guys that work for military tech companies, or somehow involved in military anything: zoom in on the horse's mouth. zoom in on the eyes of the person on fire.

Prove it.

> very bad user experience

"To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

thank god whatsapp doesn't do that either. or telegram. or allo back in the day, or every single mobile first messaging app

The only one I can think of that doesn't require a mobile login is iMessage, because it's not a chat app, it's lock in and data theft disguised as software

XMPP and Matrix don't require a phone number and have fine mobile apps.

And there's a reason they've achieved precisely zero penetration amongst normies.

A chat app is useless if your friends and family won't use it.

I've actually had good luck getting friends and family on Matrix, after they'd previously used either Facebook Messenger or Hangouts.

I think delta chat is a counter example.

smartphones in general runs against the “I bought my device, I should control how it behaves” line of thinking

yeah, it just works

fully agree. also Yugoslavia lives on, in our heart :,)

Core of Yugoslavia, still lives on in cultural space, where music, movies, and literature are consumed in all ex republics. Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space. But even in Slovenia and Macedonia there's a significant part of population which at least understands common language. And it's not only about language, there's lot of shared mentality and history from Yugoslav period.

Kusturica's movie "Underground" captures the Yugoslav vibe quite vividly, highly recommend

> Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space.

The Albanian speaking countries really punch above their weight for English language pop stars with global presence. ~7.5 Million Albanian speakers globally gave us Bebe Rexha, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, and Rita Ora. 22 Million Romanian speakers for a comparable post-Communist community and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

> and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

But Romania gave us the Dragostea din tei (Numa-numa song :)

That wasn't even Romania, that was the smaller Moldova, a country of about 4 million at the time.

A beautiful global phenomenon whose artist I sadly cannot name.

It makes me sad for all the human creativity and artistry repressed in Albania and other countries.

Sadly even Cyber Yugoslavia is no more, it only shows the text "juga.com" now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220122221632/http://www.juga.c...

http://www.juga.com/

Bratstvo i jedinstvo, druže.

Mi smo Titovi, Tito je naš!

There's a good podcast called "Remembering Yugoslavia."

https://rememberingyugoslavia.com/

Opera 12 was so good, so fast, on ANY hardware, so innovative, so quirky. When Opera became Chrome-based, I moved to Firefox. I just don’t want Google spyware on my computer.

It's based on Chromium, not Chrome.

please...

probably your provider is censoring it. it's working here.

usa + israel = imperialism + genocide

this should seriously stop. and i am very sad Europeans are spineless and following the US in another insane middle-east war. wasn't afghanistan and iraq enough?

"Europe" is not following the US in this.

in what Europe are you living sorry? The only one outspoken against the war have been the Spanish. UK, Italy and Germany are on it - offering logistical support and everything the US needs.

UK is bossed around by the US, ever since WW2. We don't have many choices that don't involve the USA inflicting revenge. They're bullies

It's like criticising an abused wife with no job no money and not many friends for not just leaving immediately, and the husband is rich, powerful and knows everyone

I fear that the push for increasing defense spending in Europe was in preparation for a new NATO alliance case. They are certainly going to try it.

Why fear a hypothetical conspiracy? When there's enough reason to increase budgets because of a multi year war that's being fought right at our borders by a mad man, who has shown his willingness to attack and who enjoys the sympathy of the administration that was responsible for 62% of Nato's spending?

Hello?

Hi! I meant specifically the us admin pushing for more defense spending in Europe. There was so much emphasis laid on this, while saying they don't want to wage more wars. But now they are going all in, so that part was a lie.

Unrelated to that some increase in spending was due, I agree with that. All I'm saying is that I don't trust the US admin.

But silently watching on the sides. The moral lectures will come out with Ukraine though on what other countries should and should not do.

that's so scummy. why they even needs "names"? it's a rhetorical question...

Moreover, they don't even apologize:

"The work is public, hence the name. It's well known, it's in the data. Who cares".

What will they do next? Create similar publications with domainsquatting and write all-AI articles with the "public" names?

Is it still fair use, then?

yes i hate that. they still have the chutzpah of keeping doing it. and i am sure it's illegal in multiple legislation. because they are not writing articles where you can cite people, they are selling a product.

I think we can thank the current times and developments as a whole for unearthing the greediest of the greedy among us.

It's very enlightening, if you ask me.

Authority washing.