Good journalism would cover the issues with all the mainstream comm systems.

That’s not what this piece is about though. It’s not a comparison, it’s specifically about telegram. Their CFO has a contract with the FSB, do with that what you will. Durov has also said that he’s never been back to Russia since, that’s been proven false, he’s been back more than 50 times.

This article is basically a summary of the report it links to.

Fwiw I don’t use WhatsApp either, I use SimpleX with Signal as a backup.

Wasn’t this originally blamed on Google Cloud?

Backpack has a strap for each shoulder, messenger bag goes across one shoulder, then a cross body strap keeps it secure

I ride with a messenger bag all the time, if you are on and off frequently it’s the best solution. For longer trips (more than an hour) I like tank bags. Get a messenger bag with a cross strap so it doesn’t flap around.

Do you have problems reading this? On mobile I use ironfox, but I can read this fine with chromite too. I am in ‘France’ using Orbot. I also have tailored DNS blocking.

This is an honest question because I never have issues with the Guardian, with Cromite I occasionally get a ‘Please register/ I’ll do it later’ message. With ironfox I don’t even get that.

Isn’t it not just cheap rice, but cheap Japanese rice? People in Asia are very particular about rice. They should be, rice from Japan, China, Cambodia, Taiwan, etc. all have a different taste. Nationalism plays in to it, but they are different. I think rice might be the ultimate Terroir crop.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Gilmore’s quote was true then, it is not the current state of play.

If you need to use banking/government/transit apps, you need to play by the rules now

I don’t get many spam calls but I thought this was what everyone did.

I could do it on my Android 8? Phone. With its notification led, and card slot, and headphone jack… I miss that thing

When they said it was going to be refloated and serviceable in a month. It’s basically scrap at this point. WWII ships you could salvage, modern stuff is kilometres of cabling connected to computers. Fix the hull and replace everything inside. Unless this isn’t as advanced as it’s made out to be.

“This is built on Rust with (Bitcoin style) encryption, whole new architecture,” Musk added. And here’s where the skeptics and cryptocurrency fans in the digital town square pounced: There ain’t no encryption on the Bitcoin blockchain.

It’s vote with your dollars, which does in a sense shift blame to the consumer.

This doesn’t have anything to do with trump though, its been going on forever. There will always be rich countries and poor countries. Poor countries provide labor for the rich.

The better argument to make is that $208 is higher than the average wage in the country for unskilled labor. That doesn’t make it right, and it looks like shit when you break it down to ‘I paid $45 for this shirt, and that’s one of the 209 shirts that person made on Tuesday’.

The real issue here is that neither Nike nor almost anyone else in this sphere owns a factory. It’s all contract work. So Nike, H&M, whoever, says ‘I need 1 million black t shirts’ and they put it out to bid. Manufacturers from Cambodia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, etc. Bid on it and Nike goes with the lowest bid that meets their standard of quality. Workers are paid by the month, not by the piece. Currently the wage in Cambodia, is $208, for six days a week.

If that is not acceptable to you then change your buying habits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambantota_International_Port

In 2016, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority had to repay ₨ 9 billion ($134 million) in construction fees for the Hambantota port, which, by the end of the year, accumulated a loss of ₨ 46.7 billion ($696 million).

These countries are often pressured to vote with China in the U.N. too

DivestOS (rip) had a chart of updates/security patches. 1st was GrapheneOS, 2nd (right behind, often same day) was DivestOS, LineageOS was often 3rd, then CalyxOS, e/os was well out of date.

> We might get in trouble for breaking government records retention laws. What should we do?

> There’s an unapproved, insecure, for profit, license breaking fork that does unencrypted backups?

> Perfect

Probably something DOGE should look into. Clear government waste. My boss would be pissed if I repeatedly pushed $60M into the sea.

No need for oops, this isn’t my profession, but I’m interested. I see it in Local.

I’m always happy to learn more from professionals in their field.

Some kind of mod drama

In recent days, there has been a minor furor across the fediverse related to one of the moderators at fosstodon

From the link in the link

https://coreysnipes.com/thoughts-on-fosstodon.html

Wikipedia describes them as Centrist. This appears to be from their blog though.

Times of Israel has offered a third-party blogging platform since 2012 which allows writers who are not affiliated with the news site to publish online.

From the Controversies section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_Israel