Even If you don't recognize the last name you can just click on the user info and make 2 + 2.

> It seems relatively simple to implement gun part recognition today, especially with the recent leap in image recognition capability

And it's sits fine with you because you are the one who wouldn't pay the price for this "simple image recognition capability". Except you would pay of course, indirectly but at least you wouldn't know for sure so your conscience would feel at ease.

> rather than putting a hard, very low limit on how long shell extensions can hold up the context menu before they're banned from it.

Do you want the users to blame Microsoft, all Microsoft employees including catering and cleaning workers, and Gates personally? This is how you make the users blame all the before mentioned but not the culprit.

The only reason Google does that 2FA dance is to get your phone number 'cuz it tends to be a very strong persistent marker which is very useful for... advertisement.

I have the same suspicion in general, but isn't it possible to use an authenticator app as the second factor instead of a phone number?

Try to register a new account without a phone number.

Dear American, kindly solve your own internal issues first and then - maybe - you can talk on how to "help" some other countries on the literal other side of the world TYM.

I'm cool with that. Let them fight their own battles...but also don't ever ask or expect the US to help.

The problem with your stance is that too many people want it both ways: They don't want the US to intervene, but then also want support in terms of money and special treatment for people emigrating from these countries (and blame the US for the deaths that occur for a terrible government).

Like USA literally abandomed allies and those who helped it in countries like Afghanistan and Iran. Literally betreyed them and put them in danger.

What special treatment are you talking about, really.

You know, maybe it would be just enough if you do not actively work on making their life miserable (sanctions and inciting instability).

There were almost no Syrian refugees before operation Timber-Sycamore. Thank you USA, our dear friend and freedom-sharing soulmate, for unnecessary refugee crisis in Europe (and another one from Ukraine). With friends like that, who needs enemies. Also, as the above two examples (and Biden's Inflation reduction act, and Nuland's 'f*k Europe'), it is not a Trump thing, its USA thing.

They used a desktop platform with an unknown SSD and with ZFS. There could be a chance what with at least a proper SSD they wouldn't even get in the trouble in the first place.

It,s quite clear what you never used it. UX wise it's one of the best clients and probably in the top 3 network-wise.

It's deeply insecure in most of the ways it is used.

But people don't care about security, that is obvious, they only care about UX

"only" is probably too strong here. But certainly UI/UX gets more weight in the decision making. Nevertheless, people often do things simply because other people are doing them (fad, fashion, in-group signalling) so just showing that enough people of the right stripe are doing it is often enough for a switch---I'm setting aside cases of making a switch then switching back.

I should have been clearer in my initial post, but I was referring to the security issues with telegram rather than the UI.

Everyone knows they are evil. Not that many states out there fly to other side of the planet to bomb someone irrelevant or outright kidnap president of the country they are not even have a boarder with.

You wouldn't believe it but it was:

Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc#Collaboration_and...

And also it was Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_CDP-101#Legacy

But also it was Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music#1991%E2%80%932004:_...

And last but not least it was Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specific...

Something something some guy Assange.

Yes, the USA did the same with Assange. The same with Chelsea Manning - she was accused of treason and basically faced capital punishment at some point. I'm grateful to Obama that he basically saved her life.

But in Russia, this is on a completely another level. Especially if you started the business in the 90s, there is no way they couldn't dig up any dirt on you.

Do you understand what you come out as someone who defends the criminals which exploited the post-USSR break-up for their own enrichment through the illegal means which often involved the deaths and murders?

Nobody is clean (and survives). I don’t think they were defending anyone per-se.

China and the cultural revolution was similar, and Chinese courts are similarly ‘what the party wants’.

We’ll see what US courts end up looking like at the end of this decade.

No, it didn't work this way back then. In order to survive, you had to do what everyone else, for example make payments to some people. Today you can set up a business without having to deal with this shit so people have no idea what it was like back then. People who murdered others are a different category altogether.