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@WesSouza_ @SnazzyLabs You haven’t been using Perplexity. You have been using OpenAI, Claude, etc via Perplexity as a thin UI intermediary.

John Ternus' opening move should be to acquire Perplexity

@philofsurprises @SnazzyLabs @beffjezos They don’t own the core technology. So they are just pretty UI on top of others’ LLMs. Apple can do pretty UI on their own.

@SnazzyLabs @beffjezos What did Perplexity do to everyone that I don't know about? I still pay for the Pro plan and still use it as my main search engine. It's reliable and has a great interface. I just don't get why everyone likes picking on them.

@telegram @CGTNEurope I wouldn’t actually be surprised if Ofcom was right, given. The amount of spam I receive at Telegram (and not at any other messenger I use).

Telegram categorically denies Ofcom’s accusations. Since 2018, Telegram has virtually eliminated the public spread of CSAM on its platform through world-class detection algorithms and cooperation with NGOs. We are surprised by this investigation and concerned that it may be part of a broader attack on online platforms that defend freedom of speech and the right to privacy.

UK'S OFCOM: ENFORCEMENT ACTION LAUNCHED AFTER EVIDENCE SUGGESTS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL BEING SHARED ON TELEGRAM AND TEEN CHAT SITES BEING USED BY PREDATORS TO GROOM CHILDREN

In Signal you don’t just install. You also have to password unlock the e2e encrypted container. If your threat exposure has a risk of other parties accessing your encryption passwords, you can just avoid the cloud backup feature. You don’t even have it on by default if I remember correctly.

@RomanGuy20 @durov @Proton_Pass Encryption keys, stored only on the devices. So if you have for example Graphene OS, you just need to do emergency data destruction. And after that noone can read your secret chats, even if they install telegram on the same device. That's a big plus. In signal you can just instal

Tired of WhatsApp? Only if there was a carefully-curated list of viable alternatives, oh wait there is:

@PFyodorov @crow_int To be fair, to access notification cache you need an unlocked phone. And forcing you to unlock it cannot be done covertly. With Telegram they can access, analyze, and share your data covertly, and you will never know that.

@crow_int "Si la victime l'avait activé, rien n'aurait fuité via les notifications." - Cette approche par défaut n'est pas sécurisée.

