lattenwald

Good privacy brings inconvenience, don't even think this compromise could ever be avoided. Convenient WhatsApp has nothing to do with privacy, whatever their PR department might want you to think.

This compromise is unavoidable, and every user should be forced to make the choice. Every kind of defaults is bad. Can you imagine that a messenger app that forces you to choose your place on the scale of security-convenience during onboarding process gets wide adoption? Me neither...

Telegram defaults are very sane for common users, and they have very easy and convinient way to start a secure chat. Best available messenger app so far.

WhatsApp by default backs up to Google drive, which is laughably insecure.

I don't know how good is WhatsApp's e2e implementation, I've heard good things about protocol though. But I do know Telegram protocol documentation contains all information needed to implement e2e capable Telegram client, and their e2e is really good, I've seen it done by my friend and as I'm a programmer and am interested in cryptography, I followed his work very closely.

I still do not trust e2e group chats, it's a shaky point in security protocols. There was some kerfuffle about WhatsApp being able to silently add invisible listeners to group chats, wasn't there?

Telegram very explicitly chooses the right amount of security and makes user aware of inconveniences this level of security brings along. WhatsApp lies in user's face, making you think it's secure and convenient.

edit: btw I'm Telegram premium subscriber and love it. I subscribed for the ability to convert voice messages into text. I am aware of privacy concerns, voice messages get sent to some 3rd party for this to work. Pretty often this speech-to-text works not very good, I expect it's much better for English language though. I still love my Telegram premium, for being able to support developer and to lower the chance of being the product. Cost is negligible, benefits are tangible.

Every service has a product they sell, if a service is free — you are the product.

Need I remind you WhatsApp is owned by Meta? Free service from creators of Facebook and our mutual respect to their privacy practices, all in the same sentence, yeah.

Well, how do you define free will?

I thought about it for quite some time and defined it for myself as following: free will is possibility to make two different choices in identical (down to quantum level and below) set of two universes. That applies only to something that has a "will", which is yet to be defined.

If being in identical circumstances you predictably make identical decisions, that doesn't look like free will to me. Your choice was made by circumstances for you.

So yeah, chaos it is. Nothing bad in it.

The only place free will source from is quantum randomness.

Also, better believe in free will. If you are wrong, it wasn't really your choice, and if you are right you can do more.

I am. My good friend created telegram client using only their protocol documentation and I've been following his with very closely, and I have to say their E2E encryption is very very good. Only thing I noticed is they are using some non-standard mode of symmetric block cipher to make it stream cipher, after keys have already been exchanged, but I failed to find weakness in it, and all encryption specialists I know of failed too. It's just consecutive application of two different modes, both of which are established to be good.

Currently my job involves working with tdlib, Telegram protocol client library written by Telegram themselves; though this job doesn't really focus on security.

I do know how to avoid detection of my communication with someone via MITM, and when appropriate we go use secret chats, which are E2E encrypted, and clean them up after a day.

Normal chats and groups are as secure as Telegram as a service is. This is true for every other messenger, without exceptions. You need security, you use E2E. And even then you are as secure as your phone, which is not much for all mobile operating systems.

Telegram for family, friends, work and actually for everything I can think of.

Discord for gaming with friends, not as a messenger but as voice comms mainly.

Whatsapp for very legacy stuff, haven't had a notification in a couple of years. Maybe it's time to uninstall, finally.

FYI you don't need static IP for telegram bots if you use polling instead of webhook. So if your house connection is stable enough, you can make do with Raspberry Pi.

I'm hosting my stuff on cheapest DigitalOcean droplet (but still use polling for telegram bots). Any stable VPS provider would do just fine and you'll have system resources left for other stuff, telegram bots are very light.

I am programmer by trade, been doing it for last like 20 years and I've worked with exactly 1 project manager that helped and 1 more that didn't really matter. Every other project manager I worked with was bad for the managed project.

I think that's the case with CDPR: Cyberpunk 2077 was managed poorly. I'd they just didn't release it on consoles, made it PC exclusive for a couple of years, the game would probably fare better.

That said I as a PC person used to check game requirements and even if it looks ok I still do some research. Console players should do it too, it's not a hard skill and doesn't take much time, and if your are in a hype train this research would be enjoyable for you.

I played it on release, it was awesome. I didn't ride the hype train, and this game was far more than i expected.

I played it on laptop with Nvidia 2070 eGPU.

I preordered it a year or so before the release because I enjoyed other games by CDPR, and never regretted it.

I think i saw T-pose once. That didn't prevent me to enjoy this game thoroughly, to be lost in Night City and to weep for Jackie and to be lost in thoughts after Sinnerman quest line.

I never said some patch fixed it is going to fix the game, it is very good since release. DLC patch is going to change things, and I'm going to finish my 3rd playthrough this month and experience these changes in 4th playthrough.

I do not tend to kill civilians in Cyberpunk, maybe that's one reason I didn't notice police AI problems. It's not GTA. Maybe that's just my play style that helped me to avoid all the problems you encountered.

Even if that's the reason, dude, I can't stress enough how much I do not care for your opinion. This wall of text is for players that can enjoy good game, so they know Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most enjoyable PC games one could play.

I've read somewhere that some mechanics will be changed for the whole game.

That said I avoid hype train and don't look for information, I'd rather experience it myself. And I'll preorder it, on GOG (so developers get more money).

Yup, this is next-gen game they tried to fit into obsolete hardware due to marketing stuff. I do not understand why one would buy it for weak hardware and then whine, guess advertisement was too good.

The whining made me kinda angry and made me realize average reddit gamer is a pathetic excuse for human being. Devs, writers, designers and all the rest had done exceptional job, marketing people fucked them and then this class action suit appeared.

Since then I don't care for what circlejerking gamers on the internet say. It's their parents' problem, not mine.