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hiprob··on OpenSUSE Kalpa
What do you mean by that? SUSE products are for sale, OpenSUSE products are free.
hiprob··on California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
When will the AI bubble pop already? Things seem to just get worse
hiprob··on GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor
sudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?
hiprob··on 11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
are you scared by that premise?
hiprob··on TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app
Same applies to Google, Facebook, Twitter, you name it.
hiprob··on Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
Man anything can cause dementia huh.
hiprob··on Bazzite Post-Mortem
what about linus torvalds
hiprob··on Bazzite Post-Mortem
what exactly happened to bazzite? I've seen so much hype around the distro and buzz among normal people, that it almost became THE normal gamer distro, so much so it completely overshadowed nobara and whatever other gamer gimmick distros are out there
hiprob··on Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
Half-Life 2 looks incredible in Quake 1, what gives?
hiprob··on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail
This is such an insane sentence I genuinely don't know if it's supposed to be demoralizing bait or you genuinely just said this
hiprob··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Are they going to leak IDs of minors again like they did last time? Who does this protect exactly?
hiprob··on I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram
This is cool. Telegram also has a Premium feature which crawls the contents of (presumably) all public channels on the platform. It's limited to 10 searches per day and doesn't search for old content if there are too many retrieved posts.
hiprob··on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
It's legal to just put kids in foster care for no reason but to ruin someone's life?
hiprob··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
>This is the worst way to assses E2EE deployment. 5D-chess.

How would you explain the fact that WhatsApp remains unblocked in Russia, when all other major messengers except Telegram and Meta's own products all got banned there?

>Telegram also requires a phone number. If you didn't have double standards, I bet you'd have no standards.

Not my point. I'm pointing out a flaw that both messengers share.

>TG has no idea how to make seamless E2EE like Signal.

Because it's never seamless. Loading your messages on Signal can take quite a while. Also if you receive a message over 2 weeks ago without checking your phone in the meantime, you may as well have never received it.

>You ignoring that Signal is both open source and always E2EE and complaining about it's "proprieatry blobs" yet looking past TG's atrocious E2EE speaks volumes.

Why are you ignoring the fact Signal actively prohibits third-party clients? Why the air quotes on proprieatry blobs? Yes, Telegram is far from perfect, and inferior to Signal when it comes to E2EE. But what makes you reject the proprieatry blob claim when it's true? Because your favorite messenger is being attacked?

hiprob··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
Currently, the Russian government is trying to squeeze people out of Telegram and move them over to MAX: https://caspianpost.com/regions/russia-tightens-telegram-res... WhatsApp also operates in Russia, despite Instagram and Facebook being banned. So I wouldn't count on its E2EE either. Signal still requires a phone number and proprietary Google blobs on mobile. Many third-party Telegram clients exist - Signal allows none.
hiprob··on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
If it's as flaky as YouTube's age estimation, it's just ID by default.
hiprob··on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
Legally, it doesn't matter. You can talk to people? Social media it is.
hiprob··on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
Are they going to conduct an uncontrolled human experiment by requiring age checks to use the Internet (read: surveillance capitalism and Orwellian lack of privacy)?
hiprob··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
I know the default assumption with Telegram is that they can read all your messages, but unlike WhatsApp they seem less cooperative and I never got the notion that they ever read private messages until the Macron incident, and even then they do if the other party reports them. How come they are able to be this exception despite not having end to end encryption by default?
hiprob··on Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic
By the way, if anyone is looking to switch from Firefox, Floorp is also heavily invested in AI.
hiprob··on The state of Linux music players in 2026
Bring back Harmony! It was beautifully simple.
hiprob··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
What are you going to do about it? Use Android?
hiprob··on Transmission 4.1.0
What is that new icon?
hiprob··on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
My way or the highway. Classic RedHat (and GNOME, GTK, etc etc)
hiprob··on Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
Is there a chance Super Monkey Ball will finally see a Dreamcast version?
hiprob··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Is Instagram better at this? Since their racist content is so unfiltered nowadays, surely they would allow this at least?
hiprob··on France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
So ADHD people shouldn't have access to meds?
hiprob··on France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
Law-wise, you're currently on a social media.
hiprob··on France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
Ban it for everyone at that point. What's the point of not letting adults use social media, exactly?
hiprob··on Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?
"Peacefully" is a strong word, that same parliament would later be "peacefully" removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_cr...
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