Huh? Is this relevant, or some kind of bot spam?

So far, this isn’t much of anything.

Telegram already closes public channels reported for copyright violations.

Some excerpts from this post:

Compared to other platforms, we do not see the seriousness of Telegram to cooperate.

. . .

In May 2023, progress appeared to be going in the wrong direction. Telegram was reportedly refusing to cooperate with the Ministry of Communications and Digital on the basis it did not wish to participate in any form of politically-related censorship.

. . .

With no obviously public comment from Telegram on the matter, it’s hard to say how the social platform views its end of what appears to be an informal agreement.

Telegram will be acutely aware, however, that whatever it gives, others will demand too. That may ultimately limit Telegram’s response, whatever it may be, whenever it arrives – if it even arrives at all.

Any thoughts on the alternative I mentioned, DYN, described here?

Approval voting simplifies things but also has limitations because it removes any weight/preference people may have.

Yes, but nowhere near the problems of IRV. If those particular limitations bother you, as I said:

If you want to take on a little complexity for some further improvement, use delegable yes/no voting.

. . . don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I see zero “good” in IRV, for all the reasons outlined in the rant. Its failures are absurd and beyond unacceptable given that there are strictly better and simpler alternatives. Don’t let something shiny and terrible stop you from using something actually quite good.

I’m repeating myself here because a lot of commenters have a misplaced hope for IRV improving things:

Instant runoff voting is terrible and more complicated than people think, and I will never support it. It’s a false improvement whose adoption will discourage meaningful change.

If it’s a single winner election and you want a simple improvement, use approval voting. If you want to take on a little complexity for some further improvement, use delegable yes/no voting. I have one idea for further improvement, if anyone is really interested in voting methods.

Link to my anti-IRV rant

Only responding to the IRV portion of your comment, and repeating myself from elsewhere in this thread:

Instant runoff voting is terrible and more complicated than people think, and I will never support it. It’s a false improvement whose adoption will discourage meaningful change.

If it’s a single winner election and you want a simple improvement, use approval voting. If you want to take on a little complexity for some further improvement, use delegable yes/no voting. I have one idea for further improvement, if anyone is really interested in voting methods.

Link to my anti-IRV rant

Instant runoff voting is terrible and more complicated than people think, and I will never support it. It’s a false improvement whose adoption will discourage meaningful change.

If it’s a single winner election and you want a simple improvement, use approval voting. If you want to take on a little complexity for some further improvement, use delegable yes/no voting. I have one idea for further improvement, if anyone is really interested in voting methods.

Link to my anti-IRV rant

In 2020 I paid a one time fee for a lifetime of Pro. Is that definitely not still an option?

Find the wiki page for “hard mode.”

I made my account with them early on. I signed up to subscription content to eventually get around to reading, using that address. I signed up for other services, using that address, where access to that address was my only recovery option. I joined IRL community interest groups with that address.

Then I spent a long time without checking it, and they deactivated the account and I’ve lost all data and messages sent there.

And lost my discord account, too. Even though I have the correct discord credentials, discord decided to lock me out unless I can confirm I still have that tuta email address.

Moonorail?

TLDR: It happens (by default) for calls between you and someone in your contacts list, because it’s a p2p connection. It can be avoided by disabling p2p calls.

The reason Telegram leaks a user’s IP addresses during a call is that, by default, Telegram uses a peer-to-peer connection between callers “for better quality and reduced latency,” Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told TechCrunch.

“The downside of this is that it necessitates that both sides know the IP address of the other (since it is a direct connection). Unlike on other messengers, calls from those who are not your contact list will be routed through Telegram’s servers to obscure that,” Vaughn said.

To avoid leaking your IP address, you have to go to Telegram’s Settings > Privacy and Security > Calls, and then select “Never” in the Peer-to-Peer menu, as shown below.

Your example was probably not a real case, but I checked with my swiftkey and after “Roman” it suggested “reigns” “catholic” and “Empire”

Do you know why it wasn’t deemed a gatekeeper?

Absolutely unaccountable. Is that different where you are?

Does the law apply to Telegram the same way? If not, why not?

Leaving traffic safety to human police, discretion often means racist biases and outcomes.

https://nestedtext.org/

It’s like yaml but simple, consistent, untyped, and you never need to escape any characters, ever.

Types and validation aren’t going to be great unless they’re in the actual code anyway.

Here in New York City folks were distributing free bagels to the homeless. Out of concern for the food safety aspect of it all, our government helpfully disrupted the work and dumped bleach over the bagels to protect the needy from potentially unsafe food.

When the authorities finished their good work, the hungry folks proceeded to eat bleach-tainted bagels.

Governments don’t need to be red to do awfully stupid awful things.

Is anyone supporting my old Nexus 9 tablet? I’d love to flash anything supported there.