A hypothesis requires no evidence.

Correct

It’s then tested through repeatable controlled experiments

repeatable controlled experiments are only one aspect of evidence gathering to falsify a hypothesis. Here are a few other methods:

• Observational Astronomy
• Modeling and Simulations
• Indirect Experiments
• Lab Experiments
• Historical Data Analysis

By combining these methods we can still falsify a hypothesis, thus allowing “science to happen”.

The events leading to the Big Bang have no evidence.

Correct! There is no evidence for what lead to the big bang because we can’t gather any data before it started. But we have mountains of evidence that all point to a “big bang” happening - down to a fraction of a second shortly after it started! [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] .

If science can hypothesize, why can’t religion?

Science is willing to discard ideas that lack evidence or aren’t falsifiable. Is religion ready to stop preaching because faith, by definition, is a lack of evidence?

Have you read string theory? It’s no different than Spinoza’s god.

The difference between string theory and Spinoza’s god is the falsifiable part. String Theory, being a scientific theory, makes predictions that should be able to be tested through experiments (although testing will likely be a challenge much like Astrophysics and will instead depend on other scientific methods to gather evidence for/against it). Spinoza’s God is a philosophical concept and not directly falsifiable through scientific methods. Spinoza’s god is the equivalent of me claiming I’m friends with a telepathic unicorn from another dimension, both useless and irrelevant.

[1] Gravitational Waves: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-cosmic-discovery-could-be-closest-weve-come-beginning-time-180950109/

[2] Redshift: https://socratic.org/questions/how-does-a-redshift-give-evidence-to-the-big-bang-theory

[3] Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/cosmic-microwave-background-proves-big-bang/

[4] Abundance of Light Elements: https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_ele.html

[5] Expansion: https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_exp.html](https://www.space.com/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html

[6] Olbers’ Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers’s_paradox

[7] Quasars Existence: https://www.astronomy.com/science/60-years-of-quasars/

[8] WMAP Survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy_Probe](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wilkinson-Microwave-Anisotropy-Probe

Are you familiar with Baruch Spinoza? His take is fascinating. His higher power did not concern itself with the fates of mankind, but is responsible for the lawful harmony of existence. It also does not discount or displace science in any way.

That’s basic deism but I would disagree and say it does conflict with science. Science is evidence-based, if you claim something exists you must present evidence to support it. I can’t just claim there’s a 5-ton diamond in my backyard and say “trust me bro”. Nobody would believe me, so why should anyone believe in any god without evidence?

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… but worse!

Germany, there’s a time and place for everything. This is like supporting a "sovereign citizen’s " right to freedom during a murderous rampage. It’s giving “blue lives matter” during George Floyd’s murder.

What do terrorist holding hostages have to do with the indiscriminate murder, displacement and starvation of innocent women and children? Genuinely curious. Cops don’t kill innocents when there’s a hostage situation, why is Israel allowed to commit genocide in this situation? Can you explain?

That’s the one. How’d you find it? I always struggle. Is it linked anywhere on their official site?

Link to source on the fediverse/mastodon: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149

Looks like at least one type can take flight from the ground, although with some difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIl_bYFMr8o

the worst part is this also applies to humans. We are COOKED.

Fair, that’s an actual useful feature that will benefit many.

that’s fair, I can see how some wouldn’t value 90Hz.

60Hz refresh rate in 2024? This might be a phone you buy for your parents but with other options available out there, it’s going to come down to whatever specific niche this phone fills and whether that’s enough compared to the competition.

Serious question, because I get a similar “TIL” on my mastodon thread and saw this and had a similar thought - would you prefer to see no “TIL” content posted by bots? I don’t have any stake, but they do provide 3 benefits that I personally enjoy, as much as I’d prefer it was “organically” generated content:

1. Some posts are insightful, others I can just ignore/move on.
2. It provides a way to interact with the broader “fediverse” community about certain topics.
3. Helps avoid visiting sites like Reddit by virtue of having less content here and looking elsewhere.

More on topic - here’s a pic of the couple, for anyone interested:

I thought you were kidding 🤷

I’m gonna need some evidence before I believe Google isn’t analyzing all the data that passes through it unencrypted.

