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@liampomfret

I guess you know that Australia was part of PRISM by NSA as revealed by Edward Snowden, right?

And do you know which country gives him asylum? Russia... otherwise he would end up like Julian Assange for revealing war crimes in Iraq and stuff like that... ah and Assange is Australian...

But the problem is Russia (and Telegram has never been located there anyway)...

@bugaevc @sesivany @cassidy @signalapp @philbaker1

Compare this to Signal, that is hostile even to non-official third party clients and theirs are very bad!

Signal getting mentioned only because of e2ee that is an option on Telegram... oh it's not the default and not full featured (Signal is not featured anyway)!

At this point forget Signal and only mention Matrix.

@bugaevc @sesivany @cassidy @signalapp @philbaker1

Also this Telegrand native app for GNOME is only possible because Telegram developed TDlib, which Telegrand is based on, and they even provided a reference implementation in Telegram X. It's stated even into the README you linked.

What the hell does Telegram have to do? They developed very good **native clients** for 5 major platforms and even provided a library so that everyone can build their own!

@bugaevc @sesivany @cassidy @signalapp @philbaker1

Telegram Desktop is based on QtWidgets (not even QML).

GNOME ≠ the whole Linux/Freedesktop platform.

I wish GNOME snobbery was a stereotype but if you call "native" only what uses GNOME tech and guidelines...

@rmdes

Let's say you want to implement welfare state policies but you realize you need to change ECB statute since it can't fund public deficits like in every other sovereign nation or federation. How do you change that?

People think you can change the EU with European Parliament elections, but instead the way EU institutions like ECB works can only be changed with unanimity of **national governaments**.

This means states that benefit from a mercantilist policy (Germany) will never allow to change it for the sake of other countries.

Same of a lot of other important issues.

Also, the European Parliament is the only parliament in the world history that has no legislative power. The European Commission (sort of governament/administration) has that power and the Parliament can only block (and not always) the directives (~laws) by the Commission.

The EU is not a democracy for technical reasons.

@EpiphanicSynchronicity

That “throw everything in a running daily journal” should really be removed from official documentation though, it feels so wrong now that I am used to Logseq and I think it gives new users the idea that it's a preferred approach, while Logseq really makes you free to implement many different workflows.

I even have different graphs with very different workflows and as someone said: "in Logseq ambuiguity is a feature", you decide how its very general tools apply everytime you use them.

@EpiphanicSynchronicity

With Document Mode enabled (so hidden bullet points) and a look (maybe using custom CSS) that resemble a longform editor like Obsidian, what would be needed to make you consider Logseq valid for you? Just out of curiosity.

@EpiphanicSynchronicity

You can export it removing dashes and indentation :)

Even without Logseq, it is trivial to remove the first two columns of characters and turn the first level blocks into standard Markdown paragraphs.

@ellane @gizmo

FYI, you can enable Document Mode in #Logseq using the `t d` shortcut. It will hide bullet points and you can style the page with different CSS, for example hiding block properties. This way if you want some pages to be long-form writings instead of outlines you can just enable DM and forget about indenting.

I know there is an Obsidian plugin that turns it into an outliner but it wouldn't have Logseq features that focus on blocks. Instead in Logseq the `t d` shortcut is very conventient to quickly go back to a long-form writing look when needed.