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> the encrypted messaging service

Haphazard reporting work or malicious lying from Telegram's side?


Encrypted enough to have conversations like this on it without law enforcement being able to crack down https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5nen5gxyo

Exactly. I‘ve never had a chat on Telegram with E2EE that wasn‘t originated by myself. My guess is less than 1% of Telegram is E2EEd. Probably less than 0.1% even. After all, they don‘t offer E2EE for group chats at all.

On the other side where this question is not asked we have things like

    > "1" + 2 
    3
And it's utter madness that everyone does anything important with languages like that.

  Python 3.11.12 (main, Apr  8 2025, 14:15:29) [Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.6)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> "1" + 2
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

Yes, python has strong typing and in that sense passes this bar. It's a fine choice for many things, and if you enforce certain things in CI, it can be a good choice for many more.

The worst of both worlds is colleagues who insert type annotations but they're wrong. And there's no CI pipe to verify the types before check-in.

Working with these things makes me often think that people who want to write high quality software should just use a better language. But, well, real world is real.


> just use a better language

This


Yeah unfortunately Python is crazy popular so a lot of the time you don't get a choice.

If fairness if you set up uv and Ruff and Pyright it's kind of ok. Still have to deal with the general noobness of the ecosystem and the horrific performance, but I've seen worse.


Don't blame the tool for your shoddy work. Either accept your mediocre quality or do something to fix it.


Typically it's amazingly great evidence for the high quality of a mail service that certain governments hate them.


Bit of a Game of Thrones situation when going against tyrants: you win or you die (in some sense).


Unless the people who are "tipsy" from weed tell it to you, you will never be able to detect it.


I was on your level 10 years ago. It has become obvious recently that humanity cannot handle it.

Now, I need very good evidence that it's a good idea before I support the kind of free speech that destroys civilized society from within.

Perhaps it's supremely ironic that americans will have actual need for anonymity in online spaces now. And not for posting dumb memes, but for doing the things to tyrants that their Founding Fathers kept talking about.


Ultra-woke Twitter? What the hell are you blathering about?



Now it's ultra-racist ultra-fascist Twitter management. Do you actually think that's better? Why are you whining about "woke" people who have long since been fired, but embracing the racists and fascists who are now running and being platformed and amplified on Twitter?

Yes, "Twitter". If Elon Musk can publicly abuse, humiliate, lie about, deadname, and misgender his own daughter to his millions of followers, than I can deadname Twitter.


What are Fitgirl repacks? Looks like straight up piracy, but I'm guessing you could not advertise them on Github if they were.


That is spot on. It goes one step further, they are mostly piracy of piracy: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/117g59t/what_...

Edit: I’m unaware of the ‘scene’ position on repacks, my general feeling was that it is ok. It is all about being first. Repacks are not first so are given less attention. But please enlight me.


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