Putin will burn everything down as long as he can be the king of the ashes.

*furiously waves book around*

Thank you!

I can’t find it right now, but there is some explanation in “Clean Code” why switches shouldn’t be used all over the place.

Yes, exactly that.

Your head is going to hurt even more if you are a German: The prefix “ent” usually means to lose or get rid of something. I.e. “I got rid of it” -> “Ich habe es entsorgt” so everytime I read “enshittification” I had to remind myself it’s the process of making something worse not better.

So “disenshittification” is a double knot in my brain. I propose “disshittification” as alternative.

The Chaos Computer Club Initiative Chaos macht Schule might be able to help you with some materials and guidance.

As is tradition with MS and their complicated naming policies Visual Studio is not VS Code.

The EU had no credibility when it comes to migration to begin with. Frontex has been complicit in all sorts of controversies.

TBF, there are some farmers being charged. But yes, it’s definitely not to the same extent as climate protesters.

Nah, slap a ‘Data lake’ label on it and call it a day

highly controversial figure in Germany

Understatement of the year. Courts have repeatedly ruled that calling him fascist and Nazi is a factual statement. He has been sentenced multiple times for using Nazi rhetoric and symbols.

His local chapter of the AFD party has been labeled “assuredly right-wing extremist” by the Verfassungsschutz which again was upheld by court decision as well.

In case you are serious: Lemmy.ml is known for being a tankie instance. So a nonsensical anti-west statement makes a lot more sense considering the instance the user chose.

Yay, let’s all hate on the one crypto messenger, that is independently verifiably secure.

If Telegram wasn’t good for privacy, Western governments would not be trying to shut it down.

They are not trying shutdown Telegram, they are trying to control it.

E2EE is nice, but doesn’t matter if the government can just sieze or hack your phone. Much better to use non-Western social media and messaging apps.

What kind of argument is this supposed to be? Governments can size your phone anywhere … oh wait … lemmy.ml … yeah, I see…

It IS the point. If Telegram was designed and set up as a pure carrier of encrypted information, no one could/should fault them for how the service is used.

However, this is not the case, and they are able to monitor and control the content that is shared. This means they have a moral and legal responsibility to make sure the service is used in accordance with the law.

I am going to quote myself here:

The issue I see with Telegram is that they retain a certain control over the content on their platform, as they have blocked channels in the past. That’s unlike for example Signal, which only acts as a carrier for the encrypted data.

If they have control over what people are able to share via their platform, the relevant laws should apply, imho.

Well, except Telegram isn’t a good tool for privacy.

There is no E2EE. Simple encryption is only available for 1:1 chats and disabled by default. Telegram doesn’t disclose their encryption methods, so there is no way to verify the (in)effectiveness. Telegram is able to block channels from their end, so there is no privacy from their end either.

I guess I might as well argue with a stone instead of an American about universal moral values but here goes nothing:

Wait, did I just judge a person by their membership of a group they got randomly assigned at birth which says nothing about their character?

Anyways…

The suffering of one person is not justification to inflict the same on others. Secondly why are you refusing to help people through hardship in the first place.

Let me ask you in return: Why are neither deserving of your help?

Hell no, and I don’t care if that person is black, white, blue, has an American, French or Iraqi passport.

But you are trying to build a strawman here, because babysitting is not the same as granting people shelter from hardships.

And to loop back to your previous statements regarding the number of crimes committed by immigrants: Am I statistically more likely to get murdered by an immigrant or by a fellow country man? You might have to reconsider your approach towards high/low threat environments in your everyday life.