I'm not sure if Wire has new management but I just recently learned they've gone fully open source, are working on federation, and are using an RFC-specified tree-based efficient group chat encryption algorithm. RCS is eventually meant to adopt the same algorithm.

Folks using Telegram Groups (which are unencrypted, actually) might have a look. Yeah, somebody needs to run a server if you don't want intelligence agencies to provide one for you.

I uninstalled Wire years ago when they wouldn't take privacy seriously (yeah, I filed a bug) but it seems like a second look is warranted.

Just 3.4bi?? Ford and GM received way more than this just in Brazil alone.

>Now all those houses have residents.

Sorry, what?
New home prices in China fell by 0.22% in May 2025 across 70 major cities, the largest monthly decline in seven months, while existing home prices dropped 0.5%, the steepest fall in eight months. Year-on-year, residential sales by value dropped 6.1% and real estate investment plunged 12% in the same month. Lol, yeah, housing is going GREAT in China!

>It's not the same kind of economy as we have, or the same kind of culture, and people somehow are unable to understand that.

No, its a command economy, and that has always proven to be shitty.

It's not "ordinary folks" - it's the willfully ignorant. And Yes, I have no sympathy for them.
They probably shouldn't be on the internet, in fact.

>The user receives an instruction to copy a string of text, open a terminal window, paste it in, and press Enter.

If you are willing to do this, maybe you shouldn't own a computer. Just like a driver's license, maybe we should have some basic knowledge test to drive on the internet.

Exactly.

Imagine all the flip-phone hipsters being denied boarding.

No shade, it's probably better for your overall wellbeing to use a flip phone.

And the hipsters have Leica 35mm mechanical cameras if the need arises.

> it's also in the user, as he got a mail during his stay

People check email on vacation?

What an odd thing to demand.

Would the $20 ONN sticks from Walmart work better for you?

I have an puck-style device of theirs which is just an Amtel SoC with GoogleTV Android on it. Probably doesn't get updates but then you don't let them have unfettered access to the Internet either.

I've sideloaded Jellyfin, SmarTube-Next, etc.

I used to have a half dozen Fire sticks and have removed all but one, in a kid's bedroom. They haven't banned Jellyfin ... yet... but aren't they dropping Android as well?

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

> It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal.

Put something fake in your robots.txt and block the IP that accesses the fake URL.

AI people: "oh, that's where all the good stuff is!"

Not to mention chopped to pieces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

>Do any of the Dems you named understand that money is not zero-sum and the Fed can create money faster than prices rise?

Which will cause rising prices, and they will have to create more money to compensate, which will create even more rising prices. You are calling for massive inflation.