I had a similar experience with ketamine. I accidentally did a line that was a little too long and k-holed for the first time. During the trip I convinced myself I went insane and that I would have had to live the rest of my life inside the mind of an insane person, with no chance to ever experience the outside world again. But I was ok with that, I was like "well, it happened. Nothing I can do about it. I just got to roll with it now" lol. Then I snapped out of it. Never touched ketamine that weekend again, but the following week I wanted to repeat the experience.
Ketamine is not a psychedelic but a khole can make you experience stuff that maybe only DMT can. Illusion of timelessness, lack of physical dimensions, absence of linearity in time and space, it's something I've only been able to experience during my first k-holes
Side note, Signal supports reproducible builds on Android. From Durov's words one would think it doesn't, but it does
what if the world was made of pudding
It's not an easy job. You're constantly moving weights (the truck lifts the garbage bin, but moving a 120 lt bin full of garbage from its spot to the truck and back is not easy either). When your friends are done with their workday, it's time for you to go to bed. You have to work with bad weather, because trash bins must be emptied no matter what. I work in the IT of the company that does the garbage collection in my area. My colleagues are not very enthusiast of their job, lol. But it's a stable job, at least. Pay is decent, but I wouldn't call it good. In other countries though, people doing the same job are getting paid better than in Italy
I'm still trying to figure it out, but I guess not. The only thing I'm sure about is that you will know whether the OTP code has been sent by Telegram or a P2PL relay
You can decide to send sms codes only within your country. You decide whether the tradeoff between costs, privacy and features is worth it. Sending 150 sms a month (or a magnitude more) would cost me 0 €. I find some of the premium features worth paying for. But I would never relay OTP codes for telegram
Especially since they are aiming the service to improve sign-up reliability in countries that block telegram
It's mainly to offload the cost of sending verification codes via sms to users, which is one of the costs that Telegram wants to cut. As far as I remember, it amounts to, like, 7% of all their annual expenses (I will source this later). A couple of years ago they decided not to send sms verification codes when you sign in from a third-party app, and just send the code to active session. This sounds like recipe for moderation headaches and privacy disasters, but also good way to boost their premium metrics :)
that's how my parents call me, yeah
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I've just tried to sign up from Firefox 122 and it worked. No captcha or other kinds of anti-bot puzzle to solve
I have to mention that I've downloaded the app from the website - premium costs more if you download the app from the store. In Italy, the pricing is 3.66 €/month if you pay monthly, or 2.24 €/month if you pay annually
I've been subscribed to premium for some time now. The things it would be difficult to give up are:
- voice messages transcription
- 4 gb files upload
- real-time translations
- ability to react to messages using custom emojis
- ability to react with up to 3 emojis to a message
- maybe, being able to create more than 10 folders
These features might seem some niche features you use once in a while, but I actually use them very very often
Premium is 2 €/month in my country, and considering how much I use Telegram (all my contacts and circles use it) and the features I mentioned above, I think it's worth it
So it begins
Camera: GrapheneOS's camera app. Have been my camera of choice ever since I've discovered it. Never had an issue, offers all the basic features you would expect from a camera
Meta: just making sure that anyone that reads this comment is aware of the existence of Obtainium!
Obtainium allows you to install and update Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
Yes, that was fast, but this is partly because of the introduction of channel giveaways a few months ago: channel owners can gift premium subscriptions to their subscribers, which will be randomly selected by Telegram (you don't need to opt-in). The channel will then be awarded the giveaway winners' boosts, that will let it unlock some additional features
That means that after some months, the giveaways winners will have to decide whether to renew their premium subscription or not (which was gifted to them: they might not be as interested in Telegram's premium features as paid users that decided to subscribe on their own). The current number of subscribers might be a spike caused by the novelty of giveaways. It's unlikely that the trend of gifting premium subscriptions will continue to generate this much revenue, but we will see. For sure this is a very convenient moment to decide to release some numbers on premium subscriptions ;)
The modlog is public
Tried to open that webpage but godaddy asks me if I want to buy the domain. Typo?
!veganism@lemmy.ca is here to cater to vegans, not people who are curious about vegans and want to interrogate them about things that they could much more easily discover from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article
Originally, this was this community's intent too. The rules in the sidebar are willingly shallow about this kind of posts because at some point we decided not to be too strict with submissions, considering that there wasn't that much activity and the mods were mostly afk . So posts like this are tolerated unless they become an omnis cicrclejerk/backpatting fest
yes, https://www.telegram.org/apps lists both, but if you open web.telegram.org, you will be automatically redirected to one of the two apps without being given the choice. The differences are not listed because the two apps are supposed to offer more or less the same features, and anyway nobody's keeping track of them. As far as I know, also, the two developers are given great freedom in deciding which secondary features to implement (these webapps are not yet mature to actually replace the desktop client) so this makes keeping track of the differences a little more difficult.
You are basically not supposed to chose, choice is for those who are actively following the development of the two apps, apparently 🤷
If you want to get an idea of which client to pick, have a look at their telegram channels, they publish nice changelogs:
(also notice at the differences in the username and title format lol)
Telegram Desktop over TDLib (fork). Contribute to telegramdesktop/tdx development by creating an account on GitHub.
