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Yeah… Even as a third party, I definitely have not been enjoying the smell when I’ve bumped into it. I don’t think it should be a criminal offense, but I hope we can move past “I need to light a thing on fire and just screw up the air for everyone in my vicinity.”

That’s really not even close to the optimistic scenario. It’s arguably not even in the pessimistic scenario if you’re not just in the “make stuff up club.”

https://cdn.oceanservice.noaa.gov/oceanserviceprod/hazards/sealevelrise/2.0-Future-Mean-Sea-Level.pdf

We’re talking at most half a meter of rise by 2050, at most 2 meters by 2100, at most 4 meters by 2150. The intermediate projection is a third of a meter by 2050. The optimistic projection (which we’re not going to hit) is 3/20th of a meter.

Climate change is real. The risk of famine is real. The risk of global conflict is real. The risk of trying storms is real. However, “doomsday everybody dies” is not really on any serious projections. The worst case is “a lot of people in a lot of poor nations die and rich nations have more wars and more immigration.”

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While technically true, bridge is ultimately an IMAP server you run yourself … and they do have good reasons for this design.

It’s a shame, back when they were wikia and just hosted mediawikis with light ads, it was actually a really nice service.

There are Ukrainian and Russian ties… AFAIK it’s used heavily on both sides of the conflict. The founder had some commentary as to why the stance they’ve taken is the stance they’ve taken.

https://t.me/durov/266

His mother is also from Ukraine herself:

https://t.me/durov/272

… and Pavel is a French / UAE citizen (as additionally demonstrated by the French government holding him for questioning). The “Telegram is a Russian puppet” arguments are fairly weak.

Their crypto is still AES it’s just the stuff around it that’s home brewed… And even then telegram has been around 10+ years now with no known breaches via the encryption.

That argument was a lot stronger years ago.

For my grandfather… The issue wasn’t the shows, but he specifically wants a few news programs and will not under any circumstances go without them.

This was a problem for even going to Internet based streaming options because he just will not accept anything without those shows for more than a few months.

Meanwhile he also complains he doesn’t have enough to watch and says he can’t afford it (he can, he just doesn’t like what it cost)… But those dang news channels… and just his outlook on TV in general.

Even more so, FBI wants to know where the money grandma gave to get her pictures back from the ransomware went.

All this money tracking stuff AFAIK was originally more about organized crime than tax revenue.

I’d give up any and every gun point in favor of police reform, proper election and transition of power legislation, and climate change.

Actually, I think they have it exactly right. The problem is Republican voters views and priorities have been misaligned with their respective party representatives for at least a decade.

This is no more evident than in evangelical voters jumping through hoops to justify a detestable candidate of poor morals.

What Trump, the tea party before him, etc represents to folks that adore them is quite different than what those things are.

I got banned from signal’s subreddit for talking about how telegram works and the case for it.

I mean there’s quite clearly a victim here, the child.

I’ve been reading her book, the truancy thing is interesting. She had data that showed that kids that weren’t showing up at school, particularly young ones, didn’t learn how to read sufficiently well, and then fell behind in school and struggled to catch up, they then ended up struggling later in life, and often ending up either as victims or perpetrators of crime.

So, she used the California DA’s office to enforce truancy laws across California, encouraged reaching out to fix the problems at home if at all possible, and also encouraged reaching out to folks that had been written off as “not caring” (she cites an example of a father that hadn’t been paying child support but upon learning that his daughter wasn’t going to school, started taking his daughter to school every morning, and volunteering in her classroom).

Of course this is all by her account, but that sounds overall quite positive to me.

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But with that small tweak to their front end they can “VERY CLEARLY SEE that the platform is being misused.” So per your own argument, the government should force them to do so (and presumably anyone that’s uncomfortable with that can “just not use Signal”).

Signal can very clearly see all the messages you send if they just add a bit of code.

This seems like a weird thing to be concerned about. Any given time zone there are going to be millions if not billions of people.

Git also “leaks” your system username and hostname IIRC by default which might be your real name. A fake name and email would pretty much be sufficient to make any “leaked” time zone information irrelevant.

Granted… I wonder if stuff like this is how they caught those North Korean “employees.”

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2042326

FWIW, I’d also suggest just picking the wrong time zone (but a close one) over UTC or something like that. UTC seems like it’s just “HEY LOOK AT ME! I’M TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING!” One on the other side of the world, if you sleep like most people, could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone.

It’s better to be “Jimmy Robinson in Houston Texas” than “John Smith in UTC-0”

“The news” is too vague a source to dispute.

which is how Bellingcat got to the FSB officers responsible for the poisoning of Navalny via their mobile phone call logs and airline ticket data

Was that a bad thing? I’ve never heard the name Bellingcat before, but it sounds like this would’ve been partially responsible for the reporting about the Navalny poisoning?

They used the two highly popular bots called Ha and the E ** G, which allow to get everything known to the government and other social networks on every citizen of Russia for about $1 to $5.

Ultimately, that sounds like an issue the Russian government needs to fix. Telegram bots are also trivial to launch and duplicate so … actually detecting and shutting that down without it being a massive expensive money pit is difficult.

It’s easy to say “oh they’re hosting it, they should just take it down.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/16/postal-service-preferred-shipper-drug-dealers/

Should the US federal government hold themselves liable for delivering illegal drugs via their own postal service? I mean there’s serious nuance in what’s reasonable liability for a carrier … and personally holding the CEO criminally liable is a pretty extreme instance of that.