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  • Telegram CEO charged in France for ‘allowing criminal activity’ on messaging app

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  • It's not a fight, it's logic. The world governments can do nothing to OpenWhisperSystems (the makers of Signal), because they don't store any communication.

    Telegram however thought they were smart, by storing data and splitting that data up in to several different pieces around the world, assuming governments wouldn't collude together to get it.

    But they didn't foresee the litigious nature of nation states, and that's what we're seeing now. If these nation states also start to collude with one another, everyone who thought they were safe are gonna get fucked.

    Signal does not store any communication data. They only facilitate handshake between clients and the clients manage the data between themselves.

    This is why Telegram isn't safe, but Signal is.

  • Telegram CEO charged in France for ‘allowing criminal activity’ on messaging app

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  • Telegram CEO charged in France for ‘allowing criminal activity’ on messaging app

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  • So to make it clear, it's because their company actually holds some data for clients that these governments want access to - because telegram is not peer-to-peer, unless you set a chat to private.

    In essence Telegram as a company holds a lot of data that the French authorities want access to...

    This comment brought to you by the Signal gang.

  • Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, hires former employee of U.S. Republican's 'Project 2025'

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  • What's Meta need a bunch of fascist Christian nationalists for? It's not like they have an overlapping demograph-oh yeah, ofc.

    Mark Zuckerbot sure is a shrew bastard. Elon Musk wishes he had his computational brain.

  • please rule what your cat is ruling

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  • Catsideration.

  • SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99

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  • Listen, if there isn't a server you can download maps and umods on that allows you to fly a shark in the sky with redeemer rockets over a Burger King, then I'm not interested...

    UT99 was too good for us.

  • Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

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  • Ext4 is faster, but I love BTRFS not just because of CoW, but subvolumes as well. You could probably get something similar going with LVFS, but I prefer that to be baked in, hence why I'm waiting for bcachefs, because it'll up the ante with tighter integration, so that might translate to better performance.

    Notice my use of the word might. BTRFS performance is not so great.

  • Indonesia introduced measures to fight cheap online imports from China as Chinese e-commerce platforms hurt local firms

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  • The problem with automating everything is that suddenly consumers have no money to spend on products and services... you know what that means.

    Universal Basic Income

    That, or an oligarchy class keeps a distance between themselves and 99% of the people via privatised security, or even national security.

    So socialism, or a return to the aristocracy. Take your pick.

  • Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

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  • I'm going to switch from BTRFS at some point, but at this point that's going to be a few years down the line.

  • Indonesia introduced measures to fight cheap online imports from China as Chinese e-commerce platforms hurt local firms

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  • This, and Bangladesh. All places that rely on wage slavery, child labour and unethical working conditions, because that which is unethical is also very cheap.

    You can't really compete with slavery, because again: it's very cheap, and the way the Chinese state leads Chinese farmers and villagers into social lock-ins, whereby they legally become stuck in an area where there's only grueling, deadly, soul crushing and back breaking labour that leads to a life of poverty becomes a problem for the rest of the world if it's used to manipulate the markets.

    I do of course realise this article is about "too big to fail" companies that corner every market, but I also think that the west and the east needs to think about what it means to partake in a race to the bottom where wage slavery is part and parcel of the market. It creates conditions whereby competition involves who can make the most horrible living conditions in the world, and do you really want that?

    There are Chinese labourer families who have been trying to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" for generations now, and it's all thanks to other nations enabling the Chinese regime - especially the west.

  • Why are Texas interchanges so tall?

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  • ...because everything is bigger in Texas?

  • Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

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  • Not even with the child labour? These venture capitalists are just the worse. They don't make any money, they just lose it over longer periods of time. Smh.

  • Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues

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  • Oooo, someone wants to be in the history books as "the guy who wanted to end the conflict."

    No deal, Lukashenko. You'll always be a Boris Yeltsin knockoff, and a bootlicker, and a spineless shill, so sayeth history.

  • Coming out rule

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  • Parents: no, u

  • Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

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  • Your first reply was a whataboutism that tried to deflect the very obvious problem of US companies not taking security seriously, which has now devolved into you calling me a communist...?

    E everything you don't like is a communist, isn't it?

    Take your whataboutisms, ad hominems and the rest of your logical fallacies for a long walk off a short pier, because at this point I'm just blocking you.

  • Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

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  • No, you're saying irrelevant things because you're being defensive, and then replying with an ad hominem, because you want to see your enemies defeated and driven before you - because you obviously lack raising. But I digress.

    Other places, like the EU, or say China, there are regulations about data security, whereas in the US, it's the wild west, where companies can cut as much costs as they want and leak data like it's a sport. The news every year is awash with leak news, and in most cases it comes from the US. So, yeah...

    Cope, yankie. Cope.

  • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancels pianist’s performance after dedication to journalists killed in Gaza | Melbourne

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  • Like come tf on. A dedication to journalists who lost their lives?!? Fucking fops.

  • Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

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  • ...but we're talking about leaks, and nobody leaks user and consumer data like US companies.

    What was your point? "Everyone gets hacked, so might as well leak"?

  • Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

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  • May have? Son, I'm in the midst of convincing my countrymen to get the hell away from US vendors, because the words "conflict", "of" and "interests" means nothing to US officials or businesses when put together.

    No, you don't let the people who handle data also share in the spoils of data brokerage - albeit through stock ownership or shared assets.

    At the end of the day, yes, the US will leak data, because security is a cost and data is of value. Money printer go brrr.

  • No More Room In Hell: How Tech & Games Are Desperately Rotting (The Jimquisition)

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  • This is why Godot is so important and that source available can be something the EU has to consider for all newly designed games. Sorry, small, mid and big time game studios, and screw you publishers, what we need is to make sure that the barrier to entry for game developers is significantly lowered. What, you think I'm taking about video game conservation? Leave that to AccursedFarms.

    What I'm saying is that you can more easily pitch games to publishers, using assets and engines that are already "standardised", like Bethesda's several Rube Goldberg machines, if they are available. I'm looking at Fallout London as saying to myself: why isn't this on Steam, Switch, and every other platform Fallout 4 can run on, being sold by Bethesda?

    Even split prices, one for people who already owned Fallout 4, one for who recently purchased Fallout 4 if they don't have Fallout 4 - if you wanna be pedantic. But the point remains the same: these lovely modder devs, though they shouldn't be forced, could have pitched this game to Bethesda, even as an "off-universe" game. Whatever.

    But then we remember the Fallout 76 Store. Oh my god, no. And DMCA takedowns, claims of copyright infringement - even though "modified works" doesn't exclude software - and what about actual live services and competitive games? Like could the community make the server instead? Can it be something even the Olympic Committee has a hand in, so the game can be vetted for the Olympics?

    Like update your EULA. "May be used, modified and deployed for free if it's used for education and development purposes". I'm not a lawyer, so take them scribblings with a grain of salt, but something like that would really just add an extra level in participation in schools, clubs, organisations, etc, even as an easy way to recruit and receive games and new worlds, for free.

    Free the engine! Free all of the engines! NOW!!! "The secret sauce" fallacy has been stupid, is stupid right now, and will continue to be stupid into the future - unless we do something about it.

    Free the engines!