I dont have an idea for them, but I call dips on the windshield wipers

Yeah and still we should not push the message that Telegrams encryption is even remotely close to other encrypted messengers. I met more than one person that somehow thought their messages in Telegram are “safer” than they are in WhatsApp (and they never activated the encrypted chat oprion in Telegram)

It took the german goverment years to force Telegram to comply with their requests to get data and shut down specific groups. Also based on your location things that might be legal are not legal in a different location, from a German legal perspective there still lots of things happening in Telegram that are atleast a grey area(piracy, hate speech, porn) or straight up illegal(drugs, terrorist groups propaganda).

I am not in favor of the arrest or any goverment repression btw, I am just adding why goverments in europe might want to do stuff like this.

I dont think Telegram is something that I would call an “encrypted messenger”

Considering how hard it is for goverments to actually get Telegram to shutdown criminal chat groups or get chat logs (of unencrypted ) groups I think its at least more reasonable than the whole idea of banning E2E encryption.

80000+ Core Members. Seems like a big cult.

But did actually anyone actually pirate your music? Like is your music on a torrent indexer or shared on a site specific to music?

I have heard from friends that they got banned for using adblockers on free Spotify.

My account got deactivated after doing that (firefox+ublock). It was really sneaky because my password just stopped working. My account was reactivated by contacting the support and they never told me the reason why my account got deactivated.

You seem to have really high standards around who you trust and in the same moment you call Telegram secure. I feel like you should atleast use the same amount of scepticism for Telegram that you use for Signal.

This might not be relevant because you have other reasons not to use Signal, but you can get android signal directly from their website and via aurora store (on fdroid)

Just use Signal if you want an easy, relatively privacy friendly and secure messenger.

Telegram hands over data to goverments, is infested with spammers and scammers and its encryption is not end to end for group chat which lets Telegram access those chats.

Edit: Telegram is great for lots of things like big groups, communities, piracy, drugs etc but its just not the place where you should expect secure communication.

You might be able to ask someone who is not allowed to vote if they want to fill out your ballot when you vote via postal voting.

And honestly I think people care way to much about voting, there is still a year till the election and its already on their minds as if in one years time nothing mayor could happen. Like literally in the election year of 2020 there was probably the biggest social movement / uprising of recent US history. Who knows what happens 2024.

To me trusting the unknown mail person more than your neighboor is an unexpected perspective.

Postal service is privatized in Germany and highly profitable.

I dont agree with takes, that mainly focus on technological solutions that want to introduce massive amounts of new machinery. Those need materials(lithum for batterys, rare earths in general, metal for wiring and construction, etc) just to build and maintain, but also to actually function and navigate in really complex environments like cities(like lots of 5G antennas or markers and landing/drop off pads).

The materials needed for those technological solutions are currently extracted from the earth with very high costs for all of nature including humans. Those factors are currently not really considered when profit driven corps extract the ressources. Extracting ressources from the earth in a solar punk way(non destructive, good conditions for those doing the task) is probably way harder and I honestly doubt that it would be worth the effort.

I did not ready OPs question in the way that they have big problems with the current postal system, but more as a prompt for an interesting thought experiment. But I would like to point out some problems I currently see:

• highly centralized system, usually on a national scale. This makes it really hard to actually manage regional differences in environment and need. also top down decision making
• profit driven companies are the backbone of the postal system in many parts of the world. the current setup might be more incentivized by the profit motive and national laws and not by the needs of the people working there or those using the postal services.
• usage of time as (one of) the most important metric for a postal service, resulting in multiple tiers of service based on how much you spend. also resulting in the usage of planes to send stuff, sometimes even when sending stuff nationally
• a solar punk society would still have to figure out how to cooperate with postal systems of different continents / societies. Imagine having a solar punk society trying to make a deal with current USA on how their postal systems should cooperate.

Probably it might take a little longer, because less use of planes and less pressure because no economic incentives and better work conditions. Also here are some ideas for a more solar punk postal system:

I think there might a less individualized approach to receiving letters… In my building we have 40 living units and everyone has their own letterbox. In a more community based approach to this there might be just one letter box to save resources(material and time to find the right letter box) or there might be rotating responsibility to get the letters from the local post office.

Changing the responsibility of the last mile transport from a specialized worker to some kind of community task seems pretty fun to me, like communities could decide how often / which time of the day / how to transport and hand out the letters. Also the post office would become a kind of hub where every group of people living in the area would meet each other regularly and maybe that would also lead to interesting things.

More colorful buildings, emphasizing buildings as a canvas for art from graffiti to commissioned murals

That! :D I feel like in a solar punk utopia people would love to express themselves in more ways than our current society allows. I also believe that the tag/throwup style of graffiti would be way less common in a place where every wall is a canvas.

And then there are times you set a password and everything just seems to work fine, but later the new password never works. You reset the password, try again and really focus because you think you made some mistake with the password manager. Again the password you set does not work.

You begin to google the problem and see that there is a max password lenght of 12. But you always set passwords of the lenght 20-30 and the interface never complained. But because you are desperate, you try just the first 12 characters of the last password you set. And it works!

I hate HP printers.

When I encountered these they were maintaned by a community or space like houseprojects, collectives or free shops. Some seemed to be accessible all around the clock and some just when the space was open. So its not just a fridge standing around but actual groups/people caring for it.

I dont know if the places were connected to the food-sharing network, but some probably were. Here is a wiki entry about that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodsharing.de