While some expressions find obvious translations ā āpro-gamerā becomes ājoueur professionnelā ā others seem a more strained, as āstreamerā is transformed into ājoueur-animateur en directā.
I can try to imagine a similar situation in Italy. I would rather get fired than call streamers āgiocatori-animatori in direttaā or cloud gaming āvideogiochi su nuvolaā because āanglicisms could act as āa barrier to understandingā for non-gamersā. āgiocatore-animatore in direttaā is no less confusing than an English word, and definitely more prone to misinterpretation - because these words already have meanings people will instinctively attach to them. Loanwords Calques would have been more effective and less chaotic, no idea why the Academie Francaise decided to go down this road instead of making words up, as they usually do. The French are getting a little taste of neocolonialism and they just canāt swallow it
In my experience, OpenBoard has the best auto-corrector with fuzzy word finding
āThis has been a long battleā, said Dr Johnny Ryan of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. āTodayās decision frees hundreds of millions of Europeans from consent spam, and the deeper hazard that their most intimate online activities will be passed around by thousands of companiesā.
This comment kinda implies that things are going to change, but itās not outlined how they are going to change. The article mentions how the framework fails to inform users which data will be collected and how it will be used, but also that it āfails to properly request consent, and relies on a lawful basis (legitimate interest) that is not permissible because of the severe risk posed by online tracking-based āReal-Time Biddingā advertisingā. This suggests that the framework must be reworked to be more accessible/friendly to users, and that some of options that usually fell under the ālegitimate interestā category maybe shouldnāt be enabled by default.
My main issue with the cookie consent popups is that many of them are ridiculously long to configure, and are very clearly designed to be misleading and ambiguous. Sometimes they even take you to a new page or need to load additional stuff when you decide to disable non-essential cookies. People have just given up on mangling with these toggles and just click on āaccept allā as soon as the cookie alert pops out.
Two years ago they said it was going to be ready by the end of that year, but there has been no news since then. My personal guess is that theyāre waiting to finish the rewrite of the app, and donāt want to spend resources on the current version besides bugfixies
Anonymous boards can be a pleasing experience. Iāve been active on 4chan during my late teen years (and on 8chan for a few months), the comfort of anonymity and the impossibility to develop bias toward specific online identities help people to express their mind openly and without fear of being judged or having your shit takes stickied on your front head for the rest of you online personaās life - which is something Iāve always liked about these places. How ephemeral their content is. Forming a bond with the boardās hivemind and having a place to vent without the fear of being judged is truly a weird and liberating experience, if it wasnāt for all the trash this setup inevitably attracts. I stopped hanging on there for the vitriolic, racist, bigoted posts popping out every two threads, which luckily didnāt radicalize me, they rather had the opposite effect. And also because I was loosing my ability to tell legitimate opinions from overly articulated propaganda ops and well-masked uninformed takes
Every now an then I still have a look at what some anonymous Telegram chats are up to, theyāre the only place that offer an anonymous board-like experience and that are moderated. I too wonder what 4chan would be like without the userbase that makes it what it is
Unless you use secret chats, Telegram can theoretically access all your conversations, as they are stored in their cloud. It should be a no-brainer, but thereās a couple of cool privacy/anonymity-related things that Telegram has over Signal:
You might have a look at the Tolino reader, itās not really libre, but is one of the few e-reader that support Readium LPC (itās definitely better than any competing DRM, but itās still a DRM)
Also have a look at The Open Book project, it explains how to build an e-reader on your own
You can also consider to attach an e-ink display to a raspberry with Calibre installed
Can disagree and prove that, join Telegram, check the mirror channels and other groups. They mirror anything, gore, live leak, CCTV cams, etc.
What? Do you think that ATMs security footage are just available in the wild or are uploaded to public spaces on Telegram or Mega or whatever?
Self-hosting is more expensive than cheap cloud, otherwise everyone would self-host which is not the case
Storage is cheap. The company I work for handles the security cams installed by some local town administrations (around 400 cams in total), and the entirety of the footage we collect is stored on our proprietary infrastructure. Of course you need some terabytes of storage at hand, but itās not an ever-increasing amount of data because footage is erased every week to free up space and comply with the law. We work for third-parties so we have no interest in breaking the law and keeping footage past its expiration date, so I have no idea of what happens with banks and the footage they collect, but Iām pretty sure these kind of things are often handled on a local infrastructure, usually with the support of specialized IT companies (I donāt work for such a company but we somehow offer this service just to publicly-administrated entities and compete in the market with specialized companies) which are liable for what happens to the collected data. Itās not always so obvious that large amount of data = google or amazon-hosted. For what Iāve been able to see (keep in mind, this is anecdotal experience), itās the opposite
This proves Telegram has been (intentionally?) misleading in their FAQ. The āmultiple jurisdictionsā gibberish has turned out to be, well, not true. A court doesnāt care about the place where you store the data: if requested, as long as you can access the data, you are required to disclose it. The article mentions that Telegram tried to justify their initial refusal by saying that their data center is located in Singapore, but their argument was dismissed by the court:
No idea what kind of consequences these people will face right now, but in this specific case the court just needed their number/IP to identify them - in the future, it might happen that the subject of the request will be private correspondence.
Telegram has always had a good record when it comes to opposing governmentās requests for their usersā data, but this time they decided that the issue was not serious enough to risk to lose a huge market such as the Indian one. The existence of the premium subscription also makes things way more complicated. How should Telegram deal with active subscriptions, in case it gets blocked in a country? Will they suspend them and give up on the revenue? Will they ask their users to cancel them? Will they do nothing and keep them active even if their users canāt access the service? As a reference, this summer Telegram was almost blocked in Germany, and they decided to delay the introduction of the premium subscription in the country, which is still not available (afaik)