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pyrryh
4y ago
Can be enabled on Linux as well
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pyrryh
4y ago
That's not because of its policies, it's just that Telegram is very popular in Eastern Europe/post-USSR land, network effects and such.
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pyrryh
4y ago
Wait for evangelists to come and say that it's simply out of their threat model for Signal, it's actually just no-Facebook Whatsapp with Mobilecoin, you're a 0.0001% privacy geek whose needs are totally irrelevant to 99% of t
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pyrryh
4y ago
Hawala has kinda been out there for a long time, and I'm not sure that there is a space for incremental improvement since, as I already mentioned, its main security properties lie in hawala being out of modern fully electronic systems.
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pyrryh
4y ago
This is the case where the worse UX is just a better security in disguise (note: "better", not "perfect"; see multiple US reports on trying to investigate the terrorist funding through hawala). No electronic transactions
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pyrryh
4y ago
Yeah, seen that too, very cool. It pleases me to be able to play stuff simply by visiting a website. Solves many Linux-related problems as well. I wish some community-made mods made it to CS 1.6 with sentries and lasers, that really ups the
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pyrryh
4y ago
https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs https://github.com/FWGS/cs16-client (but this is closed source now, I don't know exactly how they use it, maybe there is some different fork of `cs16-clien
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4y ago
https://play-cs.com/en/servers Been quite surprised to find fully functional CS 1.6 in a browser, but that's it. Heard that the latency is worse compared to the game client, haven't checked that myself becaus