Is this even detectable? Doesn’t it just show up as a regular mouse and keyboard?

It is. There are a few different methods. If the devices aren't configured to spoof their USB information they typically have manufacturer information in the usb device name, serial, or vendorID. Otherwise searching usb devices by the deviceclass they are using is another good indicator. I've found that these typically show as USB device class 01h (audio) and 08h (mass storage) which is kinda rare. Just have to filter through legitimate USB products.

TiDB is another option in this space which claims to be even cheaper and auto-scaling than PlanetScale.

I think they're talking about just the murder-for-hire. It may have just been undercover agents the whole time and no murders actually occurred.

Attempting to hire a hitman who turns out to be an FBI agent is still a crime, and likely not entrapment in the legal sense.

It was entrapment because federal agents posing as crime bosses were threatening Ross that if he didn't hire the hitman there would be serious consequences. He was manipulated and forced into the position he was in.

What you see as manipulation, someone else might see as a user of the DPR account revealing his true nature

> "I need his real-world identity, so I can threaten him with violence," DPR told RealLucyDrop.

> "I don't know how I feel about that solution," said RealLucyDrop

What about when his (non-FBI, now-convicted) right-hand-man Roger Thomas Clark convinced him to hire someone for murder?

Surely that can't be entrapment.

"Clark didn't comment on that murder-for-hire conversation—which he at one point claimed had been fabricated by Ulbricht but later conceded was real"

https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-variety-jones-sentenci...

Strange that issue types is only available if your repository is part of an organization. Why is this not configurable at the repository level?

To upsell? To maintain consistency among repos? To facilitate use among GH Projects?

GitHub Actions are also failing with 500 (gateway timeout) errors when trying to fetch the repository.

You have to click into it as it's not visible from the preview.

I was skeptical but I just opened it and the UI does look cleaner and less bloated than X. However, UI is fixable and what matters more is content. There needs to be a compelling reason to switch, and I don't see one yet.

Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app. It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation.

Telegram is fast, responsive, gets frequent updates, has great group chat, tons of animated emojis, works flawlessly on all desktop and mobile platforms, has great support for media, bots, and a great API, allows edits and deleting messages for all users, and I really like the sync despite it not being e2e.

You’re also not stuck with the official client and all of its decisions like with Signal. In addition to the official Qt and Swift/Cocoa Telegram clients, you can find third party clients written in WinUI and GTK as well as a CLI client, which gives users the choice to use the one that fits their wants/needs best.

I use both on desktop for different people and the desktop Signal client doesn’t hold up well in comparison. In some ways it feels more clunky than the iMessage ancestor iChat did 20 years ago.

> Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app

Really? I don't see any real difference between the UX of WhatsApp and Signal for example. And they're really on-par feature wise.

The only things in your list that are not available on Signal are "tons of animated emojis" and "bots". Recently they also introduced usernames to keep your phone number private. And Signal have had all the other things for a few years now, and with actual security.

> It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

Signal doesn't require sharing of phone numbers

> Signal doesn't require sharing of phone numbers

It does require a phone number to create an account. That’s the reason I do not consider it being private because at least in Germany a phone number can only be activated by using a personal ID card which it is connected to.

Private and anonymous are two very different things

> Private and anonymous are two very different things

They’re going hand in hand as soon as there’s a data breach or a back door

Signal also allows edits and deletions.

I haven't used Signal in a while, so I probably misremember some of what it supported. I just looked it up though and Signal's delete feature seems to leave a "This message was deleted" placeholder like what Facebook Messenger does, which looks a bit annoying to me (https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360050426432-De...). Telegram just directly removes the message for everyone.

But with the benefit that it prevents situations where responses to the deleted message appear to have a completely different context and meaning.

the "message was deleted" can also be deleted, leaving nothing. :)

Telegram consumes up to 50% of battery charge on iOS, with practically zero daily usage, all energy saving settings enabled, and a single followed channel, whether or not I force close the app or reinstall it. I gave up on trying to make it work, merely installing the fucking app ensures my phone is dead in the morning.

That sounds like a bug in your OS. Like, even if the app were doing something crazy, it shouldn’t eat that much memory.

That absolutely does not happen to me. I have it installed and don't use it (at all) and my battery life is fine.

You can use Telegram Web.

I have group of 15 friends using it and it barely uses 2% of battery while using it. Either you are just spreading misinformation or you should check your phone for custom wires added by the bad guys.

13 people on iOSes, iPhones from 11s to 15 Pro; 2 Androids.

Yes, you can.

Yeah you can?

>It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts

It no longer doesn't. It took them a while because you can't just slap features like that. It's not a string in a database like with Telegram.

Telegram has great UX because you can build things fast and easy when you don't have to give two shits about the security side of things. You can cover that part with grass-roots marketing department and volunteering shills.

With just 30 staff

I actually worked on this part of the Google Search infrastructure a long time ago. It's just JSC with a bunch of customizations and heuristics tuned for performance to run at a gigantic scale. There's a lot of heuristics to penalize bad sites, and I spent a ton of time debugging engine crashes on ridiculous sites.

This isn't accurate as of a number of years ago. They run headless chrome (as mentioned in the article). No more hacked up engine or JSC.

Do you know why they use JSC rather than the V8?

They don't, but at one point you might do that for lower resource consumption.

Could we trouble you for a blog post? Super curious to read more about this.

This line of questioning doesn't invite any kind of positive conversation. Why not ask more politely or even just change your question so it invokes thoughtful answers.