Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. The requirement to verify a phone number was why I've never created a Telegram account in the first place. Why would a service which claims to protect privacy ask for a phone number?
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  2. If you use Monero, the risk is it will be banned outright and you won't be able to exchange it for any other asset legally.
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  3.  @hamzazaman18  Imagine some random low-paid creep sifting through your family photos to train some AI - that is the "automated moderator" they talk about...
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  4. "Punish one, teach a hundred" - Chinese "wisdom"
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  5. The real risk is that one day you might have to explain to your government where you got all those anonymous bitcoins from (e.g. when accused of tax evasion), or as soon as you catch attention because of trying to spend them. And most likely you will be judged guilty by default - because innocent people don't go to such lengths to hide their sources of income. And as for cash, the amount of cash that can be used in any transaction will be limited or cash will be outlawed entirely. Which will shrink your shopping options to the black market where the other "anonymous" side of the transaction might just as well be an FBI honeytrap. Have fun!
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  6. AI doesn't want anything, it's just big company CEOs and colluding politicians who know best what you desire.
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  7. Sounds bs, only Microsoft does that. BTW, you are not supposed to store important unencrypted files on someone else's disk. And by encrypted, I mean only you know the encryption key, not them.
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  8.  @msromike123  Ah yes, the same "security" which sends 100K's of young men into war, forbids them from leaving their country, and the same security which required us to wear napkins on our faces for three years or so and prohibited certain people from entering a public bus. Yes, we could have much less of that sort of security, if you ask me.
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  9. Well, the law is what throws you into prison, generally, so their concern may be serious. You shouldn't necessarily blame the victims of such laws, but people who make them (in both countries). However, what Torvalds wrote in his email is scared asshat level sort of drivel.
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  10. It is not a monopoly, you can run your own mail server. However, be prepared for a world of pain because the big providers make it rather difficult to get email from your own server accepted (they will label it as spam or reject delivery outright). P.S. Google is not the worst, the biggest monopoly and suppression of freedoms will come to you, as ever before, from Microsoft.
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  11. How long until they introduce new taxes/fees for operators of "insecure" websites and force you to install some government-approved "safety guards" (i.e. spy/malware) on your servers?
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  12. Self-perpetuating vendor lock-in. Aka the great success story of Microsoft.
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  13. If the alternative is to use US Linux, or worse yet, Microsoft's friendly software, do you really blame them?
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  14. The way I see it, Microsoft is currently able to remotely literally turn off lights in most Western countries if the US gives an appropriate order. I work for a company hosting critical infastructure. They outsourced their own user management to Microsoft.
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  15. Correction: the majority of Russian masochists know it.
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  16. What is Russian government acting like? The ex who comes back to beat up his wife because she flirted with a new guy?
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  17. Out of the two evils, the choice would be rather easy to make.
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  18. I think his response was on the same intellectual level as Putin's speeches.
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  19.  @SafetyLucas  And the "deepweb exchange" will get its bank accounts where?
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  20. Well, if you are so sure about non-secret US backdoors in Linux, you are very welcome to report them to the maintainers, to have them removed - this being open source and all.
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  21. Really? I don't.
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  22. The short version is "Should you use C(++), you create a huge vulnerability."
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  23.  @PT-rg2vo  If your neighbor decides to maliciously shit on your doormat today, it may be sensible to not invite his kids to your son's birthday party next week.
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  24.  @msromike123  Indeed you can and should let people use whatever teh fuck they like. If you deem yourself more worthy of making this choice, this alone is enough reason to be removed from any responsibility for decision making by the people.
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  25.  @MnemonicCarrier  Well, ask yourself how many people from the outside would like to emmigrate into your great country, versus how many people from the inside would (and do) emmigrate to other countries. And that is the only necessary measure for the "greatness" of any country out there.
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  26.  @robertlackey7212  Can you be a good person if you support or tolerate an evil person doing evil things to other good people?
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  27.  @robertlackey7212  I see, so all the Germans who did not bat an eye when Hitler did his thing to Jews were all good people according to your moral standards. I think we don't need to discuss it any further.
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  28.  @user-qp5yu1zq1m  Correct, not every Russian is evil, just 80% who support the top thug.
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  29. Yeah, technically it is not a problem, but long-term it means limiting your access to talent pool and capital (which works both ways, to be sure, but you have to take into consideration the asymmetry of where it is located currently).
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  30. Anyone who believes in the AI hype bs should remember that in financial markets a lot of money can be "made" (by the right insider people) when the stock prices fall, too.
