cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Chess - since the existing commuity seems dead and hosted on .mlEnglish
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    12 days ago
    This is offtopic here, but here is an answer 🙄 (click to expand)

    why do you stand against Telegram as a secure and optimal solution for the majority

    Because it isn’t secure. It is marketed as being secure, and it is not. It is snake oil.

    Just to clarify, are you aware Telegram is blocked in Russia by the government

    yes, i am aware that they are (again) currently blocked. i’m curious your theory for why they were unblocked after the previous blocks? (note: please don’t actually reply to this question here; see end of this comment first)

    mostly because the former does not want to share data with the government standing for the privacy, if I am not mistaken?

    yes, you are mistaken.

    Russia has strengthened and later weakened their restrictions on Telegram various times over the years for reasons which are probably unknowable without insider information. What is clear is that Telegram is absolutely sharing data (which they’ve chosen to design their service such that they can have access to) with various governments at various times; assuming that they never would share any with Russia is nonsensical. The extent to which they willingly share which data with which governments, versus which governments access data without their cooperation (by compromising their servers or coercing their engineers, which gives access to message contents due to their lack of e2ee) is not particularly interesting.

    Beyond that, I recommend that you post on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world or somewhere similar if you need people to explain why telegram is offtopic in communities about privacy technology. (This discussion is very offtopic in this thread so I won’t reply further here. If you really feel the need to argue about the above I recommend you do it in a new thread somewhere it isn’t offtopic; if you tag me maybe i’ll reply there.)

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Why are there no hard forks of Firefox, Chromium, WebKit, or other browsers?English
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    27 days ago

    As others have said it is a huge amount of work to maintain a fork of such a complicated piece of software.

    Especially around security: web browsers constantly process potentially-malicious data, which gives them a large attack surface. Every browser regularly has new vulnerabilities discovered which must be fixed. Hard forking a browser means that, even ignoring any bugs in the new code the fork has added, every time a bug is discovered and fixed in the code they forked from someone needs to analyze the upstream’s fix and port it to the fork. The more they diverge, the more work this is. Failing to do this work lets any malicious website exploit the bugs and install malware on users’ computers.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like thisEnglish
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    2 months ago

    colonies

    If you think China colonized Xinjiang, well… yeah, they did. But that was 22 centuries ago, a millennium before the [people now known as] Uyghurs had even arrived there. The demographics and ruling empires unsurprisingly changed a few times in the ensuing millennia, but since the Qing dynasty committed the Dzungar genocide there (from 1755–1758, with help of several peoples including Han and Uyghur) it has mostly remained a part of China.

    The ancient history is interesting, but more recent events (eg Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups the US has been funding there) are more relevant to the present situation.

    I did watch the first three minutes. Everything he shows is true, everything he explains as interpretation is just full of shit.

    What specifically is he full of shit about? I recommend watching more than three minutes of it.

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