@suricrasia I remember when "free speech" used to be a progressive talking point.

(I wish it still was, tbh.)

@mhoye At first I misread this as saying that this one FEMA official remembers there being no one at the Waffle House.

Which is also unlikely.

@meejah Oh, it looks like this is the culprit behind signal-cli users having to re-register their accounts: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/1993

Some changes to the Signal protocol, basically.

EDIT: I've added a blog post about (re-)registration with signal-cli: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2026/04/03/running-signal-desktop/ -- see the notes at the bottom about re-registration quirks.

@meejah For getting your own safety number component from the UI, yeah, it's not straightforward.

If you open a chat with someone and then go [kebab menu] -> "Chat settings" -> "View safety number" then you can get your safety number with them. Then do it with a different person, and find the half that's in common. >_>

@meejah I just had Signal kick me out of Desktop a couple days ago as well, and had to re-link. Definitely some rough bits, like how I lost my username and had to re-register it (but ran into error loops and had to change to something else *first*, then reclaim my username).

I used a somewhat simpler process for registering than you did (didn't have to set my avatar from the CLI, for instance) but otherwise pretty similar.

@troyhunt Possible typo: In the unsmoothing section, is "6 fast requests" supposed to be "10 fast requests"?

In any case, glad to see you're able to continue expanding what this service offers.

@M0YNG @vfrmedia That might make a bit more sense, yeah.

Although I feel like the occasional legal stunt can't be *that* much pressure on the system, proportionally.