🧵 Pavel Durov utilise une vraie faille iOS pour faire de la pub à Telegram. Petit fact-check de quelqu'un qui a fait ses devoirs. La faille est réelle : le FBI a bien extrait des messages Signal depuis le cache de notifications d'un iPhone. Mais cette faille est dans la gestion des notifications d'iOS, pas dans Signal. Signal propose exactement le paramètre pour la désactiver (Paramètres > Notifications > Afficher > « Ni nom, ni message »). Si la victime l'avait activé, rien n'aurait fuité via les notifications. Maintenant, parlons de Durov et de son app « sécurisée ». ❌ Telegram n'est PAS chiffré de bout en bout par défaut Les discussions classiques Telegram sont chiffrées client-serveur, ce qui signifie que Telegram peut techniquement lire vos messages. Seuls les « Secret Chats », désactivés par défaut et cachés dans les menus, activent le vrai E2E. La grande majorité des utilisateurs ne les utilisent jamais. ❌ MTProto : le protocole maison de Durov, la plaie des cryptographes Au lieu d'utiliser le protocole Signal : audité, éprouvé et utilisé notamment par WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger et Google Messages (RCS chiffré) et des milliards d’utilisateurs, Telegram a inventé son propre protocole de chiffrement : MTProto. Règle d'or en cryptographie : on ne crée pas son propre crypto. Des chercheurs de l’ETH Zurich et de Royal Holloway ont publié en 2021 une analyse du protocole MTProto révélant plusieurs faiblesses cryptographiques. Ils ont notamment montré que certaines implémentations des clients Telegram (Android, iOS et Desktop) permettaient théoriquement d’exploiter un canal auxiliaire pour récupérer du texte en clair. Telegram a corrigé ces problèmes après leur divulgation. ❌ Le serveur de Telegram est fermé, impossible à auditer Le code client est open source, oui. Mais le code serveur ? Fermé. Personne ne peut vérifier indépendamment si l'implémentation correspond à ce que Telegram prétend faire de vos données. En cryptographie, un algorithme public ne vaut rien si son implémentation côté serveur reste une boîte noire. ❌ Durov a capitulé face aux gouvernements Après son arrestation en France en août 2024, Telegram a discrètement mis à jour sa politique de confidentialité : l'app partage désormais les adresses IP et numéros de téléphone des utilisateurs sur demande judiciaire. En 2024, Telegram a fourni des données à des autorités américaines dans 900 cas distincts, concernant 2 253 utilisateurs. C'est la même plateforme dont Durov vante la confidentialité. ⚠️ Signal « financé par le gouvernement américain » : le grand classique de la désinformation pro-Kremlin Oui, Signal a reçu ~3 M$ de l'Open Technology Fund entre 2013 et 2016, une organisation qui finance des outils de liberté sur internet dans les pays autoritaires, comme Tor ou les VPN. Ce financement a toujours été public et transparent. Le protocole Signal est entièrement open source, audité de façon indépendante, et ses résultats d'audit sont publiés. Comparer ça à une backdoor gouvernementale, c'est de la propagande. Exactement le même argument utilisé par la Russie pour justifier le blocage de Signal sur son territoire. Pour ceux qui veulent creuser, j’ai publié l’an dernier une enquête détaillée sur Telegram : architecture, mythologie libertarienne et rôle dans l’écosystème de désinformation. debunkcafe.fr/telegram-mythe… En résumé : 🔒 Signal : E2E par défaut, protocole ouvert, audité, serveur open source 🎭 Telegram : E2E optionnel, désactivé par défaut et caché, protocole maison critiqué, serveur fermé, coopère désormais avec les gouvernements Durov attaque Signal avec une faille qui n'est pas dans Signal, depuis une app moins sécurisée que Signal, pour des utilisateurs qui pensent être protégés alors qu'ils ne le sont pas. C'est ça, la vraie désinformation.

@TheAntiHeropon @thesamuelnam Come on, iPad on this shot doesn’t have black bars to the extent of the foldable’s shot.

@thesamuelnam Blame Apple, they've been doing this since the first iPad, and people praised that aspect ratio to death idk why

The black bars are bigger than the actual content... This kinda sucks, no?

@HarryGucc @Codyjayartistry @thesamuelnam On this specific shot it will cut Mario out of Mario movie lol.

@Codyjayartistry @thesamuelnam Because going full screen cuts off most of the movie maybe?

@unit_accord @SnazzyLabs But it is not slippery, at least 17PM is not. And the case makes it substantially thicker and less comfortable to hold because of the increased size.

@RomanGuy20 @SnazzyLabs You assume a case affects experience negatively, but I said it's for grip and protection and I don't know why you'd prefer your phone to be slippery.

Why doesn’t Samsung ever copy the stuff that actually matters?

@HMailing63835 @brandur I love for things I use to be pretty. But not at the expense of detrimenting their usability. iOS 18 is pretty and practical. iOS 26 *to me* feels like a cheap Compiz skin with 3D cube rotation for desktops: flashy to the extent of distracting away.

@RomanGuy20 @brandur If i have to engage with the UI, I want it to be pretty. I want the things i use to be beautiful.

Now that I'm on Tahoe and every menu has 60 gazillion icons in it, I'm reminded of this banger article. Modern Apple, put plainly, is all form over function. And the form doesn't even look good. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-ico…

@GKBatalov @durov @Proton_Pass You can make cloud sync e2e encrypted and optional. Signal does both for example.

