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   Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 31.01.2026 18:46   
      
    AS>>> Wouldn't open for me even 128-tailed FireFox (115.31.0esr), not   
    AS>>> to mention such decent browsers as Dillo[1] or Kristall[2].   
    AS>>> JavaS'creep to blame!   
    AK>> Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is there.   
    AS> Yes, I know.   
      
    AK>> Maybe, if you tried to see it at your office you could meet the   
    AK>> messenger blocking -- a very usual policy now in many offices, at   
    AK>> least in Russia now.   
      
    AS> Nope -- my employer does not employ any such blocking. The problem   
    AS> is that these "apps"[1] are what I call web-trash, authored by web-   
    AS> destroyers. They only work in major browsers, and even then stop   
    AS> working as soon as you skip a few updates -- the proverbial upgrade   
    AS> treadmill! There is total and universal abuse of Javas'Creep, and I   
    AS> am thankful to websites that raise awareness of it, e.g.:   
      
    AS>    
   (I was impressed to see the PGP SIGNATURE ;-))   
      
   I agreed that after the programmers gave up smoking their programs started   
   demand constant bug removing and updating. I remember the time when the   
   smokers made good operating systems in assembler codes! ;-)   
      
   But as a Russian proverb says "If you live among wolves you should howl like   
   them." ;-) The the world is not perfect, but surely there are some people who   
   are not very bad, and you can make some efforts and use the modern means of   
   communication software. :)   
      
    AS> In the way of messengers, I should consider IRC (+ZNC), deltachat,   
    AS> and mailing lists (e.g. GNU Mailman2). Failing those, there   
    AS> are "contemporary" solutions, such as the XMPP protocol.   
      
   Vkontanke like Facebook is not just a messenger -- it creates your own space   
   in the Internet where you can post different materials for the wide auditory.   
   You can make friends, join different groups etc.   
      
    AS> For privacy and anonymity, I recommend:   
    AS> GNUPG :  and   
    AS> OmniMix:    
      
   Well, but I don't need any additional privacy or anonymity. At least unless I   
   start a big political activity. ;-) But, IMHO, from another side -- any   
   anonymous opinion worths much less than an opinion of a concrete person.   
      
    AS> There are builds of GPG that still work on my Windows XP, and my   
    AS> mail client (Sylpheed) has excellent integration with gpg (GnuPG)   
    AS> 1.4.9 (Gpg4win 1.1.4). Omnimix supports Windows XP as well.   
      
   I don't like AI. It a useless thing, unless you want to undress somebody. ;=)   
   Even such a thing as robot call centers make me mad.   
      
    AK>> You can try Tor browser -- it still allows watch what you like to.   
      
    AS> Yes, I am using it with some bridges I recevied in response to an   
    AS> e-mail to bridges@torproject.org. But then again, this Tor Browser   
    AS> is based on Firefox, so it is not updating on older versions of   
    AS> Windows, even post-XP.   
      
    AS> I am also using SOCKS5 proxies with browsers, e-mail, IRC, and   
    AS  Usenet clients, because our blessed govt. are blocking or   
    AS  throttling all my IRC, NNTP, SSH, and IMAP connections (except   
    AS  Gmail!).   
      
   NNTP you use when you use Tommy's fidogate. Tor indeed is based on Firefox,   
   but it works well at least on Windows 7, even if it tells that there are no   
   more updates available on this operation system.   
      
   I use my desktop only for old things, FIDO, for instance or CBuilder -- my old   
   friend ;-). If I need bank applications and something like that I use modern   
   smart phones and update the important apps often. And I recommend you that,   
   too.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2026   
      
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