![GitHub - telegramdesktop/tdx: Telegram Desktop over TDLib (fork)](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/323962e1-332e-442e-8a04-6e7459181348.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
This might be common knowledge by now considering how easy it is to find this repository, but it's new to me so I'll share: apparently, the desktop app developer is actively working on rewriting their app using tdlib.
Telegram Desktop would be the first official app to use tdlib. Right now, the only telegram-related app that uses it is Telegram X, which is an experimental app. The bot API, though, has always ran on tdlib since day one.
A little bit of context: 7 years ago Reddit introduced an April Fools event people could play by interacting with each other from within Reddit itself. The first event was called The Button, but the most successful one was 2017's /r/place. During the 3 days the even lasted, users could change the color of any pixel in a 1.000x1.000 canvas (with a 5 seconds cooldown). Communities from all over reddit (and beyond) organized to collaborate and draw something meaningful on the canvas, be it their community mascot, some meta joke, or anything else really. I personally participated in the game, and it was one of the funniest community-based events I've been able to experience online.
Apparently, after 5 years, they decided to bring /r/place back. I'm posting this because I was thinking that, as the Lemmy community, we could organize to draw a lemmur on the canvas :)
I wonder if other communities in the Fediverse are going to organize and put some effort into it btw, if anyone knows anything about it it would be cool to gather a list of communities who are going to participate to represent the Fediverse in the game
Today's update brings tools to help you control your downloads, send documents with a tap, re-arrange media albums before sending, turn your channel into a TV station, and more.
![Download Manager, New Attachment Menu, Live Streaming With Other Apps and More](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83053863-805c-46f6-ade5-df4fec107f1f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Hundreds of millions of users. No algorithm. No ads. Courage in the face of autocracy. Sound like a dream? Careful what you wish for.
![How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0d9bf8ec-5203-47b2-9842-d4306c767312.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
archived version (no paywall)
This update brings easy-to-make video stickers, better reactions with more compact animations and extra emoji, a button to review unseen reactions, improved navigation between chats and more.
![Video Stickers, Better Reactions and More](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/59f6de63-1ca7-4fd0-8f1a-770ecdb71aac.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Telegram's 12th update of the year introduces reactions, message translation, themed QR codes, hidden text (spoilers), and more.
![Reactions, Spoilers, Translation and QR Codes](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ef7456f4-2bdc-49d6-946f-668c3f0081ff.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Today's update brings tools to prevent others from saving content from groups and channels, the ability to delete messages for specific periods of time, new ways to manage your connected devices, post anonymously in public groups on behalf of your channel and more.
![Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and More](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/kczrznTSqy.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Today's update brings new ways to find memories in shared media with accelerated scrolling and a calendar view, an admin approval setting for invite links, global chat themes for your entire app, and more.
![Hyper-Speed Scrolling and Calendar View for Shared Media, Join Requests, Global Chat Themes on iOS and More](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9B8gIKc8pE.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Канал для русскоязычной аудитории. Основной канал, который я обновляю чаще, – англоязычный @durov
![Павел Дуров](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4rbc7llENM.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Durov introduces Telegram's take on ads in his Russian channel.
The translated channel post (translated with DeepL):
> Soon, official advertising messages will appear in Telegram channels for the first time. Most users will hardly notice this change - for three reasons: > > 1. Telegram will not show advertising messages in chat lists, private conversations, or groups. The ads will only affect large channels - services where there are already ads and whose support results in the largest expenditures on the part of Telegram. > > 2. No personal information will be used to show ads. User privacy is paramount to Telegram. The content of advertising messages will depend only on the topics of the channels in which they are displayed, and not on users' personal data. > > 3. Official Telegram advertising messages will be unobtrusive. Only short texts without external links or photos will be allowed in them. An advertisement may appear only after all new messages in the channel have been viewed. > > Ads posted by Telegram channel owners themselves in the form of regular messages are now found in Telegram channels. The official advertising messages that Telegram is introducing will be much more comfortable for users. The income from such advertisements will allow Telegram to continue providing users with a free and unlimited service.
Documentation:
As far as I know, official apps still don't support sponsored messages, but they're probably going to support them in the next version, which should be released in a couple of weeks.
This thing has not been publicized by Telegram itself yet - it has been announced just on Durov's russian personal channel
Do you think that Telegram servers are coded by monkeys?
Chat over Telegram on a modern and elegant client. Contribute to paper-plane-developers/paper-plane development by creating an account on GitHub.
![GitHub - paper-plane-developers/paper-plane: Chat over Telegram on a modern and elegant client](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/y1xkPgybDS.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Today's update lets you set different themes for individual chats, share your feelings with loved ones using interactive emoji with fullscreen effects, record video and audio from live broadcasts, and see detailed read receipts in groups.
![Chat Themes, Interactive Emoji, Read Receipts in Groups and Live Stream Recording](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/F7gfHU9RN1.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I believe these new features were supposed to be included in the recent 8.0 major update, but they weren't done with the migration to 64 bit IDs yet at the time so they had to leave something for the inevitable 64 bit IDs update's changelog