I didn’t mean to say anything that Israel did was okay. But a lot of it is understandable, e.g. the ground operation was very well expected by everyone when it became clear the hostages are not getting released. No matter how you look at it, Gaza was not ready.
And if we consider the October attack itself, only some of it is understandable (“they couldn’t bear with oppression any longer” sentiment, which itself is problematic at best).
That didn’t worth it in my opinion. The level of international support is nowhere enough. And again, they could build defenses to decrease the number of victims.
Also the premise of “Israel is a monster” sentiment is hugely weakened by the monstrosity of the October attack itself.
a war they started.
There are chances the outcome would be different if hamas released hostages, or didn’t attack Israel on October 7th. Those things were not smart. It didn’t serve any good purpose. A smarter thing would have been to prepare for such an attack from Israel by building defenses to protect civilians at the very least.
Steam getting better isn’t linked to anyone becoming a billionaire. That sentiment sounds like people can’t stop looking for things to blame Valve for.
Is it too difficult to accept that every single company failed in competing with Steam? I’d say they didn’t even try their best (especially Epic). Must’ve assumed that just serving a website with a web app is all they needed to get as rich as Gabe.
Seems it’s fixed now?
Hard disagree on denuvo. If it’s no problem for you then you must have tons of experience in re. Which puts you into some 1%-ish group. Depends on the type of mods you do of course.
You can. Google steamless.
Steam DRM is nothing like stuff people should be aware of. Ask any modder for confirmation.
Well did it help Epic when they added achievements? Guess not much. Either they never marketed this feature enough or most spending users never cared about achievements on Epic.
If you mean just the percentage of users I might agree. But those people don’t really correlate with the users who provide most of the profit of the platform.
My profile is also not public but it’s visible to friends. Also I can make it public when I want.
There are also achievement statistics.
I see. Still, I can see that for many people achievements with no value are no better than their absence. Platform provides value, and for now only steam provides a lot of it with almost each purchase.
Are you serious? Obviously people don’t care about achievements on a platform that has almost no community-related functionality.
There is still plenty of fish for advertisers, sadly.
the messages are decrypted on the server
What you said means they can be decrypted on the server. But there is no proof of that happening in the past. People got into problems not because someone uncovered their content in telegram, but because that content was effectively public from the beginning.
You switched the topic of the discussion. My original comment stands, as it corrects some part of your first comment.
I didn’t suggest anyone to use telegram.
They have repeatedly worked with governments and worked against the interests of their users.
Even though those allegations are arguable, I know what you mean. And those cases don’t involve compromising the actual encryption from what I understand.
Ah yes, definitely go with a messenger that has known vulnerabilities in its crappy encryption protocol, instead of one with an actual secure E2EE implementation.
Feel free to go any way you want. I’m not asking you to use telegram.
You can still make encrypted backups
Spend time for that, and keep them where? Maybe also need a feature to sync them between mobile and desktop?
Only Telegram is too incompetent to do that.
Not an implementation issue but a trust issue.
Just stop lying. Telegram Secret Chats have been introduced in 2017
https://telegram.org/evolution see October 2013.
both Signal and WhatsApp have had E2EE (including for group chats!) for much longer.
Whatsapp had them inctorudec in 2016.
Are you mad that Signal is focusing on privacy and security by improving their encryption protocol, instead of wasting time on some UI garbage?
I’m perfectly fine with that. More apps using electron means less chance for my pc to run garbage applications on a regular basis.
keep in mind that Telegram can read all of your messages, as well as hand them over to governments.
Keep in mind that any person in your secret chats can read your message, copy or screenshot it and hand it to anyone else. Those people know much better if you’re doing anything sketchy (or something actually good but against their beliefs), than an app developer.
I think you are falling for the “genius inventor” fallacy clueless normies love a lot.
People advertising signal everywhere look like those kind of normies to me too. Doesn’t mean much.
The reason it’s not known to be broken is that it’s not a high value target - most people don’t use “secret chats” in TG.
Fair assumption. But it means you accept most people are stupid enough to not want such a feature or smart enough to not need it. Telegram user base is reported to be 900 million though.
Something not being standardized doesn’t mean it’s bogus.
Gaza population was steadily increasing for all these years. This doesn’t bode well with the “prison” sentiment in my opinion. They had institutions. They could teach their own population. Their actions could be more logical. Instead it seems they’ve been spreading terrorist propaganda (literally pushing their children to become merciless terrorists) and spending resources on building offensive tech instead of defenses. I can not justify actions of Israel (though I can understand why the ground operation was started) but there is no way I can agree that actions of hamas had any logical ground.