There is no policy that “works for everyone” when we cannot agree on the basic facts of reality. If one side says “we shouldn’t pollute the sky so much that we can never see the sun” and the other side says “there is no sky”, there is no way forward, only upwards, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Another Nintendo classic. Never given em any money and ain’t about to start.
They disabled desktop registration
Huh? Worked for me.
then can randomly ban people who try to make their usage of the platform more private/anonymous…
Telegram literally only banned CSAM.
Then there is censorship, at least here. And I have heard of at least one case of cooperation with German LE, so it’s not “untouchable” for Westerners too.
Source? Because they’re pretty transparent about it and have only ever banned CSAM. If that’s what you mean by “censorship” please KYS
It was never safe with such an approach of “I can close my eyes and pretend the law doesn’t apply to me” even in the West
Except that it was, and that’s why people used it.
If it was hostile to privacy and anonymity by design
No it wasn’t? It was literally the private anonymous messenger and that’s why people used it.
it was a matter of time until it became wide open to Western LE too
No it wasn’t, or they wouldn’t have had to arrest Durov.
The sheer amount of compromate it had on users was a ticking time bomb.
Yeah, but so is every good thing.
“Highly decentralized complexity” - what does that even apply to?
The subject matter at hand - Telegram. It was legally a complex mess of shell companies in weird jurisdictions. That’s why the glowies couldn’t touch it, the level of international cooperation it would require is far beyond the realistic means of any government. This is why they had to arrest Durov and offer him life in prison or to open up, there was nothing else they could do.
That would apply to Matrix, XMPP, Simplex, especially Briar.
It would if any of these worked, or were used by anyone at all.
Even Signal can technically be selfhosted (whether it is feasible is another question)
I don’t want to self-host my criminal messenger, i live deep in five eyes shit.
in Telegram you can’t have even that because the server is closed.
I’m fine with that, as long as it’s out of the glowies hands, but fella couldn’t stay away from the hairy pits I guess
You can’t. You either go into work and learn to solve complex problems or pivot to something else. For me it was the latter, I’m IT brainlet now, but every time I come back to brushing up on programming there’s like no middle ground with projects, I don’t have the time or really energy to commit to building a 3D video game engine in C or an OS, and learning pointer arithmetic for multiple iterators all just to make a palindrome checker CLI feels lame and building a clone of Spotify but in some new webdev thing of the week to some tutorial is hard to be excited about.
I have in my life met two people who used signal. They did it because I suggested it. They are both senior cybersec folks.
No? There’s a pretty good reason every criminal used telegram. I’ve never seen any attempts at combatting anonymity much less censorship.
Likely TG got unbanned in Russia for cooperating with LEOs there, but while awful, that doesn’t really matter if you’re a westerner, even Ukrainian armed forces used it, and for the average substance enjoyer it was still much safer to use than any Five Eyes app due to its intentional highly decentralised complexity, and unlike Signal it actually works and is pleasant to use. Now they are straight up handing data over to British cops.
No, I have literally never heard of Haveno-reto. Most people back around the shutdown were just saying everyone should use atomic swaps. Thanks for the heads up.
Dream come true. Finally some good news for us substance enjoyers. With localmonero gone and TG selling out to the glowies, it’s good to see not all is lost.
The funko pop star wars nintendo pronoun screamers are to the political right what Alex Jones is to Ronald Reagan
This. Hell you can generate literally endless wallpapers for free.
Damn. Big shame. GPL violations are far too fucking common.
Yes exactly, but which parties? Who actually violated the GPLof Duckstation?
Which GPL violations is he referring to?
Bruh 💀
A natural next step is to make a Steam Deck Mini of some sort once the compat is good enough for at least a hundred games or so.
Oh no I totally understand that I’m privileged as all hell.
That said I also learned a helluva lot more outside of my degree during said degree and after.
Formal teaching is really like YouTube and it’s meant to introduce you to what you don’t know more than anything, and as I said that’s a good thing as an introduction, but the vast majority of content is written, and you learn far more from it.
I have a BSc in CompSci and an MSc in Cybersec & Dig. Forensics and I’m actively employed as a mid level engineer in the field on a fully employer-sponsored Skilled Worker Visa, doing everything from vulnerability management and triage to GRC for ISO27001 to advising product and engineering teams on implementation details for best practices and compliance for a multinational org to DR&BC tabletops etc etc. I think this counts as IT.
Perhaps even more impressively though: I use Vim btw (to program in C).
I am not necessarily trying to brag very much, only to establish my own perspective, I don’t consider myself particularly talented or intelligent or successful - otherwise I’d have gone into research, but I am currently (and kinda always) studying to improve my skills and stay up to date.
Just recently I decided to take a look into pentesting to learn the l33t side of things more as my education only ever briefly touched on it, I started in August as something to keep my brain sane during studies for the settlement visa (Life in the UK) test, and I’ve made it to Hacker Rank on HackTheBox a week ago or so. I think I watched a grand total of one Ippsec video, the rest of everything I read.
I don’t know where you got the “game show hosts” from my comment, and I’m not aware of this if it exists as some broader trend. I don’t see YouTube shorts it’s all long blocked for me since release haha.
Yes YT tutorials and whatnot are good, but they are only good as broad introductions to a topic, personal opinions, or a particular historical narrative (Dr.Chuck on C’s history for instance). Those are few good nuggets between an endless sea of scams selling you a course or some other grift.
At a certain point you should start going a bit more in depth and reading - actively engaging with the material, move beyond simply knowing or purely copying and pasting terminal commands and understand why things work the way they do.
You don’t become an electrical engineer or something by watching electroboom, you learn what it’s about yes, but the rest you learn by reading and making, even basic arduino/breadboard projects will teach you more.
The best thing about YouTube is how good it is as background noise.
This is the way. Let those content creators sucking up your time be the background noise they were always meant to be.
Why?