Not in Europe AFAIK.

Telegram was banned in Russia for a short time and for some inexplicable reason unbanned. Russia has made no attempt since then to ban them. The founder of Durov explained that they managed to force Russia to unban them because they kept buying and changing IPv4 addresses to evade the ban. But everyone who knows the technology knows this is a stupid reason and completely unbelievable. IP addresses are very expensive and the connections in the app need to change to the new IP. At the rate that Russia and everyone else is able to block IPs (thousands per second) you simply cannot implement such a strategy. What Telegram is saying is dumb propaganda for the gullible.

Telegram insists on not having end-to-end encryption for default chats and group chats and profile and contact data. They use E2EE for Secret Chats but they use MTProto, which is a custom key exchange and encryption algorithm that is doing some fairly questionable stuff according to leading experts in the field. Telegram being insecure is no problem in itself. But they explicitly advertise it as being secure and private and mislead the users to believe no government can spy on them.

They are based in the UAE with their main office being empty and essentially only a mailbox. Nobody actually knows where they are.

Their servers (with unencrypted chat data) are hosted in questionable authoritarian countries all over the world. They do not have any servers in Europe or the US. This is a huge problem since nobody knows what server software they are running and your chats are not encrypted.

Somehow they have infinite funding for infinite fast cloud storage. They don't disclose any financial data. The founder always says it comes from his liquidated assets of VKontact. But that's impossible as he would have run out of money years ago already. Hosting cloud storage like they do is very very expensive.

If you want to be sure that nobody gets and uses your data use an end-to-end encrypted messenger like Signal. If it's end-to-end encrypted and open-source then no other questions need to be asked.

Telegram was subordinate to the Kremlin the whole time. You have to be stupid to not realize that.

No. I'm using Lemmy.

Besides that, who cares. I'm using Lemmy.

Am I the only one that hates third-party clients for Desktop? They all have terrible UI and UX. Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go. For the phone it's NewPipe or Grayjay.

Valve doing their Valve thing.

I gave Epic's store a chance but even after all this time it's still shit and very far from feature parity with Steam. There's not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.

You die if your website is not indexed by the largest search engine.

Buy Blu-rays. Highly underrated.

• The sound and video quality is the best you'll get anywhere.
• It selectively supports the movies and artists you like.
• You get amazing extras and documentaries about the movie.
• Nobody can take the movie away from you.
• You can rip the disc with MakeMKV to view digitally with Jellyfin.

This is the original video:

https://youtu.be/k5xf40KrK3I?feature=shared

I don't understand why people illegally steal and reupload videos elsewhere on the internet. Just post the original video...

You can't just do that! If someone here is dedicated enough, then this will get you in big trouble!

AI doesn't know what's wrong or correct. It hallucinates every answer. It's up to the supervisor to determine whether it's wrong or correct.

Mathematically verifying the correctness of these algorithms is a hard problem. It's intentional and the trade-off for the incredible efficiency.

Besides, it can only "know" what it has been trained on. It shouldn't be suprising that it cannot answer about the Trump shooting. Anyone who thinks otherwise simply doesn't know how to use these models.

What democracy? It's a two-party, two-opinion system that's completely broken at the verge of civil war. The US is the least democratic country of all democracies.