@RomanGuy20 @durov @Proton_Pass Cloud sync for secret chats is the dumbest thing. I have several cases when it saves my life that it's not cloud synched

The UI is distracting. I don’t want to waste my attention on “so pretty”, I want to get stuff done and not notice the system at all. The less attention I spend on it the better. Ideally it would magically always knew the app I want and action I want and would just show me only that and nothing else.

@RomanGuy20 @brandur i can use my phone in the exact same way as i did in iOS 18, iOS 26 has barely touched usability. But now it's nicer to use because the UI is pretty, and everytime i lift it up i go "woahh so pretty" and then move on with my day. I like nice things, I like pretty things.

iOS 26 tries to make me look at it. I don’t want to. I don’t use my iPhone to use iOS 26. I use it to do stuff: order a ride via Lyft, check my balances at banks, get updates from Twitter, etc. Android tries to create a lot of complications with flooding user with needless data (like connection speed in status bar? just why?), iOS now tries to flood me with visual fluff that is not useful for my goals.

I personally don’t want for OS to grab my attention. I don’t want to notice it all. I want to get to my app (e.g., Lyft) as quickly and easily as possible, do what I need (order a car) and put my phone away spending as little of my attention span as I can, so that I have more left for things important to me. I only want animations that allow to make this process seamless avoiding sudden state changes. iOS 18 was exactly that for me.

iOS 18 is like Tesla Model S/3: minimalistic, nothing flashy, but comfortable thing being comfortable with some debatable options (like touchscreen-only controls), but still. When you use it to get from A to B you forget about it and just focus on your life and road. iOS 26 is like Porsche 911 with some crazy coloring, that wants you to focus on “hey, I am Porsche! do you remember you are in a Porsche?” rather than on your own business.

Surprisingly, *for me* it feels more soulless and more pleasant to use because of that. iOS 26 feels like a flashbang flashy gangbang show that tries to poke its soul at you wherever you want it or not. iOS 18 just tries to stay out of the way and be transparent, so that you can focus on using the apps and getting things done rather than dealing with constant extremely loud animations, huge buttons, and icons in every place possible. iOS 18 has animations and icons, but uses them sparingly, to make the experience more seamless rather than creating visual fluff, like I should enjoy watching at the OS rather than just having it fade away.

@unit_accord @SnazzyLabs I only damage phones about 0.25 / year on average, so for me Apple Care provides enough protection, without affecting experience every day. But each person has different priorities and preferences, so I do me.

@RomanGuy20 @SnazzyLabs For grip and protection. Look, I wish maybe even more than you that adding a case was meaningless, because a phone is designed to be used "bare". But when you add fragile aluminum/steel coating and make everything out of glass, that's not the case.

@durov @Proton_Pass 3. Oh, and with Signal push leakage, it requires access to an unlocked phone, which is a **VERY** different threat model, than messenger vendor always having unrestricted covert access to user data Signal’s vendor could not use this vulnerability even if they wanted to

1. WhatsApp allows to e2e encrypt its backups (although they should enable it by default, but Telegram doesn’t have even that) 2. WhatsApp stores backups on third party clouds, which means that Meta doesn’t have access to them, unlike Telegram which has a direct access to users’ chats, and then with Whatsapp, even if you don’t enable E2E backups on Whatsapp, you can enable full encryption on iCloud for example 3. Signal allows you to disable displaying content in pushes, and then pushes only provide limited data leakage: not for outbound messages, not for long messages, not for file exchange All of the above WhatsApp and Signal do without compromising features of their chats, like allowing for group chats or advanced chat features. So they are usable and secure.

Telegram still doesn’t support E2E Group Chats in any form, doesn’t use E2E by default for its chats, and its secret chats are extremely limited as if to discourage their use (no cloud sync, no advanced features). And then there were multiple instances of people (e.g., during Hong Kong protests) being deanonimized and then prosecuted because of Telegram use.

@Proton_Pass This is simply false. Telegram owns its servers, supports E2EE group video calls, allows sign-ups without a phone number, discloses only IPs & phone numbers as metadata, and is not US-based. We introduced E2EE in Secret Chats before these other apps even existed.