Even non-developers may hate spaces in filenames, when links to the file you send in a message don't work because clicking on them uses only up to before the first space.
jsveiga
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Basically this. I don't assume that just because it's E2EE (or says it's E2EE) it's privacy safe.
Unless maybe if it's my own system on both sides, running Linux, connected through some FOSS VPN I've set up myself, chatting through nc tunneled through ssh with a 100% silent wired keyboard, no monitor, no network, and everything powered off. Inside an underground lead bunker.
That doesn't mean I don't use Teams, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc. I just don't assume it's private.
E2E just means it's encrypted from end to end, iow, it's not decrypted in the middle of the way.
If I was using an E2E communication application, I, for one wouldn't automatically assume that meant it was not eavesdropping.
Well, if the loophole works, it's not like burning tons and tons of fuel for nothing has any downside or consequences at all, right?
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That's sad. I hope these comments are not from fellow Brazilians.
The comparison with the Dominican Republic is even more emblematic, because they started as equals (same island, divided between France an Spain in 1697). There has been no charitable colonizer, but there really seems to be a trend of France being the worst.
Is there a "colonizer" rank, ordered by average HDI of colonized countries?
My guess would be England, Spain, Portugal, then France far behind. (only the longest colonization period counts)
Edit: I found this: https://www.nber.org/papers/w12546
It is based only on islands though (which includes Hispañola - Haiti/Dominican).
At least for islands, despite the huge GDP gap in Hispañola, the study ranks France above Spain and Portugal!
Technically they can collect whatever they need, before encrypting to send from E to the other E, and send, with or without encryption, to their servers. The "E"s are the devices on each end, not necessarily the users mouths and ears.
You can send your typed credit card to that site using SSL encryption, but the number can be captured by a keylogger or a screen capture before being encrypted.
A single person instance, not federated, and isolated. I can post, comment and moderate. Nobody can downvote me, NOBODY! :-)
I do think OP intends to federate though.
Interesting; I follow a motovlogger (Itchy Boots), and she is currently travelling across many African countries. After a while my wife and I noticed that there was a clear tendency of countries where she spoke French being the dirtiest, poorest, having the worst infrastructure and corruption.
Same with Haiti (French colony) vs Dominican Republic (Spanish colony).
Way to go, France!
if I’m not going to do it, someone else will happily do it
This "justification" works for everything, from parking on the disability park spot to genocide.
Having said that, my first task at a new job in '94 was "you see these three workers counting, stacking and feeding the product into the packing machine? You'll design a stacker to replace them". "ah, three workers three shifts, so you're saying my first task is to make 9 people jobless?". "yup, but we'll replicate it to other lines, so...".
Someone would do it anyway.
... "and actually get something useful (advanced or not) done with Linux instead of wasting time tweaking animated windows transitions and bragging about how many distros you hopped last week"
What's the purpose? Which application do you have running on Linux that you think you need to compile everything, configure everything, and that will only run on an "advanced" distro?
Is it some high specialized clustered distributed high performance, high availability computing application where you need your own kernel tweaks in?
Or are you just a distro hopper, tinkering just for the sake of it and for imaginary bragging rights? If it's for learning, try to establish a specific real goal and learn how to reach it.
Spaces are not the end of the world, but very annoying:
On a bash command line, they make it harder to handle a list of files returned by a command as argument to another.
On the command line (lin or win), they require escaping or quoting when used as arguments or script/executable names.
On many programs, if you cut&paste the complete path to the file (for example in a network drive), you can click on the path and it will access the file, but spaces in filenames or directories breaks that (and it's not bad programming, the program simply can't guess where the link ends).
When you mention the name of the file in a documentation or message, it may lead to misintepretation, and it's just fugly:
"You can find more information in the attached document file.pdf".
What is the name of the file? it can be "the attached document file.pdf", "attached document file.pdf", "document file.pdf" or "file.pdf".
Also when mentioned in a text, the file name may end up split in separated lines or even pages, and will more likely be subject to autocorrect.
When copying the file name in a text, in most environments you can double-click to select the whole name, but it doesn't work if it has spaces.
Now, if you never ever type or copy/paste a file name, and only ever access files through a graphical interface, then it makes no difference.
But then you start getting to comfy and if anything goes, why not non-ascii chars too? And that opens a different can of troubles.