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Re:OpenSUSE Kalpa on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @01:16PM (#47415553)
What do you mean by that? SUSE products are for sale, OpenSUSE products are free.
Re:California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:09AM (#47243332)
When will the AI bubble pop already? Things seem to just get worse
Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:23PM (#47028299)
sudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?
are you scared by that premise?
Re:TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:22AM (#46990724)
Same applies to Google, Facebook, Twitter, you name it.
Re:Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:37AM (#46962429)
Man anything can cause dementia huh.
Re:Bazzite Post-Mortem on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:36AM (#46962416)
what about linus torvalds
Re:Bazzite Post-Mortem on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:36AM (#46962399)
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
Half-Life 2 looks incredible in Quake 1, what gives?
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
Are they going to leak IDs of minors again like they did last time? Who does this protect exactly?
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.
It's legal to just put kids in foster care for no reason but to ruin someone's life?
>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?

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.
If it's as flaky as YouTube's age estimation, it's just ID by default.
Legally, it doesn't matter. You can talk to people? Social media it is.
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)?
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?
By the way, if anyone is looking to switch from Firefox, Floorp is also heavily invested in AI.
Re:The state of Linux music players in 2026 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:35AM (#46812508)
Bring back Harmony! It was beautifully simple.
What are you going to do about it? Use Android?
Re:Transmission 4.1.0 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:48PM (#46798869)
What is that new icon?
Re:Devuan – Debian Without Systemd on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:47AM (#46795335)
My way or the highway. Classic RedHat (and GNOME, GTK, etc etc)
Re:Super Monkey Ball ported to a website on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:26AM (#46791421)
Is there a chance Super Monkey Ball will finally see a Dreamcast version?
Is Instagram better at this? Since their racist content is so unfiltered nowadays, surely they would allow this at least?
Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:06AM (#46777854)
So ADHD people shouldn't have access to meds?
Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:06AM (#46777377)
Law-wise, you're currently on a social media.
Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:04AM (#46777368)
Ban it for everyone at that point. What's the point of not letting adults use social media, exactly?

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