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  31. Oh no, as a Google stockholder I am really worried about what a Russian court ordered! I guess if they don't pay up Putin will send drones to Google headquarters!
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  32. Concerning boomers, agreeing to install Windows 11 is a bit like agreeing to be moved to old people's home, where friendly nurses "take care of you" (of course only if you behave as you're supposed to, else you get affixed to bed). Maybe you should explain this analogy to your elderly parents/relatives.
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  33. In what way?
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  34. Jaaa in .cn oder .ru wäre es so NIE passiert!
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  35. Well, maybe ask your president or the Chinese uberthug why they did not sanction US after invasion of Iraq? Possibly because they and their families are themselves doing great business with "the enemy"?
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  36. Actually it would be a sign of wisdom if he banned all Ukrainians next.
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  37. Unfortunately not that simple as they would probably not get a visa and be treated as evil Russian agents anywhere else. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy initiated by papa Putin for his people, who in their majority do not seem to notice the ploy.
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  38. Yes, it sounds like he borrowed his lines from Putin.
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  39.  @KotleKettle  And yet none of that gives validation for sending 100 thousand of young people into maiming and death. So maybe check your head (and your beloved president's while you're at it). P.S. Don't forget how kindly your Russian government treats certain groups of people and what kind of "shouting" is going on from certain public figures. Maybe a reason to invade in their defense?
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  40. I pity John Carmack, a brilliant and likable guy, for getting in bed with the likes of Mark Z.
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  41.  @user-rz1hv  it happens more often than you realize
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  42.  @daciandraco6462  Could it be because Russia is invading a neighboring country with the majority of Russians allegedly supporting this invasion?
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  43.  @ШадиАбдельсалам  Ask Poles how they enjoyed their "liberation".
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  44.  @ШадиАбдельсалам  Lol you can't? There's plenty of 70 year old people in Poland who remember the post-war "friendship" with Russia. P.S. You can absolutely compare what would happen if Russian "liberation" did not happen. The comparison is West vs. East Germany.
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  45.  @ШадиАбдельсалам  It's as easy to find 70 year olds on the Internet as elsewhere. If Germany was invading a neighboring country today trying to topple its government while spreading nationalist progaganda like Russia is, THEN we could call it fascist, yes. The comparison of West vs. East was to illustrate what happens in countries that are granted "freedom" by Russia to countries that have actual freedom (i.e. not controlled by Russian gangsters). That is also the main reason why virtually nobody who used to live in these Eastern European countries under Russian yoke is accepting toward Russia today.
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  46. Well, in WW2 Germany the majority of the population who did not have anything with the war (but passively tolerated or did not mind it) were also treated as nazis. Today 80% of Russians supposedly support their crazy president, despite multiple years of aggressive war, so how do you want to treat them?
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  47.  @glimoreganajai2206  Well, if the Russian population at large was up in arms against their criminal government, this argument would hold much water, but unfortunately that is not what is happening. That's kind of the whole issue, you can be a crime enabler by doing nothing except your "duties" (dictated to you by a bandit).
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  48. How much time have I saved by using the same window manager (WindowMaker) and not having to deal with ever-changing UI crap for 20+ years?
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  49. He may have been blackmailed more recently. Certain agencies in the US deem it illegal to even disclose the fact that they have you by the balls. That's why some companies have the "canary" policy where certain public information is no longer updated to signal that they have been conquered without saying it out loud.
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  50.  @SerdceDanko  Your "reasoning" here is precisely why everyone hates Russian asshats like yourself today.
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  51. Well, yes, who do you think is making the laws.
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  52. I think it is - in countries like Russia, China, Iran...
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  53. I don't think it was his initiative/choice.
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  54. In short. I cannot come to your home and shit on your carpet. Good to know.
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  55. I think this is the putinian spin on it.
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  56.  @testacals  Because Linus' own balls are in a tight grip by the US secret service just like the Russian maintainers' balls are in a tight grip of Putin's boys?
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  57.  @Frizz-c8c  By that logic everyone is paying for the war because everyone is taxed (against their will) to fund the war expenditures. This principle applies the same for all the forecd military "protectors" (paid thugs) across all the globe.
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  58. Let's be honest, pwning your computer remotely forever is the ultimate conclusion of 50 years of Microsoft's promotion of computer illiteracy.
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  59. Flagged for misinformation, the legs in the marketing video were 100% faked.
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  60. maybe the decision was because of a few too many russian hackers?
