For emergency it's probably way simpler to just make a small hole with your hand (like the diver "OK" sign but tighter) and look through that.

A pinhole camera doesn't focus light. Only lenses can focus light. The reason why looking through a small hole makes the image sharper is exactly because that basically prevents the lens in your eye to "misdirect" light that's coming in from the side.

But there is a reason why our eyes are not pin hole cameras. The amount of light that hits your retina is pretty low when looking through a pin-hole so that actually only works on bright sunny days.

But to be fair nobody does anything from scratch. Most people were in school at least for a few years. If you code, you've probably read a lot of code and documentation, if you draw you probably saw a lot of drawings, if you play chess you probably studied a lot of different games.

I'm not a scientist/astronomer but my beste guess would be that stuff is named based on the instrument/telescope that found it first and some number or based on survey project names. There are so many objects we discover, anything "more sophisticated" would probably be too much work. If something turns out interesting later it might get additional names or a nick name.

Signal could still (at least for a short period of time) read everything. Whisper System just has to push a Signal Update that no longer encrypts. It would probably be noticed pretty soon. And no not because of the source code. The source code is what they claim to ise to build the applications but they could easily apply patches before they build. You'd have to reverse engineer the compiled applications ro see if there is code that's probably not in the source.

This kind of problem is typically way smaller in projects that actively encourage building the clients from source yourself - which Whister System/Signal does not.

Facebook added the encryption in the first place because so many people were leaving for Signal and Threema (and Telegram but that's another security nightmare).

Why not save a step, fuck bitlocker, and use veracrypt to encrypt your drive in the first place?

I hereby also announce $100 billion in support of Ukraine. Announcements aren't worth much.

Try using the on screen keyboard with Firefox. On so many extensions the keyboard just doesn't work (concrete example: tampermonkey code editor). And it's not like it doesn't work at all - you can insert new characters but backspace and new line is broken.

Now try OSK on Windows - never had a single issue that it doesn't work where a real keyboard would have worked.

To make a shortcut on your desktop on windows. Right click element -> shortcut on desktop. To change arguments: right click shortcut -> Properties. Done. Now try to explain how gnome does it in a comment 🤣

I get what you are saying and maybe I'll find some time to do that, but I hope you also see the irony in an answer like that, because the typical user couldn't care less about Gnome vs KDE.