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RockstarSprain
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- A few interesting quotes about (unaudited) financials:
> According to previously unreported half-year disclosures, Telegram had $910mn in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, up from $142mn a year prior.
> Telegram’s revenues in the first half of 2025 jumped more than 65 per cent to $870mn, compared with $525mn in the same period the previous year.
> Nearly a third of Telegram’s revenue — or $300mn — came from so-called exclusivity agreements (probably related to the toncoin cryptocurrency)
> Advertising revenue was up 5 per cent to $125mn in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, premium subscriptions jumped 88 per cent to $223mn, compared with $119mn in the same period in 2024 as the number of paying users rose.
Is it me or the remaining 25% of the revenue sources (222mn of 910mn) are not detailed at all?
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- I am using Mailspring (0) and it’s pretty good.
- Would love to give Firefox a chance but one thing that stops me (apart from occasional website loading bugs) is inability to install PWAs. Not sure why it’s not implemented like it has been for a long time in Chrome and all its forks.
I have found a 3rd party extension that claims to facilitate this (0) but still feel uncomfortable to use this for privacy reasons.
(0) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...
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- A bit concerned about this warning (1):
"IMPORTANT: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them, they are NOT official. Because these binaries generally not reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed. For your consideration, each download page lists the GitHub user that submitted those binaries."
Given one does not compile their own version, wouldn't this make the privacy trade-off vis-à-vis generic Chromium unacceptable?
(1) https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
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- Statement translated to English via Google Translate: “This is Stiver. I'm in the hospital with an obscenely sized glioblastoma. Unfortunately, Flibusta seems to have ended here, as did I. Thanks everyone, it was fun. The servers are paid for for a few more weeks.”
Google Translate for the post: https://flibusta-is.translate.goog/node/681117?_x_tr_sl=auto...
Wikipedia page on Flibusta for context (translated from Russian): https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%...
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- Statement translated to English via Google Translate: “This is Stiver. I'm in the hospital with an obscenely sized glioblastoma. Unfortunately, Flibusta seems to have ended here, as did I. Thanks everyone, it was fun. The servers are paid for for a few more weeks.”
Original link to the announcement (in Russian): https://flibusta.is/node/681117
Wikipedia page on Flibusta for context (translated from Russian): https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%...
- I omitted this part to keep the excerpt short, yet I indicated the omission appropriately. Might have been better to keep it though, I agree.
- From the announcement: "...Due to these restrictions, on September 9, 2024, Notion will no longer provide users located in Russia access to the platform. This includes:... If any billing information connected with the workspace is currently or was previously associated with Russia, the workspace will be terminated. This is necessary for compliance with sanctions, and updating an account’s billing information will not change the restriction."
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- Lately I've been using Fruition - which is just a way to attach a custom domain name to your published Notion directory. The script is no longer maintained but it keeps working using some Cloudflare agent scripting mechanisms.
- Simplenote.
- Very interesting! I’m wondering if anyone attempted something similar in Telegram though.
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- There is a way to set up a simple Home Screen toggle shortcut via iOS Shortcuts app.
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- I am curious how you do that exactly, could you please elaborate?
Just a small nitpick / feature request: I try not to install extensions that require "Read and change all your data on all websites" permission, so may I ask you to change it to something less general, such as requiring access to specific websites once the corresponding new URL is added to a white list?
I saw some Chrome extensions doing this as of late.