Aachen

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by Aachen 1y ago
There's sadly no silver bullet, especially for non-techies. To me it's like buying vegan products where available: I can't trivially become vegan with no effort, but I can affect market forces by preferentially buying things
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by Aachen 1y ago
How do I get it out of their cloud? It works as a backup to my phone, but I'd still want another copy that I can access regardless of whether I've got access to that phone number right now. Sorting that out with the carrier can ta
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by Aachen 1y ago
I think applying these traditional schemes to SaaS environments (now called cloud) can be misleading When people want off-site backups, the server owner can say they've already taken care of that. I'd say that having a copy under
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by Aachen 1y ago
I keep telling people to make backups of "cloud" services ever since Grooveshark died from one day to the next Maybe Spotify won't be taken down overnight, but they can lock me out for various reasons such as misdetecting an
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by Aachen 1y ago
I'd be happy to check for you, but will need concrete steps. Signal working reliably is pretty much all I can confirm, since I don't use any others apps on that device that would give me notifications. Signal afaik uses this Googl
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by Aachen 1y ago
Okay so the options are: - don't exist - exist until you get deleted You seriously prefer the former?
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by Aachen 1y ago
I was looking at Shiftphone but haven't been able to identify a single advantage over Fairphone. More vendors isn't bad, but it's so niche, I think more people actively use F-Droid (and that's already niche) than know
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by Aachen 1y ago
I don't need to "buy" a third-party identification service when buying a phone from my favorite vendor. I can use F-Droid, download an APK from Codeberg or Microsoft, or run software that I've made myself What store fees
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by Aachen 1y ago
I expected one person to step up, do the verification, and F-Droid can use that signing key to distribute apps to phones with facism mode enabled. They just need to pick an app ID that isn't already in use, could even be sequential und
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by Aachen 1y ago
Look at it from both sides. Ubuntu has a vibrant ecosystem of software (commonly known as the Debian repositories, with some attempts at launching their on on top like PPA and Snap) Launching a mobile OS with all that software already avail
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by Aachen 1y ago
Doesn't seem all that imaginary to me. Having a bit of foresight — discussion before something bad happens — just seems like good sense rather than saying it's imaginary. We don't need a crystal ball to discuss possible sce
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by Aachen 1y ago
What's the service when I've purchased a phone? If they were to require subscribing and paying a fee to use their required online service to be able to use the hardware, that sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Aachen 1y ago
If by native you mean compiling to machine code, then Android's Java VM isn't a native platform to run Android apps on If you mean that it won't work offline, websites apparently can. I've not seen it done reliably yet b
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by Aachen 1y ago
Sounds like a complex change to fix a security protocol but, reading the page, it seems to just increase the send buffer, which indeed makes sense for high-latency links
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by Aachen 1y ago
Doesn't it run over a single TCP connection in all cases, unless you manually launch multiple and manually load-balance your clients across is? As in, it won't/can't open a new TCP connection when you open a new connecti
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by Aachen 1y ago
Well yeah, there is that, too. I don't really care about the law so much as ethics though because law follows societal norms and this law isn't commonly enforced anyway
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by Aachen 1y ago
Any public officer, so also the spies you have in Russia, the investigators on murder cases, really everyone should have no privacy whatsoever in your mind?
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by Aachen 1y ago
For anyone else looking for which of these 200 words are actually different, this second post follows the person home instead of using the tracking website method
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by Aachen 1y ago
> Of course they don't have expectations of privacy in terms of people being able to e.g. take photos or videos of them. The same way people can take photos of you or me. Might be a culture difference with europe but I find it rude
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by Aachen 1y ago
How do they know it's you, what makes you able to download the subscription token onto your device but not me? Do you need to receive a letter, or email via WiFi somewhere? Do mobile carriers accept unauthenticated devices to let them
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by Aachen 1y ago
Wtf! Why do I need to find this out via HN? I live in Germany and all info I've ever seen says you can always call 112 in Europe with any phone you have on hand, active subscription or not, and worldwide potentially a different number
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by Aachen 1y ago
> why 8k TV hype died down but 4k TV became mainstream People also stop getting eight kids the generation after child mortality plummets. The experience I had until 1080p on computer screens (not 6 inch phones) is that it added sharpne
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by Aachen 1y ago
I use a blog that does three 'direct' (do you mean synchronous?) database queries for every pageview. Language was PHP5 (I feel like 7 got a lot faster but didn't do benchmarks so idk). Standard WAMP stack, renders in about 3
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by Aachen 1y ago
I've always considered it a benefit if they don't spend needless money and waste my battery life on rendering more pixels than I'll ever see. My eyesight hasn't gotten better and as a teenager the 720p pixel density of t
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by Aachen 1y ago
Doesn't that just reinforce that they might as well have made a better device? I'm not a case user but even I agree
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by Aachen 1y ago
The Sony 10 vii that launched yesterday for 450€ has a grippy back according to reviewers, and the Fairphone 6 I've found has plastic as well (battery is removable so the back needs to come off reasonably, not like these horrible two-m
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by Aachen 1y ago
So I can just adb install any apk I want, no matter if it's a Google authenticated developer who signed the app? So f-droid would continue to work fine so long as they install via adb instead of the intent mechanism or whatever it curr
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by Aachen 1y ago
Join us on Signal or one of the many other options: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels#Realtim... I've never understood why a part of our community goes with this walled garden to host their chat
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by Aachen 1y ago
The mobile app is also buggy as hell. Notifications of direct messages (when someone wants to reach you personally) work only sporadically whereas in group chats they're reliable. Then when you click one of those group ones, it opens t
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by Aachen 1y ago
Regarding the latter sentence, that's if you treat it like a service. If you want active support as well as developers to work on it constantly, someone has to pay them. If, however, you've evaluated the product and are happy with

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