This is just another layoff in disguise. Make it miserable, so people leave without severance.

Terminator is a fun movie. It’s also completely fictional.

“AI Safety” is a buzzword OpenAI invented to stifle competition.

Apple’s collapse in China is the direct consequence of America’s anti-China policy. Why would the Chinese buy phones from a country that keeps attacking them with sanctions?

Google is making Android worse and worse in each release.

does your supermarket accept payments in Monero?

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

Apple’s market-share in China collapsed recently because they can’t compete.

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.

after years of really crappy GPUs, intel finally started making decent ones. It’s probably too late to save intel though…

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.