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by Calvin02 4y ago
It is a great service and fits the bill exactly for me! A future enhancement that might make it even better is if it did craigslist-like relaying so that I could reply from my gmail account but that's a pretty niche use case, I'm
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Ask HN: What are the risks of using Cloudflare's email routing?
2 points by Calvin02 4y ago|5 comments
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by Calvin02 4y ago
Does this include HN? Asking for a friend. Snark aside, why is this a recurring obsession of HN posters?
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I'm curious.. did the fallacious argument play into your understanding of "honesty" here? OP: I don't use Google products because Google collects a lot of data. Also OP: I use Amazon Echo instead. Setting aside whether
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by Calvin02 5y ago
If you're using the same email address across all these, it might be something in the email address that's setting these off. Companies do periodically scan email addresses to remove accounts they think are malicious or do not rep
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I'm curious, why do you think that these requirements won't spread to the rest of the internet? I doubt the proponents of this law would create a "loop hole" by allowing other sites to maintain "anonymity" (in
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Delete TikTok!! /s While the reaction on HN has been pretty level headed, that isn't the case across other sites (e.g. see Reddit). This is the kind of coverage that undermines meaningful progress on privacy regulation and data us
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I think it is probably fair to assume that every country (friend or a foe) spies on others. Just a few months ago, we were caught red handed spying on the EU and our closest allies [0]. I’m sure their equivalent of NSA lists us as the most
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by Calvin02 5y ago
First, putting aside Israel for a second. I understand the urge to reduce foreign aid while we're running deficits (I assume is what you mean by "floundering"), but think of foreign aid as diplomacy. We need both hard (milita
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I hate to defend Facebook/Meta but HN title is pretty blatantly missing context. Even the linked post says: > In most cases, law enforcement sends Facebook a search warrant or a government-issued subpoena for data. But Facebook poli
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by Calvin02 5y ago
How does LEADS work and how could FB and OfferUp use it?
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by Calvin02 5y ago
If the question is: how do we prevent sale of stolen bikes, I’m not sure how that solves the problem. Is there a possible way for FB and other similar places (offerup, pawn shops, etc.) to verify without some central registry?
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious. How would you propose Facebook enforce this? People selling bikes include both first-hand buyers and second-hand buyers (people who bought it from someone else). Without a central registry like what we have for c
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Maybe because Telegram had been lying for years and deliberately confusing end-to-end transport encrypted with end-to-end message encrypted? I’ll never trust Telegram.
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Apple fires employee -> likely employee’s fault. FB, Goog, Amazon, MS fire an employee -> they are terrible companies. HN’s biases are infuriating. Replace Apple with Facebook or Google and everyone will have their pitchforks out.
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by Calvin02 5y ago
This type of innuendo based commentary is a staple of Fox and conservative media. Your point would be stronger if you attacked her arguments directly.
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by Calvin02 5y ago
We are asking tech platforms to solve society’s problems. I’ve said it before but people don’t ask: what if we shutdown Facebook tomorrow, will all these problems disappear?
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Sure, but what if Facebook’s views align with yours? I’d imagine that the employees believe that the company is trying to do the right thing. I think the question that people forget to ask is: what if Facebook disappeared tomorrow, will all
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I don’t work for Facebook. However, the issues are definitely more complex than media and politicians make it out to be. Misinformation: take this article from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/di
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Oh, there’s definitely a double standard here. When other companies do it, Apple uses pejorative (“tracking”) language, but when Apple does it, the the language is positive (“personalize”).
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Apple is asking people to opt into their “Personalized Ads” in iOS 15(twitter.com)
25 points by Calvin02 5y ago|3 comments
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted but as someone who has subscribed to The Economist for 20+ years now, I feel the same way as you do. In areas that are on the periphery, their coverage feels shallow and unsatisfying. I would imagine that
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Sadly this is what happens when an office, like the FTC, is politicized. FTC caters to the current party and pursues an aligned agenda over other things that can bring a tangible benefit to the population.
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by Calvin02 5y ago
> After failing to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat. Illegally bought or buried them? 1) FTC approved all the mergers. So, it is surprising that they
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I think the issue is that what the tech community sees as privacy is different than what the general public thinks of as privacy. Apple, very astutely, understands that difference and exploited the latter to differentiate its phones from it
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I think the checks and balances are pretty fragile and very susceptible to public opinion. Two instances: 1) Post 9/11 Patriot Law 2) McCarthy era: https://www.e-ir.info/2011/11/03/the-extraordinary-injus
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I think you'd be surprised at how many businesses have proprietary applications that their resource stretched & budget starved IT orgs would not want to update. Consumers probably less so but businesses will definitely care. Transl
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by Calvin02 5y ago
Yeah, and if you look at all the engagement tactics that the NPR, NYTimes, or the CNN apps use, they are basically saying: spend your time here and not there. Most of the internet is vying for your attention and asking you to spend more tim
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by Calvin02 5y ago
I think you're cherry picking a bit. How much time do you spend on HN? HN is a social network for folks who are interested in technology and general interest topics -- much like other social networks. Do you think that people can use H
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by Calvin02 5y ago
From scanning the list it seems like none of the 6 were started in the last 15+ years. That should be alarming to EU policy makers. As this divide grows, I worry that Europe may resort to protection mechanisms as a way to shield local compa

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