doodledup @ doodledup @lemmy.world

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Why?

What makes you think that? You can't just go around and insult people personally without elaborating on the reason.

If it reaches me, so be it. That's life. Survival of the fittest. It's my own responsibility to do the best in the environment I live in.

Telegram was banned in Russia for a short time and for some inexplicable reason unbanned. Russia has made no attempt since then to ban them. The founder of Durov explained that they managed to force Russia to unban them because they kept buying and changing IPv4 addresses to evade the ban. But everyone who knows the technology knows this is a stupid reason and completely unbelievable. IP addresses are very expensive and the connections in the app need to change to the new IP. At the rate that Russia and everyone else is able to block IPs (thousands per second) you simply cannot implement such a strategy. What Telegram is saying is dumb propaganda for the gullible.

Telegram insists on not having end-to-end encryption for default chats and group chats and profile and contact data. They use E2EE for Secret Chats but they use MTProto, which is a custom key exchange and encryption algorithm that is doing some fairly questionable stuff according to leading experts in the field. Telegram being insecure is no problem in itself. But they explicitly advertise it as being secure and private and mislead the users to believe no government can spy on them.

They are based in the UAE with their main office being empty and essentially only a mailbox. Nobody actually knows where they are.

Their servers (with unencrypted chat data) are hosted in questionable authoritarian countries all over the world. They do not have any servers in Europe or the US. This is a huge problem since nobody knows what server software they are running and your chats are not encrypted.

Somehow they have infinite funding for infinite fast cloud storage. They don't disclose any financial data. The founder always says it comes from his liquidated assets of VKontact. But that's impossible as he would have run out of money years ago already. Hosting cloud storage like they do is very very expensive.

If you want to be sure that nobody gets and uses your data use an end-to-end encrypted messenger like Signal. If it's end-to-end encrypted and open-source then no other questions need to be asked.

Telegram was subordinate to the Kremlin the whole time. You have to be stupid to not realize that.

It's you.

Nsfw

Nsfw pls

That would take 22 hours under ideal conditions on a 1gbit connection. If you copy files and not block data it'll probably take 24h or more. Not fun.

People can have smartphones and tech the past didn't have, but be increasingly worse off financially and unable to afford housing.

You really have no idea what life was like just two or three generations ago. At least you now have toilet paper, water, can shower, and don't need to starve to death when the pig in your backyard dies of some illness. Life was FUCKING HARD man. Affording a house is your problem? Really?

And you aren't a space explorer.

The smoke detector, the microwave and birth control pills were invented around the time when we landed on the moon.

We are ants in an anthill. Gears in a machine. Act like it. Stop thinking in classes "rich vs. poor" and conspiracies. When you become obsolete it's nobody's fault. This always comes from people who don't understand how this world economy works.

Progress always comes and finds its way. You can never stop it. Like water in a river. Like entropy. Adapt early instead of desperately forcing against it.

You're using it wrong. My experience is different from yours. It produces transfer knowledge in the queries I ask it. Not even hundreds of Google searches can replace transfer knowledge.

That's true. And that's why so many people are frustrated. Because the majority is incredibly short-sighted unfortunately. Most people don't even understand the basics of economics. If everyone was the ant in the anthill they're supposed to be we would not have half as many conflics as we have.

We don't know it yet. I can't see the future and you neither. But you cannot question the fact that AI has made a lot of things more efficient. And efficiency always brings progress in one way or the other.

Your comment doesn't exactly testify intelligence yourself.

You might want to elaborate on some arguments actually relate to the comment you're responding to.

Ok sure. Leave it as is. I can say it's not intrsting to me and I'd much rather see posts more deeply linked to technology and not politics here. I'm entitled to my own opinion. Let's just leave it at that.

That's the first interesting argument I'm reading here. Glad someone takes an honest stance in this discussion instead of just "rich vs poor", "but people will lose jobs" and some random conspiracies in between.

To your comment: I agree with your sentiment that AI will make it challenging for new brains to evolve as solving difficult tasks is a problem we will encounter much less in the future. I actually never thought about it that way. I don't have a solution for that. I think it will have two outcomes: humans will lose intelligence, or humans will develop different intelligence in a way that we don't understand yet today.

And you are bringing up efficiency. Efficiency is just a buzzword that big companies are using to replace human labor. How much more efficient is a bank where you have 4 machine and one human teller? Or a fast food restaurant where the upfront employee just delivers the food to the counter and you can only place order with a computer.

I disagree with that. Efficiency is a universal term. And humanity has always striven to do things more efficient because it increases the likelihood of survival and quality of life in general. It's a very natural thing and you cannot stop it. Much as you cannot stop entropy. Also, I think making things more efficient is good for society. Everything becomes easier, more available, and more fun. I can see a far future where humans no longer need to work and can do whatever they want with their day. Jobs will become hobbies and family and friends are what you care about most.

Great for people getting fired or finding that now the jobs they used to have that were middle class are now lower class pay or obsolete. They will be so delighted at the progress despite their salaries and employment benefits and opportunities falling.

This shouldn't come as a surprise. Everyone who's suprised by that is either not educated how economy works or how societal progress works. There are always winners and losers but society makes net-positive progress as a whole.

I have no empathy for people losing their jobs. Even if I lose my job, I accept it. It's just life. Humanity is a really big machine of many gears. Some gears replace others to make the machine run more efficient.

And it's so nice that AI is most concentrated in the hands of billionaires who are oh so generous with improving living standards of the commoners. Wonderful.

This is just a sad excuse I'm hearing all the time. The moment society gets intense and chang is about to happen, a purpetrator needs to be found. But most people don't realize that the people at the top change all the time when the economy changes. They die aswell. It's a dynamic system. And there is no one purpetrator in a dynamic system. The only purpetrator is progress. And progress is like entropy. It always find its way and you cannot stop it. Those who attempt to stop it instead of adapting to it will be crushed.