I remember them responding to a couple antipiracy lawsuits in… India I think? they also make an exception for ISIS-related channels. But mostly all, yes.

they did ban it, and everyone still used it (Telegram was good at evading the bans back then, but eventually Roskomnadzor became decent at banning it), and then they unbanned it, whatever that means

Russia banned Telegram, everyone (incl. the government) continued to use it, Russia unbanned Telegram - that’s how it looks from here. A government official told me Telegram being unbanned was just a matter of time when it was still banned.

again, !bang is for searching using a specific search engine, !!bang is for redirecting to a search engine’s page

!g will search with google

!!g will redirect to google

all ddg bangs are supported to my knowledge, but obviously !bang will only work with the search engines searxng supports

searxng has bangs too

!bang to search using a specific engine, !!bang to redirect to a search engine’s page

eh… writing proprietary software is much more embarrassing

there’s not much to know about it, I use Cloudflare simply because its routing is better than direct IP connections for many places on Earth. I can’t fully use Cloudflare anyway because I host many non-web services.

I know about it, but it kinda defeats the purpose (the purpose being police raid protection)

no reason not to publish them as long as they aren’t infringing on any IP, I’ve published some very niche projects

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• full disk encryption on everything except the router (no point in encrypting the router)
  • the server doesn’t have a display connected for obvious reasons, so I’m manually unlocking it via ssh on each boot
    • obviously, the SSH keys are different, so the server has a different IP in initrd. That said, I still don’t have any protection against malicious modification of initrd or UEFI
• the server scans all new SSL certificates in realtime using certspotter and notifies me of any new certificates issued for my domains that it doesn’t know about (I use Cloudflare so it triggers relatively often, but I still do checks on who the issuer is)
• firewall blocks outgoing 25 so nobody can impersonate my mailserver

no, it isn’t bidirectional, public = encrypt, private = decrypt, that’s it. You can address a message to multiple recipients though (when using GPG), so often in case of email a message is addressed both to yourself and your recipient, so both you and your recipient have access to message text

note that basically any ISP will intercept traffic if asked by a government - they’re literally legally required ro

Rust can be bootstrapped with mrustc to my knowledge

sorry, goalpost moving isn’t my favorite sport

no? anyone can send a spec proposal here. After discussion and implementation, it may well be accepted.

The person who invented the term “open source” simply intended it to be “free software” but in business speak. The fact some random people on the internet thought it means “source available” is not the term’s fault.

Discord isn’t encrypted at all

it’s the same as about:config

Just use something vanilla like Ungoogled Chromium. Don’t use it for everything, only for working on projects that require it.