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The black liquid Starbucks sells is not coffee...

Can you get E2EE and also have multiple devices all sync'd? This is awful in Signal, it barely works to have multiple devices.

It's hard to say no to the government that can send policeman to your house.

There are no purely "German users". People travel. People talk to people from other countries. Chatrooms have people from all over the world.

Discord's client apps are not open-source.

+1 to everything you said, especially the Linux part. Telegram's Linux Desktop client is great. It's open source and on Flatpak.

violating privacy of innocent people who have done no harm is not "rule of law".

Telegram is my main messenger to speak to friends and family. I also use it to connect to the chatrooms of the various open source projects I participate in.

> Is Dubai a place with good protection against government pressure?

Depends on the government :)

The German government has been throwing a temper tantrum and threatening to bad Telegram because Telegram doesn't respond to data requests from German police and spies.

I'm happy that Telegram is shaking up the Facebook-dominated messaging and social network space.

Also their client apps are open source and have very good Linux support.

> This is flamebait unrelated to data privacy risk.

It's not flamebait, it's a legitimate reason. A country who has been killing people in various wars/invasions is unlikely to behave ethically when it comes to privacy.

If you behave unethically in one area, I have every reason to assume that you'll also behave unethically in another area.

I worry more about my government compared to the government of a county far away that has no power over me.

No one expects zero risk, it's about reducing risk. I choose to avoid American companies in favour of non-American competitors because the American government is hostile to privacy and is a warmonger.

When it comes to privacy and human rights, America's record is one of the worst in the world.

You are probably right, but that doesn't mean I want to make it easy for them.

It was owned by American Government.

I am not worried too much about corporate surveillance. I can always shop somewhere else. I can't change my government.

I use DDG because I don't like Google. I can't do the same with my government.

No reason to make it easy for them.

Also, proper client side encryption is really difficult to break. Usually they need to compromise the client in order to read it.

> I always had the suspicion that the (seemingly higher) interest in privacy/FOSS in Europeans is fueled partly by anti-Americanism.

Of course it is. After American Wars in the Middle East killed and displaced millions, there is good reason to be wary of Americans and the American government.

> we're in a country with better privacy laws

Speaking as a European: I think this is a very important topic for us. I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Working with a company that is not subject to the whims of the American government is a huge privacy win. If a company pitches me a product, they start 1 points ahead if they are based on Switzerland, Netherlands or somewhere similar.

I don't get why people like VSCode. I was a happy Atom user for years and found it to be superiour to VSCode in almost every way.

NTFS is Windows' fault.

Windows is a legacy operating system, not something from 2022. I don't see any good reason to use it.

Since when does Microsoft care about privacy?

I love my Steam Deck.

Is anyone forking Atom? I plan to continue using it.

Here is a better source than Washington Post: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/6/11/can...

She was working for AlJazeera when she was murdered.

lemmy is awesome. I'm on lemmy.ml and it basically replaced my reddit browsing.

I donated to NOYB when I heard this.