orange pi running samba as a file server. it’s behind a wireguard vpn.

huge improvement in my quality of life.

They should move out of US and keep doing it anyway.

I would argue that Bush was more criminal than all others combined. He was a mass-murderer.

everything. There isn’t one particular technology driving this. My hometown of İstanbul has been transformed. Modern buildings are replacing horrible slums, there are new subway lines opening every year and almost everything is improving over time.

millions of people in the third world are growing out of poverty thanks to the advance of technology.

does your supermarket accept payments in Monero?

No. Privacy is illegal in the banking/financial system.

What I had in mind was the Mastodon meltdown some years ago over search indexing.

I don’t understand the Fedievrse objection to search indexing. Search indexing is the most important piece of what makes the internet.

lemmy.world mods look at reddit for inspiration.

nice!

You are the one making up a fantasy scenario to satisfy your authotarian urges.

Dis you miss the entire Snowden revelations? Western governments are hostile to online privacy and freedom.

This is the standard excuse for authoritarian governments. Use a crime category no one can object to.

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

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.

there are plenty of clear cut examples of where telegram should shut down channels - CSAM etc… that’s what this arrest was about; the rest is academic

Was it? The French authorities did not provide any convincing evidence, just accusations.

This is pure nonsense.

Western governments hate Telegram because until now Telegram didn’t cooperate with Western intelligence services like American social media companies do. Everything on Meta or Google gets fed into NSA, but Telegram has been uncooperative.

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

The largest social media operator in the world had to adopt open source concepts and ActivityPub in order to compete. I see this as a huge win.

which still use Google services.

Russia tried for years to ban Telegram. They stopped after Telegram managed to keep itself alive by proxies.