and it didn’t stop their operations for too long

You had to change proxies regularly, so it did. With some ISPs, at least.

I think it wasn’t for really blocking it, just to test whether they can block it if they need it, during some big events.

This doesn’t make it secure for anything else. There are also plenty of private torrent trackers.

WTF is this ignorant “I know what they want but I’m smarter” crap, if you don’t know how it works you know nothing, and “what they want” you get from news.

I know of a few governments not trying to really. Like the Russian one.

Read something about its internals before saying something as stupid.

XMPP with OMEMO is secure (not for targeted attacks, in that case you’ll just get a trojan on your Android device via some unclosed vulnerability and finita la comedia, or rubber hose cryptanalysis will be applied).

Ooo, can I be that too? I would use bad words for these people when I was a kid in 2007, you know, when it wasn’t mainstream, but everybody wanted to believe that Russia just has a flawed democracy.

As an aside: I’ve begun to think that ADHD and some other neurodivergences are actually evolutionary responses to the exponentially increasing amount of data processing that modern humanity does on a daily basis, just not having long enough time for natural selection to smooth out the rough edges yet. Give it a few hundred thousand years or so.

N-no, it’s happening too fast to be explained by recent evolution. It’s been there, just psychiatry has only recently become interested in people without hallucinations, inability to speak and murderous impulses.

I’d rather imagine that a population needs a certain proportion of explorers or people behaving more chaotically.

Normies at this point are trained like Pavlov’s dogs to ignore the very possibility to treat these big companies as they should be treated by law.

They are irrationally afraid that Earth will split in half and become infested by goblins if there’s no Apple, just separate Apple Computer, Apple Mobile, Apple Music, Apple TV, Applesoft - I want to see this - and so on, no Google, just separate Google Search, Google Mobile, Googlesoft - ok, not as funny, - etc, Microsoft is a small company and there are also Microhard and Microcloud …

Apocalypse didn’t happen when AT&T was broken up. Nokia wasn’t broken up by regulators, but that didn’t lead to an apocalypse too, while still was a bad thing. DEC or Sun going down didn’t cause apocalypse.

Sometimes I feel I’m fortunate to have ADHD. Until I think about my life not on the Web.

Well, for me it’s only 2 months of experience, being 28.

I go to therapy to learn to not accept being ousted for being different.

That’s right too.

EDIT: I meant - when you are not permanently suppressed by the things which you don’t need, like trying to not be yourself, you may have easier time understanding sarcasm and subtexts too.

Therapy is about leaving people more “how they are” than before. It’s not about making them behave according to expectations.

There are good FOSS codecs and there are good proprietary codecs. The latter are being standardized where the former may not, and pushed where they are not needed.

It’s not a market choice.

To some extent this can be mitigated by therapy. I’m serious.