ja klar, es gibt auch den begriff des mittleren osten im deutschen! aber soweit ich weiß heißen die beiden aber jeweils etwas anderes. der nahe osten ist eher das, was im englischen "middle east" heißt, und der mittlere ist was anderes, da zählt indien glaub ich dazu oder so.

*lebendig

upvote for org-mode

I honesly feel like a jew living under nazi germany

i am sorry, but i am not sure if you know how ridiculous and hurtful this sounds for people who have witnessed the holocaust and their relatives.

you do not know how it feels to be a jew under naxi germany.

i do not doubt your suffering and oppression, but this is a bit insensitive in my perception and i think these are things we shouldn't compare until there are comparable things happening.

anyway, yes, that sucks. i am sad that your government is like this in an authoritarian way and that everbody else is ok with everything.

i live in germany and to me telegram doesn't feel niche at all.

a lot of younger people use it a bit like discord, like for group stuff. organizing (like e.g. political activism), finding apartents in berlin, and yes, getting drugs as well. also some worklplaces use it (which i think is terrible). it is also preferred by a lot of people to communicate via telegram over signal or whatsapp in situations where people don't want to give away their number, like online dating.

dank -- feucht

schwierige übersetzung. wenn es um nen keller geht passt es vielleicht so gerade eben.

die übersetzung die mir einflällt wäre "muffig", wenn man sich auf den geruch bezieht. aber muffig nur im sinne von kellerpilzgeruch.

würde auch eher "muffiges kraut" statt "feuchtes kraut" zu geil riechenden cannabisblüten sagen.

ich würde fast diese übersetzung raus nehmen weil ich sie nie irgendwo gesehen habe.

Edith: Bei Mems (oder "Maimais"), gilt das gleiche, da das ja eh von "dank weed" kommt. Muffige Mems/Michmichs/Maimais klingt doch getreuer als feuchte Mems/michmichs/Maimais... Oder liege ich da falsch?

a DE gives no security features that give your system additional security, yes. indeed, a running DE makesbyour system less secure, in some sense. but exactly here you can have less and more secure DEs, and some DEs have security features that make the DE itself more secure than other DEs.

the "missing something" was with regards to what i said about ctrl+alt+F-something not giving some extra attack point. missing something that would blow my mind. if you say the mind blowing is ironic or whtever then it doesn't matter anyway.

reading your comments, you like to say that someone has "missed the point".

well, my point is, you should not ignore the DE. i mean, you can, if you can bypass the login as is, sure. but from a user perspective, you should not ignore it, because the DE is a potential security risk. e.g. if your screen lock crashes and whatnot.

sure, yes indeed, your DE can be as secure as you want and it doesn't matter if your underlying system is not secure. and yes indeed, with any non-encrypted drive, you can just mount the drives on another system (e.g. boot the computer from a USB drive). that almost goes without saying imo, and of course that's why an encrypted drive is recommended.

the question is, how easy is it to get to the stuff with an encrypted drive when the system is booted and the encrypted drive(s) is (are) mounted? it is not that easy. and there, the quality of your screen lock setup is the biggest risk factor, usually. if you can crash your DE/WM somehow, if it is not setup right with your display manager or something, then you might be able to get into a login (and interactive) shell of that user (maybe because it is the parent process of your WM that you started with startx).

if you "allow" your potential attacker to reboot from a usb stick, then it is obvious that your DE doesn't matter at all pretty much.

i don't really get what people mean when they say this...

when you get tty you still get no access, you need to log in as always. a DE/wm/any x11 session/a wayland session (even though wayland is more secure probs?) should pretty much always be less secure, as depending on what state it is in, what features it has, or what happens when certsin components crash somehow, you can more easily "hack" your way in that way than via doing a "ctrl+alt+F-key". so i don't get the whole "get tour mind blown" thing there, i have heard it multiple times.

or am i missing something?