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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th
  • I played and enjoyed Chants of Sennaar and Jusant in the last few months. A recent standout game for me was Tunic. Check it out, it might suit you well as much as it did me. It has fighting but if you want you can enable easier combat or even "no fail mode" (invulnerability) from the menu. The game has a ton of hidden secrets and puzzles while being pretty and friendly to look at like the other two games. It is a great experience with or without the combat parts.

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    Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
  • "As of January 2022, the platform had approximately 40 million monthly active users."[0]

    In 2022 they had $30M expenses, so the cost is somewhat under $1/user/year.

    They said the minimum donation is there to reduce the viability of scammers using it to check if a stolen credit card number is valid.

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation

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    Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
  • I wonder what is the salary of the executives.

    Wonder no more, they have it in their 2022 tax filing:

    Compensation

    Key Employees and Officers Base Related Other

    Jim O'leary (Vp, Engineering) $666,909 $0 $33,343

    Ehren Kret (Chief Technology Officer) $665,909 $0 $8,557

    Aruna Harder (Chief Operating Officer) $444,606 $0 $20,500

    Graeme Connell (Software Developer) $444,606 $0 $35,208

    Greyson Parrelli (Software Developer) $422,972 $0 $35,668

    Jonathan Chambers (Software Developer) $420,595 $0 $28,346

    Meredith Whittaker (Director / Pres Of Signal Messenger) $191,229 $0 $6,032

    Moxie Marlinspike (Dir / Ceo Of Sig Msgr Through 2/2022) $80,567 $0 $1,104

    Brian Acton (Pres/Sec/Tr/Ceo Sig Msgr As Of 2/2022) $0 $0 $0

    from https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840

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    Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
  • They are paying their CEO $0. Brian Acton, previously founder of WhatsApp, the guy who initially bankrolled the whole non-profit by a $50 million, 50 year, non-secured, 0% interst loan, later giving even more.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation#History

    They pay some other C levels 400-600k. Source: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840 (compensation section)

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    Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up
  • Which site? Choose another instance if yours is unreliable. That's the advantage of a federated system. Or just have a second account at another instance.

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  • If you mean the European Health Insurance Card, it's not the same as Universal Heathcare. If you travel to another contry that accepts it, you cannot go with any problem to the doctor, only ones that cannot wait until you return to the contry where you're insured. Still useful to not have to have travel insurance within the EU, just might be useful to know.

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