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Honestly, that's not true. Anyone can make a facebook/instagram/whatsapp alternative and the world is full of them. Anyone can even install mastodon and set up their own social network, as America's president has even done: https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-... so it doesn't even require 'software talent'.
What American companies succeeded at was marketing and growth hacking, some of their techniques used are illegal in the EU but they used their network effect of being massive in the US to gain a foothold here. But this has nothing to do with software engineering. Even in the time of facebook's rise Europe was full of competing social networks like hyves.
> Any talent they do have immediately runs for the SF Bay Area of the United States at the first opportunity.
Only those who care about raw salary over everything else. Quality of life, welfare and cost of living is much higher in the EU. The cost of life is huge in silicon valley and that's more a reason why salaries are so high; otherwise people just wouldn't be able to live there.
Edit: I see your edit, yes employers in the US provide free healthcare but only as long as you work there, and you can be fired at any moment and have to pay top dollar suddenly. Not cool when you have a family to support. These are the welfare benefits that make the EU a much more relaxed place to live.
Secret Chats in telegram really is E2EE.
It is just a bit clumsy to use because it offers quite good protections. Because of it, it only works between two people and on one device of each participant. They also must be online at the same time for the key exchange/generation protocol to work. This makes it a hassle and nobody uses it. But what is there does meet the requirements of E2EE even more so than WhatApp or Signal where for example an extra party can be added to an encrypted chat. The police have used this feature to snoop in Germany: https://cybernews.com/privacy/police-telegram-whatsapp-signa...
With Telegram Secret Chats they wouldn't be able to do this. On the other hand, because it's so clumsy nobody uses it and thus people use the much worse off alternative of no E2EE at all in the regular Telegram which the police have also monitored. So it's arguable that whatsapp/signal's compromise was a good one. If you put up too many hurdles in security the people will stop using it.
But I wouldn't call Telegram's secret chats "not real E2EE".
This is a theatre show of material almost a century old. It is a historical piece just like movies about the Nazi regime are not political but just art dealing with a troublesome period in history.
And I would not consider women's rights to be "a hot-button issue". That implies it's heavily contested which it is not. It's just a problem that needs fixing just like environmental pollution does.
They had a huge moderation centre in the city operated by a company called Telus, which incidentally happened to be located in the iconic Glories tower - formerly Torre Agbar - which is shaped like a huge vibrator. I always thought it was ironic that Meta towered over the city's skyline like a huge dick. In fairness they had no hand in its construction (it was made by the water company) and they only rented some of its floors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Gl%C3%B2ries
But one day to the next they fired all the more than 2000 moderators in search of cheaper pastures like Colombia. They are now being sued for allegedly trying to avoid unionisation and a lawsuit of psychological harm by the moderators: https://www.thelocal.es/20260916/meta-faces-lawsuit-in-spain...
So Barcelona does not love Meta (anymore). I doubt this factors into this but it is a pretty sad coincidence.
The strange thing is I use the same DNS on both (which exits on my fiber connection, even when I'm on mobile), so they must be blocking it another way.
Yes, they just made a big step in that direction by requiring age verification on social media for everyone :(
> Should anyone deviate from the EU leftist narrative they will be fined, disconnected, imprisoned or all three.
That is not happening though. But they are building the machinery to do things like this.
Time to fix that by running a real DNS and not just a forwarder though.
Edit: Hmm it seems like they are not just blocking at DNS level :(
The problem there was industry lobbying. What the EU should have done was one of two things:
- Forbid third party tracking entirely, completely
- Or mandate that a technical flag (e.g. Do-Not-Track) be respected by law
However the advertising industry would have been decimated (rightly so IMO) and billions of euros are coming from that so they lobbied for this stupid compromise that made things a lot worse.
They are now doing the latter: There will again be a DNT flag under the recent proposals, but it still has to go through rounds of lobbying and watering down.
And really this is what this law does already.
And yeah the iris scans sound like a scare but only 2 years ago there was a constant line of zombies here in the shopping mall giving their eye scans to altman.
The masses really don't care about privacy if you give them a worthless trinket.
I personally would prefer to have both but choose the privacy side when both are into conflict.
Both viewpoints are valid, but I don't use GrapheneOS for this reason.
I use it on a phone with (unfortunately) regular google play services. If I sign into the play store, that same account will be used for all other google services on the phone too. I'm not going to do that. I just don't want a google account (nor an apple one for that matter)
Even this particular error ("Server busy, try again later"). I've been seeing over the past weeks but then a few days later it worked again. I'm not too worried. It also happens or me right now indeed.
But a TUI needs dedicated understanding of terminal toolkits. That's not easy. A GUI is much more easy mode with electron, a bit of javascript and a GUI toolkit to design the UI, easy peasy. To me the TUI is the hard option.
I really enjoy TUIs though. I wish there was something like vscode in TUI. I like the responsiveness and the no-nonsense. No logos and other commercial bullshit, no huge amounts of whitespace that UX designers consider "best practice", just highly dense data.
Also, I've worked with some of these designers and their holy best industry practices have nothing to do with anything that benefits the user. They're all like: "Is the logo clear enough", "Does the user get drawn to the parts that make us the most money (like ads or premium articles)", "Is the user finding the thing we want to promote".
To me all websites should look like Hacker News does. Not like a "modern" newspaper site does.
We are users.
> Why can't developers understanding that GUIs and TUIs both have their usage, it just depends on the task?
Isn't that the case for most TUI apps? They tend to serve quite specific purposes. Nobody writes a WYSIWYG word processor in a TUI. Because you can't and even if you could somehow with sixels it would work horribly bad.
The author starts with a bunch of vibecoded slop apps that show exactly what I hate about 'modern' GUI apps, a lack of options and wasted screen-space. They look hip but are harder to use to me.
The writing is on the wall though.
I'm on FreeBSD and yes there's still many bugs and nasties in Wayland. It works technically but it's not great, at least alongside KDE.
But I thought on Linux it was a lot further along now.
But there's been some talk about them removing it though there was a more cryptic one as a replacement. Still seems to work on recent versions though.