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IANAL - but I’ve worked for Big Company and have gone through the patent process a few times. A patent isn’t what’s written in the supporting text and abstract. It’s only the exact thing written out in the claims.

First claim from the patent the abstract is from:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to provide execution comprising:

   controlling a player character in a virtual space based on a first operation input;

   in association with selecting, based on a selection operation, a boarding object that the player character can board and providing a boarding instruction, causing the player character to board the boarding object and bringing the player character into a state where the player character can move, wherein the boarding object is selected among a plurality of types of objects that the player character owns;

   in association with providing a second operation input when the player character is in the air, causing the player character to board an air boarding object and bringing the player character into a state where the player character can move in the air; and

   while the player character is aboard the air boarding object, moving the player character, aboard the air boarding object, in the air based on a third operation input.

Exactly everything described above must be done in that exact same way for there to be an infringement.

Is there anything newer than 2021 here?

Firefox with plugins. If we want there to be anything but Chromium and Safari in the future it’s simply what needs to be done. Forks of Firefox will disappear when Firefox does …

Love it. While not all titles get replaced (crowd sourced) just the fact that the thumbnails get normalized is enough for it to be worth it.

This is the way to do it.

all of these features are on-demand

none of the things you don’t [need] (such as user data harvesting, ads & tracking).

Choice of leading LLM models from all the leading providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, …)

All threads are private by default, retained only as long as you want and subscriber data is not used for training models

Yeah I think you got the numbers crossed there :D

I think a lot of people start up a server because at the time it fits with what they want to do. Once you realize this is not a job (correct description) you wanted to take on it becomes much harder to motivate it.

As soon as you run a server for others outside of the immediate friends/family circle it can be really difficult to deal with the expectations of uptime and service. Also, some don’t want to ask for help but also take on all the moderation themselves too.

@seb@ioc.exchange publishes the costs for ioc.exchange:

Servers are hosted at Linode and hosting costs are around $300/month. Media files are hosted in AWS S3 and the costs are around $50/month. So in total our running costs are about $350/month.

Unfortunately the donations still don’t cover it.

This is your regular reminder that our hosting costs are roughly $350 per month. In the last 30 days you all have contributed $216. Thank you very much for everyone who has contributed - You are awesome!

edit: User numbers from fedidb: 1,737 MAU, 26,315 total.

Agree. I’m an absolutely awesome software dev myself - and I know C by heart (being my favorite language after assembler). However, with age comes humility and the ability to recognize that I will write buggy code every now and then.

Better the language saves me when I can’t, in security critical situations.

Yeah, let’s see what Bagder has to say about this:

C is unsafe and always will be

The C programming language is not memory-safe. Among the 150 reported curl CVEs, we have determined that 61 of them are “C mistakes”. Problems that most likely would not have happened had we used a memory-safe language. 40.6% of the vulnerabilities in curl reported so far could have been avoided by using another language.

Rust is virtually the only memory-safe language that is starting to become viable.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/12/13/making-it-harder-to-do-wrong/

Citing scientific research is. Now, please post your gut feeling in response.

Figure 2: https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11416-021-00379-x

Isn’t that exactly the strawman the maintainer got tired of?

Do you believe C isn’t crap when it comes to security? Please explain why and I’ll happily debate you.

/fw hacker, reverse engineer

C is crap for anything where security matters. I’ll happily take that debate with anyone who thinks differently.

if I compile mtproto self from github

You didn’t understand why I quoted that part the first time around. Let’s try it again.

Yeah I am a cryptographer, reverse engineer and (whitehat) hacker. I’m also well versed in the russian influence operations having run rampant in the west for a bit more than a decade.

The Telegram-supporters are out in force right now specifically to make sure people keep using Telegram, believing it to be secure. Russia has already made used of their backdoors against Ukraine in the war.

Russia banning Signal now was a huge blunder, since that proves there’s nothing in Telegram they don’t have access to, having allowed it to keep operating.

“Access to the Signal messaging app is blocked in connection with violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be complied with to prevent the use of messaging apps for terrorist and extremist aims”

• Roskomnadzor

Russian authorities began to block access to Telegram, a widely used messaging app, in 2018. The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram in Russia.

• Reuters

Your .ru domain makes your comments in this discussion meritless.

custom self compiled clients

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Not “somehow”. The authorities know Telegram can indeed backdoor their service, since they know it already is. They also know Signal cannot.

Thus, since Telegram can but refuses, he gets arrested.

Russia banned Signal, but not Telegram, to make sure their citizens couldn’t plan any subversive activities against the state.

That’s all we needed to know for sure.