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by fritigern 4y ago
The black liquid Starbucks sells is not coffee...
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by fritigern 4y ago
Can you get E2EE and also have multiple devices all sync'd? This is awful in Signal, it barely works to have multiple devices.
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by fritigern 4y ago
It's hard to say no to the government that can send policeman to your house.
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by fritigern 4y ago
There are no purely "German users". People travel. People talk to people from other countries. Chatrooms have people from all over the world.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Discord's client apps are not open-source.
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by fritigern 4y ago
+1 to everything you said, especially the Linux part. Telegram's Linux Desktop client is great. It's open source and on Flatpak.
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by fritigern 4y ago
violating privacy of innocent people who have done no harm is not "rule of law".
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by fritigern 4y ago
Telegram is my main messenger to speak to friends and family. I also use it to connect to the chatrooms of the various open source projects I participate in.
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by fritigern 4y ago
> Is Dubai a place with good protection against government pressure? Depends on the government :) The German government has been throwing a temper tantrum and threatening to bad Telegram because Telegram doesn't respond to data requ
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by fritigern 4y ago
I'm happy that Telegram is shaking up the Facebook-dominated messaging and social network space. Also their client apps are open source and have very good Linux support.
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by fritigern 4y ago
> This is flamebait unrelated to data privacy risk. It's not flamebait, it's a legitimate reason. A country who has been killing people in various wars/invasions is unlikely to behave ethically when it comes to privacy. I
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by fritigern 4y ago
I worry more about my government compared to the government of a county far away that has no power over me.
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by fritigern 4y ago
No one expects zero risk, it's about reducing risk. I choose to avoid American companies in favour of non-American competitors because the American government is hostile to privacy and is a warmonger.
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by fritigern 4y ago
When it comes to privacy and human rights, America's record is one of the worst in the world.
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by fritigern 4y ago
You are probably right, but that doesn't mean I want to make it easy for them.
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by fritigern 4y ago
It was owned by American Government.
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by fritigern 4y ago
I am not worried too much about corporate surveillance. I can always shop somewhere else. I can't change my government. I use DDG because I don't like Google. I can't do the same with my government.
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by fritigern 4y ago
No reason to make it easy for them. Also, proper client side encryption is really difficult to break. Usually they need to compromise the client in order to read it.
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by fritigern 4y ago
> I always had the suspicion that the (seemingly higher) interest in privacy/FOSS in Europeans is fueled partly by anti-Americanism. Of course it is. After American Wars in the Middle East killed and displaced millions, there is go
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by fritigern 4y ago
> we're in a country with better privacy laws Speaking as a European: I think this is a very important topic for us. I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American g
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by fritigern 4y ago
I don't get why people like VSCode. I was a happy Atom user for years and found it to be superiour to VSCode in almost every way.
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by fritigern 4y ago
NTFS is Windows' fault.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Windows is a legacy operating system, not something from 2022. I don't see any good reason to use it.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Since when does Microsoft care about privacy?
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by fritigern 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by fritigern 4y ago
I love my Steam Deck.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Is anyone forking Atom? I plan to continue using it.
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by fritigern 4y ago
Here is a better source than Washington Post: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/6/11/can... She was working for AlJazeera when she was murdered.
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by fritigern 4y ago
lemmy is awesome. I'm on lemmy.ml and it basically replaced my reddit browsing.
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by fritigern 4y ago
I donated to NOYB when I heard this.

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