Telegram group chats are unencrypted

Not quite true. They are server-side encrypted, not end-to-end. Still bad and I had no idea until I looked it up just now (thanks to you).

I use Gboard keyboard on my phone which undermines my Signal privacy. I could use my laptop instance of Signal to prevent leakage.

Telegram successfully fought against attempt of blocking in Russia in 2018 by providing regular updates and using different techniques to avoid blocking.

I too heard Russia claimed they could not block it. Could be deliberate theatre to bolster its reputation.

It seems Russia has a back door key into Telegram.

Edit: Russia is complaining about the arrest.

Pavel Durov has visited Russia more than 50 times since his “exile” in 2014

Can someone please paraphrase the following which I didn’t understand?

Somebody raised to believe they have high IQ is more likely to fall for this than somebody raised to think less of their own intellectual capabilities. Subjective validation is a quirk of the human mind. We all fall for it.

But if you think you’re unlikely to be fooled, you will be tempted instead to apply your intelligence to “figure out” how it happened. This means you can end up using considerable creativity and intelligence to help the psychic fool you by coming up with rationalisations for their “ability”.

And because you think you can’t be fooled, you also bring your intelligence to bear to defend the psychic’s claim of their powers. Smart people (or, those who think of themselves as smart) can become the biggest, most lucrative marks.

Why would home state advantage not matter much despite it being a swing state? (along with Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin).

He really said goodest? Or is that transcript satire? Too much sarcastic cleverness in this thread for me to follow.

The only other European country which has FPTP voting is Belarus.

Canada has it too and Trudeau reneged on his promise to ditch it.

Thanks.

Thanks. Google Analytics doesn’t work that way though does it?

Really? You expected Trump to base his speech on facts?

That should have been expected from Trump. Biden should have memorized statistics to counter the predictable bullshit.

Not that memorizing stuff is important for the job but it would have been effective in the debate for viewers who just won’t fact check anything.

there was so much jumping around and avoiding questions that it was not very helpful.

Trump did this, but where did Biden do it?

they can in turn use it as a point when luring advertisers.

Wouldn’t that be shared only with potential advertisers upon request via a password rather than just making it publicly available?

I am only speculating, are you?

That does not answer my question.

No I don’t trust their methodology. In fact I am suspicious the numbers are entirely fictitious. I imagine they are highly guarded confidential information which is not public.

And where does he get the traffic data from?

The websites would be guarding that and Google Analytics (if installed/enabled) would not divulge it to a third party.

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Nikki Haley voting for Trump after he called her a birdbrain proves his point.

I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular headphones require three wires while power supply only requires two. Ingenious really.

EDIT: Proper wired headphones would also require a soundcard in the dongle.

The guy was having a funny geeky bitch. He was laughing at himself. He doesn’t expect Apple to change anything.

EDIT: I think you are right, that last paragraph of his is weirdly serious. Would have been pure comedy without it.

Aren’t ads dispersed throughout the discussions? If not, then why not?

Trump posted that he had an “enthusiastic” audience at the Libertarian Party convention.

FACTS — Round 1 voting was:

Story Daniels 1 vote

Denali the Cat 1 vote

Sean Ono Lennon 1 vote

Christian Weston 2 votes

Art Olivier 4 votes

Donald J. Trump 6 votes

Toad 16 votes

RFK Jr 19 votes

Charles Ballay 21 votes

Jacob Hornberger 59 votes

Joshua Smith 73 votes

Lars Mapstead 122 votes

Mike Ter Maat 141 votes

Chase Oliver 181

Michael Rectenwald 259 votes