I suppose it’s all geopolitics.

Russia is allied with Iran, which means they have to support their ally Hamas.

Ukraine is dependent on Israel’s closest ally - the US - for their weapons, so they won’t condemn it either.

I doubt either of them really do this out of conviction.

Olvid is French and Signal isn’t, which seems to be très important.

Aren’t black holes per definition always clogged?

With their consent, I had entered the rider’s credit card information—data that is often easy to buy from criminal marketplaces, or which might be trivial for an abusive partner to obtain—and punched that into the MTA site for OMNY, the subway’s contactless payments system. After a few seconds, the site churned out the rider’s travel history for the past 7 days, no other verification required.

From the article