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Except Pavel Durov has been caught lying before and in general is not a great source of information.

Somebody already posted it but I wanted to mention it again, investigations that Telegram has not been able to dispute have revealed that Telegram's infrastructure is managed by a person who is also managing infra for FSB. And this is happening unbeknownst to Telegram employees.

https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

The Insider also did an investigation disproving his claims that he "fled". He consistently visited Russia afterwards.

Edit: it's another iStories piece, not Insider, Insider only re-reported it.

https://storage.googleapis.com/istories/en/news/2024/08/27/p...

It's a great an telling investigation. Dropped in to share it as well. Telegram deserves no trust from us.

I think one thing that we have come to think as electronic consumers, or just consumers in general, is to expect the absolute best modern version of everything (plug, AI model, car...). I think it is pure conditioning and we forgot the simplicity and convenience of things just working even with apparent downsides relative to acme version. Could USB-C be better? Probably. Is just settling on a standard so you don't have to think about it preferable? I think so. Consider USB-C standardization as an expression of a specific system of values.

A complimentary complaint is that payments are a "pull" operation with subscriptions. You can't decide who gets your money. How retro is that!

Free speech for them, "woke propaganda" for you.

Do we have any hard data about AI improving any business metrics yet? I am not skeptical that it might, but I have yet to see anything.

Steer towards that Fully-Automated Luxury Communism.

Humans?

I am sure they are. But afaik some european countries have much stronger institutionalized trades programs.

https://www.aasa.org/resources/resource/Youth-Apprenticeship...

When I look at those people first thing I think is that they have never seen a cell phone and I am bit jealous.

An average user does not need to run their own node for decentralization to work. It just needs to be cheap and easy enough for enough of technical users to run

People have set up relays for like $15/month.

Was wondering and discussing with somebody yesterday why USA does not have a strong apprenticeship culture like Europe does.

It is all about the system of values. The system of values that the stereotypical high powered CEO billionaires have is unfathomable to me. Do they have time to breathe? Do they have friends? Their lives sound boring and unfulfilling.

One of the effects of giving is de-concetrating power and diminushing your political leverage.

I've been told that it is a regional thing.

Gross historical ovesimplifications aside I am wondering why one would use this as an opportunity to belittle a whole continent.

I think that's unfair to "vibe coding". If anybody explicitly claims to vibe coding something than they are admitting to low supervision of the code. And on the contrary you can also AI-produce code that you have supervised highly. I suppose there are people who both AI their code and push it as bespoke but I, for one, have not met such a person at our outside of work.

Serially.

Yeah, agents are making self sovereign identity so much more relevant. We have all the technology. But identity is the main driver of the monopolies, they won't give it up unless forced to, maybe not even then.

Miss that monopoly busting of yesteryear. The elephant in the room is that private forces who do not have public good in mind have gotten way too powerful to the detriment of everybody's well-being. Everybody's except the state's surveillance wings.

Break them up. Break them up. Break them up.

The real scarce resource in the world is legitimacy. People seem to strongly associate AI with low legitimacy. Extrapolation from low effort and inattention to details has always existed but AI legitimacy poisoning is a new and bigger phenomenon than just a logical error.

We had to buy those calculators for highschool and it was a waste of money, felt like somebody must be paying somebody off to have thousands of students buy a device that they will certainly never have to use (and is of little educational value).

I, honestly, do not care about Github. As just a career dev it gives no utility except that a lot of the open source projects are on there.

We need agent insurance.

Everybody will be a serf under technofeudalism.

But you can upgrade it later by swapping parts and not buying a new machine, so it should be cheaper in the long run.

I clicked on a few as well