Personally, I don’t get why people don’t mind doing a search to find where windows hid some particular setting 3 submenus deep, but lose their fucking mind over the thought of doing a search to double check which command they need.

Because they like to believe that the former is how smart computer users do things.

And even Slackware was straightforward 20 year ago

Still is.

When it’s not E2EE, maybe they are right. What’s the point of encrypting something that gets decrypted midway by an organization with hundreds of employees, many of them with access, not even talking about law enforcement and accidental criminals.

EDIT: I mean, illusion of security may be sometimes worse that lack of that little security which comes with it. Everything is complex.

TIL openssh, xorg, apache, nginx, all of *bsds are cuck-licensed.

While GPL-licensed linux, used by every corp out there, is not.

but since it’s protected under the GPL, Busybox developers were able to sue them and gain some money in the process.

Don’t need to steal anything. Lots of today’s usage doesn’t involve giving a binary to the customer. Thus Google, FB and who else don’t have to share any of their internal changes to Linux.

it’s a threat to the future of “libraries” that decide to completely ignore copyright and give out an unlimited number of copies of ebooks

So do I, so this is very bad.

I guess USSR was democratic then.

It’s not majority of the world, it’s majority of the people in power.

We’ve had sort of a revolution (or a reaction, however you want it) in the last 30 years, where a certain kind of people felt threatened by all the wisdom of the kind you get from reading Hannah Arendt or frankly anything intelligent and morals-related I can think of, and I think USSR finally dissolving galvanized them - both in their fears coming true when a totalitarian state fell, and in their hopes getting up when people just like them took power in ex-Soviet states.

It’s a very strong principle - making human rights really a value, making genocide really a crime, making it clear that you owe nothing you haven’t borrowed, and so on, are in direct conflict with a certain understanding of the world order. But antisemitism as a specific case is connected to the experience of WWII, which is an important foundational myth (not meaning it didn’t happen) of the modern world. So one has to maneuver.

Now, that certain understanding and that kind of people are not marked by anything notable - that’s actually their main quality. That’s people who are sufficiently social to bunch together, but insufficiently creative, intelligent and romantic to care about good, evil and duty. Their main achievements in our world are all about gaslighting and stealing.

Such people are the most likely to have power today. Their power exists because of organizations and faceless groups being above the human, because when it’s not so, they are irrelevant.

It’s a temporary situation just like anything else, of course, because the described culture cannot maintain structures control over which gives them power. It’s enshittification of nations, one can say.

So why is there no competition arising, simply with some fries, burgers, soda and without this bullshit.

Oh, I remembered, it’s all patented to hell. It’s practically illegal to open a fast food place not in one of these franchises.

Same with many other areas of life. The Web and computers are the most obvious.

Rats and cockroaches have conquered the kitchen. While many people in bureaucracies and everywhere were thieves and parasites, that still wasn’t socially acceptable. They didn’t like it, so now it’s almost official that the world is ruled by thieves and parasites and they are better than honest people. This IMHO also explains all the “geopolitical” stuff happening - it’s not to any practical end, the common thing between all (Western\Russian\whatever) policies is ideological, that decency should be murdered, dignity should be punished, and honesty should be poisoned. All the “rules” and “competition” and “civilization” stuff was (in the eyes of those people) being grown like livestock to be slaughtered for meat eventually.

300 years from now this time is going to be called the start of the new dark ages, or the end of the thaw (Soviet analogy here), or something like that.

It’s fine. Connectivity allows subscription services, but doesn’t necessitate them. It’s a power to connect your machine to those of other people in many parts of the world.

It’s like starting to do your dishes in time because of the cockroach problem. Perfectly normal going “underground” when the cockroaches have occupied the kitchen and make laws there.

On what they would and wouldn’t do - yes, I try not to make opinions.

But perhaps I underestimate the scale of that practice.

Considering that the balance of power between US government and, say, Meta is not much different from the same between it and Russian government (Meta doesn’t have a military, but has ways to compensate for that), that should be right.

Even if it were encrypted

It’s not.

logically that would make it safer than Facebook for anyone living in Western jurisdictions. The Russian government cannot get them and is hardly going to exchanging intelligence

No it wouldn’t. You shouldn’t opine on what they’d do. They can negotiate, you know. And they are exchanging intelligence all the time.

with its enemies.

If that were true, corporations wouldn’t work with their competitors.

That you can’t do something well or at all without understanding it is philosophy. Philosophy is weak in the sense that it exists on the same level as aesthetics or instincts. So it’s fighting instinct in a system built to make crowd management through instinct convenient, - in disadvantaged position.

Also NT people like to champion their stupidest ideas as a banner to assemble under. Stupidest exactly to exclude any rational reason, so that only the feeling of community would remain.

They don’t always say what they mean. They might say “this thing is better”, but what they mean is “I’m with the group which distinguishes itself by support for this thing, don’t be against us”.

Oh, and it’s been potentially backdoored by the FSB (Russia’s CIA) for six years.

From the very start rather.

And there’s been a few cases where not FSB, but mundane police was reading suspects’ messages before arresting them.

Don’t trust Telegram, I use it because, eh, most people use either that or VK DMs in Russia as the default IM. But never trust it for something which should be secret.

You can even have “opposition”-themed channels there or call for rebellions, but don’t ever expect anything to be secret or even pseudonymous. Even without ill intent regularly flaws are found which allow to get a lot of information, and the code quality is sewer-level.

Telegram is as safe as just using Facebook DMs (unencrypted), only it’s Russian.

I suggest you judge for yourself how safe that is.

so if he claims anything is secure, I will believe him unconditionally.

That’s much more stupid than just using Facebook and unencrypted e-mail with Outlook address for communication, but knowing how safe exactly those are.

This is how you know the brain has rotten and become a slick turd.

Agreed. Making it a contest of “this talking head seems smarter” means exactly that.

Try explaining that to normies though. They don’t want to understand shit, and they want to think they are safe without understanding shit. That this is impossible they just don’t want to believe, because they don’t understand shit.

Yes. And those pretenders are always people who can’t install Synapse and “delete” their messages thinking that’s very smart.

An FSB (or AP, don’t know which, the main thing is it’s Russian) honeypot at that.

I know they are allied, Israel and Turkey are not really that hostile between themselves too.

It’s about how optics of all this work on general Western audiences.

I agree Turkey relies less on such corruption. Azerbaijan is pretty similar to Israel in that regard, though. They just don’t need loud approval when silent approval does the job.

It’s very hard for people (well, neurotypical people) to understand what real destruction means when that contests their system of considering themselves (and their friends, their country etc) very cool.

Most of those advocating for bombing cities and big wars would turn into whining piss-smelling sacks of shaking meat the moment they meet one person not weaker than them angry at them in a back alley.