Oh. People from English-speaking countries don’t sink you with downvotes immediately for criticizing that show anymore. Nice.

Even the broad strokes are, eh, how do you say it, eh … worse than Tom Clancy and that’s an achievement I’m not sure everyone is capable of measuring.

It’s funny though how such series about “USSR” talk in fact about something American. Reminiscent of the “17 moments of spring” series which were about a Soviet spy in Berlin in the last months of WWII, but mostly explored Soviet ideology and morality issues.

Telegram is not private. That makes the comparison to be infinity in favor of DeltaChat.

Friendly reminder that 10-15 years ago laws in this general direction were usually stuffed into leftist bottles.

Not anymore, but it would be a mistake to forget this.

Try Nostr, I dunno. Or VKontakte if you want the Telegram functionality of sending transcripts of your communications to FSB.

Signal is private. This is c/privacy.

Telegram is not private at all, but has channels and big groups and even, yes, mini-apps.

So Telegram is not an alternative to Signal either, it doesn’t even start solving problems that are solved genially in Signal.

Telegram is not a privacy tool.

I mean, if he’s convicted for a privacy tool, while it’s not a privacy tool, we have a bit of ambiguity.

Arguably advertising something which is not a privacy tool as one is fraud. Maybe even phishing, since TG the company has in plaintext all the chat history of its users.

And this

The meaning of that word “complicity” seems to be revealed by the last three charges: Telegram has been providing users a “cryptology tool” unauthorised by French regulators.

in non-libertarian language means something similar, that is, that something not confirmed to be a privacy tool is being provided as a privacy tool.

I am a libertarian, but in this case they are consistent, if I’m reading this correctly. They are not abusing power, they are doing exactly what they are claiming to be doing.

Also maybe I’m just tired of Telegram. It’s engaging, and I have AuDHD, which means lots of energy spent, and I can’t drop it completely because work, and also some small communities are available as TG channels. Would be wonderful were they to move at least to WhatsApp, but it is what it is.

Still, ability to easily create a blog (what a TG channel really is for its users) reachable without bullshit is a niche in huge demand. LJ filled that at some point, Facebook did at another, TG does now.

Something like this is desperately needed. I’d say the solution should be complementary to Signal - that is, DMs and small groups should not be its thing. Neither should be privacy of huge chats and channels - they’d be public anyway. However, anonymity with means to counter spam should, so should be metadata of user activity.

If Signal was really as secure and private like everyone says it is then their executives would already be in jail and whatnot for “enabling criminal activities”.

It doesn’t have anything to do with what “everyone says”. We don’t do that with security. Well, Telegram users do, but Charles Darwin wrote about that process. Others look at what academics say or are competent enough themselves (no, you are not).

Well, one example I like - Kaja Kallas, former PM of Estonia, is not considered a member of any Russian diaspora and is not such an idiot. She, however, has family ties with Anton Vaino, the head of AP in Russia, and she’s becoming a member of EC. She already held enormous power while also being popular, and is going for even bigger power. BTW, Estonian armaments for Ukraine are rotten Soviet junk for which they get good compensations.

I’d say 90% of all the problems are the corrupt elites and not that kind of idiots. They can only do harm with their votes.

Countries closest to Russia has a hell of problem with their diasporas. It’s dangerous to let them form a political power.

This is frankly a scapegoat.

Countries half-assimilated into Russia had that problem. Belarus and Ukraine specifically. The former is a dictatorship and the latter doesn’t have it anymore.

Vatnik voters in Baltic countries make exactly two notable effects - they vote for local weird social-democrats and sometimes make noise about Victory Day and Soviet Union. It’s not dangerous.

What’s dangerous is when a neighboring richer country invades you, but it can do that without an excuse. Again, see Azerbaijan in every year since 2020, and frankly including 2020 and 2016 - despite Western passive approval, they’d signed a fuckload of papers saying there won’t be a military solution and self-determination is a principle.

The percentage of those who love Putin, or rather of those completely unhinged, grows steadily from 1 to 2 and to 3.

1 are just normal people.

2 are the most evil group in fact, usually indirectly connected to the regime ; it’s the kind of elite that was the basis for late 00s and early 10s fake opposition, intended to overshadow the remnants of the old opposition (which was basically the same people who protested in 1991 against Soviet actions in Caucasus and Baltics, against Chechen wars, against Yeltsin’s second term). And yes, the loudest virtue-signalling figures of today’s Russian opposition are from among them. Many of them still have relatives and friends among Russian elites.

3 are the kind of idiots they have everywhere, Russians of this group are similar to Serbians loving Russia or Americans thinking there’s their traditionalist heaven in Russia, or tankies believing China is heaven on earth.

Oh, a German. I see why you are so anxious. Condolences.

Wow.

Dude, Russia still has killed less people than USA in the last 20 years.

Among groups of people nobody wants to hear from anymore yours is higher.

Nobody wants to tell a drunk Russian to put out their cigarette indoors

As someone living in Russia, the danger is overestimated. The problem is mainly with them not understanding you. Possibly accidentally starting a fire when fulfilling your request.

Do you have some reading comprehension issues?

I don’t consider it useful to continue conversations with such fools who also can’t stop insulting people better than them. Fool blocked.

There’s a difference between relatively non-destructive “advent” of a religion in a certain culture and conquest by illiterate Bedouins burning and sacking everything “immodest” they see.

Pretty sure Persia, India, and China all had great empires and knowledge well before

I said that most civilized areas conquered by Arabs during the initial Muslim expansion were mostly Christian, and they were. That would be Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia and the Iberian peninsula. Berbers in Northern Africa yeah, mostly weren’t Christian.

The Sassanian Empire was obviously a Zoroastrian theocracy with a huge Christian population.

What does this of yours sentence have to do with what I said requires clarification.

well before Christianity was even a little sperm cell in the Judean god’s sac but sure

You do realize that this is even truer for Islam, right?

Which btw most of foundational mathematics was created in the Eastern and Persian world, not by Christians.

And as I’ve said already once, the Middle-East was Christian at the moment of the Arab invasion, and Iran was Zoroastrian. Thus attributing praise for any of the achievements the conversation was about to Muslims is fucking asinine.

So yeah you’re just racist and misinformed.

I’ve forgotten on this subject more than you ever knew.

Also how does contempt for the Muslim religion make one racist, I wonder? It’s (in Sunni variants, I’ll admit Shia Islam is better) every bit as worthy of contempt as the Christian religion, but without the upsides.

He’s done this before and all that happened was a small crowd of idiots making mess in the Capitol.

Thx for the recommendation

Oh, somebody already wrote that.

We don’t know it he’s a pedophile (strictly speaking that’s not a crime), but he surely is a child rapist which is the problem.

Its also in my opinion, a complete failure of the EPA and a disconnect from what it’s true goals should be. … Once again the hand of capitalism and the “free market” prioritizing profits over everything.

I see a contradiction here.

Somebody designed a regulation without using their brain (or using to wrong ends), but apparently capitalism is to blame.

My friend is like 34, still plays games. WoW, WoT, Terraria, Factorio, Minecraft, L4D, something else.

Which doesn’t change anything in the conversation that started about “the Islamic world” being built on the conquest of more civilized peoples, which were mostly Christian.

Also I’m fine with reducing Christians to “middle-eastern Christians” here. Others don’t seem really Christian from there anyway. For these reasons as well:

King Leopold murdered ten million Congolese. The British empire 100 million Indians. The dutch started the slave trade.

Only I think the Portuguese started the slave trade. Not that it changes anything.