Unlike Telegram, Signal doesn’t allow researchers to make sure that their GitHub code is the same code that is used in the Signal app run on users’ iPhones.

A few things to keep in mind:

1. Apple’s build process makes reproducible builds near-impossible.
   • All the effort Telegram went through and it doesn’t completely validate the entire build - there are components that are not fully reproducible [0] and as we saw with the recent XZ backdoor, these could potentially be leveraged to hide a backdoor while claiming to be secure - so was anything gained other than “these things are validated but this black box, which could contain malware, was not validated because we can’t check them”?
2. Developing Signal is difficult.
   • Signal is developed by a small team and has to prioritize and coordinate efforts to deliver results - look at how long usernames took or even private contact discovery [1] - nearly 3 years (as a preview) after Signal was created.
   • Signal has no built-in telemetry, any issues are not automatically logged and reported. The end user has to manually submit debug logs and provide an adequate description of the issue for the devs to even attempt to understand what the issue is and how to fix it. Telegram may also have this issue in their very limited private chats, but as most chats aren’t E2EE, they can already see all your traffic anyways, making things significantly easier in terms of development speed.

Considering the two points above, it’s not irrational to come to state the following:

1. Signal has been prioritizing a fully end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) platform that shares zero data with anyone but the intended recipient and this decision has slowed down their development speed. Non-E2EE chat solutions have existed for decades and can iterate and progress significantly faster as they don’t have to work on difficult privacy/security/encryption related issues.
2. Telegram has not been prioritizing a fully E2EE platform and by default do collect most of their user’s data. This makes it much easier to develop Telegram and is why E2EE group messages don’t even exist on the platform - the Telegram devs have spent more time talking about privacy and security than actually implementing it

Given the two statements above, assuming both projects need to balance resource constraints, it’s safe to conclude, :

• Signal has spent zero effort working on reproducible builds on iOS because its impossible to completely reproduce a build and would take development resources working on enhancing the platform for minimal gains, as Telegram has proven [0]. Signal has instead placed their efforts on reproducible builds on a platform where it is possible [2].
• Telegram, instead of working towards implementing security and privacy by default, have decided to work on security theater by working on reproducible builds for iOS that are not even completely reproducible.

Signal refused to add reproducible builds for iOS, closing a GitHub request from the community.

It was closed because they use Github for bug reports, not feature requests [4]. The dev even pointed them to the right place. That said, I do agree it would be great if there was some progress made on this front for Signal, but realize its a huge effort and may be best avoided for now as the iOS client still needs some “catching up” to do, compared to the Android version.

And WhatsApp doesn’t even publish the code of its apps, so all their talk about “privacy” is an even more obvious circus trick 💤

Agreed.

Telegram is the only massively popular messaging service that allows everyone to make sure that all of its apps indeed use the same open source code that is published on Github. For the past ten years, Telegram Secret Chats have remained the only popular method of communication that is verifiably private 💪

Telegram collects all your data by default in a way that’s accessible to anyone with enough privileges to their infrastructure.

[0] https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds#step-6-comparing-the-appstore-build-and-the-version-built-in-the

[1] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reproducible-builds

[3] https://github.com/ali-fareed/darwin-containers/commits/main/

[4] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641#issuecomment-1276308990

100% agree. Would be nice to be able to just “dock” into a USB-C cable and have a working “PC” at my disposal. Appreciate the response.

genuine question, what do you expect out of a mobile OS that you can’t do now?

Even without a source I can see how ICE vehicles are cheaper to repair (assuming you don’t have some high-end expensive car. I had a relatively “new”-ish engine replaced in my ICE vehicle (I’ll let you guess the make/model) for just under $2,200, this is including labor.

ICE vehicles are “old tech” and everyone knows how they work and where to source cheaper (new or rebuilt) parts. All bets are off if you’re working directly with a dealer when trying to save money.

I’m looking forward to owning an EV at some point, but will definitely need to find someone who’s competent whenever any major issues appear. Hopefully by then they’re significantly more common and the industry has more people that are competent at that type of work.