Its still preferable to use Signal since now it actually supports numberless registration. Hopefully they will actually fee payable not via credit card at some point.

I guess they should next ban depiction of hanging government officials on a trees and lamp stands. Otherwise population might get some wrong ideas.

Robin Hood movies shall all be banned for sure.

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> ... Since the authentication protocol generates a different hash each time this comparison is done, there is a 1 in 256 chance that ANY password would be accepted for authentication. ...

Unfortunately literally everything is wrong with EGS specifically.

Their stance on intentionally not having user reviews because consumers shouldn't have power to react to publisher or developers decisions.

Their giving away games for free and then revoking licenses then removing them from accounts even though it was purely their own fault. They were most successful company ever back then and could certainly eat that loss.

Their shitty account system that certainly got hacked multiple times because it's the only gaming platform where someone constantly trying to access my accounts even though I'm Linux and cybersecurity nerd with random 32-char passwords. They also dont have straightforward way to change account region without trying to deal with their shitty support.

Tim Sweeney decided to make a platform to fuck over gamers and we gamers returned favour.

It took them 10 years to make Linux a competetive gaming platform.

They invested in VR early and still do a lot for this niche market.

They brought back hanfheld PC from being niche chinese devices to being mainstrean and maintain support for Steam Deck for 5 years.

As game developer I do find 30% cut abysmal, but it's not any worse than consoles and I dont like Epic as a gamer for being awfully anti-consumer. I certainly dont want PC game market to be controlled by chinese Tencent subsidiaries.

Start preparing Gemma 5 release.

Authoritorian state with highly controlled internet and financial system isnt exactly a good place for running criminal enterprises.

There just 1.4 billions people in a country and many of them well educated and tech-savvy, so it obvious there just more scammers in total. But I doubt higher percent of population doing scams than average in the world.

I'd say you never checked Yandex.Cloud pricing. That's just not true - it's not cheaper.

In Russia it's higher latency, way more expensive and there are lots of connectivity issues. Its not like Russia have ministry of social network botting that require to host it within country.

Reason why these bot networks are effective and hard to find is because it's not some "KGB" minister respobsibility.

Botnets, malware, botting in Russia is someone small criminal enterprises with a lot of people doing it independently. They might be affilated to government or not at all - might be they just sell services to highest bidder.

This is just not how social media botting works. If you try to "bot" facebook, instagram or any major social network via browser from datacenter IP let alone ones from Russia you'll soon get all your accounts banned.

Social media are botted via apps on mobile phones set in large farms; read: thousands of mobile devices. They either jailbroken or have some advance automation.

Neither they use Russian IP. Instead they go for residential proxies kindly provided by Israeli firms where bandwidth cost a leg, but it worth it. Or they just use their own botnets instead.

Adding 200ms of latency wont affect anyone living much and China will happily sell datacenter capacity to it's vassal state.

Nebius which is basically was out-of-Russia part Yandex is now larger than what left of Yandex in Russia.