There are dozens of us!

They should ask the Swiss for their expertise as they had rigged most of their border bridges for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boezS4C_MFc

That really is ancient in terms of the internet! Thanks for checking.

Well, that must be waaaaaaay back then. I’ve been using Signal for quite a while now, and I am not sure what you mean then.

Also I believe they used to have federation but all evidence of this seems to have been wiped from the internet.

They never had.

The talk about federation originated when the EU demanded interoperability from gatekeeper software i.e. Whatsapp. Signal said on day one they wouldn’t do from their end because it would mean lowering security.

I do not remember there being such a gap between book and show but at least in the book it’s earth reaching out while the one good guy on Trisolaris tells them not to.

In which reguard?

The Trisolarians actively blocked humanities scientific progress in order to avoid further advancement during the 400 years it would take their fleet to get to Sol. Humanity didn’t choose to slow down or even regress.

Now hold my beer for a sec, but isn’t the IRC a NGO?

There is a difference between lying and believing.

We know that plants have evolved along every other living being on this planet. Yet for an ancient farmer sowing their field, asking “who or what sowed everything else around me”, the assumption of some godlike original farmer being is reasonable. So, believe in and of itself is not immoral. Believe contrary to better knowledge is.

Depends.

There are phenomena we can’t explain. So there is room in reality for things beyond our understanding, which traditionally are filled with myth and believe. However, I agree given that for basically every claim religion has put forth science has been able to demonstrate non-supernatural causes, it only seems logical to assume that this will still be the case further down the line.

IMHO Debian and Ubuntu should be swapped: swapped:

Debian as the serious guy, that’s doing the hard work under the hood while the flashy Ubuntu gets the credit for being popular.

Do not under any circumstances cut into these cylinders with power tools.

They might not contain enough propane to be useful to you, but there might very well be enough in there to mess you up.

Brother of a friend wanted to turn an supposedly empty oil barrel into an outdoor heater. The residual fumes were enough to cause an explosion large enough to fracture his skull and put him into a coma for multiple weeks.

I’m very much interested in what they intend to use to shoot the drones. Missiles? Way to expensive. Buck shot? Inaccurate at range. Regular bullets? Flies way too far in case of a miss. EW? Not sure the Bundeswehr got any and if not it’ll take fives years of debate if this is technology we actually need and another ten to procure the necessary equipment.

Russians are very advanced when it comes to the internet.

I do not doubt that for marginalized groups such as the LGBTQ comunity, who have to watch every step they do. But given the restrictions placed on everyday online services in Russia I’d assume the average citizen has harder time.

Doesn’t mean anything. Especially for groups who just want to communicate.

A subset of society that’s marginalized at best and killed at the worst doesn’t care about who can read and influence their communication? That seems highly shortsighted to me.

There is not enough evidence to support the probability of telegram making steps to make finding gay people easier for Russian authorities.

That we know of. Given that the company behind Telegram has been involved in various sketchy situations I wouldn’t bet my wellbeing on a service that might or might not share information with a corrupt government…

Telegramm and “safe”?

Sorry, but these people must have been living under a rock (which actually is quite likely as we are talking about Russia).

Telegram has control over the content and channels and has been working with governments in the past.