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This article you guys are getting worked up about is just silly. Telegram is obvious cop shit, but like most “cybersecurity” analysis, this only treats enemies of the US as a threat. Imagine if we gave any real weight to this kind of association with US, Europe, or Israeli intelligence. They’re the actual pioneers of spying technology for the past 70 years.
Just buy a Chinese ereader, Rakuten is way overrated
Seems like something easily avoided with the Fossify Contacts app since you can just do a file backup
Also, “a generation” and “AI” are both optimistic. America is not recovering in its current form.
They already taught me to write cursive, so, as far as I’m concerned, the education system has outlived its usefulness. You want a future for your kids? Come across the Pacific, my former countrymen. It’s not so wide and deep as it appears!
God JPEG XL has me doing the dog having flashbacks in the kitchen GIF
Hm fair enough, would you say it applies to the situation between Google and Firefox? Because at this point it’s clear donors are a bigger factor than any software community. I made the comparison since the improvements of Rust and the potential it has for Linux and technologies intended to replace XMPP seem to have been politicized, giving NGOs control of projects in a way that could be misused further down the line. They’ll have a legitimate justification for it since they keep the projects alive.
American hegemony is better described as global dictatorship of international finance capital. The countries being called “rival superpowers” today are merely semi-peripheral industrial powers that are too developed to be bullied by the United States and its allies, despite their control over the banking system and formidable weaponry.
China and Russia are not pursuing mutualistic development with third world countries out of some kind of moral obligation. It is just more efficient than jockeying for control in the neocolonial system. You know who is trying that? Turkey and India. Watch, they’ll get left behind to line Erdogan and Modi’s pockets. Just relax gringo nobody is coming to take your [checks notes] koalas. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Reagan was able to do it by clicking his fingers. He wasn’t exactly a dove.
I have tried them all, I just use XMPP through Cheogram (mobile) and Movim (desktop in browser) now. I have had success getting my contacts to switch since I never bugged them about any other messengers before. Plus I am willing to follow through with ultimatums of abandonment and they are well aware of that.
If you have any actually normal friends (no offense) you’re going to have to use the regular phone network. XMPP has the best phone network gateway, I’ve bought like five Soprani.ca numbers. No it doesn’t encrypt the regular phone network.
Delta/Arcane Chat is cool but due to everyone basically being an admin-level user in the chat, I strictly use it as a home base for real homies. I mainly use it to run one gajillion bots, check my emails, run Mastodon/Misskey fork accounts in one location, and send stuff/WebXDC apps to myself.
You can’t seriously replace the social media monopolies or the phone network yet. I even run some Telegrams (don’t make fun of me) and control them with the Delta Chat bot. People just need to get used to “backing up” their social graph with secure options, and not just saying whatever pops into their head outside them
But just imagine how inconvenient that would be. Have you ever read the highly important liberal ideological tract “When You Give A Mouse A Cookie”? Winning is highly problematic for dems. They want to send donation emails and keep you in a constant spiral of dread forever.
Israel is not an entirely separate sovereign nation from the USA. Neither is Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, South Korea, Japan, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Hungary, France, the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Australia, Canada, Argentina, India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, or Singapore. Did I miss anyone? I got tired so I know I missed someone.
Probably spurred by the crushing knowledge I am the only person in the middle of this venn diagram + nobody else will ever give a fuck as much as me + how perfect and based I am
I’ve seen all kinds of justifications for it. I saw one of the more highly suspicious furries claiming that they have to use Signal because so many furries are disabled that they can’t figure out how to use anything more complicated (which other options really aren’t, they just insist on comparing it with Matrix which is god-awful and everyone comments on being viscerally disgusted by). People don’t really need anything more fancy than iMessage. You’re being babies. Just use your public borked and corrupt messengers and mentally sort them into the Facebook pile. If it’s not secure from federal law enforcement, then it’s not safe to have conversations on freely, since class consciousness, common sense, and human rights are illegal.
There’s some acronym for this, EEE embrace extend extinguish right?
Yeah it’s got something to do with that & development being split between Dendrite and Synapse. I don’t even really care to know since having to dig up the flaws with it then getting argued with by proponents who don’t like to talk about them makes me annoyed. Many Rust developers have a whole cyberpunk ideology that results in their justifications being peppered with political stuff that sounds straight out of Arab Spring-stan anarchist twitter circa 2016. It’s 2025 and those guys have successfully turned Syria into ISIS land. Yet they won’t stop crying - but, I digress! I do not trust any nonprofit dependent on the world’s largest concentrations of finance capital.
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/
Synapse is the backend for Matrix and last I heard, people had been waiting a long time for an update, then it was announced the fixes were going to be on a premium version.
The larger issue is that Matrix (and Matterhorn and some others) development has been funded by NED technology initiatives, and is supported by big clients such as NATO and Reddit (or at least Reddit is using Matrix as a backend for their chats now). So they expect the public to keep their client system healthy while customizing software for the military intelligence arm of the imperialist countries. Meaning our interface will suck. Being reliant on these kinds of things is a long-term weakness.
If liberals refuse to say water is wet, eventually the Nazis will be trotting it out like they came up with it. Doesn’t really help anyone to deny that intelligence collaboration with USA bloc is mandatory for tech companies.
Does Carlson, who wanted to join the CIA and supported all kinds of neoconservatives throughout his career, really pose any challenge to this? No, he is just going to inoculate Trump supporters from the information being used against the right, which paints itself as “against the New World Order”. Fascism has done this since its inception, such as with Mussolini and others posing as anticapitalist critics as part of their eclectic strategy to gain support while out of power.