For anyone unfamiliar with the term: As an example, gaslighting is when Alice and Bob had an argument. Alice slaps Bob in the face. Then, three weeks later, Bob goes back to Alice and asks "why did you slap me during that fight" and Alice would go "That never happened, Bob. You slapped me. Are you insane?" Thus making Bob question his memory and sanity by insisting on a false narrative.

What Facebook is doing is simply trying to lure people, it doesn't mean they are trying to question their sanity.

This is not just another great firewall of China, this is more like a nation-wide intranet. I do not believe that the Russians are as indoctrinated to this as the Chinese are.

Deleting a large folder like node_modules seems to take ages on windows as compared to macOS or Linux.

Not a telegram fan at all but their clients are also open source

Of course Facebook is the prime example of user privacy. Throwing stones in a glass house.

Apparently they do. See AMC, BB, NOK...

https://slipsum.com/

That point about the maximum length of RSA messages is something I encountered while tinkering with encryption for chat purposes. It's dependent on the size of the RSA key. I ended up slicing the string into pieces that were short enough. Seemed to work fine, as long as the array of encrypted slices stays in the same order. For performance reasons though it makes sense to use a RSA/AES hybrid where you encrypt the actual message with AES and then send that AES key along, itself being RSA-encrypted. It took down the time to decrypt large messages such as pictures by a lot!