Telegram is the most realistic alternative to breaking Meta’s monopoly. You might like Signal very much, but nobody uses it and the user experience is horrible.

Joke’s on you, I use nothing by Meta, nor Signal, nor telegram. My comment had nothing whatsoever to do with what I like or not.

This will likely change after Durov’s arrest, but it was nice while it lasted.

Why use a tool that relies on the goodwill of the operator to secure your privacy? It’s foolish in the first place.

The operator of that tool tomorrow may not be the operator of today, and the operator of today can become compromised by blackmail, legally compelled (see OP), physically compelled, etc to break that trust.

ANYONE who understood how telegram works and also felt it was a tool for privacy doesn’t really understand privacy in the digital age.

Quoting @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip :

Other encrypted platforms: we have no data so we can’t turn over data

Telegram: we collect it all. No you can’t know who is posting child abuse content

And frankly, if they have knowledge of who is sharing CSAM, it’s entirely ethical for them to be compelled to share it.

But what about when it’s who is questioning their sexuality or gender? Or who is organizing a protest in a country that puts down protests and dissent violently? Or… Or… Or… There are so many examples where privacy IS important AND ethical, but in zero of those does it make sense to rely on the goodwill of the operator to safeguard that privacy.

Dear cops: Oh now we worry about unchecked power and lack of oversight in the deployment of surveillance technology? Please. May as well join the surveillance dystopia with the rest of us, you helped usher it in. Tell me again about your robot dogs and your Stingray devices why don’t you.

There is no big plan to weaken encryption or anything.

This may not be a symptom of such a plan, but there very much is such a plan.

Exportation of PGP and similar “strong encryption” in the 90s was considered as exporting munitions by the DoD.

it was not until almost two decades later that the US began to move some of the most common encryption technologies off the Munitions List. Without these changes, it would have been virtually impossible to secure commercial transactions online, stifling the then-nascent internet economy.

More recently you can take your pick.

Governments DO NOT like people having encryption that isn’t backdoored. CSAM is literally the “but won’t someone think of the children” justification they use, and while the goals may be admirable in this case, the potential harm of succeeding in their quest to ban consumer-accessible strong encryption seems pretty obvious to me.

As a bonus - anyone remember Truecrypt?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/rhodium-enterprises-bitcoin-usd-loan-bankruptcy

https://www.csoonline.com/article/547356/microsoft-subnet-encryption-canary-or-insecure-app-truecrypt-warning-says-use-microsoft-s-bitlocker.html

Stupidity doesn’t adequately explain the number of times they have done this. I’m surprised it’s even a headline anymore.

stockholm syndrome

I don’t really get why you couldn’t pick one of your other installed kernels and boot that, but you seem pretty intent on blaming arch and I don’t feel like trying to troubleshoot it, so that’s that I guess.

Sorry you’ve had such a rough go, just remember your experience isn’t everyone’s experience.

Fresh packages all the time without any hassle or snaps/flatpak/appimages, and theoretically never needs to be reinstalled. What’s not to love.

OP was pretty fucking snarky though, ngl. Some of us enjoy using arch based distros without being walking memes, and far more people complain about people talking about arch than actually talk about arch these days.

Thanks for clarifying that!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Yep… and that’s a blockin’ anyhow.

Or your distros repositories? I just think OP calling this “average” sends a bad message - I didn’t compile much stuff from source in 2007, and I don’t now either.

Super happy to be that Linux guy sitting by myself with no one to bother me while I’m getting things done.

Finally a reference to arch btw that I can not roll my eyes at. Should be a sticky post.

When did Qualcomm start giving a shit about Linux? They’ve been on my “hardware and chipsets to avoid if possible” list for pretty much ever.

I admit that I’m a little disappointed I can’t set it as my virtual desktop switch animation, and that it defaults to pointing down when invoked, but I am hopeful it’s just a matter of time on those details. :)

It ain’t quite the compiz/beryl cube, nor even what I remember as the last iteration of the kwin cube, but it’s a step in the right direction!