Sam Izby

• Russian guy from Siberia
• Help with UI localization
• Translation of texts about privacy
• Extensions for Maxthon in the past
• Switched to Linux

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

From time to time I write about online privacy and open source, but more often I translate articles about online privacy and open source, and here's where you can find it:

• https://t.co/p2kr3fr6Gy
• https://t.co/HfVjqEYtE0
• https://t.co/bdzvtrDmFU

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

If suffering had a soundtrack, it would be Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight". That's the sound of pain. And he'll never write anything better.

📼 • https://t.co/IeJs2qdZNZ
🎧 • https://t.co/jYzRNCfus7

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

There is no such thing as neutrality. You either fight evil or support it. Good cannot stand aside, pass by, and not interfere. Evil can. The choice is quite simple, but this decision is only yours.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

@DurovPD 1-2

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I hope someone hacked Telegram's account and this is not an SMM guy to which Durov pays a fee.

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

I believe in democracy so the people get to choose the new banner

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

@DurovPD 3-1

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

Some things just don't work even if you spend a lot of time on them. There's nothing to brag about, but you still can't just delete them. So, I decided to slightly refine some of my old posts that I wasn't particularly fond of.

Here's a cat from Pisa.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

The only thing I miss in mobile Vivaldi is a full-fledged password manager. At least like in Firefox, or better like in Maxthon (with encrypted notes). But smartphones still don't have an email client or RSS reader. Old projects are more important than new ones.

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Once Elon Musk compared AI development to summoning demons. But why are demons still waiting? What are they waiting for? Why do they need AGI if they could pretend to be the very first chat bots all those years ago? It was just a metaphor, guys, not a leaked Illuminati secret.

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@BlackMo98738439 What about mesh? Briar, Bitchat, Brigefy?

No service that requires phone number will work: you just won't be able to receive an SMS with a code. This is a worst-case scenario, but it's entirely possible. In Russia, you'd no longer be able to access Telegram, WhatsApp or Signal.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

@telegram Это DuckAI. Я использовал эту картинку для публикации про MTProxy. Но лучше бы вам поугарать и нарисовать какую-нибудь дичь в пеинте.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

@DurovPD 1-2

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The software cops use to search for evidence of exploitation is developed by someone with a less-than-stellar reputation, and no one sees a problem with it? What if Thorn's Spotlight just delete from DBs someone who "shouldn't" be found?

📹️• https://t.co/p7FRFkVXyK

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

I took my spare HDD out of the box, installed AntiX 26 on it, switched the blocked Greek repository mirrors to Russian ones, and installed the proprietary nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver for the antediluvian Nvidia GeForce GT 220M, and it worked noticeably worse than the open nouveau.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

@AstronomyVibes Me: you can trust me, I can not trust anyone.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

@moonpay @telegram It's a really bad idea.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

Solus was the first "big" Linux distribution I ran on my old Asus N61 (before that, I ran only the extremely lightweight AntiX, Puppy, and Slax), and Solus made me love dark themes.

That's still "my" distro, but my hardware isn't quite up to the task anymore. But if it could...

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

Have you noticed how the creators of absolutely every video about Palantir founder Peter Thiel then edit out the part about his personal life? As if that's the only thing he wants to hide. Quite telling, isn't it? No need to be shy, Pete!

📹 • https://t.co/GdykW64xMY

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

People who sincerely don't understand why they have to go through this actually understand it.

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

I was helping my relatives at their cottage and met 3 attractive, but very loud girls. They were looking for a lake and got lost, and I was the only one not hiding from sun.

It was the first time when someone so openly tried to seduce me. I liked it, but I didn't fall for it!

[Sam Izby @NotDeveloper]

Bitchat is well optimized, but it doesn't adapt to changing font sizes. It works fine with small fonts and standard 100% zoom, but if you increase the font size or zoom level, parts of the interface just won't fit on the screen.