Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that’s the purpose of Telegram and if you’re doing any else on it, you’re misusing it.

It was a very funny joke.

They’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app.

This is a play on people’s naivety. It is an encrypted messaging app in as much as regular messages are encrypted between the client and the server. It’s just that this achieves nothing for the user in terms of privacy unless you can both completely trust the provider (you shouldn’t) and be confident that the back-end can’t be compromised (you can’t).

They do also have “secret chats” that are apparently E2E encrypted, but you’d be mad at this point to give them the benefit of the doubt without at least looking at independent security audits of the client.

Were you using it to catfish strangers via DM? If you weren’t, maybe they banned you for misuse of the platform.

When Lucas first sketched one out to give early collaborators a sense of what he wanted to make, he wrote “TIE” next to it without knowing what it would stand for (or so the story goes). Crew speculated that he’d already thought it looked a little like a bow tie and he hadn’t found the right backronym yet; apparently concept artist Joe Johnston proposed “twin ion engine”.

In what way do you feel you’re helping or being constructive with this comment? Who’s it targeted at, and for what effect?

came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln

As you’ve said, in both senses it’s related to the sound they make. “Bumble” on its own, in the sense of clumsy, meandering movement, is probably unrelated but I guess it’s plausible that it also had an influence on the mutation of “humbul” to “bumble” even if the latter was primarily about the noise.

Reported it

The Neighbourhood Watch will get it sorted!

(I kid – for the unaware reader, they’re invasive, they threaten native bees, and you can report sightings to the government).

They’re big for sure, but there’s some forced perspective in that photo. They’re typically substantially smaller than your little finger.

Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!

It’s also Microsoft’s get-out-of-jail-free card here; someone else ripped the ebooks, processed them, and uploaded them under a CC0 Public Domain license. “How were we meant to know the release wasn’t authorized?”

I agree that CoMaps and similar apps don’t have the feature set that signed-out Google Maps users are losing in this move by Google, so it’s not totally relevant.

I don’t agree with just calling CoMaps a navigation app in the sense of “how do I get to Point B”, though. In well-mapped areas it has business information including specifics about the shop/restaurant, opening hours, accessibility, payment methods, etc. It has points of interest that give information about a location’s history and culture, as well as ancillary information from Wikipedia/WikiData. It has information about green spaces, vehicles and bicycle parking, waterways, sports clubs and tracks/pistes, toilets and other public services, benches, water points, and a bunch more.

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It’s satellite imagery, yes, but from an oblique (high off-nadir) angle. The imagery is from DigitalGlobe, who are now Maxar.

It’s Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.

I think the difference is the perception of whether a piece of Lego is “a Lego”; in Europe, that’s typically not the way the word is used.

I started writing a rebuttal that amused me until I noticed I’d misread your comment, and I don’t want to delete it, so despite being irrelevant to what you’ve said…

How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?

To the extent that it looks like they airbrushed it in afterwards.

The pun works verbally if a werewolf (literally “man-wolf”) is understood to be a hybrid of man and wolf during the full moon. Instead of changing form into a werewolf, he’s changed form into a warehouse.

Written down, if he turned into a half-man, half-house he’d be a werehouse, and if he turned into a half-man, half-warehouse he’d be a werewarehouse.

<username> is not in the donors file. This incident will be reported.

a duckhead?

Is this not just AFU? If so, the effect for a physical user is the same (needs the passkey), but encryption keys are still loaded.