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  61. States don't really have real-life issues, crazy people obsessed with power most definitely do.
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  62. Windows 11 is like the pandemic tracking applications - invasive and completely useless, yet the great majority of moronic human population happily and enthusiastically embraced them when ordered to.
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  63. Let me know when you find a software developer who cannot be "influenced" by a well-armed and criminally bent government. Or a government which is not inclined to inflict violence and injustice on its subjects "if need be".
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  64.  @Bedroomguitarist3  You are very welcome to ban US for their crimes.
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  65. I think it will mostly contribute to more nationalism and radicals in Russia.
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  66. I believe the folks who were banned were exactly the maintainers supposed to be reviewing the PRs. Not PR submitters.
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  67. As in "closed to war mongerers".
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  68. Yeah better trust systems designed by convicted war criminals...
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  69. No, this sort of escalation (e.g. against free media) is more typical for your Russian president.
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  70. The point of any government is interfering with your freedom. And they are holding all the guns.
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  71. ​ @cbialorucki  Microsoft has clauses on spying through your data right there in their EULA. Also don't forget the "Recall" feature and forcing new spying versions of their OS onto their users, not to mention their centralized authentication/authorization services that are designed to give Microsoft access to virtually any computer in the world which relies on it. Finally, don't forget that OpenAI is actually Microsoft. Microsoft is a much, much bigger problem for privacy and freedom than Google.
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  72. Actually, it DOES matter if it's owned by oligarchs, and quite carefully checked.
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  73. More like criminal-suspects-who-might-be-working-for-Putins-military-phobia. It's not like he banned all Russians as a matter of principle. But he made an ass out of himeself in the comment.
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  74. The only thing which could make Facebook VR "work" is if government forced us to use it like they did with the ole vax and masks. And even that only lasted for 2 years before most people caught on to their bs and flatly refused to comply.
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  75. It is not the coroporations it is the fucked up governments who make censorship laws. Every corporation must uphold the law or be fined into oblivion. And it is the people who vote for such fucked up governments. So overall, you/we only have ourselves to blame, not some mysterious coroporation.
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  76.  @PT-rg2vo  Who is "they"? In Europe, unlike in Russia/China governments have no power in banning culture. Individual perfomers or operators can of course "ban" material if they believe it would not sell well to the public. Or maybe you are confused because Russian performers were not "invited" to show off here for the same reason.
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  77. Do you think we should invite citizens of North Korea and Iran to take over the maintainer duties?
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  78.  @gramfero  It is not about "geographical location", more about "jurisdiction" as in which thug can force you, an innocent person living in a certain location, to do evil things by threatening you or your family.
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  79.  @gramfero  Sure, the CIA is one of the competing thug-hiring agencies out there. The point is, when you are "protected" by thug brand A, they do not want thug brand B to interfere with their thug business. Is that clear now why they are banning foreigners?
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  80. Self-host on an offline device. What I also like to do is encode even the cleartext password using an obscure algorithm which only I know (basically substitution of certain strings of letters for digits). So the final version of the password does not exist anywhere except in my head (and of course also in flight to whichever service needs it).
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  81. Any alternatives?
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  82.  @50-50_Grind  Except when 80% vote for the leader in the elections.
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  83.  @msromike123  The public should decide what is best for the public. I don't care a single bit about those who pretend to represent me, who deny me the right to decide (e.g. by banning technically possible direct democracy), and whom I have NOT voted in, in almost all of the cases.
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  84.  @msromike123  I should add that the whole "national security" argument is why we have WARS in the first place.
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  85.  @msromike123  The best deterrent is to respect other people and not make enemies of them. Now tell that to your so-called "leaders" and "representatives".
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  86. You mean the AI generated garbage/crap that is now flooding their servers?
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  87.  @MnemonicCarrier  The answer is "both", as they are two sides of the same coin.
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  88.  @50-50_Grind  Maybe, just maybe, he should not give a fuck, just like (almost) everyone else.
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  89. The only trouble with that vision is that the BRICs countries are most definitely not FREE by any definition of the word. So what we're seeing here is US discarding freedom to become more like all the other non-free countries, and of course nothing good will come out of that.
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  90. The broader picture is that with dwindling natural resources and increasing redistribution problems because of that all countries (which is really a placeholder for "rich people with means of applying violence") are hell-bent on controlling everything and everyone, and inventing various excuses such as "climate change" or external "enemies" to accomplish their goals. The golden age of individual freedom is ending, not just on the Internet. And the only thing we can do is oppose the wannabe new dictators.
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