I will be proud of myself for the fact I didn’t notice or know

Don’t need luck, I’m using Common Sense 2024™️ edition AV/EDR with an integrated SIEM.

Bruh you’re in so deep you don’t even see ads anymore 😱

Why would they go through all the trouble when they could simply join the channels by posing as people who belong?

You heard right. He never “sold” anything to any govt, he went to Dubai and hosted TG across like 50 different countries so glowies would be drowned in paperwork before they ever got a chance to submit a subpoena for anything, encrypted or otherwise, with it’s founder in a nation that basically gives zero fucks about international laws and affairs.

This is why TG was so trustworthy and had such a massive and brazen criminal element

Evidently it was.

Encryption shmencryption, there was a reason people used TG and not WhatsApp and it’s because the former just very clearly doesn’t glow and it’s why Durov was arrested and not Zuckerberg. The technicals are only a part of it, the politics are arguably far more a part of it.

If by “this method” you mean Steam Link like OP then yes that does work. It does not work in Sunshine however, and I need Sunshine, because obviously there is no Steam Link on a PS Vita.

Obviously I tried the sunshine method out or I wouldn’t have outlined all the things I tried to fix it with otherwise.

Well fuck. Telegram was a really good way to distribute tor bridges in Russia because account age can be inferred from id, so roskomnadzor glowies could be vanquished easily.

Well done Pasha, you just had to go to France, the one country that has a warrant on you? Don’t the indie pharma & finance industries have enough to worry about without the glowies? Oh and bring back the wall you bastard.

I had the same issue just last week with a more recent copy of premiere I got. Just block all internet access in your firewall to Photoshop and it will go away.

Random noone in twitter

That’s an oddly specific example. I’m guessing you could possibly be an employed artist who is not muddy, oily or ever had a “cool workplace injury”.

That’s awesome. Glad we’re finally automating the most important things in life - internet arguments.

There’s def something to be said by just how alien the cishet dynamic is to me for example.

I have no concerns regarding children, no concerns regarding gender or power, I’m in a transbian relationship with another trans woman, we don’t have to work very hard to be equal in terms of societal sex dynamics.

It’s not all like we’re super enlightened Buddhist monks or something, we fight and get pissed and get upset, but man, that kind of discomfort and disconnect and almost a quiet rage I feel that cishet men and women have towards each other because of the broader state of societal relations between the groups just isn’t something that plays into it for me.

I suppose while being queer is generally more a curse practically in most of the world, this sort of freedom is some reward for surviving through it. I’m grateful to my past self for powering through all the threats of violence and suffering, through being disowned and everything and tell her that living will be worth it one day, and that everything will be alright.

OpenAI is the corpo is the very antithesis of “open”.

Actual Open-weight FOSS AI models ala Stable Diffusion or LocalLLaMa/Mistral are definitely a good thing for everyone one though for sure.

Corposhit is always evil.

Exactly, so you agree that this bill is shit?

It makes their product shit

yawn

If it’s not on Steam or GoG I pirate. Console children should go touch grass or go to school so they understand something other than defending multi-billion dollar megacorps.

Not open-sourcing it is a terrible idea, it just creates more black boxes and gives corporations a further upper hand.

For all the time of VK’s existence? He hasn’t been involved with VK since 2014, it says that literally at the top of his Wikipedia page.

2014 is the same time that Russia’s real fascist face started to show in terms of the laws the duma was putting out internally and of course the actual invasion of Crimea and the attrocities carried out by Russia that followed. Lots of businessmen saw which way the wind was blowing and fled.

I do not trust any billionaire asshat, least of all a tech billionaire asshat, and if you read the libertarian new age techbro drivel the guy says on his telegram announcement thingie you just know his political opinions are probably dogshit, but I don’t think he’s in open cooperation with the fucking Kremlin.

The only suspicious thing here is the unbanning of Telegram in Russia. There’s of course the explanation that it was practically ineffective, and roskomnadzor unblocked it to save face, as they were made quite a laughing stock of at the time by the public (I am Russian originally and was still in touch with the russian internet scene back then, so this is my personal experience). But it’s also very possible they paid him off, so I’m not necessarily defending him either.

As for his visits to Russia, it’s clear for what purpose. I don’t think visiting e.g. family is an issue necessarily, so it can’t be used as proof of collaboration. I am also not sure whether it’s true.

I “trust” him in the sense that now that I am a resident of a five eyes nation, I would not use a western company’s service because backroom dealings will always be done and compromises will be made, much like how if I was still in Russia, I would only use west-aligned services with whom the Russian state is unlikely to deal with. His arrest is only further proof of it.

Unless it’s just a power grab due to the role Telegram started playing in the information war during the war in Ukraine, in use by both sides.

People babble on about E2EE and how there’s only metadata, but shit, you can infer a lot from metadata, depending on how extensive it is, and you will only be able to do more now with ML.

What telegram has that other messengers don’t is a solid business model that doesn’t rely on data collection. Meta definitely does not. Signal also does not. The pressure is on them.

If signal was usable at all I would use it, if you could send actual .gif files like a normal person in WhatsApp, I would use it, and if Matrix had more than 5 users, I’d consider it.