Andrex

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by Andrex 3y ago
I also have a fear of having my private key on my phone, but it's a nebulous kind of paranoid fear. I don't know if there's actually any good reason to have this paranoia or what the best practice is. I suppose having the sam
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by Andrex 3y ago
> > I’ll be okay raising the social outcast if the society is this damaged. > You do that. You don't hear really about Amish kids killing themselves. Maybe there's something there.
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by Andrex 3y ago
> The other problem is that not having social media and mobile devices can be alienating and ostracizing, especially for teenagers. Sorry, I see this a lot but: oh well? They'll get over it. Social media on the other hand gets its h
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by Andrex 3y ago
I trust Automattic implicitly. This seems like a good move.
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by Andrex 3y ago
As someone following that project for a long time: they just took too long to finish it. The only reason it got targeted is Samus Returns was releasing on 3DS soon after IIRC. Edit- First demo released in 2011, DMCA was in 2016. As they say
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by Andrex 3y ago
The Gen Z hyperbolic "this is the worst ever in gaming" betrays a lack of knowing Nintendo's history. They're conservative (business-wise) to a fault and this has served them well. Nintendo fan projects do exist, hell Do
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by Andrex 3y ago
It opens the App Store to, say, a GB emulator that bundles several GB Studio games (with permission, of course). That's not nothing.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Blue jeans? Please give slacks a look... :P
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by Andrex 3y ago
It's hard to do design right the same way it's hard to do kanban right or Jira right. Less skilled people chase the trends without understanding the fundamentals.
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by Andrex 3y ago
I seem to remember Microsoft having a flash of security-focused mindset up to and shortly after Vista released (new driver model, Windows Defender, better Windows Updates, etc.) Then they stopped talking about it by 7 and by 8 it was all ab
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by Andrex 3y ago
It's too late on the East coast for an existential episode... Thanks... :P
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by Andrex 3y ago
Shame about the security, though.
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by Andrex 3y ago
> $100/m is cheap for a back link? (honest question - I've no idea). Depending on the backlink and ambitions for the website in question, I personally don't see that as unreasonable.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Angular was made for you, basically. I've always seen that as the use case. It never seemed suitable for mostly-frontend devs, but it's probably perfect for mostly-backend ones.
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by Andrex 3y ago
> > RCS is the future > It's really not. It's a step up from SMS, but the real future is true end-to-end encrypted communications. I thought this was a board filled with futurists? Can we really imagine no future scenario
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by Andrex 3y ago
I never thought I'd defend ISPs... (especially since an ISP destroyed my credit "on accident" 10 years ago) but there is no comparison to Facebook. ISP's list of evil acts: failing to update infrastructure, failing to pr
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by Andrex 3y ago
To be clear, I am fine delaying my personal use of E2EE for several years as the GSMA and Apple work together on adding it to the spec. If you are a political dissident or in a vulnerable position, I don't know your situation and my ad
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by Andrex 3y ago
I didn't know this, and it blows a pretty big hole in arguing for WhatsApp as some kind of E2E paradise.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Most people with a phone have a phone number and can thus use SMS (literally the opposite of a "perfect solution," mind). I can't think of a bigger network effect than literally every person that owns a cellphone. Maybe other
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by Andrex 3y ago
It's a shame there isn't a standards body Apple is working in right now to address this. See also: my penultimate sentence.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Google's data interoperability is quite good though (Takeout). That was something Google did right 10+ years ago and I'm glad it hasn't died on the vine (and will probably see more development now, what with all this antitrus
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by Andrex 3y ago
The only open question (in my mind) is if Google's E2EE extension is intrinsically tied to Jibe. If it wasn't designed to eventually become part of the RCS standard, it could be real messy trying to open it up after the fact while
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by Andrex 3y ago
I hope WhatsApp is the past and RCS is the future. Insane to me the amount of WhatsApp evangelism I read on this site. Sure, let's trade international protocols for Zuckerware. What could go wrong? SMS/RCS are flawed but can be im
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by Andrex 3y ago
> If people want to buy an iphone and shit it up, let them do it. The next generation isn't necessarily choosing, though. Their parents are giving into their demands for *an iPhone due to social pressures entirely originated by Appl
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by Andrex 3y ago
It'll get done sooner than later, that's money just left on the table right now for EU browser makers. And the enforcement of the DMA correcting Apple's most obvious malicious compliance has been swift (backtracking on EU PWA
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by Andrex 3y ago
Finally.
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by Andrex 3y ago
The more GPL code there is in the world, the better off everyone (consumers and business owners both) are.
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by Andrex 3y ago
We'll never know. Tech delayed is tech denied.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Not really, unless you're suggesting production companies either adopt torrenting internally themselves (which does nothing if the company goes defunct), or publicizing all their internal material including works-in-progress (a nonstar
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by Andrex 3y ago
At the end of the day we're just a bunch of atoms, I suppose.

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