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  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France

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  • Although Telegram does use end-to-end encryption, it isn’t the default option. Many users don’t know this; they automatically assume their conversations are 100% secure.

    On the other hand, the app does nothing to inform them about the “Secret Chat” option. Once a user kick-starts a new chat, Telegram stays silent about options other than the default.

    Look, if this was an app that allowed for E2EE on all communication and did not store any of the communication on some company's servers I would be saying France is completely 100% wrong. France is wrong in saying the encryption is the problem, but they are partially right about Telegram not complying with legal requirements as it does not encrypt all communication and it should be obligated to comply with criminal investigations just like they would be obligated if they were a mail delivery service.

    Just because something is on the internet doesn't mean it isn't subject to warrants. If a company can be compelled to provide written documentation in their possession, the same is true for electronic. That company should not be obligated to undermine their own encryption though.

  • My gaming setup

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  • Although I chuckled, time to be a killjoy!

    This image is racist because Tom has east Asian caricature features of the buck teeth and closed eyes, and is in a cartoonishly small bed as east Asian people are often shorter compared to the western average height. My first thought was the the joke was that Tom has to squint, another racist trope, because the poor video card can't handle the high resolution.

    My second thought was that he was too big for the bed, which appears to be the actual joke. Sadly it was spoiled because of the overt racism in the chosen image so it just got a chuckle for the real punchline.

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsianBuckTeeth

  • Born in the USA Was a Protest Song

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  • Dictatorships like Cuba and North Korea might say they have parties, but they also call themselves democracies or republics.

    Can't remember if we still have any royalty that are actual heads of states without an elected ruling body upholding their decisions, but those would have zero parties if any still exist.

  • Born in the USA Was a Protest Song

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  • Americans criticizing America is not anti-American.

  • Not helpful.

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  • People get punished for all kinds of things that aren't rules.

    Certain people are not punished for breaking rules.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France

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  • I assume that proving they can't know about it would be part of the defense if it goes to trial.

  • Scientists amazed at the discovery of an underwater road that points to a 7000-year-old city

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  • "These are the carefully complex stone plates that were part of a four-meter wide communication that connected the artificially created island with the shore," the experts mentioned in the post.

    Yet another example of how skilled pur ancestors were in building techniques. An artificially created island and a road to connect it!

    Humans are creative and have been for tens of thousands of years. No, ancient civilizations were not some kind of advanced lost space faring spciety, but they did build ingenious long lasting structures long before we thought they could.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France

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  • Moderation that doesn't do anything. Have terms and conditions that aren't enforced. General 'we care' things that aren't actually effective.

  • Airbnb's struggles go beyond people spending less. It's losing some travelers to hotels.

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  • There is absolutely no reason not to enjoy the perks of the early stage of the customer acquisition process; the shareholders are subsidizing your product at no cost to you.

    At the individual level, sure. Even for things like streaming services it isn't a net negative to take advantage of those 'introductory' prices.

    But a lot of these businesses that operate at an obvious loss are undercutting currently existing business practices that are probably more cost efficient than these new businesses. Like restaurants that used to take care of their own delivery were undercut by malicious pricing from door dash and uber eats only to wind up in a situation where they would have to start from scratch again or pay the outrageous extortion fees to DD and UE.

    I avoided both DD and UE because I knew it would not be sustainably long term. It was obvious they were maliciously undercutting competition. Same with uber and lyft and all the other ride share businesses, although at least they got some reform going on the taxi side.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France

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  • Well, the French police seem to be saying the way he is running the company involves being knowingly complicit, not that they just happen to be hosting/facilitating communication without the company's knowledge.

    They could be wrong, but this is part of the process of finding out.

  • Colonial Centrists

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  • It helped spread the word of rebellion and reinforced how tyrannical the Brits were being by their reaction.

    Sometimes people need motivation and the motivating act itself does not need to be successful. This can be necessary even when everyone knows that the problems are, because someone has to take the first (or second or third) steps to motive the rest to act.

  • Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France

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  • As the CEO he should be responsible for anything he was facilitating as part of his business, and that would include crimes committed using telegram that he was aware of and both did nothing to remove from his service and made it harder for law enforcement to prosecute. You know, like how a warehouse owner who knowingly sells space to pedos and does what he can to keep the police from searching the warehouee is complicit.

    There are some circumstances where they are unaware or only take halfhearted measures, but in this case it looks like he is being investigated for actively working to enable criminals, including pedos. As the head executive, he doesn't have to do it personally if he is directing staff to make it happen.

    Edit: explaining the logic behind something isn't the same as agreeing with that logic

  • Stone Age builders had engineering savvy, finds study of 6000-year-old monument

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  • Or they tore them down and built newer version with better techniques!

  • Not helpful.

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  • Actually helpful, because there are no unwrittin rules.

    There are people who have assumptions and expecations, and everyone else goes along with it.

  • Stone Age builders had engineering savvy, finds study of 6000-year-old monument

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  • “These people had no blueprints to work with, nor, as far as we know, any previous experience at building something like this,” says study co-author Leonardo García Sanjuán, an archaeologist at the University of Seville in Spain. “And yet, they understood how to fit together huge blocks of stone” with “a precision that would keep the monument intact for nearly 6,000 years”.

    They absolutely would have had prior experience if fhe process is complex. Humans tend to have bursts of developing new techniques sprinkled around, but a complex structure would be rhe result of combining existing knowledge in a new way with a few new techniques. They wouldn't figure a bunch of things out at the same time and build something to last thousands of years. They probably built similar structures that didn't hold up as well first and learned from it.

  • Former University of Kentucky student pleads guilty to assault in racist attack captured on video

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  • Bullies successfully pretending to be the victim is extremely common, even more so when their targets are minorities.

  • FOO FIGHTERS Denounce DONALD TRUMP's Use Of 'My Hero' At Rally, Will Donate Any Royalties To KAMALA HARRIS Campaign

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  • They could, but unless they own their own catalogue and license the music in a way that lets them decide the context for its usage, the lawsuit probably wouldn't go anywhere.

  • Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel

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  • Ever heard of Poe's Law?

    It isn't a story that the Jedi would tell you.

  • " I'm a peasant, so American Capitalism has never improved my life or presented any opportunities for me "

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  • $25 an hour is what minimum wage should be, and they need a college degree to make that. The example 2020 farmer doesn't even own the corporate farm, they are just employed labor.