If Telegram really is secure, I suppose the only info the Russkis can extract is 'envelope' info, To/From/Time/maybe-location. Not great, but WTF already.

This is pretty much the entire US economy - extraction. Stripmine all assets, concentrate wealth.

Those easy resources having been played out, we are in the fracking phase.

Motto: We're only 93% as evil as Comcast!

Works every time.

-sent from my seat on a Boeing 737-8200

Wow, Yet Another Branded Credit Card.

No fees? I'll get one just to get the 3 percent rebate on Apple stuff.

Otherwise - excuse me, my recycle bin is full of credit card solicitation letters.

What needs to change is the billing model - outside of Trumpistan, the caller pays a few cents/min to call a mobile phone. Why the fukk is it different in the land of caravan attacks?

#Corporate_Kleptocracy

You are describing ALMOST ALL of the world. Other than in Trumpistan, it DOES cost 5 cents/min (or so) to call a mobile phone.

In The Land of Freedom, the recipient pays to receive a robo-call (or any call).

Don't you just love your corporate kleptocracy?

I would be all for this, but sometimes I interact with a website which insists that I receive a call to get a 2FA code. Or similar.

But in general, yeah, fukk'em.

If your phone rings, and you don't know the calling number - just let it go into voicemail. If it's important, they will leave a message which you can retrieve at your convenience (or if like me you use Google Voice, the voicemail is transcribed to quasi-accurate text). Almost always it's some marketing scam. Fuk Them.

I hope their incel status becomes a lifelong badge of honor for these dipshirts.

Agreed.... My favorite version of this is Elasticsearch, but there are numerous others, all optimized for various use cases.

Because 'blockchain' sounds better than 'redundant distributed database', a term (and technology) that's been around & constantly improved for ages.

Buzzword bullshit does not create reality, unless you are in the Cult of the Orangutan.

Wow, someone actually read the click-wrap T & C!

I agree it's a PITA to change stores, but I occasionally do a [change store/update apps/change store/.....] procedure. Never have been locked out. 99.99% of the time I'm logged in my home-country's store. A handful of apps I use frequently are not available in my home-country store.

Their top employee here in FreedomLand only drinks Diet Coke.

I just switched between four different countries in under 10 minutes to upgrade local apps. Where did you get this 30/90 number from?