Flee from Meta

Posted Jan 29, 2025 15:59 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: Flee from Meta by dskoll
Parent article: Linux-related discussion as a cybersecurity threat

> If I need anything more immediate than that, I text or call. Remember when speaking on the phone was a thing?

Ah yes "I'm at coordinates four one three mark two!", that will work out nicely to find someone else in an unfamiliar place.

You could just say "I'm not in close contact with people who live very far away, and I never meet friends, so I don't have the use case" and that would be perfectly acceptable. But this is getting really ridiculous.

Flee from Meta

Posted Jan 29, 2025 18:27 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I can count the number of times I've arranged to meet people in a completely unfamiliar place that is impossible to describe using landmarks, intersection names, etc. on the fingers of zero hands.

I have no idea how I managed to meet friends during the period of 1976-1995 or so... it all magically worked, though.