions. I ride bikes from the horizontal top tube era that favor the "fistful of seatpost" rule, so C-T seat tube length is also very important to me (for purely aesthetic reasons.)
I put my markdown files in a Dropbox folder, so I can use apps like 1writer on iOS. Syncs well and works like a charm!
Whenever I have an interesting thought, I get my phone, open 1writer, it creates a new [timestamp].md file, and I just jot it down. It instantly saves to dropbox so if I open Sublime on my laptop, the file's already there.
On my PC, I mostly write in Sublime Text but now experimenting with Zettlr and Obsidian.
I heard heard other combinations with other cloud file services and other markdown writing apps work just as good.
Having a folder with plaintext notes going back years just feels ... future-proof.
i recently started playing doom online with doomseeker. i was pretty disappointed that it was mostly modded to hell and back and all the good deathmatch servers were in russia with 200+ ping. still fun, you just can't really aim right. . .
That doesn't change the fact that all phone numbers are visible to all group members. All it takes is one rogue participant to reveal the identities of all members. If that actor has access to triangulation data they now have identity, location history, words and possibly images/video.
Yeah, it's optimized for communication between trusted parties (e.g. Snowden and a journalist) - as such the focus is on verifying the identity of the other person, not hiding it. It'd be cool if they figured out a group chat setting that was optimized for groups like protesters trying to coordinate - show your identity only to users you are directly connected with/have verified/whitelisted, but hide your identity to everyone else.
Except the whole point of OTR-like messaging was that you can communicate with someone who you can't be entirely sure you trust in perpetuity (that's why messages in Signal and similar systems don't have non-repudiation -- neither party can prove to a third party that a message really was sent by the other party). Now, obviously the metadata worry is separate to how the message cryptography is implemented but it does seem odd to have a threat model which is somewhat confused on this question.
OTR also allows you to do key verification -- all encrypted chat systems support that. The point isn't that you cannot be sure who you're talking to, the point is that the communication transcript cannot be provided to a third party as evidence that either party in the conversation said something.
This is fairly simply implemented in OTR. Rather than signing the message with an asymmetric keypair (as you would with PGP), you sign it with a HMAC. Thus both the sender and recipient could create a valid message from the sender (giving you the property that only the two people in the conversation can be sure what was actually said by the other party, without being able to prove it to a third party cryptographically).
I'm sure this is an underrated part of why discord became such a big thing in gaming communities. With so many toxic players and threats against a person so common, a good threat model would care a lot less about surveillance and a lot more about everyone seeing your phone number
Believe me when I say your machine will still be sprinkled with crap after running AppZapper. If you want to remove it, you need something like https://rixstep.com/4/0/tracker/
