Rolling Resistance

I think I prefer “children’s games” to organized crime and wars. Keeps competitve people busy.

For SMS/MMS, I find Right Messages to be quite good. For RCS, I don’t think there are any alternatives. And surely you know about the variety of messengers (Matrix, Signal, …).

!monero@monero.town

My workplace has this common braindead policy where we have to change our passwords every 3 months. So every time I change it, Microsoft page asks me, “HOW WAS IT?”

Like it wasn’t annoying enough.

I keep businesses in my area up-to-date, doesn’t take much time at all.

It says “page not found”, maybe because I’m not in EU.

Yeah but then your system starts behaving weirdly here and there.

When I used Mint, it felt like packages are outdated just like on Debian (based on Ubuntu LTS + needs time to rebase onto a new one).

I have Mullvad running all the time, and I’ve had this issue with one unpopular app and one online store website.

What’s really bad is the number of captchas 🤖

Interestingly, I use Instagram with Mullvad for over a year now, both app and web. Reddit seems to be working fine too. Maybe that’s because I opened accounts without a VPN.

I’m pretty sure I wasn’t born here, detective.

I missed all the fun because there was no ads in my country, and the Amazon app was just a weird western thing removed right away. Unity was pretty good though.

You’ve been very unlucky. There’s plenty of properly working flatpaks.

Every distro ships steam, really?

What issues does 6 have? My experience has been great, but I have nothing to compare it to.

• push notifications
• websites that tell you “use our app”
• better UX

If “rooted” is a requirement, then this won’t work.

I feel like the difference is not that big, though.

If you rent, your landlord has a right to enter your apartment, even though they rarely use that right. Sometimes, they can check on things. The same applies to apartments in personal ownership: if police has a warrant, they can enter and see if there’s illegal activity. So based on this analogy, no, apartments are not “encrypted” chat rooms, and I don’t think any significant number of places would be considered “encrypted” or “fully private”, if you must.

Continuing with the analogy, Telegram can view and intervene in the activity on the platform, just like landlords or police, but Durov, let’s call him a landlord, protects privacy of his tenants, not letting the law enforcement in.

Speaking of E2EE platforms, I’m sure there’s crime happening on them, because it’s logical for criminals to use more secure protocols, yet I don’t see the same arguments made about them. It’s just they are providing the same (better!) tools to the criminals without an option for law enforcement to see the content (but perhaps with options to ban on request).

And frankly I don’t think there’s too big of a difference between E2EE and non-E2EE platforms in terms of conscience: the former just deliberately deprive themselves of an opportunity to see what content goes through their services.

P.S. that said, I don’t think it’s ok that Telegram promotes the service as private, and that Durov ignored requests to nuke known illegal activity.

Does that mean if you provide an E2EE service, you are a criminal too, because you let people to commit crimes on your platform, you’re just unable to see them? It’s like having a mall with no surveillance or security.

That sucks.

I deleted all my comments/posts on reddit a couple of years ago via a UI automation script, and they are still deleted, luckily.